What I did with first year and a half of the plague era. New book scheduled for June release. Buy it, you'll like it: https://t.co/8beEGnc0kc

On the unneeded revival of the anti-libertarian ideas of tech critic Paulina Borsook:

Remembering what it was like at the dawn of the 1980s for libertarianism, eulogizing unusually successful 1980 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ed Clark:

On how the worst aspects of Trump's second first 100 days as president are directly linked to his anti-libertarianism:

On how the American Right in the Trump age lost its way in large part by ignoring the libertarian insights of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises:

On the Libertarian Party's surprise sudden change in national leadership following the resignation of Angela McArdle:

On how Donald Trump came through on a promise made at the 2024 Libertarian Party convention to pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht:

An account of the pitfalls and benefits of MAGA Elon Musk in the Trump administration for libertarians, appearing between election and inauguration and before the flameout:

Reason mag, where I work, is having its annual Webathon to raise $$$ to support its mission, covering politics&culture from libertarian perspective. Following will be links to some of my 2025 work, mostly related to libertarian movement concerns and ideas:

Obituary post for Ed Clark, the Libertarian Party's then-unprecedentedly successful presidential candidate in 1980 (an amazing year for libertarianism in politics and culture), up at Reason: https://t.co/FjCLXLZ2Mc

A task I wish I hadn't lived to have to perform, eulogizing Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys at Reason. An artist& performer whose work meant as much as and in nearly all cases more than (Dylan only possible exception) any other American musician/creator:

Miller's habeas corpus suspension trial balloon should remind libertarians who think they have a defense for immigration laws that you can't have serious immigration law enforcement without annihilating Western liberty entirely. New at REASON: https://t.co/z2ldgBB5d7

Looking on first 100 Days of Trump II via terrible results from his severe rejection of a couple of core libertarian principles: https://t.co/ZTZ0oVTBI2

Mark the passing of Pere Ubu's David Thomas by listening to this Spotify playlist. So worthy of re/discovery, such haunting, wonderful, triumphant weirdness. And read @brianmdoherty's wonderful writeup of his belief in markets &art https://t.co/JWcKuFnKKs https://t.co/YbznA7XSxs

For @Reason's 40th anniversary, I had @brianmdoherty, THE historian of the libertarian movement, put together a long oral history. TNR/National Review/Weekly Standard, this very much wasn't. https://t.co/51jiNIFMrL

I had difficult task of eulogizing Manuel Klausner, Reason Foundation trustee and former Reason magazine editor, a man of great enthusiasm and charm and important advocate of freedom. https://t.co/ErVTdh94gW

A miscarriage of justice I've been reporting on for a decade is now over, Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump:

Barry Malzberg once wrote to tell me a review I wrote gave him, quoting F Pohl, "One of the few pleasures of so-called professional writing...once or twice in a lifetime you will meet a stranger who understands something you wrote _exactly_" That review:

And on lawsuits to remove the Libertarian Party's national chair from the national secretary the Party was itself trying to remove:

On how some Libertarian Party state parties and its national management curiously fought against the party's own presidential nominee, Chase Oliver:

On the growing salience of the idea of secession in America, in Texas and elsewhere, a notion of longtime appeal to many libertarians: