Matt Welch describes the history of the magazine. I just finished Bob Poole’s new book (which he graciously gifted me a signed copy last time I had dinner with him and Lou) on the history of not just the magazine, but the foundation itself. It’s also, incidentally, a frank autobiography.
4 thoughts on “Reason At Fifty”
Reason: Because food tastes better when it’s cooked in a truck by an illegal immigrant.
When Virginia Postrel was editor of Reason it could be rather dry, like reading a collection of white papers. At first I was glad Nick Gillespie was trying to lighten the mood but Reason quickly fell to the intellectual and stylistic level of Vanity Fair or Slate. The best written, best argued pieces are usually Kurt Loder’s movie reviews.
But they also published an issue with Holocaust Denial articles and others verging dangerously close to neo-Nazism.
Reason: Because food tastes better when it’s cooked in a truck by an illegal immigrant.
https://reason.com/tags/food-trucks
When Virginia Postrel was editor of Reason it could be rather dry, like reading a collection of white papers. At first I was glad Nick Gillespie was trying to lighten the mood but Reason quickly fell to the intellectual and stylistic level of Vanity Fair or Slate. The best written, best argued pieces are usually Kurt Loder’s movie reviews.
But they also published an issue with Holocaust Denial articles and others verging dangerously close to neo-Nazism.