There's not much in the way of subtlety when it comes to the big themes of Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice. It's a movie about the soulless, zero-sum misery of late capitalism—a sharp, bleak, brutal, and surprisingly funny retort to the idea that corpora... See more
With Trump in office again and a nebulous vibe shift or two fully underway, 2025 sometimes felt more like an aftershock of 2020—a remake or a sequel or some sort of twisted spiritual successor—than its own distinctive year. Nearly every significant debate... See more
In the February/March 2026 issue of Reason , we explore Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policy goals and what they mean for New York City. Click here to read the other entries.
Zohran Mamdani's campaign for mayor of New York City was defined by a single word... See more
In the years since the pandemic, weightlifting has frequently been associated with right-wing and even neofascist politics. In the media, guys—and it's always guys—who lift are regularly portrayed as authoritarian thugs, toxic dudes, and MAGA maniacs, or ... See more
There are moments in Avatar: Fire and Ash when it plays like a propaganda reel for Greenpeace. Like its predecessor, Avatar: The Way of Water , the film is an eco-action flick, an environmental revenge film, in which the well-armed forces of a capitalist-... See more
