Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Over at @thedispatch, I have a new essay on the current anti-feminists. While taking their argument about the failure of American society to value the work of the home seriously, I seriously disagree with their approach. Among other things, I hear from conservative, female Gen Y that the current strain of anti-feminism is making it hard to date reasonable guys or get taken seriously in college ... something I definitely don't want impacting my daughter (or my sons!)

New issue of @reason is out and it's a doozy! Great pieces by @kmanguward @matthew_petti @RonaldBailey @mnolangray @ENBrown yours truly and others. Cover + Table of Contents. Subscribe now for print or digital edition! reason.secure.darwin.cx/J4PKEXTR?ip_cr…

Josh Hawley's GUARD Act is like a case study in basically all the ways bad tech legislation can be overbroad, unrealistic, play to public fear, and be motivated by the idealized 'good old days.' In other words, it's everything Hawley has been working toward his whole career.

What happened after an on-duty ICE agent got caught trying to take upskirt photos of his flight attendant? Reason’s @enbrown shares more.

@DigitalEU New meme template just dropped!

“Screw it, I'll just pay out of pocket." “Direct primary care, longevity clinics, concierge medicine, self-insured employers routing around PBMs - all the same impulse dressed up differently. The American healthcare consumer is voting with their wallet to exit a system they no longer trust”

My view leaving dinner tonight. I don’t care what your politics are. Worshiping a politician like this is not a mark of a healthy society.

Mind you it’s not age gating, it’s IDENTITY GATING. There is no such thing as “age verification” it’s ID verification. I think we need to stop using the term age verification bc it’s an industry term that obfuscates the reality of what’s happening.

Yes! Another terrible element of the “Parents Decide Act”

@hennertainment @landoffandomss @WayneTCarr @Saslow_Scott Congrats!!

RESET is officially heading to the Los Feliz Film Festival! Awarded: 🏆Best Los Feliz Comedy 🏆Best Los Feliz Producers @hennertainment & @landoffandomss 🏆Outstanding Performances Rachael Taylor & @WayneTCarr Film poster created by @Saslow_Scott. Original photo by Kyle Blair.

Want to use your computer? OK upload your ID or birth certificate first. @ENBrown on new age verification for USING A DEVICE

A new age-verification bill could make you show ID to use a computer or smartphone reason.com/2026/04/22/a-n…

What should we make of the girlboss? I argue in today's @WSJ that she's both an indicator of social progress and a catalyst for economic inequality. 📰💅🧵

There’s a point that I didn’t get to make my WSJ piece this week that I want to make on my own. Australia just executed the purest version of what I am warning about. No parental override. No opt-in. A flat ban on under-16s holding social media accounts. And it is enforced on the companies. This is decidedly NOT pro-family. 🧵

.@ckoopman critiques Haidt's approach "He thinks there’s a collective-action problem: Even well-intentioned parents lose when every other child is on the platform. Social pressure, network effects and engineered engagement overwhelm individual choice. But once you accept that framing, parental consent stops looking like the primary safeguard of child welfare, and instead becomes an unfortunate loophole. If the problem is collective, then individual parental decisions become part of the problem rather than the solution."

There's a growing consensus that we need to regulate how chatbots help people who are dealing with mental health issues. But what if doing so actually made the problems worse?

Hospitals are using AI in transformative ways to help professionals and patients, and to speed up care new California bill would ban this

"Merely making products that people like and find useful is decadent, Palantir suggests. What tech companies should really be doing is delivering 'security.' And by security, we seem to be talking about robot weapons and a domestic police state." reason.com/2026/04/20/thi…

@TaylorLorenz @weems This is the wonkiest fangirling ever and I love it

Jess Miers byline alert!!!! 😍

The anxious generation is proving more tech savvy than regulators. reason.com/2026/04/17/mos…