Articles

A selection of long-form articles and book reviews I have written at Reason.

2025

The Weak, Weird Case Against a Supposed ‘Orgasm Cult’

2024

How the Feds Destroyed Backpage.com and Its Founders

Government Can’t Fix America’s Baby Bust

These Pro-Lifers Don’t Love Abortion Bans

Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles

Kamala Harris’ Freedom Flip-Flop

2023

Storks Don’t Take Orders From the State

In Defense of Algorithms

What Women Want

Competition, Not Antitrust, Is Humbling the Tech Giants

Kamala Harris Is a Flop

2022

The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet

2021

The Bipartisan Antitrust Crusade Against Big Tech

Will Feminists Please Stop Calling the Cops?

2020

Massage Parlor Panic

Sen. Josh Hawley Says He ‘Took on an Asian Trafficking Ring’ and ‘Freed a Dozen Women in Sex Slavery.’ That’s Not True.

Democrats Hate Facebook. Republicans Want To Ban TikTok. The Bipartisan Backlash Against Big Tech Is Here and It’s a Disaster.

Joe Biden Should Stop Bragging About the Violence Against Women Act

2019

Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President

Section 230 Is the Internet’s First Amendment. Now Both Republicans and Democrats Want To Take It Away.

Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along

Are You a Woman Traveling Alone? Marriott Might Be Watching You.

Over-the-Counter Contraception Is Immensely Popular. But Democrats Have Doomed It.

Homeland Security and Florida Cops Spied on Chinese Massage Workers for Months but Still Couldn’t Find Evidence of Human Trafficking

2018

The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time

Personal Encryption 101

2017

American Sex Police

2016

The Truth About the Biggest U.S. Sex Trafficking Story of the Year

2015

The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs

Sex, Love, & Robots

2014

Rise of the Hipster Capitalist

Why Americans Can’t Have Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills

Why Aren’t There More Unisex Bathrooms?