Brian Doherty

Senior Editor, Reason magazine
Author of Dirty Pictures, This is Burning Man, Radicals for Capitalism, Gun Control on Trial, Ron Paul's Revolution

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

@worst_account aspect of MNR I find fascinating and valuable-unlike most political thinkers, uses his premises and reasoning to come to conclusions that actually feel fresh and a result of following his logic (children, libel), not just "cobbling explanations for the things I already believe."

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

@ATabarrok In the modern age, I've often wished I could just perform the service twice to get paid rather than go thru their vexatious paperwork demands that go above and beyond the task they owe me for.

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

@Hot_Pepper76 Ian Paice of Deep Purple. Swings hard, always doing interesting non-obvious things, both forceful and tasteful.

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

On the unneeded revival of the anti-libertarian ideas of tech critic Paulina Borsook: https://t.co/nIHp71otfl

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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: https://t.co/cQpPW0FQvB

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

Remembering what it was like at the dawn of the 1980s for libertarianism, eulogizing unusually successful 1980 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ed Clark: https://t.co/FjCLXLZ2Mc

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On how the worst aspects of Trump's second first 100 days as president are directly linked to his anti-libertarianism: https://t.co/ZTZ0oVTBI2

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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: https://t.co/slrtQdHp1w

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

On the Libertarian Party's surprise sudden change in national leadership following the resignation of Angela McArdle: https://t.co/CnjTBxiV9Y

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

On how Donald Trump came through on a promise made at the 2024 Libertarian Party convention to pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht: https://t.co/p4gNotvbEJ

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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: https://t.co/PqvCbdr3iB

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

@MattWelch @Steven_Hyden @iowahawkblog @EsotericCD @seanonolennon in march I was driving down a lovely and haunting Broadway in LA around midnite and saw Darian, walking alone. I contemplated shouting a thank you for all the great music out car window, but didn't want to startle him.

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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: https://t.co/OM92sQ5Ya6

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

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

[Matt Welch @MattWelch]

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

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

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

[Brian Doherty @brianmdoherty]

A miscarriage of justice I've been reporting on for a decade is now over, Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump: https://t.co/p4gNotvbEJ