Reviews
‘Avowed’ is a video game about the benefits of local control
Avowed, the latest role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment, casts the player as a magical envoy of the Aedyr Empire. You travel to a far-off land to investigate a plague known as the Dream Scourge. Along the way, you…
Review: What the Hell Is a 'Libertarian Authoritarian'?
In Offended Freedom: The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism, two Swiss sociologists, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, indulge in a common academic habit: blaming libertarians for an intellectual and social phenomena…
A former CDC doctor calls the war on opioids a disaster
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged doctors to cut back on opioid prescriptions in 2016, Charles LeBaron thought the advice made sense. LeBaron, a physician who was a CDC medical epidemiologist for…
YouTuber Max Miller Is Recreating Historical Recipes
What did the concession stand serve at Roman gladiator fights? Dates stuffed with walnuts and drizzled in honey, apparently. The online cooking show Tasting History with Max Miller tries to reconstruct recipes mentioned in…
Understand the economics of illegal drugs with ‘Schedule I’
Schedule I is a computer game that lets you rise from a lowly weed dealer to be Walter White or Tony Montana. More specifically, the game is a black market econ simulator in the tradition of Drug Wars—a buy-low-sell-high…
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