Latest articles by Emmett Rensin

A large, unregulated wilderness therapy program treats thousands of teenagers each year. When I was 17, I was one of them.


Trump is campaigning to return to an America that never existed. The Limousine Liberal explains why his approach is working.


The problem wasn’t his religion. It was his judgment.

Among the stated goals of this year’s Reason Rally are comprehensive sex education, acceptance of climate science, and an end to discrimination against the gay community. Is this only the Democratic Party, in secularly inflected tones?


I will say that Dispatches is not an easy book to summarize or to draw cheap lessons from. It is about the war in Vietnam, of course, and it is a condemnation of the war, but like all excellent nonfiction, it is not a solution but a complication.


“I don’t believe the Democratic Party when it comes to issues of racial justice, of prison reform.”


The book rises above the typical tech industry rant.

How liberals came to look down on the people they once tried to help.


The book, originally published in 2007 and newly reissued, has a hook that could only ever work in nonfiction.


A collection of essays written in Italian and then translated to English, the book captures the process of learning a new language.