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Prohibition
May 12, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Al Capone, All-American Boogeyman
A new biopic reveals what the antihero of Prohibition can teach us today.
April 10, 2019
Zachary Siegel
Alex Berenson and the Last Anti-Cannabis Crusade
How a best-selling thriller writer and media hound is spreading a moral panic about pot
July 15, 2013
Mark Oppenheimer
The New Puritans
When did liberals become so uptight?
September 23, 1925
The New Republic
Shall We Have Prohibition?
Reflections on the efficiency of banning alcohol
January 25, 1919
The New Republic Staff
Prohibition as a Warning
100 years ago today, the eighteenth amendment passed.

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