Founded in 1968, Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Our podcast offerings include: The Reason Roundtable Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all. The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie Want to know what comes next in politics, cultu ...
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Alton Brown: A TV Chef Offers Food for Thought
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58:57Our guest today is Alton Brown, who for years hosted Good Eats on the Food Network and brought his interest in science to the making of dinner. He's currently touring the country, and he has also just published Food for Thought, a great collection of essays about food, culture, and his life on and off the screen. In this episode, Reason's Nick Gill…
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Trump vs. Zelenksyy: Democracy Dies in Drama?
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1:04:32In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch react to last week's dramatic exchange in the White House over the war in Ukraine between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.04:08—Trump and Zelenskyy clash in the Oval Office…
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Matt Taibbi: The Collapse of the Censorship Regime
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1:21:42Are the online speech wars over? Just asking questions. Award-winning journalist Matt Taibbi joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on Just Asking Questions today to help analyze Vice President J.D. Vance's blistering speech at the Munich Security Conference, where Vance called on Europe's leaders to stop suppressing speech, banning populis…
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John McWhorter: Is 'Wokeness' Finally Dead?
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49:21Today's guest is Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist John McWhorter. In 2021, he published Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, which argued that politically correct "antiracism" was not only a new religion but a dangerous form of illiberalism that quashed free expression, individual liberty, and social …
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Are Democrats Actually in Disarray?
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1:04:35In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss democratic messaging and policy in the age of Trump, before turning to President Donald Trump's shifting stance on the war in Ukraine and its implications for global politics.02:11—Democrats losing the plot on messaging and pol…
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Randy Barnett: How legal is Trump's agenda?
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1:16:38How legal is Trump's governing agenda? Just asking questions.Today's guest is Randy Barnett, a Georgetown constitutional law professor who has argued before the Supreme Court, was part of a legal team that challenged the constitutionality of Obamacare, is a contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy blog hosted at Reason, and is the author of several boo…
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Jim O’Shaughnessy: Don’t Squander This Age Of Innovation
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1:23:34Jim O'Shaughnessy is a superstar investor and venture capitalist who heads up O'Shaughnessy Ventures and hosts the popular Infinite Loops podcast. He's also the coauthor of the excellent new collection Two Thoughts, which pulls together provocative quotes from figures ranging from Sam Adams to Ludwig Von Mises to Frank Zappa.O'Shaughnessy chats wit…
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Justin Amash on Why the President Isn't Above the Law
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1:09:39In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie welcome special guest Justin Amash to weigh in on President Donald Trump vs. the rule of law, Congress' inability to budget, and Vice President J.D. Vance's big trip to Europe.04:04 - Trump quotes Napoleon19:36 - DOGE wants to cut, Congress still …
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The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium discusses the various slashes the Trump administration has made to DEI projects and USAID.Is the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement over? Just asking questions. Aaron Sibarium is a good, old-fashioned muckraking journalist over at the Washington Free Beacon who exposes things the left would p…
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Sean McMeekin: Don’t Whitewash the History of Communism
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1:21:27The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, taking down with it the threat of international communism, right? Today's guest says no, writing that, "Far from dead, Communism as a governing template seems only to be getting started." Sean McMeekin is a historian at Bard College and the author of the mesmerizing book To Overthrow the World: The Ris…
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and special guest Christian Britschgi assess the first steps taken by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut government spending and slash federal agencies.01:52—DOGE vs. the Deep State39:50—Weekly listener question46:50—Lightning round: G…
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Did the U.S. Provoke Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
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1:50:47Scott Horton of The Libertarian Institute and Eli Lake of The Free Press debate the resolution, "The United States started the new Cold War with Russia and provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine."Taking the affirmative is Horton, the director of The Libertarian Institute and the editorial director of antiwar.com. He recently published a book on the …
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John Cochrane: How Will DOGE 'Disrupt' the Government?
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1:09:35Will President Donald Trump and Elon Musk actually cut the government down to size and pull us back from the fiscal cliff? Just asking questions.John Cochrane is joining Just Asking Questions today to talk about what it would actually take to get government spending under control permanently and discuss a few of the staggering number of government …
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Nico Perrino: What the Trump-Musk Alliance Means for Free Speech
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1:02:59Today's guest is Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), director of the 2020 documentary Mighty Ira, which profiles the longtime head of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the author of a forthcoming book on the triumph of civil libertarians.He's also the host of the popular…
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and special guest Eric Boehm lament the beginning of what could become a terrible trade war between the United States and its three largest trading partners—Canada, Mexico, and China.01:51—President Donald Trump signs orders imposing tariffs against Cana…
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El Salvador's Bukele: Authoritarian or Model President?
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1:22:24Peter Gietl of Blaze Media and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the resolution, "President Nayib Bukele's crime-fighting policies in El Salvador provide a model for reducing violence in other Latin American countries."Arguing in favor is Gietl, the managing editor for Return and Frontier magazine for Blaze Media. In November of last year…
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Alex Nowrasteh and Bryan Caplan: The Case for More Immigration
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56:59One of the very first things that Donald Trump did after being sworn in as president was to make good on promises to reduce both legal and illegal immigration. He even issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship, a right guaranteed by the Constitution's 14th Amendment. That order has already been blocked by a federal judge, and its fate…
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The Cultural Consequences of Trump's Victory
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1:06:16In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie attempt to describe the ongoing cultural shifts occurring in the wake of President Donald Trump's re-election.01:53—Donald Trump and cultural "vibe shift"30:40—Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)41:00—Weekly li…
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Angela McArdle: What Role Did the Libertarian Party Play in Freeing Ross Ulbricht?
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20:12The Libertarian Party national chair talks about the role the party played in securing a presidential pardon for Ulbricht.This interview was recorded on Dec. 13, 2024Why Trump made a deal to free Ross Ulbricht: https://youtu.be/yhDKYYdD2vYSubscribeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featuredApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/…
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Mike Pesca: How Will Trump 2.0 Transform America?
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1:22:43How will the second Donald Trump presidential term transform America? Just asking questions.It's officially the Trump 2.0 era. One New York Times columnist called his inaugural address "American Carnage 2," while Trump promised a new American "golden age" in his speech.So how excited, hopeful, or anxious should we be as we enter these next four yea…
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Michael Shermer: Conspiracy Thinking, Wokeness, and the Future of Free Thought
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53:24"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic magazine, Substack superstar, and author of many best-selling books about rationalism, the evolution of morality, and pseudoscience.He quotes Schwart…
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Donald Trump's Chaotic and Contradictory Day 1
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1:06:36In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie react to the second inauguration of President Donald Trump. The gang parses some of his contradictory ideas before touching on the saga of banning TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media application, in the United States.01:46 - Donald …
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Meghan Daum: After the Fires, What's Left of L.A.?
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1:04:12What have the wildfires done to southern California and the people who live there? And could any of this destruction have been prevented? Just asking questions.The wildfires breaking out across Greater Los Angeles have so far killed at least 25 people and damaged or destroyed over 12,000 structures, according to the Los Angeles Times. Today's guest…
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Byrne Hobart: What happened to progress?
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1:17:39How do we escape stagnation and accelerate progress? What if bubbles are actually good? Just asking questions. "They promised us flying cars. All we got was one hundred forty characters." Those were the words of Peter Thiel over a decade ago, lamenting technological stagnation. The character limit has since increased, but his point remains the same…
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Isabelle Boemeke: Time for the Nuclear Option?
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1:12:27Is it time for the nuclear option? Just asking questions.A nuclear renaissance may be afoot. The partial reactor meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 1979 invigorated an anti-nuclear movement that forced the industry to a grinding halt for decades. But in 2023, the first reactor built from scratch since 1974 began operating. Big in…
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Tyler Cowen: Why Do We Refuse To Learn From History?
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1:06:09Why are we forgetting history's lessons?We're told in school that we study history so as not to repeat its mistakes. But what if those lessons aren't sticking? Today's guest regularly invokes what he calls The Great Forgetting. The striking thing about this collective amnesia is that it doesn't apply only to distant, ancient history, but hard lesso…
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Christina Dent: The Evangelical Christian Fighting To End the Drug War
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1:26:04This week's guest is Christina Dent, whose organization, End It For Good, seeks to change the approach to addiction from a criminal justice issue to a health-centered one. But Dent is not your typical anti–drug war activist. She's an evangelical Christian who believes legalizing drugs is the conservative thing to do—a position she adopted after an …
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How Awful Policies Fueled the L.A. Fires
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1:01:02In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman reflect on the failed policy decisions that have exacerbated the L.A. wildfire crisis, as well as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement that the company is ditching third-party fact checking on Facebook.01:54—L.A. wildfires and faile…
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Douglas Irwin: Why Trump's Tariff Plans Are Dangerous
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1:00:51"Tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary," says Donald Trump, who made many promises throughout the 2024 presidential race to raise the cost of imports from China, Mexico, and Canada—America's three biggest trading partners. But are Trump's tariffs a good idea or a terrible one? And is the era of free trade coming to a close?That's the …
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Why MAGA Is Fighting Over High-Skilled Immigration
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1:10:27In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman chime in on the ongoing online debate over a federal visa program for high-skilled workers and look back at the legacy of former President Jimmy Carter.04:04—H-1B visa debate21:07—Biden blocks sale of U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel…
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Helen Prejean: Why This Nun Is Fighting To End the Death Penalty
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1:00:57Today's guest is Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun famous for her activism against the death penalty. In the early 1980s, Prejean met a prisoner on death row—Elmo Patrick Sonnier—after an activist asked her to write him a letter. She served as Sonnier's spiritual adviser and accompanied him to his death, which inspired her work against capital p…
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In the last episode of The Reason Roundtable in 2024, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman select undercovered stories from the past year across three categories: politics, global affairs, and private industry. Au revoir, 2024!00:14—Undercovered stories in politics18:07—Undercovered stories in global affairs3…
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Jeffrey Edward Green: Why Bob Dylan's Prophecies Continue To Fascinate
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1:04:07Few figures have literally and figuratively electrified American culture the way Bob Dylan has. He released his first album in 1962, won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, and continues to perform about 100 concerts a year at the ripe age of 83. His life is chronicled in the new movie A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet.But what's the …
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Was Biden Right to Take Prisoners Off Death Row?
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58:49In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman welcome special guest Tim Carney to the show. The panelists discuss Joe Biden's commutations of 37 out of 40 federal death row sentences, before unpacking the latest on the traditional end-of-year struggle in Congress to pass a spending deal.00:39 - J…
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Do You Have To Choose a Side in Politics? Reason Versus The Bulwark
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1:26:20For the very first Reason Versus debate this week, Reason was joined by The Bulwark for a lively, thought-provoking discussion. The resolution: "You Don't Have To Pick a Side in Politics." Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch argued for the affirmative, while The Bulwark's Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell argued for the negative. The debate was mode…
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Guillaume Verdon: Should We Have a 'Second Amendment for AI’?
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1:27:32Based Beff Jezos, co-founder of Extropic, discusses AI safety, decentralization, and going analog.SubscribeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featuredApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpySKAH3LuVyxXk0MF7tlText and links to sources available…
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Penny Lane: Why I Gave a Kidney to a Total Stranger
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49:38Today's guest is Penny Lane, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose previous works include Listening to Kenny G and Hail Satan?, both of which formed the basis of previous Reason interviews linked in the show notes.Her exceptional new film is Confessions of a Good Samaritan. It's currently streaming on Netflix and follows her experience as an "a…
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie welcome special guest Jacob Sullum to discuss President Joe Biden's latest batch of pardons and clemency grants, as well as President-elect Donald Trump's plans to pardon January 6 Capitol rioters.01:01—Biden's clemency grants and pardons14:13—Trump i…
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Brianna Wu and TafTaj: How Have Trans Issues Scrambled Our Politics?
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1:09:37Brianna Wu and TafTaj discuss the role of transgender issues in the 2024 election, 'centrist' trans politics, and their own personal stories.SubscribeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featuredApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpySKAH3LuVyx…
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Errol Morris and Jacob Soboroff: Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Indefensible
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49:45In late 2017, in the name of "zero tolerance," President Donald Trump introduced a policy of separating parents and children who crossed the Southern border and requested asylum in the United States. In all, an estimated 5,500 children were taken from their parents and many were held in detention facilities, some of which had been constructed by th…
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Why Socialists Are Cheering the Death of an Insurance CEO
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1:03:02In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the situation in Syria after Bashar al-Assad flees the country and dig into the health care policy debate in the wake of the recent assassination of United Healthcare's CEO, Brian Thompson.02:58 - Bashsar al-Assad ousted in Syri…
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Libertarians Answer Your Questions: Webathon 2024!
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1:03:15In this special live episode of The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman will respond to your burning questions.Autor: Reason Podcasts
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Nic Carter: Did Bitcoin Win the Election?
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1:09:13Crypto podcaster, writer, and infrastructure investor Nic Carter discusses the role digital assets played in Trump's election, the persecution of Polymarket, and the "enormous spiritual chasm between the right and the left."-----Reason's Webathon fundraiser is happening now. If you like what we do here, it'll go a long way if you click this link, m…
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Brendan O'Neill: The West Went Insane After October 7
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1:07:06Today's guest is Brendan O'Neill, chief political writer for Spiked and the author of the bracing new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation.O'Neill and Reason's Nick Gillespie talk about the response in the United Kingdom and the United States to Hamas' attacks last year, Israel's ongoing military actions, and wha…
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Biden's Final Insult to Our Intelligence
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1:02:35In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman react to President Joe Biden's blanket pardon of his son Hunter Biden and President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Kash Patel for the role of FBI Director.04:47—President Joe Biden pardons Hunter Biden23:14—Kash Patel nominated to …
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Martin Gurri: Political Chaos Brings Colossal Transformation
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52:14Today's guest is Martin Gurri, a former CIA analyst who is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center and a columnist for The Free Press. A decade ago, in the wake of the Arab Spring and various "color" revolutions around the world, Gurri published The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, which analyzed how social m…
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman chime in on the latest developments in Donald Trump's cabinet appointments and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).00:28 - Fred Smith tribute04:58 - Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) takes shape18:58 - Trump's FCC p…
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Yuval Levin: What is Trump's "Mandate"?
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1:00:13AEI's Yuval Levin discusses Trump's mandate (or lack thereof), building coalitions, and how the classic divide between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine remains relevant.SubscribeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonJustAskingQuestions/featuredApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotif…
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Amanda Knox: 'I Have Felt Utterly Exploited' by True Crime
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1:22:48Today's guest is Amanda Knox, an activist, writer, and host of the podcast Labyrinths. In 2007, while studying abroad in Italy, Knox was accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in what the lead prosecutor claimed was a bizarre sex game gone wrong. Despite mishandled DNA, a coerced confession, and a lack of credible evidence, Knox was c…
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How Elon Musk and DOGE Can Deliver on Smaller Government
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1:00:17In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the current shape of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks and policy priorities.00:27 - New Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)14:48 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz nominated for …
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