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Prior to joining the Reason
Foundation in 2003, Ted Balaker spent five years as a producer for
John Stossel at ABC News, a job he describes as “random.” He gives
an example: “I recall one day of shooting that began at dawn at a
citizenship ceremony filled with teary-eyed, brand-new Americans
and ended at 3 a.m. at a SEXPO after-party where I watched college
kids mug for photos with a passed-out Ron Jeremy.” Now a producer
for reason.tv, Balaker interviews the blogger and
law professor Eugene Volokh about civil liberties and the
Constitution in “Free Speech and Guns” (page 34).
Matt Ridley loves to write about
both sex and ideas, so it’s no surprise that an excerpt from his
new book, The Rational Optimist (Harper), would merit the
title “Ideas Having Sex” (page 42). Ridley, who describes himself
as “liberal on both social and economic issues—in the old meaning
of the word, that is to say maximizing people’s freedom,” will be a
featured speaker on reason’s upcoming first-ever
Caribbean cruise. Asked about his hopes for the trip, he says, “If
we need to take to the lifeboats, I expect a much more generous and
altruistic spirit among libertarians than I would find among
socialists or conservatives.” For more details on the event, visit
reasoncruise.com.
Steve Lafleur, a Canadian
political consultant based in Calgary, drank his first beer at age
13. It was a Stella Artois. An experienced consumer of hops, the
writer examines how federal water regulations could hurt Portland’s
thriving craft beer market in “It’s the Water” (page 64). Now 27,
Lafleur reports that his taste in beer has become even less
mainstream since his Stella-guzzling youth. “I’m a huge fan of the
Hop Henge Experimental IPA from Deschutes in Portland,” he says.
Lafleur spent the summer of 2009 in Portland as a Koch Summer
Fellow with the Cascade Policy Institute.
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