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  • "If I Were President" Reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie lays out his White House master plan for the Washington Examiner. February, 2006.
  • Read why Playboy calls Reason's Hit & Run one of "five winning political blogs." October, 2005.
  • Read Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie's discussion of choice, change, and freedom with NeoFiles' RU Sirius here. June 23, 2005.
  • Read why Washingtonian magazine named Reason's Hit and Run one of "the best political blogs." June 17, 2005.
  • Read why Reason Web Editor Tim Cavanaugh's online commentary resists "pigeon-holing" and how Reason's coverage of the Democratic National Convention "well-placed humor...replace[d] the mud-slinging and hate that all too often overflow" in political coverage. Los Angeles Press Club's 47th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. June 11, 2005.
  • Read why The New York Post calls Reason "a kick- ass, no-holds-barred political magazine." March 6, 2005.
  • The Decatur Daily says that Reason is "as hip as it is iconoclastic and as literate as it is thought-provoking. " February 6, 2005.
  • Read Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie's discussion of Choice: The Best of Reason with the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Monthly Planet here. November 16, 2004.
  • Read why The Chronicle of Higher Education says that Reason is one sign that cultural criticism is "thriving" in contemporary America. July 7, 2004.
  • Read why Reason Online's award-winning coverage of the Iraq war "is a collection worth keeping, both for ready reference, and to haul out in 20 years to see how future historians have spun the war and its aftermath." Los Angeles Press Club 46th Annual Southern Journalism Awards, June 2004.
  • The Chicago Tribune's citation of Reason in its 50-best magazines list, June 17, 2004.
  • Watch Reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie discuss the June cover story, "Database Nation," and privacy issues on C-SPAN's Washington Journal for May 2, 2004.
  • NPR's Talk of the Nation takes a long look at Reason's personalized June cover, May 4, 2004.
  • The New York Times on Reason's groundbreaking June issue, "the ultimate in customized publishing," April 5, 2004.
  • Read why the December 16, 2003 National Journal says "There is nothing remotely like this magazine."
  • Read why the November 1, 2003 Folio called Reason one of the "small magazines we adore."
  • Read Media Bistro's interview with Reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie and learn what it was like to ghostwrite a column for Alyssa Milano and "how a good magazine is like a good party."
  • The Chicago Tribune's citation of Reason in its 50-best magazines list, June 12, 2003.
  • Cynthia Cotts' column on Reason's new online presence in The Village Voice, January 28, 2003.
  • Jeff Bercovici's column on Reason in Media Life magazine, November 20, 2001.
  • Cynthia Grenier's column on Reason's redesign in the Washington Times, November 17, 2001.
  • Dan Fost's column on Reason's redesign in the San Francisco Chronicle, November 14, 2001.
  • Howard Kurtz's profile of Reason in the Washington Post, November 5, 2001.
  • Cynthia Cotts' profile of Reason in the Village Voice, October 31, 2001.
  • Cynthia Cotts' Q&A with Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto, who helped with our redesign. October 31, 2001.
  • Steve Stephens' profile of Reason in the Columbus Dispatch, October 15, 2001.
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    Dave Barry
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    Joe Donatelli, Scripps-Howard News Service
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  • "This magazine does everything well: culture, politics, religion, philosophy, and while other mags redesign to simplify and commercialize, Reason's redesign actually made it better."
    Chicago Tribune
  • "Reason is dictating the libertarian spin, emphasizing choice as the key difference between libertarians and control freaks."
    Cynthia Cotts, Village Voice
  • "The libertarian monthly Reason is one of the few publications that have the guts right now to criticize the repression impulse that has coursed through the country since Sept. 11."
    Richard Reeves, author and syndicated columnist
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    Media Life
  • "Reason, unlike most wonky journals of opinion, does not preach mainly to the converted. Its voice, always clear and unacademic, is distinguished by rigorous and exhaustive logical argument...It's a rare thing to have one's mind changed by a magazine (or by anything, as a matter of fact) but I find this often happens with Reason."
    Media Week
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    Rush Limbaugh
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    Catherine Crier, Court TV
  • "Reason has elbowed its way into The Discussion"
    Columbia Journalism Review
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    James K. Glassman, national columnist
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    Dave Barry, syndicated columnist
  • "I get more out of reading the libertarian magazine Reason than I do out of many 'movement' journals."
    Christopher Hitchens, The Nation
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    G. Gordon Liddy, talk radio host
  • "Reason is a principled, passionate defender of free speech and the rights of individuals against government excesses, a valued ally and provocative adversary. We certainly don't see eye-to-eye on every issue, but I always find Reason worth reading. Even when it's infuriating, it makes me think."
    Nadine Strossen, president, American Civil Liberties Union
  • "Reason magazine...makes the best case for practical libertarianism. Well-written and -researched articles delve into the specifics of economics and politics, offering alternatives and critiques."
    The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
  • "This lively and peripatetic magazine has earned the right to be taken seriously. You never know when one of its concerns is going to turn up in the mainstream press."
    David Warsh, Boston Globe
  • "I highly recommend [Reason.] You'll be informed and entertained at the same time."
    Kirby Wilbur, Seattle's KVI-570
  • "Reason is the most provocative journal of ideas in America today. Not content to report on politics or to cheer for partisans, Reason's writers and editors are waging an incessant battle of principle that is winning ever more supports and subscribers. Most public policy writing borders on the depressing. Reason gives me reason to cheer!"
    Congressman Christoper Cox (R-Ca)
  • "Your adamant, eloquent defenses of free market economics have proved invaluable in the fight against an ever-expanding American government."
    Rep. Dick Armey
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    John Stossel, ABC 20/20
  • "Reason magazine has been like a breath of intellectual fresh air in a polluted atmosphere."
    Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics
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    Steve Forbes
  • "Reason magazine keeps cranking out stimulating stories."
    Bob Sipchen, Los Angeles Times
  • "Invariably first to spot a new idea, ferret out the new issues, and cast a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom, Reason is the one magazine I read immediately and file for the future."
    Gregory Benford, astrophysicist and science fiction author
  • "When it comes to examining America's war on drugs, there's no magazine, newspaper, or journal that does it so well, and so consistently, as Reason."
    Ethan Nadelmann, drug policy scholar
  • "Reason is my favorite and only periodical on political and current events. It pierces through the non-rational dogma of both the Left and the Right to provide insight based on fact and reason. A must read."
    T.J. Rodgers, CEO and president, Cypress Semiconductor
  • "Reason is one of the few truly original magazines in the country. You don't have to agree with everything in it to find insights and information that will inform and even startle you."
    Joel Kotkin, author, Tribes
  • "The O.J. verdict...breast implant lawyers...subsidized illegitimacy...a national debt in the trillions. In these irrational times, we need Reason more than ever."
    Peter Huber, senior fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
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    Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform
  • "Reason has excellent discussions of economic, political, and social issues. It does not simply assume the case for free markets and free choice, but persuades readers with careful analysis."
    Gary S. Becker, Nobel laureate in economics
  • "Reason's longstanding advocacy of 'Free Minds & Free Markets" has been a source of inspiration to those of us battling against the encroachment of government upon individual freedom and taxpayers' money."
    William F. Weld, former Governor
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