Video Interviews
Michael Shermer: Evolutionary Economics and the Google Theory of Peace
The author of the new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics talks about Darwin, free markets, his "Google theory of peace"--and why it's tough to covince conservatives about evolution and left-wingers about capitalism.
Roger Stone
Veteran political operative Roger Stone discusses how "negativity is in the grand tradition of American politics"--and explains why New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is a psycho, how Nixon was a saint (!?!), and exactly when the Libertarian Party should pack it all in.
Brian Doherty on the Legacy of Ayn Rand
reason Senior Editor and Radicals for Capitalism author Brian Doherty takes the modernist measure of novelist, philosopher, and cult figure Ayn Rand.
Brian Doherty on Milton Friedman
Give us 3 minutes and 57 seconds and we'll give you the ability to fake your way through a dinner-party conversation about the Nobel Laureate who pushed school choice and pounded the draft. Reason's Brian Doherty, author of Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, recalls the 'free to choose' legacy of Milton Friedman.
