Jake Tapper on The Hellfire Club, Donald Trump's Big Lies, and D.C.'s 'Bullshit Waterfall'
The CNN host and best-selling novelist comes clean about his politics, why Hillary Clinton lost, and how his training in alternative media gives him a leg up.
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Where Are You on the 'Happiness Curve'? Q&A with Jonathan Rauch: Podcast
A fascinating and challenging new book argues that "life gets better after 50."
How Reason Became a 'Mainstream Intellectual Magazine with an Unusual Point of View'
Podcast with Virginia Postrel about libertarianism, trade, immigration, biotech, and Reason's first 50 years
Is Alex Tabarrok the Most Honest Economist in Academia?: Podcast
The libertarian went looking for the reason for entrepreneurial decline. The answer he found went against everything he believed. He published the results anyway.
Should You Be Optimistic About America's Future? Q&A with Russ Roberts: Podcast
The economist and podcast star talks about intellectual humility, the growing incentives for anti-social behavior, and why Adam Smith is more relevant than ever.
How The Simpsons Fights Fake News: Podcast
Journalism prof Michael Socolow has three simple rules to up your social-media literacy.
What To Do With Kids Who Are Wards of the State: Podcast
Naomi Schaefer Riley on religious liberty, foster care, privacy, parenting, and how to help kids who need a home
Dr. Helen Fisher on How Brain Chemistry Determines Personality and Politics
Is the libertarian mind a product of elevated dopamine and testosterone?
A Civil Rights Movement for Corporations? Inside the 400-Year Struggle
UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler on his new book We the Corporations
Why John Boehner Was a Better Speaker than Paul Ryan: Justin Amash
Boehner openly despised the libertarian Republican from Michigan but actually allowed him and others to debate and vote freely on spending bills.
Rep. Justin Amash on Trump, Ryan, and the 'Stupidity' of How the Government Spends Your Money
The firebrand Michigan congressman unloads on the GOP leadership's unwillingness to shrink government's size, scope, and spending.
Whole Foods' John Mackey on Amazon Merger: 'A Meeting of the Souls.'
Why the "conscious capitalist" thinks we are headed for "a consumer utopia."
Silicon Valley's Ultimate Diversity Problem Is Ideological
More tech folks call themselves libertarian than anything else. So why are they afraid to speak up at work?
March for Our Lives Kids Don't Know Just How Safe Schools Are
Students say your right to own a gun conflicts with their right to feel secure.
How Will The Americans' Final Season End? Q&A With the Creators Behind the Cold War Spy Drama
Executive Producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields discuss their critically acclaimed show, ideology, and how technology is ushering in the golden era of television.
A Dark and Stormy Week for Free Speech: Podcast
While America gawks at tales of consensual Trump-spanking, Internet freedom is coming under legislative and cultural attack
Steven Pinker Wants Enlightenment Now!
Pope Francis is part of the problem, nuclear energy is part of the solution, and libertarians need to admit that not every regulation will turn us into Venezuela.
Gary Taubes on How Big Government Made Us Fat
The attack on fatty foods, in favor of carbohydrates, contributed to rising rates of obesity and diabetes.
Trump Is 'Destroying' Regulations
But will Congress let them rise from the dead?
Want to Hack Your Own Body? Neo.Life's Jane Metcalfe Is Making It Easier Than Ever
Wired's co-founder talks about the "Neobiological Revolution" and what happens when computer science and engineering meet evolution.
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50 Years of Reason with Robert W. Poole: Podcast
The magazine's early editor talks about what Reason got right-and wrong-in its first half-century of existence.
Gary Johnson: 'I Always Thought Telling the Truth Would Rule the Day. And It Doesn't.'
The 2016 Libertarian presidential candidate on "Aleppo," Donald Trump's unexpected good points, and why Hillary Clinton's trolls were worse than Russian ones.
Kurt Loder on Why the Oscars Always Suck but Movies Are Great: Podcast
Reason's movie reviewer talks about why The Post sucked, why Lady Bird and Get Out rocked, and where #MeToo has gone too far.
Balaji Srinivasan: Technology Will Lead to a Borderless World
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur says cryptocurrencies, virtual reality, and mobile devices are helping individuals escape failed institutions.
Meet Mark Janus, Whose Supreme Court Case May End Compulsory Union Dues: Podcast
The social worker at the heart of Janus v. AFSCME explains why no public employee should be forced to pay union dues.
After Pablo Escobar: Murder, Chaos, and the Failure of U.S. Drug Policy in Colombia
The Drug Policy Alliance's Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno talks about her new book.
Poker Champion Annie Duke on Making Smart Bets in Life, Politics, and Football
"Life is like poker," says Duke: Good choices and good outcomes don't always correlate.
Forget Speech Codes, Trigger Warnings: These Students Protest FOR "Peace, Love, Liberty" (Podcast)
Students for Liberty's LibertyCon is bringing 1,500 students from all over the world to D.C. on March 2-4. Wolf von Laer explains the group's message and strategy.
Surprise: Voters Aren't More Polarized than Ever, Only Pols and Media Are
Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina says it's media and political elites who live in ideological bubbles, not regular Americans.
The Libertarianism of Frederick Douglass: Podcast
Damon Root on how the famous abolitionist was also an outspoken classical liberal.
Dilbert's Scott Adams Explains How He Knew Trump Would 'Win Bigly'
The cartoonist-turned-political-prognisticator talks about "master persuaders" and winning arguments in a "world where facts don't matter."
The Financial Markets Are Spooked by Debt, So Why Aren't We?: Podcast
Reason editors debate The Memo, situational libertarianism, Super Bowl highlights, and the political road back to fiscal sanity.
'The State Has Been One of the Largest Perpetrators of Gender Inequality and Violence': Podcast
Meet Feminists for Liberty's Kat Murti, who wants to make libertarianism the default setting for women, people of color, and Millennials.
Trump Diminishes the Power of the State in Our Heads: Wired Co-Founder Louis Rossetto on Heroism, Politics, and the Dot-Com Bubble
Change Is Good: A Story of the Heroic Era of the Internet chronicles tech culture circa 1998.
"Micro-Schools" Might Be the Next Big Education Thing: Podcast
It's way past time that we dump factory-model schools for more individualized K-12 programs.
The Case Against Education: Economist Bryan Caplan Says Government Spending of $1 Trillion a Year on Schooling Is a Waste
"If all we're trying to do is prepare people for a job, why not prepare them with a job?"
Why This Is TV's Golden Age!: Podcast
How streaming video has blown apart, and improved, television as we know it.
How the United States Can—And Cannot—Help Iranian Protesters: Podcast
"Millions of Iranians...don't want to live under a corrupt clerical fascist state" says Bloomberg's Eli Lake. Are the Islamic Republic's days finally numbered?
Matt Taibbi on Misogyny, the Left vs. Free Speech, and the Killing of Eric Garner
"I'm just sort of accidental collateral damage to a larger thing that's going on."
Jeff Sessions Can't Stop Pot Legalization: Podcast
The attorney general's new memo on marijuana is disturbing on many levels, but it will ultimately be effective on none.
Is Bitcoin the Death of Fiat Currency?: Podcast
Q&A with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
What Feminists—and Islamists—Don't Get About Burqas: Podcast
Rafia Zakaria talks about veils, Islamic politics, and feminism.
Why Greg Gutfeld Is a Better Standard-Bearer for Conservatives than Roy Moore: Podcast
Novelist Lisa De Pasquale sees "politics as entertainment" and worries that Millennials are lost forever to the left.
The Massive Higher-Ed Scam You've Never Heard About: Podcast
Renegade University's Thaddeus Russell on the federal-accreditation racket, why the Ivys are terrified of competition, and how postmodernism is libertarianism's ally.
A Special Reason Festivus Airing of the Grievances: Podcast
How has the fight for freedom changed from January 2017 to December, whether vis-a-vis Trump, Congress, or music? Well for one thing, Star Wars-spoiler norms have gone out the window in the Suderman household....
What the GOP Tax Bill Means for Libertarians
"It's basically reassembling deck chairs on a really messy and horribly complex system": Q&A with Chris Edwards, CATO's Director of Tax Policy
Grover Norquist: GOP Tax Bill Is Good Enough For Now (He's Planning to 'Whine Later')
Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Everything You Wanted To Know About The Volokh Conspiracy: Podcast
Eugene Volokh runs the most important legal blog in the country. Here's his take on gay wedding cakes, free speech, and President Trump's judicial appointments.
