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.
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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.
Kill the Mortgage Interest Deduction Now!
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
These Three Cases Define This Month at the Supreme Court Term: Podcast
How to think about gay wedding cakes, Fourth Amendment rights, and whether the federal government can ban sports betting. Plus: How will Neil Gorsuch vote?
They Mock The Govt's War on Boobs and Read Hillary's Book So You Don't Have To!: Podcast
Andrew Heaton and Sarah Rose Siskind are the creators of Reason TV's Mostly Weekly, a libertarian answer to The Daily Show and Last Week with John Oliver.
Online Video Is Better Than Television: Podcast
Nick Gillespie chats with Reason TV's Meredith Bragg and Jim Epstein about the past and future of our video journalism platform.
How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
The Martian's Andy Weir Talks Economics (and Sex) on the Moon in Artemis: Podcast
Weir's new book Artemis imagines life in a lunar settlement.
FCC Head Ajit Pai: Killing Net Neutrality Will Set the Internet Free
Promises that "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before.
How Trump's (and Obama's) Immigration Crackdowns Screw Over "Real" Americans: Podcast
Law-abiding residents and business owners are among the biggest casualties in the war on illegal immigrants.
Reason Debates Jacobin on Capitalism, Socialism: Podcast
Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward make the case for "free minds and free markets" as the best way to improve the world.
Should We Draw a Line Between Louis C.K. and 'Low-Level Lechery'?: Podcast
Journalist Cathy Young talks frankly about sexual harassment in the workplace.
Egyptian Dissident Cynthia Farahat: The Middle East Is Hungry for Free Markets and Free Speech
She started the first secular, pro-market party in Egypt. Then the government sent the secret police after her.
Trump Is a "Lunatic" on Free Trade, Immigration: Podcast
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks to libertarian economist Gene Epstein about Trump, free trade, and his monthly debates at the Soho Forum.
How To Protect Americans Without Destroying the 2nd Amendment: Podcast
Nick Gillespie talks with National Review's Robert VerBruggen about the Texas church shooting.
Bitcoin and the Blockchain Will Stomp Out Wall Street Fraud
Q&A with Caitlin Long, a former Morgan Stanley managing director, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and recent convert to Austrian economics.
The Trump Tax Plan Is Government as Usual
Despite big promises, it fails in its primary mission: paying for the actual cost of government
Are Your Kids Too Fragile? How to Make the Next Generation More Resilient.
Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman launch, Let Grow, a non-profit devoted to promoting better policies for raising children.
Harvey Weinstein's Downfall Marks the Rise of Sexual Equality
The Harvey Weinstein story is not just about the end of a career. It's about the end of an era.
Students Are Bringing Capitalism to Latin America
Q&A with economist Gabriel Calzada Alvarez on trade barriers, higher education, and bringing free markets to the region.
Meet a Doctor Who Picks Patients Over Insurance Companies: Podcast
Ryan Neuhofel is part of a movement of "direct primary care" physicians who deal directly with patients.
'Administrative State Is THE Leading Threat to Civil Liberties of Our Era.'
Columbia's Philip Hamburger says this "monarchical" system of government grew in power just as blacks and women saw an expansion of their voting rights.
