Want to know what comes next in politics, culture, and libertarian ideas? Reason’s Nick Gillespie hosts relentlessly interesting interviews with the activists, artists, authors, entrepreneurs, newsmakers, and politicians who are defining the 21st century.
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How Axl Rose reflected a country desperate but unwilling to move on from a worn-out postwar consensus on national identity, gender roles, and global hegemony.
"At some point, a regulation or a law with the absolute best of intentions will be wielded by people who may not have the absolute best of intentions."
From "power poses" to the self-esteem movement to implicit bias tests, Americans are suckers for bad ideas from psychologists.
The culinary innovator behind Slapfish on what it's been like to run a business with government at all levels arbitrarily flipping the on-off switch.
Technological breakthroughs mean we'll never again have to suffer with disasters like the novel coronavirus—if politicians will get out of the way.
The Singapore-born journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher ed, and Hollywood.
The former Merry Prankster and Whole Earth Catalog founder talks about psychedelics, computers, bringing back woolly mammoths, and his new documentary.
Joe Biden's spending bill is a Democratic Party wish list masquerading as a public health measure.
The tech billionaire isn't alone among the mega-wealthy in getting piles of money from government at all levels, say the authors of Welfare for the Rich.
A new documentary and forthcoming biography pay tribute to the economist's intellectual fearlessness and commitment to empirical research.
The Atlantic writer says that illiberalism and the urge to shut down debate need to be confronted across the political spectrum.
The 33-year-old successor to Justin Amash's House seat says his party has abandoned limited government, economic freedom, and individualism.
The anthropologist and brand consultant explains why we need fewer blanket accusations of racism and more mutual respect and compassion.
The silver lining to disastrous education lockdowns? A massive increase in support for all sorts of student-centered reforms.
Black families need control of their children's K-12 education, says the Minnesota activist. The past year's lockdowns might just make that happen.
The Columbia neuroscientist talks frankly about using heroin responsibly and "chasing liberty in the land of fear."
Techdirt's founder wants to give end users, not politicians and tech giants, more control over what we can say and see online.
The rock legend fought for free speech and self-expression in ways that appealed to dissidents in America and communist countries alike.
A 71-year-old therapist comes out of the "chemical closet" to promote MDMA as a means of self-discovery
The story of why pain relievers took root in Appalachia begins decades before the introduction of OxyContin.
A new book, Wretched Refuse?, documents that newcomers not only increase economic activity but often revitalize faith in free market, limited-government institutions.
The escaped slave called the Constitution "a glorious liberty document" that justified extending equality to blacks and women.
The outgoing FCC chairman discusses 'light-touch' regulation and the future of free speech on the internet.
There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The libertarian billionaire and the head of his foundation discuss their new book, leaving partisanship behind, and learning from their critics.
The former Reason editor discusses her new book, The Fabric of Civilization, and why she's optimistic about the future.
A new documentary argues that Great Society liberalism laid the foundation for 2014's police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
How to slow massive and unchecked national deficits in an age of runaway spending and divided government.
Whether Trump or Biden wins, the Stanford political scientist says "unstable majorities" will persist in the coming decade.
Here's the inside story of Milton Friedman's path-breaking PBS series about economic and political freedom, from the man who produced it.
The subject of the new film Mighty Ira explains why social justice warriors are wrong to attack free speech.
Lockdowns are forcing students, parents, educators, and even taxpayers to look for all sorts of alternatives to the status quo.
The author of the new book Transcend updates Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs for an era of pandemics, racial strife, and extreme polarization.
The Libertarian presidential nominee won't win but is upbeat about Gen Z and protests against lockdowns and police violence.
New documentary explains why installing the shah in 1953 led to ruinous American covert operations throughout the Cold War and beyond.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents the immense, ongoing progress that politicians and media refuse to acknowledge.
The podcaster and comedian offers a 12-step plan for political independence and recovery.
Rose City has been on fire for months. Are Portland-style protests coming soon to a town near you?
A controversial new book aims to debunk "the myths about sex and identity in our society."
The Fox News host explains his new self-help book The Plus, the upside of quarantine, and why he thinks Donald Trump will be reelected.
Dallas officials pulled the plug on the event just three days before it was to begin, costing the libertarian student group $200,000.
The author of a new history of immigration worries that the coronavirus is bringing the mythology of America as a nation of immigrants to an end.
"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
The Apocalypse Never author documents that things are getting greener and makes a case for nuclear power.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
The Brown University economist says prejudice and systemic racism are not the primary problems facing African Americans.
The heterodox hosts of the popular Blocked and Reported podcast talk about surviving internet outrage, the roots of speech repression, and the power of direct financial support from fans.
