The self-described "freedom maximalist" and former hedge fund manager talks "incorruptible money," Austrian economics, and why Satoshi Nakamoto's invention is unstoppable.
"Hold on, now, you're starting to sound like an anarchist..."
Despite bitcoin's steep slide, the CEO of MicroStrategy is bullish on its mass adoption.
The last 50 years have been marked by a remarkably stable social consensus balancing the rights of women and fetuses. Let's not throw that away.
The MicroStrategy CEO and biggest corporate owner of bitcoin is HODLING for the long haul, come bull or bear market.
Born in communist Poland and disgusted by Silicon Valley communists, Pilat is making "heroic portraits of machines" and defending Ayn Rand.
The constitutional scholar on abortion, Sam Alito, and the future of federalism
The libertarianish Colorado Democrat is devolving decision-making to parents and trying to lower the income tax to zero.
Does returning decisions about abortion to the states increase liberty or shrink it?
The co-founder of "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" talks about the power of decentralization and the rise in subscription models for journalism.
The Love in the Time of Contagion author says sexual paranoia is on the rise.
The United States needs to be realistic about its interests abroad and the limits of our ability to influence events militarily, says the former nominee to be ambassador to Afghanistan.
A new history of free speech argues the best way to defeat hate speech is by openly confronting it in the public square.
Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but "neoliberalism" is an especially tangled case.
"Libertarianism isn't political...It's anti-political, really. It wants to take things out of the political arena."
"At the core of libertarianism is the idea that people are assets."
Nearly 90 gag-order bills would ban schools from teaching the grisly particulars of American history. This activist is fighting against the censorship and for school choice.
In The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder, the legendary First Amendment lawyer exposes the tricks of today's "anti-free speech movement."
The National Review staffer's new book is a spirited defense of capitalism, individualism, and free speech.
Sex expert Helen Fisher says that careers and COVID have made singles less promiscuous and more serious about relationships.
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
Harvey, who died last week, dedicated his life to supporting human pleasure along with the power to manage it responsibly.
Bid now to win the first-ever Reason NFT, featuring Reason Roundtable regulars Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, and Nick Gillespie.
The Washington Post columnist says President Joe Biden isn't a progressive but "will go where the [Democratic] party goes, and the party is being driven by other people."
When government "gets out of the way, we're going to see again, the creativity of the American people," says the 80-year-old optimist.
The foreign policy author and podcast host discusses Joe Biden's withdrawal and how to fix U.S. foreign policy.
The Enough Already: Time To End the War on Terror author on fixing foreign policy in the Joe Biden era.
The Free State Project's Jeremy Kauffmann debates the L.P.'s Angela McArdle in a Soho Forum debate.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The comedian and podcaster talks about running for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination and his beef with Reason.
The popular podcaster and comedian on the future of the Libertarian Party, his vaccine hesitancy, and fighting the culture war
The cryptocurrency pioneer explains why governments can't stop bitcoin 'despite all their guns and weapons.'
The former Michigan congressman says "horrible messaging" is a sign of insecurity.
The only L.P. member to ever hold national office says the party needs to stop being gratuitously shocking and start making the principled case for limited government.
The former Google engineer talks about inflation, the Austrian school of economics, and how bitcoin is revolutionizing banking.
A social media struggle in the New Hampshire L.P. fractured a state party and triggered a national meltdown.
Former Google engineer Vijay Boyapati talks inflation, the Austrian school of economics, and his new book on bitcoin.
"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."
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.
Would vaccine vigilantes be justified in stealing and distributing AstraZeneca doses locked up by order of the government?
A Soho Forum debate about stakeholder value vs. shareholder value.
Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook says yes, Whole Foods' John Mackey says no.
The peerless 90-year-old scholar is the subject of a new documentary and biography.
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.
A new book, Wretched Refuse?, documents that newcomers not only increase economic activity but often revitalize faith in free market, limited-government institutions.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
"I just do my own thing," said the George Mason University economist and author of The State Against Blacks.
The self-described "crazy-ass man" and libertarian economist focused on government's role in perpetuating racial inequality.
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