Season 2, Episode 6 War on Drugs
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The War on Drugs
How the FDA and DEA overrule the interests of doctors and patients.
Season 2, Episode 6 War on Drugs
How the FDA and DEA overrule the interests of doctors and patients.
Harris is running away from her far-left past.
Season 2, Episode 5 Podcasts
How restrictions on telemedicine are forcing doctors to choose between following the law and obeying their ethical obligations.
Reason reporter Billy Binion discusses his coverage of outrageous cases around civil liberties, criminal justice, and government accountability, and the unusual path that led him to journalism.
This Kentucky Republican won't stop until he finds a state willing to make legal room for ibogaine, a drug he calls "God's medicine."
Plus: A listener asks the editors what a “conservatarian” presidential candidate and agenda might look like.
Special interests and government prevent the free market from working the way it should in the healthcare industry, making many Americans poorer and sicker.
Season 2, Episode 4 Podcasts
Also: Could legalizing the sale of kidneys and other organs save lives?
Reason talked with pro-life Americans who are uncomfortable with the post–Roe v. Wade abortion policy landscape.
Plus: "Black Nazi,” Oprah interviews Kamala, and yet another looming government shutdown.
Season 2, Episode 3 Health Care
Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to ponder which election was the most important one in their lifetimes.
Season 2, Episode 2 Health Care
Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results.
Former NPR and Slate fixture Mike Pesca discusses media meltdowns, objectivity vs. moral clarity, and whether we are better or worse off now that media gatekeepers have less influence.
From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational.
Plus: A listener asks if rebranding tariffs as taxes would make any difference in reducing their appeal to politicians and voters.
Season 2, Episode 1 Free Markets
Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs project brings a bit of free market flair to the health care industry, but the lack of meaningful price signals is only part of the problem.
Trump promised to hire "only the best people," yet his presidential plans were repeatedly thwarted by his staff. Will a second term be different?
Plus: A listener asks the editors, when it is right to revolt to stop repeated miscarriages of justice?
Season 2 Podcasts
A new season brings six new stories about how the government is making Americans poorer and sicker.
Legendary musician and writer Nick Cave discusses his forthcoming album Wild God, Roger Waters and the BDS movement, and the role of freedom in seeking transcendence.
Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.
Plus: Does the government own too much land in Utah? And the latest response to Friends star Matthew Perry’s drug overdose death.
The founder of Interintellect, which hosts public and members-only salons online and offline, advocates for a truly free and self-moderating market of ideas in the age of political polarization.
Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.
Plus: Special guest Ben Dreyfuss joins the editors this week.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about tariffs and subsidies in the manufacture of electric vehicles.
The 2024 Libertarian Party presidential candidate speaks out about the Israel-Hamas war, the authoritarian impulses of both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and homophobia within his own party.
Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day
A very special Reason Roundtable crossover episode with two guests from The Dispatch!
Libertarian legal giant Randy Barnett on his epic Supreme Court battles, the Federalist Society, and watching movies with Murray Rothbard.
The lethal consequences of a common, obscure hospital licensing law.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about Project 2025.
The filmmakers who brought The Coddling of the American Mind to the big screen discuss the students whose stories inspired the film and the state of the media, Hollywood, and storytelling.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause.
Plus: A listener asks the editors if employers should be held responsible for the speech and actions of employees outside of the workplace.
The Parent Revolution author on lockdowns, teachers unions, and voter rage.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
Plus: Is Biden fit to be president today, let alone stand for reelection?
The director of The Free State Project and Maine legislator talks about the free state movement’s history, accomplishments, and future.
Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?
Plus: A listener asks whether Bruce Springsteen's song Born in the U.S.A is actually patriotic.
The podcasting pioneer discusses capturing the real J.K. Rowling, quitting The New York Times, and his new show Reflector.
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
Plus: The editors reflect on the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The Dirty Jobs host talks about patriotism, history, and his new movie for Independence Day 2024.
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