The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
John Cleese: Wokeism Is the Enemy of Comedy—and Creativity
The Monty Python legend says political correctness poisons thinking in all areas of human activity.
The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
The Monty Python legend says political correctness poisons thinking in all areas of human activity.
Assistant Editor Fiona Harrigan explores why the Beehive State might be uniquely suited to welcome Afghan refugees.
The larger, louder half of Penn & Teller talks masks, vaccines, compassion, Bob Dylan, and much, much more.
Plus: The editors each consider a book they might secretly want to write one day.
Reporter Eric Boehm unpacks the batty requirements confronting third party candidates in a Georgia congressional race.
''The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning progressive journalist.
Plus: The editors select their most influential post-war libertarian thinkers.
Senior Editor Jacob Sullum examines how the claim that Japanese gun restrictions account for the country's low violent crime rate isn't as simple as it sounds.
A conservative argues today's left is channeling Puritan theocrats when they try to prevent us from enjoying ourselves. Is he correct?
Plus: The editors answer the question “How would you change the Constitution?”
Associate Editor Liz Wolfe discusses the political and economic fortunes of both Austin and Miami, plus potential reasons these pastures might not always be greener.
A new history, Dirty Pictures, explores how underground comix revolutionized art and exploded censorship once and for all.
Plus: A listener asks about Supreme Court legitimacy, and the editors practice "libertarian Festivus."
The Reason senior editor and co-founder of the libertarian feminist group Feminists for Liberty examines a murky post-Roe future.
The leading libertarian legal theorist talks about worrying trends at the Supreme Court as a conservative majority takes hold.
Plus: stereotypes within libertarianism, and Katherine compares the editors to Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters.
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Plus: The editors unveil their wish list for a hypothetical Libertarian president.
Plus: Will the January 6 hearings change any minds?
The longtime head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announces a new name and expanded mission for FIRE.
Plus: Are political parties the ideal vessel for advancing libertarian principles?
The Secret City author explains how panic about homosexuality led to discrimination, bad policy, and, eventually, freedom.
Plus: The editors contemplate the recent Libertarian National Convention.
The co-founders of Ideas Beyond Borders talk about bringing Steven Pinker and John Stuart Mill to an audience dying for them.
Plus: A listener asks if it’s possible for bureaucracy ever to be good.
The Polish-born artist is creating "heroic portraits" of machines and defending individualism and creative expression in Silicon Valley.
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The energy policy analyst says cheap and abundant gas, oil, and coal will continue to play a central role in human flourishing.
Plus: The editors each point out one key disagreement they have with one another.
Plus: ruminations on public health, misinformation, and media literacy
Does returning decisions about abortion to the states increase liberty or shrink it?
Plus: perpetual "scope creep" of the welfare state
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.
"I am not okay with you making laws that prevent me from doing what I feel is good for me."
The Colorado Democrat supports abortion rights, school choice, letting kids play unsupervised, an end to COVID-19 overreach, and an income tax rate of "zero."
The anti-lockdown Stanford public health professor on being attacked by Fauci, the loss of trust in medical experts, and how to save science going forward.
Plus: A short debate on intellectual property
The controversial Columbia neuroscientist, Air Force vet, and author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups believes deeply in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Plus, is the "Libertarian tent" too big?
Plus: The editors answer how Reason has changed each of their lives.
The author of the definitive history of Section 230 is back with a controversial new book, The United States of Anonymous.
Plus: What is the libertarian stake in the culture war over school curriculums?
The Joy of Trash author talks about how D.A.R.E., bad TV, Weird Al Yankovic, and 9/11 created a generation of ironic idealists.
Nathan Rabin celebrates The Joy of Trash—and Gen X irony and cynicism—one terrible movie, book, and TV show at a time.
Plus, the Reason editors' thoughts on Ketanji Brown Jackson
The artist's Rocket Factory project, which lets users build and own their own virtual spacecraft, is changing how we think about reality.
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