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The Reason Roundtable

Ask Us Anything: Libertarians Answer Your Questions

The Reason Roundtable

The Reason Roundtable

Politics, News

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The Reason editors answer your questions on policy, politics, pop culture, and more in this annual webathon event.

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0:00.0

Well, hello and welcome to a very special live webathon edition of the Reason Roundtable.

0:13.0

Normally, this is where I say that the Roundtable is your Libertarian Review of News and Culture

0:17.5

from the editors of Reason Magazine.

0:19.8

But today, it's that and something more. It is an

0:22.9

opportunity to ask the roundtable any damn question you want policy politics, what it's like to work

0:28.5

at Reason or with Nick Gillespie, who is not here, but we got Robbie Suave and said,

0:32.3

science fiction novels. We already have a couple of questions about Dungeons and Dragons

0:36.9

deed up. And we will try to

0:38.8

answer as many of them as we can. I'm your host, Peter Souterman. And today I am joined by my

0:43.5

colleagues, Catherine Rangue Ward, Matt Welch, and the great Robbie Suave. Okay, so we have a lot of

0:48.7

questions already. People have sent their questions, and so many of you put Webathon in the subject line like you were instructed.

0:56.8

Thank you so much.

0:58.0

But you can still ask us your questions today in the chat.

1:02.1

Just put them in the chat.

1:03.2

And if you want to donate to support the pod and everything we do at reason, which you should,

1:07.4

you can give right here on YouTube with the donate button. Otherwise, check the link in the podcast episode description, Facebook, X comments, or go directly to reason.com slash donate. So we are going to start here with a question for the entire gang. This is a question from Ryan, who is a donor already. He donated, so he gets

1:30.2

the first question. This question is libertarians specifically, in Americans more generally,

1:35.9

have earned a reputation for favoring the chaotic and the disorderly, possibly like this podcast.

1:41.3

Yet when I travel, I gravitate to countries like Japan or Switzerland

1:45.3

with incredibly orderly societies. So in what contexts should libertarians make a stronger case

1:51.3

for more structure in American life? Perhaps even with some administrative oversight that would

1:56.4

appease the normies who find our anarchic tendencies unsurious, but wouldn't inevitably lead to

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