This is the recent interview with Nick Gillespie, where I go deep with the artists, entrepreneurs,

policymakers, and journalists who are making the world more libertarian, or at least more interesting,

by challenging worn-out ideas and orthodoxies.

Earlier this year, the Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos, announced that the opinion section

of his paper would be writing

every day in support and defense of personal liberties and free markets. Given that reason is

the magazine of free minds and free markets, that sounds great to me and I'm happy that my guest

today is the person Bezos hired to execute that mission. He's Adam O'Neill, a 33-year-old

Southern California native whose resume includes stints at The Economist, the Dispatch, the Wall

Street Journal, and Real Clear Politics. O'Neill tells me that his goal is to build a non-partisan

editorial section rooted in core American values of free expression, free enterprise,

and the idea that government power should be limited.

That means taking on MAGA and the Trump administration, insurgent Democratic Socialists,

and censors and status in both parties.

We also talk about the challenges of bringing a classical liberal

sensibility to mostly left-of-center readers, how growing up in California informs his thinking,

and why he believes newspapers definitely shouldn't endorse candidates. Here is the reason interview

with Adam O'Neill.

Adam O'Neill of the Washington Post opinion section. Thanks for talking to reason.

Thanks for having me on. I'm excited to talk about free markets and personal liberties with Reason, which knows a little bit about those subjects, certainly.

Yeah, that's right. Our longtime sub or tagline has been free minds and free markets. So I guess I'll

start there. We were, all of us had reasoned more excited earlier this year when Jeff Bezos

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