Overview
110 Episodes
"I feel fear… because they're somewhat vindictive people. I don't care who you are, having this set of people mad…
Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025
Today's guest is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker and Reason's Nick Gillespie discuss recent shifts at Harvard toward greater institutional…
Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2025
Today's guest is John Arnold—the former Enron wunderkind and billionaire philanthropist (and Reason Foundation supporter) who's determined to hack America's most…
Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2025
Jeffrey Singer, a Cato Institute fellow and longtime surgeon, argues that government overreach in health care undermines patient autonomy, which…
Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2025
Today's guest is Harvard economist Jason Furman, who was one of former President Barack Obama's chief economic advisers and an architect…
Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2025
Today's guest is Mark Clifford, former editor in chief of the South China Morning Post whose recent book, The Troublemaker, chronicles the…
Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2025
Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips…
Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2025
You've probably heard about microdosing, which involves taking a small, "sub-perceptual" dose of psychedelics like LSD or psilocybin on a regular…
Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2025
Today's guest is Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty, who has just published Modern Libertarianism: A Brief History of Classical Liberalism in…
Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2025
This week's guest is Rachel Barkow, a professor of law at New York University and the author of the book…
Published: 12 March 2025
Our guest today is Alton Brown, who for years hosted Good Eats on the Food Network and brought his interest in science to…
Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2025
Today's guest is Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist John McWhorter. In 2021, he published Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed…
Transcribed - Published: 26 February 2025
Jim O'Shaughnessy is a superstar investor and venture capitalist who leads O'Shaughnessy Ventures and hosts the popular Infinite Loops podcast. He's also…
Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025
The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, taking down with it the threat of international communism, right? Today's…
Transcribed - Published: 12 February 2025
Today's guest is Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), director of the 2020…
Transcribed - Published: 5 February 2025
One of the very first things that Donald Trump did after being sworn in as president was to make good…
Transcribed - Published: 29 January 2025
"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something,…
Transcribed - Published: 22 January 2025
This week's guest is Christina Dent, whose organization, End It For Good, seeks to change the approach to addiction from…
Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025
"Tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary," says Donald Trump, who made many promises throughout the 2024 presidential…
Transcribed - Published: 8 January 2025
Today's guest is Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun famous for her activism against the death penalty. In the early 1980s,…
Transcribed - Published: 1 January 2025
Few figures have literally and figuratively electrified American culture the way Bob Dylan has. He released his first album in 1962,…
Transcribed - Published: 25 December 2024
Today's guest is Penny Lane, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose previous works include Listening to Kenny G and Hail Satan?, both of…
Published: 18 December 2024
In late 2017, in the name of "zero tolerance," President Donald Trump introduced a policy of separating parents and children…
Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2024
Reason's annual Webathon is underway. Please considering donating here. Today's guest is Brendan O'Neill, chief political writer for Spiked and the author of…
Transcribed - Published: 4 December 2024
Today's guest is Martin Gurri, a former CIA analyst who is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center and a columnist…
Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2024
Today's guest is Amanda Knox, an activist, writer, and host of the podcast Labyrinths. In 2007, while studying abroad in Italy, Knox was…
Transcribed - Published: 20 November 2024
In the wake of massive victories by Donald Trump and Republicans, here's a question worth asking: What does today's GOP…
Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024
Join Reason's Nick Gillespie live on election night at YouTube, X, and Reason.com, starting at 10 p.m. EST. Will history…
Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2024
Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist at Stony Brook University and the author of the new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions…
Transcribed - Published: 30 October 2024
Today's guest is Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, the co-founder of Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB), a nonprofit that translates books and articles…
Transcribed - Published: 23 October 2024
Today's guest is Meghan McCain, political commentator, former co-host of ABC's The View, and host of the podcast Citizen McCain.…
Transcribed - Published: 16 October 2024
Today's guests are Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini, author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP,…
Transcribed - Published: 9 October 2024
Today's guest is Billy Binion, who joined Reason's staff in 2019 after stints at an opera company (!) and as a contractor…
Transcribed - Published: 2 October 2024
You've probably heard some variation of the notion that Millennials and Gen Z are going to be the first generations of Americans…
Transcribed - Published: 25 September 2024
Today's guest is Kat Timpf, whose new book is I Used To Like You Until…:(How Binary Thinking Divides Us). In a…
Transcribed - Published: 18 September 2024
Today's guest is Mike Pesca, who publishes The Gist podcast every weekday. The Gist, which launched in 2014, is a tight 30 minutes…
Transcribed - Published: 11 September 2024
Today's guest is Reason's Eric Boehm, a reporter and the host of the podcast Why We Can't Have Nice Things. The…
Transcribed - Published: 4 September 2024
Today's guest is Nick Cave, the music legend who emerged from Australia in the 1980s. Over the years, Cave has written…
Transcribed - Published: 28 August 2024
If you ever wanted to live in a world of endlessly fascinating conversations about the arts, science, and philosophy, you're…
Transcribed - Published: 21 August 2024
Charles Gasparino is a senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network and a columnist for the New York Post. He's also…
Transcribed - Published: 14 August 2024
Today's guest is the Libertarian Party's candidate for president Chase Oliver, who wants to phase out Social Security and Medicare…
Transcribed - Published: 7 August 2024
Today's guest is libertarian legal giant Randy Barnett, who has just published his memoir, A Life for Liberty: The Making of…
Transcribed - Published: 31 July 2024
Ted and Courtney Balaker are the team behind the new documentary The Coddling of the American Mind. Based on the…
Transcribed - Published: 24 July 2024
This week's guest on The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie is school choice activist Corey DeAngelis, whose provocative new book is The Parent…
Transcribed - Published: 17 July 2024
Today's guest is Eric Brakey, the new executive director of The Free State Project, a nonprofit that has been working since…
Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2024
This week's guest is Andy Mills, the co-creator of Reflector, a new documentary podcast. Reflector's early episodes delve into controversial…
Transcribed - Published: 3 July 2024
Today's guest is Mike Rowe, the podcaster, former host of Dirty Jobs, and star of Something To Stand For, an unabashedly patriotic…
Transcribed - Published: 26 June 2024
Today's guest is John Mackey, the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, who just released his memoir, The Whole…
Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2024
My guest today is economist and podcaster Glenn Loury, whose new memoir is titled Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Born in 1948…
Transcribed - Published: 12 June 2024
Today's guest is Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration and one of the plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court…
Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2024
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