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The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieThe Libertarian Case for PostmodernismWhat if one of the sharpest critics of centralized power, bureaucratic surveillance, and top-down social control wasn't a libertarian economist but a French postmodernist? And what if one of the economists most vilified by the left wasn't a cold-hearted market fundamentalist but a thinker obsessed with the limits of knowledge and the dangers of planning?
Today's guest is King's College London political economist Mark Pennington, author of the new book Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge and Freedom. A self-declared postmodernist libertarian, Pennington explores the common ground between Michel Foucault and Friedrich Hayek. He talks with Nic...2025-08-061h 13The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieCould New York Go Bankrupt Again?Today's guest is Richard E. Farley, author of Drop Dead, a history of how the richest city in America got addicted to spending, saturated in debt, and crashed the municipal bond market—and then managed to get a federal bailout in the nick of time.
In 1975, New York City almost went bankrupt. Farley argues that the same conditions are reemerging today: runaway budgets, gimmicky accounting, overpromised entitlements, and politicians more interested in ideology than arithmetic. He wrote all this before the rise of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who promises to blow spending through the roof, enact new taxes...2025-07-301h 00The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieStreaming Music Isn't a Free Market. It's a Regulated Monopoly.Today's guest is David Lowery, the legendary frontman of the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, digital copyright crusader, and longtime Reason reader.
He dives deep into his sprawling, deeply personal new record Fathers, Sons and Brothers and the postwar California dream, talks about how the music industry broke, and suggests ways to maybe, just maybe, fix it.
He's sued Spotify and other streaming services, teaches business at the University of Georgia, and he's dropped what might be the best one-liner about selling out since The Who.
If you care about music, creative freedom, an...2025-07-231h 21
The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieHow a Government Mind Control Experiment BackfiredToday's guest is University of Texas historian John Lisle, author of the chilling and brilliantly researched Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA.
Despite official attempts to destroy records of the CIA's LSD-fueled search for mind control in the 1950s and '60s, the truth has been dribbling out, especially in recent books and documentaries such as Steven Kinzer's Poisoner in Chief and Errol Morris' Wormwood.
Lisle's work draws on previously unknown depositions and documents to deliver the most definitive—and disturbing—account yet. He discusses the twisted logic of Cold War...2025-07-161h 05The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieThe Surprising Origins of Modern FreedomToday's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life.
Her book explores why we've come to basically equate having more personal choices with having more freedom. She stresses it wasn't always this way—in the past, freedom was often defined as the ability to act in the way God wanted you to act, or to overcome base urges, to be more angel than beast.
Rosenfeld talks about how the Reformation, which enshrined a right to choose among faiths, and the rise of s...2025-07-0941 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieFrom Big Gulps to Raw Milk: The Rise of MAHAToday's guest is Elizabeth Nolan Brown, whose recent Reason cover story looks into the politics of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement spearheaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Just a decade or so ago, it was Democrats, liberals, and progressives who were pushing healthy eating initiatives and it was common to see Republicans and conservatives like Sarah Palin brandish Big Gulps like AR-15s and Fox News anchors like Sean Hannity declare their loyalty to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
But now the Trumpian right is embracing wellness and food purity like nob...2025-07-0246 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieHow LSD Helped Launch a Radical Libertarian CountercultureToday's guest is Susannah Cahalan, whose new book is The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary—muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary's psychedelic revolution.
She talks with Reason's Nick Gillespie about hippie communes, outlaw drug smuggling, the war on drugs—and how the '60s counterculture, in its best moments, ran experiments in radical individualism, using personal freedoms to build voluntary communities rooted in altered consciousness and aesthetic liberation. The Acid Queen helps explain how the personal became the political, why libertarians should care about the messy legacy of the counterculture, and what co...2025-06-2549 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieDid Bombing Iran Make America Safer?On June 22, the United States launched what President Donald Trump called "very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran" on the social media site Truth Social. "NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!" But did that mission make America—or the Middle East—safer? Is it really a one-and-done action or the start of greater involvement on the part of the U.S. military? What lessons has our military learned—or failed to learn—from the past 25 years of foreign policy failures?
In this special live episode of The Reason Interview, Nick Gillespie talked with Emma Ashford...2025-06-2458 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieScott Barry Kaufman: Incels, Narcissists, and the Victim MindsetPsychologist and author Scott Barry Kaufman joins Reason's Nick Gillespie to discuss his new book Rise Above, which challenges the growing embrace of victimhood as identity. They explore how traits such as neuroticism and vulnerable narcissism are shaping modern culture, why social media rewards grievance over growth, and what it really takes to develop a more flexible, empowered sense of self. Kaufman reflects on his own journey from special education to Carnegie Mellon and beyond, explains why tough love and radical honesty are essential tools for transformation, and offers a humanistic vision of how individuals and societies can move...2025-06-1851 min
LAST MEAL with Tom NashNick Gillespie's LAST MEALIs personal freedom under threat? In this episode of Last Meal, I sit down with journalist and libertarian thinker Nick Gillespie to discuss free speech, the future of media, and why he believes individualism is more important than ever. We explore the risks of groupthink, the power of open debate, and the tension between personal liberty and collective responsibility.From philosophical musings to the significance of artificial flavors, Gillespie weaves a tapestry of thoughts on existentialism, legacy, and modern society. Uncover why he views life through the lens of Christian existentialism, his take on...2025-06-1728 minLAST MEAL with Tom NashNick Gillespie's LAST MEALIs personal freedom under threat? In this episode of Last Meal, I sit down with journalist and libertarian thinker Nick Gillespie to discuss free speech, the future of media, and why he believes individualism is more important than ever. We explore the risks of groupthink, the power of open debate, and the tension between personal liberty and collective responsibility.From philosophical musings to the significance of artificial flavors, Gillespie weaves a tapestry of thoughts on existentialism, legacy, and modern society. Uncover why he views life through the lens of Christian existentialism, his take on...2025-06-1728 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieKennedy: A Gen X Rebel's Journey From MTV to Fox News
Today's guest is the former MTV video jockey and current Fox News personality Kennedy, who emerged in the 1990s as a leading voice of Gen X when it came to politics and culture. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with her about how a generation raised on neglect, nuclear nightmares, and Nirvana forged an ethos of irreverence and independence that still matters today. Kennedy explains her evolution from a teen Republican who swooned over Dan Quayle to a principled libertarian, why the culture of alternative music and media once felt so alive and vital, and what it means when former pop...2025-06-1148 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieHelen Lewis: The Dark Side of GeniusToday's guest is Helen Lewis, a British journalist and podcaster who is a staff writer for The Atlantic. Her new book is The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea, and it explores how the definition of what it means to be a genius has changed radically over the centuries, how it became linked to all sorts of weird biological theories, and how Elon Musk has come to personify genius in our time (and whether his failure at the Department of Government Efficiency spells the end of his genius moment). Lewis and Reason's Nick Gillespie also talk about...2025-06-041h 35The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieLawrence Wright: America's Misadventures in Wars, Cults, and PanicsToday's guest is the legendary journalist and New Yorker staffer Lawrence Wright. He is the author of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief; The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11; and The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid.
Wright talks with Reason's Nick Gillespie about The Human Scale, his new novel set in the war-torn Middle East, and why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict keeps burning even as most of the 20th century's conflicts have cooled. They also go deep on Wright's exposés on the war on terror, satanic panics, and how ou...2025-05-281h 03The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieC. Bradley Thompson and Jeremiah Johnson: Rise of the 'MAGA Manosphere'Did mainstream conservatives and libertarians lose a generation of young men to the post-liberal, reactionary right?
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with C. Bradley Thompson, author of the Substack newsletter The Redneck Intellectual, and Jeremiah Johnson of the Center for New Liberalism, who wrote the article "Weak Men Create Hard Times: And Weak Men Love a Strongman."
This conversation was recorded live on Wednesday May 21.
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2025-05-231h 01The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieBrian Brushwood: Why We Fall for Scams
"You don't get conned because you're stupid—you get conned because you're human."
That's the message of this week's guest, Brian Brushwood. He's an Austin-based magician, podcaster, and professional skeptic. With shows like Scam Nation and The Modern Rogue, he's taught millions of us how to upgrade our B.S. detectors in a world where truth is more up for grabs than ever before.
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with him about World's Greatest Con, Brushwood's mind-blowing podcast where he reveals grifts like Disney World's authoritarian Epcot theme park, the psychic-s2025-05-2151 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieRichard Dawkins: Why Atheism Is WinningToday's guest is evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins, whom Reason's Nick Gillespie interviewed last fall in Milwaukee as part of his "Final Bow" tour. Gillespie and Dawkins talked about why he believes science can't thrive without freedom, why gender ideology is starting to look a lot like Soviet Lysenkoism, and why some truths—like the binary nature of biological sex—shouldn't be up for political negotiation.
Dawkins discusses his new book, The Genetic Book of the Dead, what it means to live in a "colony of cooperating viruses," and why he thinks both religious dogma and po...2025-05-141h 34The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieBillionaire Cliff Asness: Can Technology Outrun 'Stupider and Stupider' Government?"I feel fear… because they're somewhat vindictive people. I don't care who you are, having this set of people mad at you is not comfortable." That's today's guest, Cliff Asness, talking about President Donald Trump, his administration, and his supporters. Asness is the outspoken billionaire co-founder of AQR Capital Management. He is also a pioneer in quantitative finance, University of Chicago Ph.D., and self-described "part-time Republican and full-time libertarian." He talks bluntly about why Trump is spectacularly wrong on tariffs and trade, his concerns about the authoritarian tendencies of the president and his supporters, and how capitalism may ac...2025-05-0951 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieSteven Pinker: Can Harvard Be Saved?Today's guest is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker and Reason's Nick Gillespie discuss recent shifts at Harvard toward greater institutional neutrality and free speech, while warning that threats to academic freedom now come from both internal ideologies and external political forces—including pressure from the federal government under President Donald Trump.
Pinker defends the role of federal science funding but cautions against political micromanagement of academia, emphasizing the need for independent scholarly governance. The conversation also touches on Pinker's admiration for Richard Dawkins, the impact of declining religiosity on moral progress, and the concept of "common knowledge" as...2025-05-0759 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJohn Arnold: Government Can't Be Trusted To Fix Any ProblemsToday's guest is John Arnold—the former Enron wunderkind and billionaire philanthropist (and Reason Foundation supporter) who's determined to hack America's most expensive and least accountable public sector systems in areas such as criminal justice, education, and pensions. (Fun fact: He was once called "the most hated man in pensionland" by Governing magazine due to his reform efforts.)
Reason's Nick Gillespie and Arnold talk about why public pensions are so out of control and how to fix them; how Medicare squeezes billions of unnecessary dollars out of taxpayers; and how Enron scammed its investors not despite regulations but...2025-04-3051 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJeffrey Singer: Get Government Out of Health CareJeffrey Singer, a Cato Institute fellow and longtime surgeon, argues that government overreach in health care undermines patient autonomy, which should be the guiding principle in medical decision making. Drawing from historical examples and personal experience, he critiques licensing laws, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) drug approval monopoly, and Certificate of Need (CON) regulations as protectionist measures that limit competition and innovation. Singer contends that private institutions—like insurers, hospitals, and certification boards—already create strong incentives for safety and quality, making many government controls unnecessary.
Reason's Nick Gillespie and Singer also explore complex topics like end...2025-04-2352 min
Fire at WillFree minds and free markets, with Nick GillespieFreedom is under assault across the West. The US is reverting to 18th century economic protectionism, the UK are jailing people for tweets, and Australia gave up on the pretense of rugged individualism a long time ago.How do we fight for freedom in a world that is becoming less free? To help Will with that question, he is joined by Nick Gillespie. Nick is an Editor-at-large at Reason, the libertarian magazine of free minds and free markets, and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on...2025-04-091h 02
Fire at WillFree minds and free markets, with Nick GillespieFreedom is under assault across the West. The US is reverting to 18th century economic protectionism, the UK are jailing people for tweets, and Australia gave up on the pretense of rugged individualism a long time ago.How do we fight for freedom in a world that is becoming less free? To help Will with that question, he is joined by Nick Gillespie. Nick is an Editor-at-large at Reason, the libertarian magazine of free minds and free markets, and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on...2025-04-091h 03The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieLeigh Stein and Julius Taranto: Did Wokeness and Trump Kill Literary Satire?Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis?
Today's guests are two young novelists who are redefining satire in the 21st century. Leigh Stein is the author of Self Care, which is set at a women's wellness startup where things go very wrong. Her next novel, If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You, takes place at a social media hype house and comes out in August. Julius Taranto is the author of How I Won a Nobel...2025-04-0252 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieBrian Doherty: The Fascinating Women and Weirdos Who Founded LibertarianismToday's guest is Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty, who has just published Modern Libertarianism: A Brief History of Classical Liberalism in the United States. His previous books include Radicals for Capitalism, the indispensable history of the libertarian movement, and titles covering the Ron Paul revolution, gun rights, Burning Man, and underground comics.
Modern Libertarianism analyzes the political and cultural legacies of figures such as Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, and Barry Goldwater. Doherty talks with Reason's Nick Gillespie about Ayn Rand and the other two women who helped conceptualize libertarian thought—Rose Wilder...2025-03-191h 03
In Response...On Liberty - #19 Nick GillespieJoey speaks with Nick Gillespie. We discuss our takes on the state of the arts, conservative art and entertainment, the Kennedy Center, the role of the audience in media, misinformation, political prejudices and polarization, our family backgrounds, understanding the New Right, reactionary Catholicism, anti-wokeness, the Trump administration and DOGE, government spending, and other topics. Nick can be found on X @nickgillespie, Substack @ Nick Gillespie, and at Reason.com
Nick hosts the Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie podcast and is an editor-at-large at Reason magazine. The star libertarian has been with Reason since 1993. He received his Ph.D. in Englis...2025-03-121h 02The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieAlton Brown: A Culinary Legend Offers Food for ThoughtOur guest today is Alton Brown, who for years hosted Good Eats on the Food Network and brought his interest in science to the making of dinner. He's currently touring the country, and he has also just published Food for Thought, a great collection of essays about food, culture, and his life on and off the screen. In this episode, Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Brown about how food transcends politics, why fusion cooking isn't cultural appropriation, and why there's always room for Jell-O salad on his menu.
0:43— Brown's Last Bite tour
1:55— Brown's new book: Food for Thoug...2025-03-0558 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJohn McWhorter: Is 'Wokeness' Finally Dead?
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 Black America, which argued that politically correct "antiracism" was not only a new religion but a dangerous form of illiberalism that quashed free expression, individual liberty, and social progress.
McWhorter talks with Reason's Nick Gillespie about how far we've come since 2021—and whether we are entering a new era of open debate and cultural possibilities. They 2025-02-2649 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJim O'Shaughnessy: Don't Squander This Age of Innovation
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 the coauthor of the new collection Two Thoughts, which compiles provocative quotes from figures ranging from Sam Adams and Ludwig von Mises to Frank Zappa.
O'Shaughnessy chats with Reason's Nick Gillespie about the power of free minds and free markets to improve the world, why societies thrive or perish, and how to b2025-02-191h 23The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieSean McMeekin: Don't Whitewash the History of CommunismThe Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, taking down with it the threat of international communism, right? Today's guest says no, writing that, "Far from dead, Communism as a governing template seems only to be getting started." Sean McMeekin is a historian at Bard College and the author of the mesmerizing book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with him about the history of communism, how its focus on forced equality is inherently violent, and how Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and others each brought particular flourishes an...2025-02-121h 21The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieNico Perrino: What the Trump-Musk Alliance Means for Free Speech
Today's guest is Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), director of the 2020 documentary Mighty Ira, which profiles the longtime head of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the author of a forthcoming book on the triumph of civil libertarians.
He's also the host of the popular podcast So to Speak, which takes an "uncensored look at the world of free expression through the law, philosophy, and stories that define your right to free speech." Reason's Nick Gillespie talks wi2025-02-051h 03The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieAlex Nowrasteh and Bryan Caplan: The Case for More ImmigrationOne of the very first things that Donald Trump did after being sworn in as president was to make good on promises to reduce both legal and illegal immigration. He even issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship, a right guaranteed by the Constitution's 14th Amendment. That order has already been blocked by a federal judge, and its fate may well end up being decided by the Supreme Court. But calls for less immigration are super popular, with 55 percent of Americans saying current levels should be decreased, the highest since 2001. Reason's Nick Gillespie disagrees with that—he believes that immi...2025-01-2956 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieMichael Shermer: Conspiracy Thinking, Wokeness, and the Future of Free Thought"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic magazine, Substack superstar, and author of many best-selling books about rationalism, the evolution of morality, and pseudoscience.
He quotes Schwartz in his latest book, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, to drive home the point that big, world-changing secret plots happen all the time, but there are reliable ways for us to decide whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, 9/11 was an inside job, or vaccines cause auti...2025-01-2253 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieDouglas Irwin: Why Trump's Tariff Plans Are Dangerous"Tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary," says Donald Trump, who made many promises throughout the 2024 presidential race to raise the cost of imports from China, Mexico, and Canada—America's three biggest trading partners. But are Trump's tariffs a good idea or a terrible one? And is the era of free trade coming to a close?
That's the topic of today's Reason Interview. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Dartmouth economist Douglas Irwin, author of Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s and Free Trade under Fire, now in its fifth edition. They talk about the nega...2025-01-081h 00The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJeffrey Edward Green: Why Bob Dylan's Prophecies Continue To FascinateFew figures have literally and figuratively electrified American culture the way Bob Dylan has. He released his first album in 1962, won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, and continues to perform about 100 concerts a year at the ripe age of 83. His life is chronicled in the new movie A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet.
But what's the meaning—or meanings—of Bob Dylan, who sang at Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, became a born-again Christian in the 1970s, and wrote a book called The Philosophy of Modern Song?
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks...2024-12-251h 04The Reason Interview With Nick GillespiePenny Lane: Why I Gave a Kidney to a Total StrangerToday's guest is Penny Lane, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose previous works include Listening to Kenny G and Hail Satan?, both of which formed the basis of previous Reason interviews linked in the show notes.
Her exceptional new film is Confessions of a Good Samaritan. It's currently streaming on Netflix and follows her experience as an "altruistic" kidney donor, or one who gives an organ away to an anonymous stranger. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Lane about how she came to make her decision; its effects on her body, mind, and finances; and the ethics of current po...2024-12-1849 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieErrol Morris and Jacob Soboroff: Trump's Immigration Policies Are IndefensibleIn late 2017, in the name of "zero tolerance," President Donald Trump introduced a policy of separating parents and children who crossed the Southern border and requested asylum in the United States. In all, an estimated 5,500 children were taken from their parents and many were held in detention facilities, some of which had been constructed by the Obama administration. Over 1,000 children are still unaccounted for by the federal government. The policy ended in 2018 after massive public outcry. The zero tolerance policy is the subject of Separated, a new documentary by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Errol Morris. It has aired on MSN...2024-12-1149 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieBrendan O'Neill: The West Went Insane After October 7Reason'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 the bracing new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation.
O'Neill and Reason's Nick Gillespie talk about the response in the United Kingdom and the United States to Hamas' attacks last year, Israel's ongoing military actions, and what's likely to come next in a postwoke world. "On October 7," says O'Neill, "the progressive left went from 'believe women' to 'believe fascists.' They took Hamas at its word over the...2024-12-041h 07The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieMartin Gurri: Political Chaos Brings Colossal TransformationToday's guest is Martin Gurri, a former CIA analyst who is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center and a columnist for The Free Press. A decade ago, in the wake of the Arab Spring and various "color" revolutions around the world, Gurri published The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, which analyzed how social media empowered ordinary people to resist control from above and anticipated the rise of Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Brexit.
Reason's Nick Gillespie spoke with Gurri shortly after the 2024 election at The Reason Spea...2024-11-2752 min
The Trip ReportSpecial Dispatch: An Election Retrospective with Nick GillespieWelcome to a Special Dispatch of The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves. Today, I’m joined by Nick Gillespie, Editor-at-Large of Reason magazine, to discuss the results of the US election and specifically what it might mean for psychedelic policy, research, and drug development. As a veteran observer of the intersection between politics, regulation, and civil liberties, Nick offers a unique lens through which to examine the evolving dynamics of psychedelics, the regulatory state, and how the incoming Trump administration might approach the matter.Our conversation focuses on the curious coal...2024-11-1341 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieLive on Election Night! The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJoin Reason's Nick Gillespie live on election night at YouTube, X, and Reason.com, starting at 10 p.m. EST.
Will history be made? Will it end? Joining Gillespie are The Fifth Column's Kmele Foster, Bloomberg economics columnist Allison Schrager, and many more special guests, who will break down the weirdest—and possibly the most consequential—election season in any of our lifetimes.
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2024-11-0555 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieMusa al-Gharbi: How Woke Elites Became Out of TouchMusa al-Gharbi is a sociologist at Stony Brook University and the author of the new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Al-Gharbi argues that academics, journalists, and other elite professionals that he calls "symbolic capitalists" are disconnected from the marginalized and disadvantaged communities they claim to speak for—and that, by using the rhetoric of class solidarity drawn from the Occupy movement (which pitted the "99 percent versus the 1 percent"), progressive symbolic capitalists actually exploit those communities to maintain a relatively lush lifestyle.
Born and raised in a mixed-race military family in Ari...2024-10-301h 12The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieFaisal Saeed Al Mutar: Peace In The Middle East Through CapitalismToday's guest is Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, the co-founder of Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB), a nonprofit that translates books and articles about limited government, freedom of thought, and market economics into Arabic and other languages, and distributes them for free in the Middle East and other parts of the world. (Full disclosure: Reason's Nick Gillespie is on the board of IBB.)
Gillespie talked with Al Mutar about IBB's new book, Untold Stories of the Middle East, which celebrates entrepreneurs in Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere whom IBB has given startup grants; how the October 7 attacks on Israel and f...2024-10-231h 03The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieMeghan McCain: 'Trump Didn't Break My Brain. What's Your Excuse?'Today's guest is Meghan McCain, political commentator, former co-host of ABC's The View, and host of the podcast Citizen McCain.
Reason's Billy Binion talks with her about the changing GOP, bias in corporate media, the 2024 election, and what it's like to be a non-MAGA, nonpopulist member of today's Republican Party.
0:00- Introduction
0:21- Ad: St. John's College
1:36- Libertarians vs. the McCains
3:33- Being a non-MAGA, non-populist conservative
6:56- Obama lecturing black male voters
9:38- Kamala Harris' terrible press strategy
11:07- Meghan McCain does not have TDS
19:14...2024-10-161h 16The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieWill Trump or Harris Win the Working-Class Vote?
Today's guests are Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini, author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Ruy Teixeira, coauthor most recently of Where Have All the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes.
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with them about the presidential election, how the working class has become the most important—yet most neglected—part of the electorate, and whether libertarians have anyone to root for in national politics.
0:00- Ad: St. John's College
1:17- Introduction
2:0...2024-10-091h 26The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieBilly Binion: Civil Liberties Don't Just Belong to the Rich
Today's guest is Billy Binion, who joined Reason's staff in 2019 after stints at an opera company (!) and as a contractor for NATO (!!). He has written blockbuster stories about the abuse of power by cops and courts, and he just produced an incredible documentary about a citizen journalist in Laredo, Texas, who sued the city after they arrested her for reporting on a couple of controversial local stories. It's a case that could have major First Amendment implications for independent reporters.
Nick Gillespie talks with Binion about what drives his interests in such topics as civil asset forfeiture, SW...2024-10-021h 13The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJeremy Horpedahl: Are Millennials and Gen Z Actually Worse Off Than Their Parents?You've probably heard some variation of the notion that Millennials and Gen Z are going to be the first generations of Americans to have lower standards of living than their parents. It's too expensive to go to college, to buy a house, to have kids—you name it, goes this line of thinking. Today's guest has good news: Younger Americans are actually doing better than Gen X was at the same stage, and they are in the same ballpark as Baby Boomers when you adjust for inflation and population.
"Millennials and Gen Z have dramatically more wealth than...2024-09-251h 12The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieKat Timpf: An Unapologetic Libertarian at Fox News
Today's guest is Kat Timpf, whose new book is I Used To Like You Until…:(How Binary Thinking Divides Us). In a totally insane election season, this just might be the most important book of the year. A sequel of sorts to 2023's You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together, it seeks to show how politics overwhelms common decency and basic logic.
Timpf, who co-hosts the super-popular Gutfeld! late-night show, explains to Reason's Nick Gillespie why she tells some people she works in porn instead of at F...2024-09-1845 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieMike Pesca: How NPR Lost Its Way
Today's guest is Mike Pesca, who publishes The Gist podcast every weekday. The Gist, which launched in 2014, is a tight 30 minutes of news, interviews, and opinions on the biggest issues of the day. Pesca is a veteran of NPR and Slate—experiences that have made him an outspoken critic of legacy media, especially its willingness to overthrow longstanding commitments to objectivity and fairness in pursuit of progressive versions of "moral clarity."
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with him about his controversial 2021 separation from Slate after he defended a New York Times reporter's use of a racial slur, why once...2024-09-111h 07The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieNick Cave: I See the World as 'Systemically Beautiful'Today's guest is Nick Cave, the music legend who emerged from Australia in the 1980s. Over the years, Cave has written screenplays, soundtracks, and novels, and has collaborated with a diverse range of artists, from Johnny Cash and Kylie Minogue to P.J. Harvey and Neko Case.
Known for his brooding and meditative mystique, he coauthored the bestselling Faith, Hope, and Carnage in 2022, receiving plaudits for openly discussing his struggles with heroin addiction, his lifelong fascination with Jesus Christ, and his artistic development. Since 2018, he's published The Red Hand Files, where he answers readers' questions in a ma...2024-08-281h 08
The Trip ReportEp #30 Nick Gillespie: Reflection on the FDA’s Rejection of MDMA Assisted TherapyWelcome to The Trip Report Podcast, a production of Beckley Waves, a Psychedelic Venture Studio.Last week on the podcast, I spoke with Dr. Carlene MacMillan, psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer of Osmind, about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA Assisted Therapy. That conversation focused on some of the problems with the application, including potentially missing data, inaccurate or unreported adverse events, and the general uncertainty that both the Advisory Committee and FDA itself had with the work Lykos submitted.Today’s conversation addresses the matter from another perspective, namely the inadequacy of the curr...2024-08-221h 01The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieCharles Gasparino: 'Woke' Hypocrisy Is Hurting Businesses
Charles Gasparino is a senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network and a columnist for the New York Post. He's also the author of the new book Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America. Gasparino analyzes major missteps by companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Target, and Disney and explores how CEOs and top management become entranced by things like stakeholder capitalism; diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; and environmental, social, and governance plans to the detriment of customer satisfaction, public relations, and the bottom line.
Four years out from the COVID-19 pandemic and th...2024-08-141h 18The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieChase Oliver: Q&A With the Controversial Libertarian Party CandidateToday's guest is the Libertarian Party's candidate for president Chase Oliver, who wants to phase out Social Security and Medicare for younger Americans, create a 21st century version of Ellis Island, and get the government out of bedrooms and boardrooms. A longtime antiwar activist, he also wants to bring American troops home and slash the Pentagon's budget.
Despite such ultralibertarian positions, a number of high-profile Libertarian Party figures and state parties have declined to endorse him because he is not part of the national party's Mises Caucus and he believes that the nonsurgical transitioning of minors should be...2024-08-071h 09
Uncertain ThingsThe Agony of Abundance (w/ Nick Gillespie)Nick Gillespie — editor at large at the libertarian institution that is Reason Magazine (and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie) — comes on the pod for an IRL conversation about 'The Agony of Abundance,' the paradoxical state in which we’re more prosperous, yet more dissatisfied, than ever. We discuss the negative narratives peddled by the media — a misdirection that’s untethering us from reality — and debate the limitations libertarianism and liberal thinking in an ever-more tribal world. And, before we go, we dive into psychedelics and whether they’re really worth all the fuss.Uncertain Things...2024-08-021h 55The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieRandy Barnett: Originalism, Obamacare, and the Libertarian MovementToday's guest is libertarian legal giant Randy Barnett, who has just published his memoir, A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist. Currently a law professor at Georgetown, Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Barnett about his days as a prosecutor in Chicago, how he helped create the legal philosophy of originalism, what it was like arguing medical marijuana and Obamacare cases at the Supreme Court, and what he learned from anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard. They also discuss why he thinks the libertarian movement needs an intellectual reboot and how his working-class, Jewish upbringing in Calumet City, Illinois, remains c...2024-07-311h 21The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieCorey DeAngelis: The School Choice Wave Sweeping AmericaThis week's guest on The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie is school choice activist Corey DeAngelis, whose provocative new book is The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools. A senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and a former education policy analyst at the Reason Foundation (the nonprofit that publishes Reason magazine), Corey has been called "the most effective school choice advocate since Milton Friedman."
His new book explains why K-12 education failed so badly before and during the COVID pandemic and how to fix it once and for all by making the...2024-07-171h 13The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieEric Brakey: How Libertarians Can Attain Political PowerToday's guest is Eric Brakey, the new executive director of The Free State Project, a nonprofit that has been working since 2001 to get small-government diehards to move to New Hampshire and make the Granite State a stronghold for libertarian ideas. Prior to becoming head of the Free State Project, Brakey was a Republican state senator in Maine, where he authored successful legislation that expanded gun rights, legalized over-the-counter birth control, and enacted Right To Try legislation. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks to Brakey about the state of the libertarian movement, how Ron Paul and Young Americans for Liberty shaped his wor...2024-07-1039 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieAndy Mills: Quitting The New York Times and Making The Witch Trials of J.K. RowlingThis week's guest is Andy Mills, the co-creator of Reflector, a new documentary podcast. Reflector's early episodes delve into controversial treatments for alcoholism and the free speech implications of the trial of rapper Young Thug, whose lyrics are being used by prosecutors to build a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) case. Mills is a legend in podcasting circles. He helped create The New York Times podcast The Daily, one of the most listened-to shows on the planet, and he produced the wildly popular and controversial The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling for The Free Press. Reason's N...2024-07-031h 15The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieMike Rowe: Make America Stand for Something Again
Today's guest is Mike Rowe, the podcaster, former host of Dirty Jobs, and star of Something To Stand For, an unabashedly patriotic film in which he tells unknown stories about legendary figures in American history. Something To Stand For will be in theaters from June 27th through the 4th of July, and will be available online afterward. Reason's Nick Gillespie and Rowe talk about the decline of patriotism and trust in experts over the past 50 years, the necessity of knowing history and your neighbors, and how developing gratitude may lead to a social renaissance even in the midst of po...2024-06-2650 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieGlenn Loury: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and CapitalismMy guest today is economist and podcaster Glenn Loury, whose new memoir is titled Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Born in 1948 and raised working-class in Chicago's predominantly African American South Side, Loury tells a story of self-invention, ambition, hard work, addiction, and redemption that channels Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Richard Wright's Native Son, Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, and Milton Friedman's Capitalism & Freedom. The first tenured black economist at Harvard, Loury emerged in the 1980s as a ubiquitous commenter on race and class and was offered a post in the Reagan administration. Then a series of scandal...2024-06-121h 07The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieGlenn Greenwald: Defund Israel and Free Assange
Today's guest is maverick journalist Glenn Greenwald, whose work publicizing Edward Snowden's revelations of ubiquitous and illegal surveillance of Americans helped The Guardian win a Pulitzer Prize. Greenwald now hosts the nightly news show System Update on Rumble and maintains an active presence on X (formerly Twitter). Reason's Nick Gillespie and Greenwald talked about the failing fortunes of The Intercept, the investigative website he co-founded in 2014 and had an acrimonious break with in 2020, the Israel/Gaza War, student protests on campuses, legacy media's obsession with disinformation ad Russian interference in the 2016 elect2024-05-291h 28The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieKat Murti: How To End the Drug War for Good
Today's guest is Kat Murti, the new executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the country's oldest and most influential student group challenging the war on drugs. Before taking the helm at SSDP, Kat was a longtime staffer at the libertarian Cato Institute, a founder of Feminists for Liberty, and an SSDP chapter head at the University of California, Berkeley, where she attended undergrad. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Murti about the role that young people in particular can play in ending prohibition, why marijuana has yet to be legalized at the federal level, and whether Donald Trum...2024-05-151h 13The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieRob Long: God is Good, Drugs Are BetterToday's guest is comedy writer Rob Long, who served as a writer for and producer of the great sitcom Cheers for years, writes the weekly Martini Shot commentary, and cohosts the GLoP Culture podcast with Jonah Goldberg and John Podhoretz. He is a columnist for Commentary and a cofounder of Ricochet, the online community and podcast platform. At a live event in New York City, Reason's Nick Gillespie spoke with Long about whether Hollywood is out of ideas, what it's like being a libertarian-leaning conservative in a very progressive industry, and the role that psychedelics have played in his creative pro...2024-05-011h 00The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieFord Fischer: Why You Should Surveil the State
You've probably seen footage and images of the January 6 riot at the Capitol captured by today's guest, videographer Ford Fischer. A decade ago, Fischer cofounded New2Share, a radical experiment in decentralized video journalism. He and his colleagues gather long-form footage from all sorts of breaking news events, including protests organized by radicals across the political spectrum. They upload it to YouTube and elsewhere, and then let viewers draw their own conclusions. His coverage has been licensed worldwide and appears regularly on networks ranging from CNN to Fox News to NBC. Fischer's YouTube and Facebook channels routinely get demonetized...2024-04-241h 04
The Karol Markowicz ShowThe Karol Markowicz Show: The Godfather of the Libertarian Movement with Nick GillespieIn this conversation, Karol interviews Nick Gillespie, editor at large at Reason magazine and host of the Reason Interview. They discuss Gillespie's background, his career path, and his libertarian views. Gillespie shares that he was always drawn to libertarianism and individualism, and he believes in limited government and personal responsibility. They also discuss the shift in the libertarian movement and the challenges of living in a world with abundant freedom and options. Gillespie emphasizes the importance of staying open-minded, taking responsibility for one's life, and remaining optimistic about the future. The Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay...2024-04-2227 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieAbigail Shrier: Stop Obsessing Over Our Children's HappinessAbigail Shrier is author of the best-selling new book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up. She argues that the mental health of Gen Z—people born between 1997 and 2012—is a mess because an infantilizing therapeutic culture pervades every aspect of their lives.
Shrier stresses that she's not against psychological counseling and help per se, but she believes too many unqualified and misguided people are causing far more problems than they solve.
Her previous book was the controversial Irreversible Damage, which looked at the rapid rise of girls identifying as transgender. We talk about the...2024-04-1054 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieWhy Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale Left California for TexasJoe Lonsdale is a co-founder of the data analytics firm Palantir; OpenGov, which provides cloud software services for governments; and the University of Austin, which seeks to reform higher education. He's the managing partner of 8VC, a tech and life sciences venture capital fund, and is chairman of the board of the Cicero Institute, a nonprofit working to "restore liberty, accountability, and innovation in American governance."
Reason's Nick Gillespie asked Lonsdale why he relocated to Texas from California, how to curb government overreach while providing essential services, his goals for his podcast American Optimist, and his 2020 article, "...2024-04-0355 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieSteven Pinker: What Went Wrong at Harvard
Psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker is one of the leading defenders of academic freedom and liberal values of limited government, secularism, tolerance, and free enterprise.
A year ago, he helped found the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, "a faculty organization to advocate for the free and civil exchange of ideas inside and outside the classroom." In the wake of the reaction by the campus left to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, he published "A Five-Point Plan To Save Harvard from Itself" in The Boston Globe. His ultra-influential home institution, he wrote, "is now the pl...2024-03-271h 18The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieHardcore History's Dan Carlin: 'History Is Not Like Math'Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with one of the great pioneers of podcasting, Dan Carlin, the host of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Carlin has been putting his thoughts out there for all to hear since the aughts. His deeply researched and urgently delivered takes on everything from Julius Caesar's wars on the Celtic tribes of Gaul to 20th century Imperial Japan's horrific conquest of Asia are downloaded by the millions.
They discussed Carlin's upcoming live tour, how he would update his 2019 book The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments From the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses in...2024-03-221h 00The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieDavid Boaz: Libertarianism Is the Intellectual Core of Liberalism
Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute. Boaz recently turned 70 and gave a keynote address at LibertyCon, the annual gathering of Students for Liberty, in Washington, D.C. Reason's Nick Gillespie caught up with Boaz to discuss the disarray in the libertarian movement, why he thinks the nonaggression principle and cosmopolitanism form the core of the movement, why libertarians can never seem to take wins when they get them, and whether there's anything to look forward to in a rematch of Presidents Donald Trum...2024-03-201h 18The Reason Interview With Nick GillespiePano Kanelos: 'Ideology Is the Death of Ideas'Pano Kanelos is the president of the University of Austin, which will be admitting its first class of 100 students this fall. The college was founded in 2021 as an antidote to left-wing monoculture in academia and is committed to free speech and the pursuit of truth. Reason's Nick Gillespie spoke with Kanelos, a Shakespeare scholar and first-generation college kid who grew up in a Greek diner in Chicago, about how the University of Austin will be different from virtually every other college around, why the humanities have virtually disappeared from higher education, and how a chance encounter with Nobel laureate Sau...2024-03-151h 08The Reason Interview With Nick GillespiePatrick Ruffini: Why Blacks and Hispanics Are Turning to TrumpDid you know that a mere 44,000 votes spread across Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin kept Joe Biden and Donald Trump from an Electoral College tie in 2020? That was even tighter than in 2016, when 80,000 votes in three states gave Trump a decisive Electoral College win.
Patrick Ruffini is a Republican pollster at Echelon Insights and author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP. Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with Ruffini about why the major parties continue to leak market share, why 2024 is going to be another super-close presidential race, and whether small-l libertarian voters w...2024-03-131h 12The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieBrian Riedl: Who Bankrupted Us More—Trump or Biden?You probably already know that the national debt is bigger than our whole economy. But relax, because things can always get worse! And they will, regardless of whether Biden or Trump gets elected in the fall. Each has a proven track record of spending like a drunken sailor and most projections show that debt will grow to between 181 percent and 340 percent of GDP over the next few decades. Reason's Nick Gillespie discussed all of this and more with Brian Riedl, a budget expert at the Manhattan Institute. Riedl explains why massive and growing debt is really bad, why reducing i...2024-02-281h 02The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJustin Amash: 'I'd Impeach Every President'Just 15 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. But why is it broken and how do we fix it? Those are just two of the questions that Reason's Nick Gillespie asked Justin Amash, the former five-term congressman from Michigan who is currently exploring a Senate run.
Elected as part of the Tea Party wave in 2010, Amash helped create the House Freedom Caucus but became an increasingly lonely, principled voice for limiting the size, scope, and spending of the federal government. After voting to impeach Donald Trump, he resigned from the GOP, became an independent, and...2024-02-2136 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieShoshana Weissmann: Online Age Verification Rules Are Unconstitutional and IneffectiveIn January, the Senate Judiciary Committee dragged the heads of Meta, TikTok, and X, formally known as Twitter, to Washington to charge them with exploiting children by allegedly addicting them to social media that sexually harms them, drives them to eating disorders, and even kills them. The Spanish Inquisition vibe of the proceedings reached a crescendo when Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) demanded that Mark Zuckerberg apologize to the families of children for the "harms" supposedly caused by Facebook and pay compensation out of his personal fortune.
But is social media really that bad for kids? And is...2024-02-141h 05The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieRachel Nuwer: MDMA Is On the Cusp of LegalizationReason's Nick Gillespie interviews Rachel Nuwer, author of I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World. The book is a history of the drug known as molly and ecstasy that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently evaluating as an aid in fighting PTSD.
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Ask a JewAAJ 84 Nick Gillespie and the Pussy Cats in Outer SpaceNick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason, the libertarian magazine of "free minds and free markets," and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie, he’s also our favorite libertarian! In this episode we talk about:Hollywood’s portrayal of Israel(we all agree that Paul Newman is the perfect looking Jew)Exodus by Leon Uris (the book!) Get the BookExodus (the movie!) Watch the movie here Excellent article in Mosaic Magazine Read the article hereFiddler on the Roof2024-01-171h 47The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieMagatte Wade: The Real Reasons Why Africa Is Poor and Why It MattersDid you know that by 2050, a quarter of the planet's population will reside in Africa? Yet despite abundant natural resources and a young and ambitious population, the continent remains the poorest of them all.
Born in Senegal and now residing in Austin, Texas, Magatte Wade is director of the Center for African Prosperity at the Atlas Network, a nonprofit that supports think tanks and activist groups in the developing world. A serial entrepreneur, she's currently the CEO (and founder) of SkinIsSkin, which sells a series of skin and lip products sourced in Africa.
Wade is also the...2024-01-101h 38The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieFormer Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Loves Barry Goldwater and Milton FriedmanThis week's episode of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie is hosted by Reason Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward. She sat down with former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey.
During his two terms as governor, Ducey managed to pass a flat income tax with a rate of 2.5 percent, reform public sector pensions, universalize important school choice measures, reform occupational licensing rules, turn a budget deficit into a surplus, and substantially shrink the size of the government work force. He also built a makeshift border wall out of shipping crates, pushed back on marijuana legalization, and was accused of d...2024-01-0343 minThe Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJeff Kosseff: Why False Speech Deserves First Amendment Protections
Over the past decade, no legal scholar has pushed arguments for free speech as far or as influentially as today's guest: Jeff Kosseff, a former journalist who now teaches cybersecurity law at the U.S. Naval Academy. In previous books, he defended Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet and stood up for anonymous speech in The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech.
His new book is his boldest yet. It's called Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World...2023-12-061h 10The Reason Interview With Nick GillespieJeb Bush: What He Thinks of Trump, Biden, DeSantis, and 'Florida Man'Born and raised in Texas, Jeb Bush moved to Florida in 1980. The son and brother of presidents, he was governor of the Sunshine State from 1999 to 2007, where he quickly became known as a champion of school choice and fiscal responsibility. In 2016, he made an unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination and he now resides in Miami-Dade County—happily retired from political life.
A self-proclaimed "old-school conservative with libertarian blood running through [his] veins," I talked to Bush a few weeks ago for our new special issue of Reason devoted to all things Florida (subscribe now and rea...2023-11-2255 min
Clearer Thinking with Spencer GreenbergHas political polarization been misunderstood? (with Nick Gillespie)Read the full transcript here. Are the US's culture wars a sign of a society falling apart? Is social media a cause or a symptom (or both or neither) of the animosity between political tribes in the US? We've all heard of postmodernism, but what the heck is it? Is libertarianism a right-leaning ideology? Are the current levels of intergenerational animosity unusually high? How will the FTX collapse likely impact cryptocurrencies over the next few decades?Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason, the libertarian magazine of "free minds and free markets", and...2023-04-131h 11
FAIR PerspectivesLiberty, Individualism, and Identity with Nick GillespieOur guest this week is Nick Gillespie. Nick is an editor at large at Reason, the Libertarian magazine of free minds and free markets and host of The reason Interview with Nick Gillespie. He serves on the board for Ideas Beyond Borders, and is the co author with Matt Welch of 'The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America'We discuss what Libertarianism is and is not, the relationship to anarchism, the role of the state in an ideal society, the lack of a unifying social or political narrative, libertarianism successes in...2022-09-271h 37
FAIR PerspectivesLiberty, Individualism, and Identity with Nick Gillespie - Ep. 26Our guest this week is Nick Gillespie. Nick is an editor at large at Reason, the Libertarian magazine of free minds and free markets and host of The reason Interview with Nick Gillespie. He serves on the board for Ideas Beyond Borders, and is the co author with Matt Welch of 'The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America'
We discuss what Libertarianism is and is not, the relationship to anarchism, the role of the state in an ideal society, the lack of a unifying social or political narrative, libertarianism successes in...2022-09-271h 37
Infinite LoopsNick Gillespie — The Lou Reed of LibertarianismNick Gillespie is the host of the Reason Interview and an editor at large at Reason. Nick is one of the most interesting libertarian thinkers in America, and has been described by the New York Times as being to libertarianism “what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit". Important Links: Nick’s Substack Nick’s Twitter Nick’s Podcast Reason Show Notes: Is libertarianism dead? Saying what you think The case for rational optimism Labels and empathy President Nixon, the G...2022-09-151h 29
Filthy Armenian Adventures20. Lights, Porn, and Libertarians in Las Vegas (feat. Nick Gillespie & John ”Buttman” Stagliano)
A manic Vegas tango through libertarian lore and gore with longtime Reason Magazine editor Nick Gillespie, following a circle dance with controversial pornographer John "Buttman" Stagliano, the last man to be indicted on obscenity charges in the United States. Would he cast AOC?
To follow the complete twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access to over 20 secret chapter episodes including "Anarchy at Freedomfest," where I talk to the FreedomFest co-founder JoAnne Skousen and other characters from the largest libertarian festival in the world 18 years after I last attended.
Location: The Mirage Hotel and Casino
Nick Gillespie is currently the...2022-09-102h 08
The Payroll PodcastThe Future of Global Payroll with Danny GillespieNick Day is joined on The Payroll Podcast sofa by Danny Gillespie, President, Global Managed Payroll at Safeguard Global.Danny has more than 20 years of operational experience, from working at pre-revenue startups to Fortune 100 global enterprises. However, in his current role at Safeguard Global, Dannie oversees client implementation, global service delivery, client relationship management and partner management teams.For those not familiar, Safeguard Global Pay employees everywhere with one agile payroll solution. They help companies to Streamline payroll processing across currencies, languages, time zones and customs in over 150 countries, processing over 2 million payslips per year, h...2022-07-1141 min
Dialogues with Richard ReevesNick Gillespie on canceling yourselfWhat does “cancel culture” really mean, and how big a problem is it? Nick Gillespie, editor at large at Reason, has given these questions more thought than most. Nick is one of the leading lights of libertarian public intellectual life, and just wrote an essay, “Self-Cancellation, Deplatforming, and Censorship” that we dig into here. Nick is worried about the shift towards censorship in politics, in our organizations, including corporations, and in our own lives. We differ on whether the problem is more personal or political, but in the end we do agree that a healthy liberal culture is one that wel...2021-10-181h 11
The Psychology PodcastNick Gillespie || Libertarianism, Soft Parenting, and Cancel CultureToday it’s great to have Nick Gillespie on the podcast. Nick is a libertarian journalist who is currently an editor at large at Reason. A two-time finalist for digital National Magazine Awards, Gillespie’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Slate, Salon, Time.com, Marketplace, and basically any other publication that you’re ever going to read. The Daily Beast named Nick one of “The Right’s Top 25 Journalists”, calling him “clear headed, brainy…among the foremost libertarians in America.” Topi...2021-09-2356 min
Right Now with Stephen KentE31: E31: Nick Gillespie on what Nicki Minaj's politics and Allen Ginsberg tell us about Cancel CultureWhy are some people targeted by Cancel Culture and others are ignored? Will free speech and opinion ever be able to exist peacefully on the internet?On the latest episode of "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Gothix and Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine to discuss why some people become prime targets for Cancel Culture; the ongoing battle for free speech on social media and across the internet; what the public reception of Allen Ginsberg's famed "Howl" reveals about censorship today; and if and how we can actually triumph over Cancel Culture and attacks on...2021-09-2348 min
Right Now with Stephen KentE31: Nick Gillespie on what Nicki Minaj's politics and Allen Ginsberg tell us about Cancel CultureWhy are some people targeted by Cancel Culture and others are ignored? Will free speech and opinion ever be able to exist peacefully on the internet?On the latest episode of "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Gothix and Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine to discuss why some people become prime targets for Cancel Culture; the ongoing battle for free speech on social media and across the internet; what the public reception of Allen Ginsberg's famed "Howl" reveals about censorship today; and if and how we can actually triumph over Cancel Culture and attacks...2021-09-2348 min
The Great AntidoteNick Gillespie on IndependentsSend us a textNick Gillespie, author, journalist, and former editor-in-chief at Reason joins us this week to discuss libertarianism, elections, voting, and his book Declaration of Independents. Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.2021-05-271h 02
We Are Libertarians213: Democratic Populism -with Nick GillespieListen to the full episode here:
https://briannichols.fireside.fm/democratic-populuism
As we discussed on Friday with Jack Hunter, Donald Trump proved that there was an untapped market within the GOP that a persona like he could take advantage of - populism.
However, that populism isn’t exclusive to the GOP, as the ascendance of "democratic socialists" like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has show the Democratic Party just as malleable to the changing political winds.
Nick Gillespie from Reason returns to the program to outline the implications of said democratic populism, but also to the causes that have go...2021-03-1746 min
The Brian Nichols Show213: Democratic Populism -with Nick Gillespie
As we discussed on Friday with Jack Hunter, Donald Trump proved that there was an untapped market within the GOP that a persona like he could take advantage of - populism.
However, that populism isn't exclusive to the GOP, as the ascendance of "democratic socialists" like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has show the Democratic Party just as malleable to the changing political winds.
Nick Gillespie from Reason returns to the program to outline the implications of said democratic populism, but also to the causes that have gotten the Democratic Party to this point...2021-03-1746 min
New PerceptionsSpecial Guest: Nick Gillespie on Psychedelics, Culture, Politics and moreJoin Editor-in-Chief Dr. Tyler Kjorvestadof The Journal of Psychedelic Psychiatry as he discusses Psychedelics, Culture, and Politics with Special Guest Nick Gillespie.
Nick Gillespie received his Ph.D. in English Literature from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996. He is a libertarian journalist for Reason magazine where he has worked since 1993. He has previously served as the publication’s Editor-in-Chief from 2000-2008 and then transitioned to Editor-in-Chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008-2017. He currently serves as Editor-at-Large for Reason. He is the co-author with his Reason colleague Matt Welch of the book Th...2020-05-201h 03
Political BeatsEpisode 77: Nick Gillespie / The ByrdsScot and Jeff discuss The Byrds with Nick Gillespie.
Introducing the Band:
Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Nick Gillespie. Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and the co-author of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America. Find him online at @nickgillespie on Twitter.
Nick’s Music Pick: The Byrds
Today the gang is soaring high in the friendly skies as they contemplate the career of one of the greatest and most important bands in the histor...2020-04-272h 50