Best Joe Lonsdale Podcasts (2024)

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Why Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale Left California for Texas 55:13

17d ago55:13

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Joe 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 wo…

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Worst 4/20 Ever 1:04:09

2h ago1:04:09

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Eric Boehm lament a horrible weekend for freedom, as Congress passed a collection of bad bills concerning military spending for Ukraine and Israel, a TikTok ban, and a reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveilla…

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Elica Le Bon: Is War with Iran Coming? 1:04:12

4h ago1:04:12

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Is war with Iran coming? Last Saturday, Iran launched hundreds of armed drones and missiles to attack Israel in retaliation for an airstrike on an Iranian consulate in Syria that killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, including a general. Israel and the U.S. report that they intercepted most of the drones, and the sole known casua…

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Regulating Smartphones? Jonathan Haidt vs. Libertarians 1:36:53

1d ago1:36:53

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Today's guest is Jonathan Haidt, whose new book is The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. The New York University psychologist and Heterodox Academy cofounder argues that what he calls a play-based childhood has been replaced with a phone-based one over the past 50 years, leading to sky…

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Abigail Shrier: Stop Obsessing Over Our Children's Happiness 54:21

1d ago54:21

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Abigail 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, b…

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Regulating Smartphones? Jonathan Haidt vs. Libertarians 1:36:53

4d ago1:36:53

1:36:53

Today's guest is Jonathan Haidt, whose new book is The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. The New York University psychologist and Heterodox Academy cofounder argues that what he calls a play-based childhood has been replaced with a phone-based one over the past 50 years, leading to sky…

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Congress Does Not Come Back With a Warrant 1:02:46

3d ago1:02:46

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman contextualize Iran's retaliatory strike against Israel before bemoaning the recent vote in Congress on the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).02:20 - Iran's retaliatory strike on Israel13:05 - Ho…

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Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff? 1:07:20

7d ago1:07:20

1:07:20

At least 40 U.S. colleges still require a COVID vaccine, according to nocollegemandates.com, an initiative that tracks and opposes the mandates.Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine and biostatistician who lost his job at Harvard for refusing the vaccine even though he'd already survived a COVID infection, says such mandates are "unscientific" …

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Abigail Shrier: Stop Obsessing Over Our Children's Happiness 54:21

8d ago54:21

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Abigail 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, …

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The White House Lied About Its IRS Funding Only Targeting the Rich 1:06:32

10d ago1:06:32

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman consider President Joe Biden's updated response to the war in Gaza following a strike by Israeli military forces that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers. And with tax day on the horizon, the editors reflect on how Biden's p…

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Did Capitalism Fail During the Pandemic? 1:32:22

13d ago1:32:22

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Joe Nocera of The Free Press and Gene Epstein of The Soho Forum debate the resolution, "Capitalism has been a key factor in leaving the United States unprepared to address the COVID-19 pandemic."Taking the affirmative is Nocera, a columnist for The Free Press and co-author (with Bethany McLean) of The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who …

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Ethan Mollick: How Will AI Change Us? 1:25:35

14d ago1:25:35

1:25:35

"I discovered something remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence," wrote Ethan Mollick in his new book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, describing the "sleepless nights" he experienced upon first encountering ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022.Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of the…

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Why Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale Left California for Texas 55:14

15d ago55:14

55:14

Joe 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 wo…

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Trump's and Biden's Terrible Tariffs 1:02:23

17d ago1:02:23

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman discuss Donald Trump's horrible tariff proposal, reactions to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, and the late Joe Lieberman.02:05—Trump vs. Biden on trade19:39—Reactions to the Baltimore bridge collapse31:17—Weekly Lis…

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Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman: What's the Ideal Immigration Policy? 2:02:16

22d ago2:02:16

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Immigration ranks as the second-most important issue among registered U.S. voters and the top issue for Republican voters, according to a Marist Poll/PBS NewsHour/NPR poll released last month. Perhaps that's because of the 3.2 million border encounters documented by Border Patrol in 2023—a new record high that's so far being outpaced this year.Texa…

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Steven Pinker: What Went Wrong at Harvard 1:18:16

27d ago1:18:16

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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 out…

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Steven Pinker: What Went Wrong at Harvard 1:18:17

22d ago1:18:17

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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 ou…

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Biden's Antitrust Case Against Apple Is Truly Stupid 1:08:57

25d ago1:08:57

1:08:57

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the Justice Department's nonsensical antitrust case against Apple before turning their attention to Donald Trump's $464 million bond payment deadline in his New York civil fraud case.00:41—Bonkers antitrust suit against Apple20:…

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Hardcore History's Dan Carlin: 'History Is Not Like Math' 1:00:41

28d ago1:00:41

1:00:41

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 I…

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Hardcore History's Dan Carlin: 'History Is Not Like Math' 1:00:42

27d ago1:00:42

1:00:42

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 I…

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Peter Moskos: What Does Good Policing Look Like? 1:13:44

29d ago1:13:44

1:13:44

Are American cities crime-ridden hellscapes right now? Have cities rebounded from pandemic-era homicide spikes? Why do subway shootings in New York and carjackings in D.C. keep making the news?"I think a lot of this has to be disaggregated: There is a public order problem, and there is a violent crime problem, and they're not necessarily the same p…

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David Boaz: Libertarianism Is the Intellectual Core of Liberalism 1:18:45

30d ago1:18:45

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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 …

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David Boaz: Libertarianism Is the Intellectual Core of Liberalism 1:18:45

29d ago1:18:45

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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 …

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The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok. 1:02:02

1M ago1:02:02

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman weigh in on the approved House bill that could potentially usher in a ban on popular social media app TikTok in the United States.01:49—Legislation to ban TikTok16:39—California's continued high-speed rail boondoggle33:48—Weekly Listen…

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Pano Kanelos: 'Ideology Is the Death of Ideas' 1:08:25

1M ago1:08:25

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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-genera…

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Pano Kanelos: 'Ideology Is the Death of Ideas' 1:08:26

1M ago1:08:26

1:08:26

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-genera…

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Coleman Hughes vs. Radley Balko: Who's Right About George Floyd? 2:01:31

1M ago2:01:31

2:01:31

Writer and podcast host Coleman Hughes published a column in The Free Press in January entitled, "What Really Happened to George Floyd?" in which he analyzes a documentary called The Fall of Minneapolis, which has racked up more than 6 million views on YouTube and Rumble. The documentary makes the case that former Minneapolis police officer Derek C…

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Patrick Ruffini: Why Blacks and Hispanics Are Turning to Trump 1:12:54

1M ago1:12:54

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Did 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…

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Patrick Ruffini: Why Blacks and Hispanics Are Turning to Trump 1:12:54

1M ago1:12:54

1:12:54

Did 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…

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The State of the Union Is Shouty 1:07:08

1M ago1:07:08

1:07:08

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie welcome back sudden special guest (and former Roundtable host) Andrew Heaton! The editors reflect on President Biden's recent State of the Union address and look ahead to the unavoidable slog of eight more months of election coverage.04:11 - President…

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Patri Friedman and Mark Lutter: Does a City Need a State? 53:14

2M ago53:14

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In a special edition of Just Asking Questions recorded before a live audience on the Honduran island of Roatán, Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe talk with Mark Lutter, founder of the Charter Cities Institute, and Patri Friedman, founder and board member of Pronomos Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in charter cities.The conversat…

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Nate Silver: Libertarians Are the Real Liberals 1:04:52

2M ago1:04:52

1:04:52

Journalist Nate Silver burst onto the national scene in 2008, when he correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states in that year's election, outstripping all other analysts. His former website FiveThirtyEight became a must-visit stop for anyone interested in political forecasting and helped mainstream the concept of "data journalism," which utilizes the …

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Nate Silver: Libertarians Are the Real Liberals 1:04:41

1M ago1:04:41

1:04:41

Journalist Nate Silver burst onto the national scene in 2008, when he correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states in that year's election, outstripping all other analysts. His former website FiveThirtyEight became a must-visit stop for anyone interested in political forecasting and helped mainstream the concept of "data journalism," which utilizes the …

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Rank Choices 1:10:56

2M ago1:10:56

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman debate the pros and cons of various ideas for electoral reform ahead of this week's Super Tuesday primary contests.00:27—The Supreme Court rules Colorado can't remove Donald Trump from the ballot.06:19—Electoral dysfunction, incentives…

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What’s the Root Cause of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? 1:28:38

2M ago1:28:38

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Reporter and podcaster Eli Lake and author Jeremy Hammond debated the resolution, "The root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Palestinians' rejection of Israel's right to exist."Taking the affirmative is Lake, the former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. He is currently a reporter at The Free Pr…

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Bryan Johnson: Can This Rich Transhumanist Beat Death? 1:12:43

2M ago1:12:43

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Bryan Johnson made his fortune when he sold his company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million, netting about $300 million for himself. He spends about $2 million a year creating a system to reverse his "biological age." He's 46 years old, chronologically, but claims he's de-aged himself following a program he's branded "the Blueprint protocol." "I w…

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Brian Riedl: Who Bankrupted Us More—Trump or Biden? 1:02:11

2M ago1:02:11

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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…

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Brian Riedl: Who Bankrupted Us More—Trump or Biden? 1:02:10

2M ago1:02:10

1:02:10

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…

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Nikki Haley's Primary Math Isn't Mathing 1:02:17

2M ago1:02:17

1:02:17

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, Matt Welch is back, alongside Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman. The editors talk about Nikki Haley's primary defeat in her home state of South Carolina and President Joe Biden's plan to attack "corporate greed."00:36—Nikki Haley loses in South Carolina.15:42—Biden's plan to attack "corpo…

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Michael Moynihan: What's Up With Tucker Carlson? 1:17:29

2M ago1:17:29

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"One of the ways you understand a society is through its infrastructure," said Tucker Carlson as he stood in front of a Moscow subway station in a video he posted after his two-hour interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In contrast to America's public transit, Moscow's "is perfectly clean and orderly," explained Carlson. "How do you expl…

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Justin Amash: 'I'd Impeach Every President' 36:31

2M ago36:31

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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 t…

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Justin Amash: 'I'd Impeach Every President' 36:32

2M ago36:32

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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 …

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Goodbye, Navalny 1:01:34

2M ago1:01:34

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, Katherine Mangu-Ward is in the driver's seat, alongside Nick Gillespie and special guests Zach Weissmueller and Eric Boehm. The editors react to the latest plot twists in Donald Trump's various legal proceedings and the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.00:41—The trials of Donald Trump in Georgi…

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Curt Mills: Should America Police the World? 1:13:07

2M ago1:13:07

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"The greatest risk of a Republican administration is a war with Iran, and the greatest risk of a Democratic administration is a war with Russia," says Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, a magazine for the types of conservatives who are skeptical of foreign military intervention.Mills joined Reason's Zach Weissmueller and L…

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Shoshana Weissmann: Carding People for Joining Social Media Solves Nothing 1:05:33

2M ago1:05:33

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In 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 cr…

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Shoshana Weissmann: Online Age Verification Rules Are Unconstitutional and Ineffective 1:05:33

2M ago1:05:33

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In 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 cr…

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Biden’s Cognitive Shrinkflation 1:09:25

2M ago1:09:25

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and special guest Emma Camp react to the announcement that President Joe Biden will not be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents and parse a fresh batch of speech gaffes underpinning his apparent cognitive decline.00:29—Quick reactions to last night'…

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Can the GOP Change? 1:14:43

2M ago1:14:43

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"We're in dark and uncertain times, but we've made it through worse," writes Peter Meijer in a November 6 announcement that he's running for a Senate seat in Michigan soon to be vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow.Meijer is a former Republican representative for Michigan's third Congressional district–a position once held by Justin Amash, the Repub…

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Rachel Nuwer: MDMA Is On the Cusp of Legalization 43:56

2M ago43:56

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Reason'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. Today's sponsors: ZBiotics. ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic D…

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Rachel Nuwer: MDMA Is On the Cusp of Legalization 43:55

3M ago43:55

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Reason's Nick Gillespie interviews Rachel Nuwer, author of I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World. It's a history of the drug known as molly and ecstasy that the FDA is currently evaluating as an aid in fighting PTSD.Today's sponsors:ZBiotics. ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic Drink is the world's first genetically enginee…

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