Best Jane Coaston Podcasts (2024)

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Jane Coaston: What Is 'Freedom' to Democrats? 1:20:01

1h ago1:20:01

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How do Democrats define "freedom"? Just asking questions. It's Democratic National Convention week, so we wanted to talk about what's been unfolding there so far: the rhetoric, the thematic choices, and what it all reveals about the Democrats' 2024 agenda. How should we state-power skeptics and liberty appreciators view that agenda?We invited Jane …

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Jane Coaston: What Is 'Freedom' to Democrats? 1:20:02

39m ago1:20:02

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How do Democrats define "freedom"? Just asking questions. It's Democratic National Convention week, so we wanted to talk about what's been unfolding there so far: the rhetoric, the thematic choices, and what it all reveals about the Democrats' 2024 agenda. How should we state-power skeptics and liberty appreciators view that agenda? We invited Jane…

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Anna Gát: Building an Intellectual Community for the Politically Homeless 51:09

2h ago51:09

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If you ever wanted to live in a world of endlessly fascinating conversations about the arts, science, and philosophy, you're going to love today's guest—Anna Gát. She's the person behind a membership platform called Interintellect, which hosts hundreds of online salons a year. While some of them feature superstars like Harvard psychologist Steven P…

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Why Libertarians Hate Kamala Harris' Economic Platform 1:17:17

2h ago1:17:17

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie welcome special guest Ben Dreyfuss onto the pod ahead of this week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago to talk about Kamala Harris' truly terrible economic policy proposals.02:48—Dreyfuss' YIMBY conversion thanks to Reason13:20—Harris drop…

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Is Donald Trump The Best Choice? 1:13:43

7d ago1:13:43

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Economist and author Arthur B. Laffer and L.P. presidential candidate Chase Oliver debate the resolution, "Among the candidates actively running for President in November, Donald Trump is the best choice."Defending the resolution is Laffer, who is widely recognized as "The Father of Supply-Side Economics," as his Laffer Curve is one of the main the…

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César Báez and Daniel Di Martino: What Happened in Venezuela’s Election? 1:09:01

6d ago1:09:01

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What's really happening in Venezuela?Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in Venezuela's presidential election last month, but much of the rest of the world isn't buying it. Neither are many Venezuelans, who've taken to the streets to protest what they say is a fraudulent election in the face of increasingly violent crackdowns and menacing threats from t…

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César Báez and Daniel Di Martino: What Happened in Venezuela's Election? 1:09:01

1h ago1:09:01

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What's really happening in Venezuela? Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in Venezuela's presidential election last month, but much of the rest of the world isn't buying it. Neither are many Venezuelans, who've taken to the streets to protest what they say is a fraudulent election in the face of increasingly violent crackdowns and menacing threats from …

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Charles Gasparino: ‘Woke’ Hypocrisy Is Hurting Businesses 1:18:10

2h ago1:18:10

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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 m…

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Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal 1:06:32

14h ago1:06:32

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, Katherine Mangu-Ward and Peter Suderman are back alongside Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie. The editors analyze Vice President Kamala Harris picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and discuss the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.02:06—Kamala Harris picks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as veep24:06 —The crisis in…

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Nate Silver: How Likely Is a Kamala Harris Presidency? 1:08:06

16d ago1:08:06

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How likely is a Kamala Harris presidency? Just asking questions. Join Zach Weissmueller, Reason senior producer, and Liz Wolfe, Reason associate editor, for a live discussion with Nate Silver, statistician and author of the new book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything. Silver founded the renowned polling aggregator and politics website FiveT…

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Nate Silver: How Likely Is a Kamala Harris Presidency? 1:08:07

7d ago1:08:07

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How likely is a Kamala Harris presidency? Just asking questions. Join Zach Weissmueller, Reason senior producer, and Liz Wolfe, Reason associate editor, at 12:30 p.m. ET for a live discussion on their show Just Asking Questions with Nate Silver, statistician and author of the new book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything. Silver founded the r…

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Chase Oliver: Q&A With the Controversial Libertarian Party Candidate 1:09:32

6d ago1:09:32

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Today'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 Pentago…

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Weighing Kamala Harris' Veep Options 1:05:44

8d ago1:05:44

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie welcome not just one but two special guests from The Dispatch. In this convivial Roundtable crossover episode, Jonah Goldberg and Kevin D. Williamson ruminate on Kamala Harris' veep options, identity politics, and drug legalization.04:54—Kamala Harris' potential running mat…

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Vivek Ramaswamy: Is There a Libertarian-Nationalist Alliance? 33:14

19d ago33:14

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Is the future of the GOP more libertarian, nationalist, or, somehow, both?Joining us today is Vivek Ramaswamy, entrepreneur, author, and former presidential candidate. He's been making a hard pitch for what he's called a "libertarian-nationalist alliance" for the past several months. He was at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention where he tried…

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Vivek Ramaswamy: Is There a Libertarian-Nationalist Alliance? 33:15

22d ago33:15

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Is the future of the GOP more libertarian, nationalist, or, somehow, both? Joining us today is Vivek Ramaswamy, entrepreneur, author, and former presidential candidate. He's been making a hard pitch for what he's called a "libertarian-nationalist alliance" for the past several months. He was at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention where he trie…

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Randy Barnett: Originalism, Obamacare, and the Libertarian Movement 1:21:06

13d ago1:21:06

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Today'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 lik…

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What Kamala Harris’ Coronation Says About the Democratic Party 1:08:32

15d ago1:08:32

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman altogether flinch at the newfound media fawning over Vice President Kamala Harris' ascendancy to the top of the Democratic party's presidential ticket.01:35—Cringe media honeymoon phase with Kamala Harris21:23—GOP buyer's remorse with …

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Alex Thompson: Why Did Biden Drop Out? 1:17:36

26d ago1:17:36

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The past month has been one of the most tumultuous in modern American political history: a devastating face-plant in a televised presidential debate, an attempted assassination of an ex-president favored in the polls to win reelection, a COVID-19 infection of the sitting president and his subsequent exit from the race, and an endorsement and loads …

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Alex Thompson: Why Did Biden Drop Out? 1:17:36

1M ago1:17:36

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The past month has been one of the most tumultuous in modern American political history: a devastating face-plant in a televised presidential debate, an attempted assassination of an ex-president favored in the polls to win reelection, a COVID-19 infection of the sitting president and his subsequent exit from the race, and an endorsement and loads …

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Ted and Courtney Balaker: College Students Are Rejecting Wokeness 38:23

25d ago38:23

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Ted and Courtney Balaker are the team behind the new documentary The Coddling of the American Mind. Based on the 2018 best-selling book by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, the film follows a series of students as they navigate life on today's highly charged college campuses. I spoke with Courtney and Ted, who started his video career as one of th…

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Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed. 1:06:58

26d ago1:06:58

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the state of the 2024 presidential race one day after President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection.01:41—President Joe Biden drops out of the presidential race and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris.32:52—Weekly…

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Did COVID Come From a Lab? 1:33:12

25d ago1:33:12

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Best-selling science and technology author Matt Ridley and University of Utah virologist Stephen Goldstein debate the resolution: "It is likely that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in the Wuhan laboratory in China."Defending the resolution is Ridley, the author of 10 books, including Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. He sat in the U.K.'…

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Mary Katharine Ham: What's Trump's Agenda? 1:06:10

26d ago1:06:10

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Where does former President Donald Trump want to take this country? As the Republican Party coronates Trump as its presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, there will be a lot of talk about Trump's vice presidential pick, his dominance in the polls, and the decline of President Joe Biden. But what about policy? What …

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Mary Katharine Ham: What's Trump's Agenda? 1:06:09

1M ago1:06:09

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Where does former President Donald Trump want to take this country?As the Republican Party coronates Trump as its presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, there will be a lot of talk about Trump's vice presidential pick, his dominance in the polls, and the decline of President Joe Biden. But what about policy? What i…

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Corey DeAngelis: The School Choice Wave Sweeping America 1:13:47

27d ago1:13:47

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This 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 …

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Is Violent Rhetoric To Blame for the Trump Assassination Attempt? 1:06:05

29d ago1:06:05

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman grapple with the current political climate in the U.S. after the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump over the weekend.01:44—Trump's Assassination attempt27:06—President Joe Biden's press conference43:07—Republican …

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Dave Weigel: What If Biden Quits? 1:21:15

1M ago1:21:15

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What if President Joe Biden drops out? Just asking questions. Biden is facing increasing pressure from his own side to drop out of the 2024 race, which nearly every poll taken since his disaster debate performance last week shows him losing. The latest RealClearPolitics average has him down by about 3.5 percentage points nationally. Several Democra…

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Dave Weigel: What If Biden Quits? 1:21:14

1M ago1:21:14

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What if President Joe Biden drops out? Just asking questions. Biden is facing increasing pressure from his own side to drop out of the 2024 race, which nearly every poll taken since his disaster debate performance last week shows him losing. The latest RealClearPolitics average has him down by about 3.5 percentage points nationally. Several Democra…

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Eric Brakey: How Libertarians Can Attain Political Power 39:28

2M ago39:28

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Today'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, wh…

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Why the Media Covered for Biden 1:04:21

1M ago1:04:21

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown size up the fallout from the mainstream media's lag in coverage of Joe Biden's cognitive decline, despite evidence existing well before his seismic debate performance on June 27.01:50—Media fallout after Biden'…

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What's the Best Argument for Libertarianism? 1:39:31

1M ago1:39:31

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Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming from self-ownership and the non-aggression principle, without relying primarily on consequentialist/utilitarian arguments."Dennis Pratt, a libertarian…

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Debate: Austrian vs. Chicago Economics 1:34:10

1M ago1:34:10

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Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein and Chicago school economist David Friedman debate the resolution, "The Austrian economics of Mises and Rothbard contains economic intuitions that are important, correct, and missing from Chicago School economics."Taking the affirmative was Gene Epstein, the director of the Soho Forum and former economics and books …

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Ruth Whippman: How Is Masculinity Changing? 1:17:33

2M ago1:17:33

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Are the boys okay? For much of history, parents have preferred boys, perceiving them as the providers, the family legacy, the heirs to the throne. A dark consequence of China's 36-year-long one-child policy was a 120 boy to 100 girl birth ratio. But in 21st-century America, the script seems to have been flipped. The New York Times has run headlines…

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Ruth Whippman: How Is Masculinity Changing? 1:17:33

2M ago1:17:33

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Are the boys okay?For much of history, parents have preferred boys, perceiving them as the providers, the family legacy, the heirs to the throne. A dark consequence of China's 36-year-long one-child policy was a 120 boy to 100 girl birth ratio. But in 21st-century America, the script seems to have been flipped. The New York Times has run headlines …

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Andy Mills: Quitting The New York Times and Making The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling 1:15:41

1M ago1:15:41

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This 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) cas…

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Biden, Cognitive Decline, and the End of American Empire 1:05:34

1M ago1:05:34

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman stare ever deeper into the abyss while recapping the hapless display at last week's first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.01:50—Reactions to the Biden vs. Trump debate21:43—Were any concrete policies discussed du…

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Trent Horn: Can a Catholic be a Socialist? 1:21:48

2M ago1:21:48

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Can a Catholic be a socialist? Can a libertarian be a Catholic? Just asking questions. Today's guest, Trent Horn, is an apologist and speaker for Catholic Answers and a defender of capitalism. He hosts The Counsel of Trent podcast and has authored several books on Catholicism, including Can a Catholic Be a Socialist? In this episode, we discuss the…

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Mike Rowe: Make America Stand for Something Again 50:57

2M ago50:57

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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 Nic…

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Eating Doritos While Drowning in Debt 1:12:26

2M ago1:12:26

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman lament the latest dire forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week forecasting a $2 trillion budget deficit in 2024.02:31—$2 trillion federal budget deficit21:17— Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump on immigration37:02—Weekly …

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Ian Vasquez: What Has Javier Milei Accomplished in Argentina? 1:12:45

2M ago1:12:45

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How's it going in Javier Milei's Argentina? Milei, Argentina's self-described libertarian president, notched his first legislative victory last week. Argentina's Senate passed a major omnibus bill, also known as the "Bases Law", that's been debated since February. It would further deregulate the labor market, privatize national industries, cut taxe…

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Whole Foods’ John Mackey: We Must Change How We Think About Capitalism 1:12:50

2M ago1:12:50

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Today's guest is John Mackey, the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, who just released his memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism. As befits the entrepreneur who revolutionized grocery shopping from a grim, pragmatic necessity into an exciting, multi-sensory adventure, Mackey's story is far from conventional and we…

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Abortion, Guns, and Hunter Biden. 1:00:20

2M ago1:00:20

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman pore over recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the abortion pill mifepristone and the Trump administration's ban on gun bump stocks.02:01—Supreme Court rulings on abortion pill and bump stocks16:45—Secret recording of Supreme Court…

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Glenn Greenwald: Defund Israel and Free Assange 1:28:46

2M ago1:28:46

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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 an…

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Glenn Loury: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and Capitalism 1:07:15

2M ago1:07:15

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My 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 …

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Diana Fleischman: Are Designer Babies The Future? 1:14:15

2M ago1:14:15

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Are embryos people? And are there downsides to designer babies? Earlier this year, Alabama's Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision declaring that frozen embryos should be treated as children, and therefore their destruction treated legally as wrongful deaths, leaving in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics with a big problem. Less than a …

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Partisan Border Wars 1:03:21

2M ago1:03:21

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman scrutinize President Joe Biden's executive order updating asylum restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to illegal border crossings.01:32—Biden's new asylum restrictions21:38—The prosecution of political opponents: former P…

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Mike Solana: Can San Francisco Be Saved? 1:37:30

3M ago1:37:30

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Can San Francisco be saved? San Francisco, the beautiful city on the bay, has become a national punchline. During his debate with Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis displayed a map of citywide poop sightings, which were apparently reported to 311 more than 35,000 times in 2023, according to the S…

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Jay Bhattacharya: 'I Sued the Biden Administration for COVID Censorship' 49:10

3M ago49:10

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Today's guest is Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration and one of the plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case charging that the Biden administration and other parts of the federal government illegally colluded "with social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content." A decis…

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Should Donald Trump Have Been Convicted? 1:06:13

3M ago1:06:13

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman debrief in the wake of former President Donald Trump's conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records last week in New York City.00:33—Donald Trump's conviction27:37—Weekly Listener Question42:11—Recent undercovered stories50:4…

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Chase Oliver: What Does the Libertarian Presidential Candidate Really Believe? 57:59

3M ago57:59

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Who, exactly, is Chase Oliver? And what does he really stand for? Oliver is the Libertarian Party's 2024 presidential nominee, selected after six rounds of voting at a contentious party convention in Washington, D.C., this weekend, which featured speeches from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, and former President Donald Trump, who suggested …

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