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The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie — 102 episodes

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John Fetterman: 'I'm a Very Pro-Capitalist Democrat'

2

Justice Neil Gorsuch: 'Aspirations for Power Need To Be Checked'

3

Andy Serkis: What Orwell Understood About Tyranny

4

Prison Doesn't Work the Way You Think

5

Afroman on Becoming the 2028 Libertarian Presidential Nominee

6

How the Iran War Could Backfire

7

The Rise of the Information State

8

Ro Khanna: Congress Has Surrendered on War

9

How Capitalism Lost the Working Class

10

Taylor Lorenz: Is Social Media Responsible for Bad Parenting?

11

Adam Carolla: Why No One Under 30 Trusts Legacy Media

12

Why Civilization Needs Better Manuals

13

Can the Government Ban You from Telling the Truth?

14

Jonah Goldberg: The GOP Is Becoming Anti-Conservative

15

Pete Buttigieg: Federal Agents Are Losing Public Trust

16

How the Epstein Files Became the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory

17

Can Iran's Protest Movement Topple the Regime?

18

Thomas Massie: Epstein Conspiracy Is 'Bigger Than Watergate'

19

What the Media Gets Wrong About Crime

20

The Real Reason You Pay for NFL Stadiums

21

Why So Many Venezuelans Support Trump's Capture of Maduro

22

Can We Save American History From Partisan Politics?

23

CNN's Scott Jennings: The Conservative Movement's Identity Crisis

24

The Politics of Permanent Outrage

25

Andor Creator Tony Gilroy on Bureaucracy and the Surveillance State

26

He's Serving 5 Years in Prison for Bitcoin Privacy Software

27

Did the Internet Break Our Sense of Reality?

28

How Foreign Governments Police U.S. Speech

29

Why Science Lost Its Way

30

What We Get Wrong About the American Revolution

31

Rand Paul: Congress Is 'Afraid of the President'

32

Is The Washington Post Becoming Libertarian?

33

There's More Than One Way To Get Sober

34

Campus Activism in the Wake of Charlie Kirk's Murder

35

Veterans Are Suffering Because of Government Red Tape

36

Jake Tapper on Censorship, Media Failings, and Presidential Power

37

What Happened to the Republican Party?

38

Can the ACLU Serve Progressives, Libertarians, and Conservatives?

39

Are Americans Addicted to Conflict?

40

Defend Speech Even When Your Side Hates It

41

How the U.S. Sold Its Longest War with a Bodyguard of Lies

42

Psychedelics Are Not Just for Hippies and Tech Bros

43

Why Banning Drugs and Guns Never Works

44

Charlie Kirk and America's History With Political Violence

45

How We Criminalized Childhood

46

If You Don't Like Socialism or the Establishment, Curtis Sliwa Wants Your Vote

47

We're Moving Too Slow on AI

48

Glenn Jacobs Body-Slams Big Government

49

Chip Roy on Why He Backed Trump's Spending Bill

50

Did MAGA Kill the Tea Party?

51

The Libertarian Case for Postmodernism

52

Could New York Go Bankrupt Again?

53

Streaming Music Isn't a Free Market. It's a Regulated Monopoly.

54

How a Government Mind Control Experiment Backfired

55

The Surprising Origins of Modern Freedom

56

From Big Gulps to Raw Milk: The Rise of MAHA

57

How LSD Helped Launch a Radical Libertarian Counterculture

58

Did Bombing Iran Make America Safer?

59

Scott Barry Kaufman: Incels, Narcissists, and the Victim Mindset

60

Kennedy: A Gen X Rebel's Journey From MTV to Fox News

61

Helen Lewis: The Dark Side of Genius

62

Lawrence Wright: America's Misadventures in Wars, Cults, and Panics

63

C. Bradley Thompson and Jeremiah Johnson: Rise of the 'MAGA Manosphere'

64

Brian Brushwood: Why We Fall for Scams

65

Robert Rosenkranz: How To Use Stoicism To Build a Meaningful Life

66

Richard Dawkins: Why Atheism Is Winning

67

Billionaire Cliff Asness: Can Technology Outrun 'Stupider and Stupider' Government?

68

Steven Pinker: Can Harvard Be Saved?

69

John Arnold: Government Can't Be Trusted To Fix Any Problems

70

Jeffrey Singer: Get Government Out of Health Care

71

Jason Furman: Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Economy

72

Mark Clifford: A Political Prisoner Fights for Free Speech in China

73

Leigh Stein and Julius Taranto: Did Wokeness and Trump Kill Literary Satire?

74

James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber: Psychedelics Legalization Will Continue No Matter Who Is President

75

Brian Doherty: The Fascinating Women and Weirdos Who Founded Libertarianism

76

Rachel Barkow: Did Trump and Biden Turn Pardons Into a Corrupt Joke?

77

Alton Brown: A Culinary Legend Offers Food for Thought

78

John McWhorter: Is 'Wokeness' Finally Dead?

79

Jim O'Shaughnessy: Don't Squander This Age of Innovation

80

Sean McMeekin: Don't Whitewash the History of Communism

81

Nico Perrino: What the Trump-Musk Alliance Means for Free Speech

82

Alex Nowrasteh and Bryan Caplan: The Case for More Immigration

83

Michael Shermer: Conspiracy Thinking, Wokeness, and the Future of Free Thought

84

Christina Dent: The Evangelical Christian Fighting To End the Drug War

85

Douglas Irwin: Why Trump's Tariff Plans Are Dangerous

86

Helen Prejean: Why This Nun Is Fighting To End the Death Penalty

87

Jeffrey Edward Green: Why Bob Dylan's Prophecies Continue To Fascinate

88

Penny Lane: Why I Gave a Kidney to a Total Stranger

89

Errol Morris and Jacob Soboroff: Trump's Immigration Policies Are Indefensible

90

Brendan O'Neill: The West Went Insane After October 7

91

Martin Gurri: Political Chaos Brings Colossal Transformation

92

Amanda Knox: 'I Have Felt Utterly Exploited' by True Crime

93

Hyrum and Verlan Lewis: Stop Buying the 'Left v. Right' Myth

94

Live on Election Night! The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

95

Musa al-Gharbi: How Woke Elites Became Out of Touch

96

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Peace In The Middle East Through Capitalism

97

Meghan McCain: 'Trump Didn't Break My Brain. What's Your Excuse?'

98

Will Trump or Harris Win the Working-Class Vote?

99

Billy Binion: Civil Liberties Don't Just Belong to the Rich

100

Jeremy Horpedahl: Are Millennials and Gen Z Actually Worse Off Than Their Parents?

101

Kat Timpf: An Unapologetic Libertarian at Fox News

102

Mike Pesca: How NPR Lost Its Way