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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward welcome special guests Eric Boehm and Zach Weissmueller for a post-mortem examination of the first Republican presidential primary debate last week and to discuss reactions to former President Donald Trump's mug shot.
0:42: First Republican presidential primary debate
23:08: Donald Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson
32:17: Weekly Listener Question
55:34: Persistent back-to-school COVID measures
Mentioned in this podcast:
"There Were No Anti-Interventionist Candidates at the GOP Debate," by Christian Britschgi
"Nikki Haley Burned Trump and Her Fellow Republicans for Blowing Up the Debt. She's Right." by Eric Boehm
"A GOP Consensus Emerges: Militarize the Border," by Fiona Harrigan
"Nikki Haley Slams Biden's 'Green Subsidies,'" by Joe Lancaster
"Vivek Ramaswamy: 'The Only War I Will Declare…Is on the Administrative State,'" by Robby Soave
"Vivek Ramaswamy's Popular Incoherence," by Matt Welch
"Candidates Spar Over National Abortion Ban in First Republican Debate," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"Tucker Carlson's Sycophantic Interview With Trump Illustrates the Advantages of Skipping the Debates," by Jacob Sullum
"Stop Publishing Mug Shots—Even Donald Trump's," by Billy Binion
"Baltimore Orioles Owners Demand Even More Unnecessary Taxpayer Money," by Jason Russell
"The Oakland Athletics Just Showed Why They Don't Need Taxpayers To Buy Their New Stadium," by Eric Boehm
"Voters Put Arizona Coyotes' Arena Project on Ice," by Eric Boehm
"Stadium Subsidy Stupidity Hits New Record," by Jason Russell
"The Expensive, Seductive Nostalgia of Field of Dreams," by Matt Welch
"Dozens of Colleges Still Require COVID Vaccines for Students," by Emma Camp
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post GOP Debate Stuff We Didn't Hate appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman consider libertarian responses to natural disasters in the wake of the recent wildfires in Hawaii and examine the outsider candidacy of Javier Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist, in his bid for the Argentinian presidency.
0:26: Maui wildfires
23:13: Javier Milei wins Argentina's presidential primary
37:03: Weekly Listener Question
50:34: This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"California Regulations Prevent Insurers From Accurately Pricing Wildfire Risk, so Now They're Fleeing the State," by Ronald Bailey
"When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse," by Tate Watkins
"Dozens Died in California Wildfires. Why Is the State Forcing Insurance Companies To Ignore Risks?" by Scott Shackford
"Can Fire Insurance Manage Wildfire Risks in California?" by Ronald Bailey
"Why Are People 'Outraged' That Private Firefighters Saved Kim and Kanye's Home?" by Joe Setyon
"Rant: Burn the Rich," by Matt Welch
"UnFAIR," by Matt Welch
Annual number of deaths from disasters, 1900-2020, by Our World in Data
"HECO Kept The Power Flowing In Lahaina Even As Poles Toppled," by Marcel Honore
"Confessions of a Welfare Queen," by John Stossel
"Eric Boehm: How Protectionist Trade Policies Screw Us All," a Q&A by Nick Gillespie
"The Jones Act Is Driving Up Prices and Making Crises Worse," by John Stossel
"A Self-Described Anarcho-Capitalist Won a Plurality in Argentina's Presidential Primary," by Marcos Falcone
"Don't Confuse Javier Milei With Jair Bolsonaro," by Daniel Raisbeck
"This Politician Just Won Argentina's Primary. His Hair Is Baffling the World," by Jacob Gallagher
"'Private Tyranny' Is Less Private Than You Think," by Stephanie Slade
"Domination Fantasies," by Ben Compaine
"Mergers and Disquisitions," by Nick Gillespie
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post The Argentine Libertarian Dog-Friendly Darling? appeared first on Reason.com.
Hey, Reason Roundtable listeners, we've got a special bonus for your Friday afternoon this week!
You might already know Eric Boehm from his occasional guest appearances on the Roundtable pod and from his written work at Reason over the past several years. But he's also the host of a brand-new, limited-run podcast that's going to be right up your alley if you're a fan of free minds and free markets—and we know that you are.
It's called Why We Can't Have Nice Things, and each week the show focuses on a different rule, regulation, or law that prevents the free market from working the way it should. These are stories about how protectionist policies get made and why they can be so difficult to undo.
Like, for example, a 100-year-old shipping law that makes traffic worse on American highways: The Jones Act. It's a law described as "a very classic case of everything wrong with Washington." That's the focus of this week's episode, the third in the six-part series.
You can listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast feeds—and please don't forget to leave us a review.
Check out the rest of the series too:
The post A New Podcast Explains Why We Can't Have Nice Things appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman are all back in action, and they tear into recent arguments by the Federal Communications Commission in favor of revoking Fox News' broadcast license. The editors also ponder the appointment of a special counsel in the ongoing Hunter Biden probe.
1:06: Special counsel appointed to investigate Hunter Biden
16:00: Misguided threats to yank Fox News' broadcast license
30:54: Weekly Listener Question
53:47: Age verification laws for online porn
Mentioned in this podcast:
"Hunter Biden and Donald Trump Should Both Have Jury Trials," by Clark Neily
"The Legally Authorized Charges Against Donald Trump and Hunter Biden Don't Tell Us What Justice Requires," by Jacob Sullum
"How Joe Biden Went from Middle-Class Joe to a Millionaire," by Caroline Hallemann
"Hunter Biden Shouldn't Go to Prison for Violating an Arbitrary Gun Law," by Jacob Sullum
"What the President Gets Wrong About Broadcast TV," by Jessica Rosenworcel
"How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone," by Nick Gillespie and Thomas W. Hazlett
"Celebrating the End of the Fairness Doctrine," by Nick Gillespie
"FCC Chair Preemptively Rubbishes Trump's Dumb Tweet About Challenging Media Licenses," by Matt Welch
"Child-proofing the World," by Nick Gillespie
"The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"The EARN IT Act Is the New FOSTA," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"Small Porn Producers Will Be Hurt Most by New Age Verification Laws," by Jessica Stoya
"Childproofing the Internet," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"Social Media Age Requirements Are Anti-Free Speech," by Jeff Kosseff
"Ranked Choice Voting Worked in Alaska. Sarah Palin Came to CPAC To Complain About It." by Joe Lancaster
"Can ranked-choice voting save American democracy? We ask an expert," by Fredreka Schouten
"Reasons To Like Ranked‐Choice Voting," by Walter Olson
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post Why Stripping Fox's Broadcast License Is a Terrible Idea appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman welcome special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown as they unpack the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump. They also check in on the ongoing legal saga of the classified advertising site Backpage in the wake of founder James Larkin's untimely death.
0:46: The latest Trump indictment
21:21: The legacy of free speech warrior James Larkin
46:25: Weekly Listener Question
53:27: This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"Trump's Prosecution Could Be Stymied by the Blurry Line Between Deceit and Self-Delusion," by Jacob Sullum
"Did Trump Really Believe the Election Was Stolen? Here Is Why It Matters." by Jacob Sullum
"2 Reasons It's Not Clear That Trump 'Corruptly' Obstructed an Official Proceeding," by Jacob Sullum
"Should Trump go to prison?" by Zach Weissmueller and Nick Gillespie
"Don't Jail Trump for January 6," by Robby Soave
"Why the Press Conflates Prostitution with Sex Trafficking—and Why That's a Threat To Free Speech," by Nick Gillespie and Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"FCC Head Ajit Pai on Section 230 and Free Speech," by Nick Gillespie
"Emails show CDC policed COVID speech on Facebook," by Zach Weissmueller, Nick Gillespie, and Robby Soave
"The 26 Words That 'Created the Internet'—and Why They May Be on the Chopping Block," by Nick Gillespie
"Why the Government's Legal Assault on Backpage.com Backfired," by Nick Gillespie
"The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers," by Paul Detrick
"Politicians Want To Destroy Section 230, the Internet's First Amendment," by Paul Detrick and Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"'Je suis Charlie'? No, You're Not, or Else You Might Be Dead," by Matt Welch
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post Have We Lost Track of the Trump Indictments Yet? appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman welcome special guest Jacob Sullum to wade through the latest Donald Trump indictments and Hunter Biden's legal woes.
1:11: Trump indictment roundup
24:18: Hunter Biden's plea deal
38:59: Weekly Listener Question
48:58: This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"Trump's Alleged Cover-Up of His Cover-Up Reinforces the Obstruction Charges Against Him," by Jacob Sullum
"2 Reasons It's Not Clear That Trump 'Corruptly' Obstructed an Official Proceeding," by Jacob Sullum
"Here Is Why Trump's 'Contingent' Electors Say They Did Nothing Illegal," by Jacob Sullum
"How Hunter Biden's Plea Deal Fell Apart," by Jacob Sullum
"Hunter Biden Shouldn't Go to Prison for Violating an Arbitrary Gun Law," by Jacob Sullum
"Clark Neily: Regardless of Guilt, Trump Won't Go to Jail," by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller
"Trump's Impeachment Trial Will Only Make Us Hate Washington Even More," by Nick Gillespie
"Judge Napolitano: Enough Evidence 'to Justify About Three or Four Articles of Impeachment.'" by Nick Gillespie
"All Drug Offenders Should Be Treated Like Hunter Biden: Leniently," by Nick Gillespie
"Squirtle's seen some shit, man," tweets Nick Gillespie
"First Family Follies," by Nick Gillespie
"Andrew Tatarsky and Maia Szalavitz: How 'Harm Reduction' Is Transforming Drug Policy," by Nick Gillespie
"What Will the End of the Drug War Mean for Addicts? Look to Oregon," by Zach Weissmueller
"Ethan Nadelmann: Legalize ALL Drugs. NOW." by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post Should Donald Trump and Hunter Biden Both Be Prosecuted? appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman critique Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' plan to investigate the inclusion of Bud Light's parent company AB InBev in the state's pension funds.
00:40: Gov. Ron DeSantis politicizes Florida pension funds.
20:38: The summer of strikes
32:50: Weekly Listener Question
38:50: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
43:53: This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"Ron DeSantis Bullies Bud Light Like Elizabeth Warren Bullies Amazon," by Joe Lancaster
"How Corporations' Good Social and Environmental Intentions Undermine the Common Good," by Samuel Gregg
"DeSantis Unironically Frets About 'Criminalizing Political Differences,'" by Eric Boehm
"Politically Motivated Investment Guidelines Making Bad Public Pension Programs Worse," by Scott Shackford
"Three Reasons to Fix Public Sector Pensions Now," by Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin
Is ESG a threat to capitalism? Live with Samuel Gregg, Russ Greene, and Zach Weissmueller
"Don't Expect Unions To Make a Comeback," by Nick Gillespie
"America Needs a Better Kind of Capitalism," by Veronique de Rugy
"UPS vs. FedEx: Ultimate Whiteboard Remix," by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg
"Artifact: War's Nightmare Landscape," by Nick Gillespie
"Why Color Atom Bomb Footage of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Was Censored by the Government for Decades," by Nick Gillespie
"Obama, Trump, and the Nuking of Hiroshima," by Steve Chapman
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Audio production by Luke Allen; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post Get Your Culture War Out of Our Pension Funds appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman appraise the current state of "Bidenomics" as well as the self-described No Labels centrist movement.
0:58: Assessing Bidenomics
24:03: The No Labels movement
39:42: Weekly Listener Question
47:43: Over-the-counter birth control!
53:14: This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"'Bidenomics' Is Nothing New," by Veronique de Rugy
"Turns Out 'Bidenomics' Means Top-Down Economic Control," by Peter Suderman
"Joe Biden's Endless River of Debt and Regulation," by Nick Gillespie
"Joe Biden's $11 Trillion Plan to Bankrupt America," by Nick Gillespie
"The Fantasy of a 2020 Independent Centrist," by Matt Welch
"John Avlon: 'How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America,'" by Nick Gillespie
"On Independence Day, Find Common Ground Over Freedom," by J.D. Tuccille
"All Birth Control Pills, Not Just One, Should Be Over the Counter," by Jeffrey A. Singer
"What if the government banned birth control?" by Nick Gillespie, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, and Scott Winship
"Review: Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One," by Kurt Loder
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: COVID, Ukraine, Bitcoin, Guns, Free Speech, and More," by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller
"Milan Kundera's Eternal Feud With Václav Havel," by Matt Welch
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post 'Bidenomics,' Like All Industrial Policy, Sucks appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman mull over last week's ruling against the Biden administration concerning politically disfavored speech on social media as well as Twitter's latest competitor—Threads—and the latest from the Ron DeSantis campaign.
0:25: A federal judge orders Biden administration officials to stop encouraging social media companies to censor disfavored content.
19:57: Threads: Meta's Twitter competitor
31:50: Weekly Listener Question
39:14: The "Mamas for DeSantis" initiative
51:08: This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"Social media injunction unravels plans to protect 2024 elections," by Cat Zakrzewski, Naomi Nix, and Joseph Menn
"Federal Judge to Biden Administration: Stop Telling Social Media Sites To Limit Free Speech," by Eric Boehm
"Journalists Outraged That a Judge Would Dare Limit Biden's Censorship Powers," by Robby Soave
"'Mamas for DeSantis' Is Proof: The DeSantis Campaign Is Too Online," by Emma Camp
"US podcast misinformation goes largely unchecked," by Rob Lever
"'Build the wall,' Florida gubernatorial tells his young daughter in campaign ad," by Erin B. Logan
Casey DeSantis' "Mamas for DeSantis" campaign ad on Twitter
"Ron DeSantis: Good or Bad for Liberty?" by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller with Karol Markowicz
"What DeSantis Did to Disney's Dream City," by Zach Weissmueller
"The Casey DeSantis Problem: 'His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability,'" by Michael Kruse
Ron DeSantis' "Top Gov" 2022 ad
Ron DeSantis' pro-Trump 2018 gubernatorial ad
"How 'disinformation' became public enemy No. 1," by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller with Jacob Siegel
"Did SCOTUS roll back gay rights and civil rights?" by Nick Gillespie with Coleman Hughes and Walter Olson
"'60s Songs That Explain the '90s': 'Tubthumping' and the Chart-Topping Anarchists," by Rob Harvilla
"A Strange Museum Takes a Strange Turn," by Stephen Wahrhaftig
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post The Courts vs. Misinformation Cops appeared first on Reason.com.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, Matt Welch is back in the saddle alongside editors Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman as they discuss the recent batch of Supreme Court decisions ahead of the July 4 holiday.
1:04: The Supreme Court's decision on race-based affirmative action in college admissions
23:16: The Supreme Court's decision involving same-sex wedding websites and free expression
28:40: Weekly Listener Question
38:29: The Supreme Court strikes down President Joe Biden's student loan cancellation plan.
51:06: This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"Purple June," by Josh Blackman
"Joe Biden's Incoherent Student Loan Logic," by Eric Boehm
"Supreme Court to Biden: You Can't Just Forgive $400 Billion in Student Loan Debt Without Asking Congress," by Emma Camp
"Supreme Court on Affirmative Action: 'Eliminating Racial Discrimination Means Eliminating All of It,'" by Emma Camp
"Thoughts on the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Harvard and UNC Racial Preferences Cases," by Ilya Somin
"The Unsurprising Affirmative Action Decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard," by Will Baude
"52%-32% Support for Court's Decision 'Restricting the Use of Race as a Factor in College Admissions,'" by Eugene Volokh
"Biden Says He Will try to do Student Loan Forgiveness Under the Higher Education Act of 1965," by Ilya Somin
"Time To End Affirmative Action? Live With David Bernstein and Kenny Xu," by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller
"Colorado Can't Force a Graphic Designer To Create Same-Sex Wedding Websites, Supreme Court Rules," by Stephanie Slade
"A First Amendment for Everyone," by Dale Carpenter
"Self-Cancellation, Deplatforming, and Censorship," by Nick Gillespie
"Of Course Legacy Admissions Should Follow Affirmative Action to the Grave," by Robby Soave
"Should We Forgive Student Debt?" by Nick Gillespie
"The Immorality of Student Loan Forgiveness and Free College," by Nick Gillespie
"Exit Interviews," by Katherine Mangu-Ward and Mike Lynch
"On Independence Day, Find Common Ground Over Freedom," by J.D Tuccille
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
Today's sponsor:
Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
The post Three Cheers for the Supreme Court appeared first on Reason.com.
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