The Reason Roundtable

They're not even trying to hide the hypocrisy anymore, observe Reason Roundtable podcasters Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward and Matt Welch.

What did Donald Trump know, and when did he know it? According to Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, and the interview tapes the veteran reporter released last week, the president acknowledged the seriousness of the coronavirus in private interviews much earlier than he did public. Are there times when presidents should tell what they perceive as noble lies to forestall panic? Or, as Woodward suggests, do those obfuscations simply prevent Americans from rallying around and solving serious problems together?

Regular Reason Roundtable podcasters Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward are joined by special guests Eric Boehm and Zach Weissmueller for a 20th-century-flashback episode to discuss whether epidemiology is politics, whether movies are politics, whether sports are politics, and whether all of those things have always been politics.

Plus Gillespie gets ratioed, Mangu-Ward gets literary, Weissmueller gets serious, and Boehm gets emo in their pop culture recommendations.

Can Donald Grump woo Gary Johnson voters to go GOP in 2020? The Reason Roundtable's Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward have their doubts.

It's a presidential election year, which means that things could always get worse, warn The Reason Roundtable's Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Won't anyone think of (getting) the children (out of national political theater)? The Reason Roundtable's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch talk DNC and RNC.

Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and special guest Jesse Walker discuss the strangeness of an all-online political convention, what the selection of Harris says about the future of Democratic Party politics, and the many misunderstandings about QAnon and its place in American politics.

Presidents, regardless of political party, should not govern via executive order, say Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward and Peter Suderman on the Reason Roundtable podcast.

Rountablists Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, and special guest star Eric Boehm bounce from there to last week's godawful congressional grilling of Big Tech execs, President Donald Trump's election-delay trial balloon, the logistic headaches of counting mail-in ballots, the great TikTok wars, competing proposals for the next federal corona-package, and the deeply weird return of professional sports.

COVID-19 and aftermath have exposed failures at every level of government, argue Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Stephanie Slade and Zach Weissmueller on the Reason Roundtable podcast.

Libertarians have been warning you for decades about the DHS, border security mission creep, and the militarization of police, as Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch remind listeners on the Reason Roundtable podcast.