The Reason Roundtable

It's refreshing that a U.S. president would call off a bomb strike in the name of disproportionality. But are Donald Trump's Iranian policies making conflict more likely in the future? Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie discuss on the latest Editors' Roundtable edition of the Reason Podcast.

In an interview with Reason's Matt Welch, George Will talks about the importance of rehabilitating America's withered constitutional architecture, ponders what the punditry class got wrong in 2016, and reminisces about what it was like for a conservative columnist to criticize an erratic Republican president way back in 1973.

Today's guest is David French, a senior writer for National Review and a columnist for Time. He's one of the most prominent Never Trump conservatives in the country and he recently has been attacked by fellow right-wingers for—get this—being just too nice a guy.

How socialist ARE these Democrats, anyway? Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch discuss the 2020 presidential field on the latest Reason Podcast, Editors' Roundtable.

Reason's Robby Soave has been writing about culture, free speech, due process, and moral outrage on campus since joining the magazine in 2014. Next week will see the release of his first book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, which examines the ascendancy of the intersectional left and the identitarian right.

Reason's Zach Weissmueller talked with Soave in front of a live audience at Reason's L.A. office.

A political scientist by training, Ian Bremmer heads up the Eurasia Group, the world's largest political-risk consultancy. He's also the host of the weekly PBS show GZERO World, which investigates how economics and politics are playing out in a world in which the United States is retreating in significant ways from the global stage. His most recent book is Us vs.Them: The Failure of Globalism—a bracing, provocative analysis of why political polarization is growing and how we might best address the anger and alienation that is fueling nationalist and populist sentiments around the globe.

Criminal defense attorney Mike Chase, the man behind the popular @CrimeADay Twitter feed, has a new book titled How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender. It chronicles government power at its most arbitrary and absurd.

Reason's Todd Krainin sat down with Chase to learn the roots of his obsession with laws against improperly shaped cheese, whistling on a CB radio, and making unreasonable gestures to a passing horse.

When Tucker Carlson and Elizabeth Warren agree on trade, regulation, and social media, it's time to rethink a few things.

On today's podcast, Nick Gillespie speaks with Ronald K.L. Collins, a lawyer and scholar at the Newseum's First Amendment Law Center, and the author of a weekly blog called First Amendment News. He's also the co-author with David M. Skover of The People v. Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," a fast-paced history of the obscenity trial that ended in a watershed victory for free expression.

For a solid week now, conservative intellectuals have been going after each other along the dividing lines of populist-nationalism and classical liberalism. On the latest Reason Podcast, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss why libertarians always get picked on when conservatives are in power.