The Reason Roundtable

One of Reason's founding editors, attorney Manny Klausner, tells tales from the early days of the magazine of "Free Minds and Free Markets."

Assessing the Trump-media wars, prospects for federal sentencing reform, and whether Rand Paul should puke on Mitch McConnell's desk. With Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch.

Audio production by Ian Keyser.

'Superator' by Pietnastka is licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0

Assessing the import of presidential tantrums, media hyperbole, military complaints, and the near-arrival of federal sentencing reform

Assessing the import of presidential tantrums, media hyperbole, military complaints, and the near-arrival of federal sentencing reform

What should the culture of free speech, free expression, and ownership look like on our social media platforms?

In 2004, Michael Bell's 21-year-old son was killed by police during a routine traffic stop in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Within three days, local law enforcement declared it had fully investigated the matter and announced that police had acted properly throughout. Pushing through his grief, Bell also pushed for change, beginning a decade-long campaign to legally mandate truly independent investigations into deadly use of force by police. He succeeded in Wisconsin and, to date, seven other states to pass such legislation.

Bell's crusade is the subject of a recent video by today's podcast subject, Kmele Foster of Freethink Media, an online video platform founded in 2011 to tell stories about human perseverance, inspiration, and progress. Foster is also the former co-host, with Kennedy and Reason's own Matt Welch, of the Fox Business show The Independents, and a current co-host of the popular podcast The Fifth Column, a free-wheeling, boozy deep-read of news and popular culture.

Foster was born in 1980 and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Nick Gillespie talks with him about how the Michael Bell story exemplifies what Freethink Media is trying to accomplish, what it was like growing up in an immigrant household (his mother is Jamaican), why libertarianism is underrepresented among racial and ethnic minorities, how he came to his anarcho-capitalist beliefs, and what his hopes are for his 1-year-old daughter.

Audio production by Ian Keyser.

So far, the world is kind of listening. Q&A with the co-host of The Fifth Column and co-founder of Freethink Media.

If you think politics is bad now, just wait until the economy goes south, and states come to debt-strapped Washington looking for a bailout, argue Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on the latest Reason Podcast.

Audio production by Ian Keyser.

'Fifteen Street' by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

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