The Reason Roundtable

Where does the election and aftermath leave the modern GOP, and whatever distant libertarian muscle memory it may have? Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward discuss on The Reason Roundtable podcast.

Divided government, Democratic infighting, drug legalization and immigration relaxation are not the worst outcomes, argue Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward on the Reason Roundtable podcast.

What are the best and worst things about Joe Biden and Donald Trump? Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss.

How big would President Joe Biden's big government be? The Reason Roundtable's Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, and Katherine Mangu-Ward discuss.

Keep social media speech more free, and keep regulators away from it, argue The Reason Roundtable's Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch and Stephanie Slade.

Last week featured a surprisingly taciturn Vice Presidential debate that was notable more for what the candidates didn't say than what they did. But make no mistake: Health care, the federal budget, infrastructure and energy are all going to be subjects of intense legislative wrangling over the next four years, no matter who wins in November.

Democrats in particular have a far-reaching agenda that they will attempt to enact should they win back control of the White House and the Senate, as election odds-makers now believe is likely. But are Democrats and Republicans really so far apart?

Can a White House riddled with coronavirus solve the coronavirus policy riddle? The Reason Roundtable's Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward debate.

Maybe stop electing politicians who love the complexity of the tax code? Just a thought, argue Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward and Matt Welch on the latest 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.