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Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all.
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Plus: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson embraces warrantless ICE searches, the Super Bowl halftime culture war, and Trump continues funding the Department of Education
Plus: assessing Trump’s first year, the dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the politics of the Super Bowl. (Recorded live in Washington, D.C.)
Plus: a partial shutdown over ICE funding, Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed, and Moltbook’s AI society
Plus: DHS escalation in Minnesota, Trump loses support on ICE tactics, and how politics influence the Oscar nominations
Plus: Threats of new tariffs on NATO allies, masked federal agents stir unrest in Minnesota, and Trump’s new health care proposal.
Plus: ICE shootings divide the country, the Iran uprising intensifies, and California targets billionaires with a wealth tax
Plus: Trump’s expanding view of U.S. power abroad, Zohran Mamdani touts the “warmth of collectivism,” and Tim Walz won’t seek reelection
The Reason editors examine the most underreported stories of 2025 across politics, economics, global affairs, and culture.
1Plus: Debating marijuana at Turning Point USA, Massie and Khanna threaten Bondi with contempt over Epstein files, and Minnesota’s welfare fraud case.
Reason's Robby Soave and Elizabeth Nolan Brown go head to head with Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim from Breaking Points in a thought-provoking debate about Big Tech.
Plus: reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug, mass shootings at Bondi Beach and Brown University, and the U.S. seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker
Plus: Trump’s economy shows new signs of strain, Congress pushes a $900 billion defense package, and Kalshi stirs backlash over “financializing everything”
The Reason editors answer your questions on policy, politics, pop culture, and more in this annual webathon event.
Plus: War crime allegations against Hegseth, Congress threatens the legal hemp industry, and reflections on the legacy of Tom Stoppard
Plus: DOGE is disbanded, Trump attempts to influence the Warner Bros. merger, and Democrats tell the military to reject illegal orders
Plus: Tariff rollbacks and the affordability debate, Trump considers direct talks with Maduro as unauthorized strikes continue, and a listener asks what it would take to move healthcare out of government hands
Plus: Obamacare subsidies take center stage, the abundance agenda meets socialism after Mamdani’s win, and the differences between liberals and libertarians
Plus: Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, a court ruling extending SNAP funding during the shutdown, and Trump’s tariff fight reaches the Supreme Court
Plus: Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, more unauthorized military strikes in Venezuela, and what a Mamdani victory in NYC could mean for the country.
Plus: the “No Kings” protests, Trump pays troop salaries during government shutdown, and the continued bombing of drug boats in Venezuela
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this guest is awful
I think they made using AV.P n illegal as well.
Nikki is a neo-con... pass.
Reason is so lost. Jesus when the LP is more libertarian than you you really realise how far up the Dee states arse you really are...
Nobody is saying we shouldn't get out, it's how Biden did it...
You people are such snakes
How many listeners of this show make over $400k a year? Very fucking few I bet. The Libertarian bullshit is on overload in this episode.
You guys are the lamest most gimpy blue pilled libertarians ever. If anyone is still listening to these clowns on a regular basis I recommend switching to the Tom Woods show ( an actual Libertarian)
I tend to agree with y'all a lot, but this idea and the stance of the church over sex is not only wrong but misguided.
Thank you Nick
The White Walkers are coming according to Joe
Chicago 7 was boring
The same president who use to prank call Howard Stern is threatening to not hand over the office if he loses. Yeah, so glad the podcast became the Reasonable Alarmist Roundtable this week
why do I always get the sense that nick is being censored? The rest of you are tired hacks at this point. Talking about what masks you wear and glossing over the uglier side of BLM. I'm finally done with Reason mag. Mises is the only place with Libertarian values now
boy, you guys sure have taken a right wingnut turn of late. I always put up w some of your libertarian dipshittery, but you've taken the Trumpism pill now. UNSUBSCRIBE!
you guys are so lame
Am I the only one that when Gillespie talks I picture nick offerman?
This MCU analogy is right up Peter's alley
Larry Sharpe 2020
Thank you Nick. You're right the only way we are going to get through this is if we all pull together.