Podcast Episodes

The Surprising Origins of Modern Freedom

Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life.

Her book explores why we've come to basically equate havi…

Published on 2 months ago

From Big Gulps to Raw Milk: The Rise of MAHA

Today's guest is Elizabeth Nolan Brown, whose recent Reason cover story looks into the politics of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement spearheaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Ro…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

How LSD Helped Launch a Radical Libertarian Counterculture

Today's guest is Susannah Cahalan, whose new book is The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary—muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary's psychedelic revoluti…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Did Bombing Iran Make America Safer?

On June 22, the United States launched what President Donald Trump called "very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran" on the social media site Truth Social. "NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Scott Barry Kaufman: Incels, Narcissists, and the Victim Mindset

Psychologist and author Scott Barry Kaufman joins Reason's Nick Gillespie to discuss his new book Rise Above, which challenges the growing embrace of victimhood as identity. They explore how traits s…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Kennedy: A Gen X Rebel's Journey From MTV to Fox News

Today's guest is the former MTV video jockey and current Fox News personality Kennedy, who emerged in the 1990s as a leading voice of Gen X when it came to politics and c…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Helen Lewis: The Dark Side of Genius

Today's guest is Helen Lewis, a British journalist and podcaster who is a staff writer for The Atlantic. Her new book is The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea, and it explores how th…

Published on 3 months ago

Lawrence Wright: America's Misadventures in Wars, Cults, and Panics

Today's guest is the legendary journalist and New Yorker staffer Lawrence Wright. He is the author of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief; The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and th…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

C. Bradley Thompson and Jeremiah Johnson: Rise of the 'MAGA Manosphere'

Did mainstream conservatives and libertarians lose a generation of young men to the post-liberal, reactionary right?

Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with C. Bradley Thompson, author of the Substack new…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Brian Brushwood: Why We Fall for Scams

"You don't get conned because you're stupid—you get conned because you're human."

That's the message of this week's guest, Brian Brushwood. He's an Austin-based magicia…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago