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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 boo…
7 months, 2 weeks 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 spe…
7 months, 3 weeks 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-c…
8 months 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 m…
8 months 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…
8 months, 1 week 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 lea…
8 months, 2 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 H…
8 months, 3 weeks 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 Pr…
8 months, 4 weeks 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 wi…
9 months 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 gu…
9 months ago