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The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

Want to know what comes next in politics, culture, and libertarian ideas? Reason’s Nick Gillespie hosts relentlessly interesting interviews with the activists, artists, authors, entrepreneurs, newsmakers, and politicians who are defining the 21st century.

How Capitalism Lost the Working Class

67 hours 50 mins; April 01, 2026

Taylor Lorenz: Is Social Media Responsible for Bad Parenting?

24 mins; March 27, 2026

Adam Carolla: Why No One Under 30 Trusts Legacy Media

49 mins; March 25, 2026

Why Civilization Needs Better Manuals

51 mins; March 18, 2026

Can the Government Ban You from Telling the Truth?

53 mins; March 11, 2026

Jonah Goldberg: The GOP Is Becoming Anti-Conservative

74 hours 41 mins; March 04, 2026

Pete Buttigieg: Federal Agents Are Losing Public Trust

58 mins; February 25, 2026

How the Epstein Files Became the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory

49 mins; February 20, 2026

Can Iran's Protest Movement Topple the Regime?

56 mins; February 18, 2026

Thomas Massie: Epstein Conspiracy Is 'Bigger Than Watergate'

25 mins; February 11, 2026

What the Media Gets Wrong About Crime

62 hours 50 mins; February 04, 2026

The Real Reason You Pay for NFL Stadiums

56 mins; January 28, 2026

Why So Many Venezuelans Support Trump's Capture of Maduro

53 mins; January 21, 2026

Can We Save American History From Partisan Politics?

60 hours 55 mins; January 14, 2026

CNN's Scott Jennings: The Conservative Movement's Identity Crisis

73 hours 14 mins; January 07, 2026

The Politics of Permanent Outrage

58 mins; December 30, 2025

Andor Creator Tony Gilroy on Bureaucracy and the Surveillance State

61 hours 21 mins; December 23, 2025

He's Serving 5 Years in Prison for Bitcoin Privacy Software

58 mins; December 19, 2025

Did the Internet Break Our Sense of Reality?

64 hours 45 mins; December 17, 2025

How Foreign Governments Police U.S. Speech

64 hours 26 mins; December 10, 2025

Why Science Lost Its Way

49 mins; December 03, 2025

What We Get Wrong About the American Revolution

63 hours 29 mins; November 26, 2025

Rand Paul: Congress Is 'Afraid of the President'

27 mins; November 20, 2025

Is The Washington Post Becoming Libertarian?

63 hours 29 mins; November 19, 2025

There's More Than One Way To Get Sober

71 hours 50 mins; November 12, 2025

Campus Activism in the Wake of Charlie Kirk's Murder

59 mins; November 06, 2025

Veterans Are Suffering Because of Government Red Tape

70 hours 3 mins; November 05, 2025

Jake Tapper on Censorship, Media Failings, and Presidential Power

68 hours 10 mins; October 29, 2025

What Happened to the Republican Party?

61 hours 35 mins; October 22, 2025

Can the ACLU Serve Progressives, Libertarians, and Conservatives?

67 hours 40 mins; October 15, 2025

Are Americans Addicted to Conflict?

50 mins; October 08, 2025

Defend Speech Even When Your Side Hates It

60 hours 0 mins; October 01, 2025

How the U.S. Sold Its Longest War with a Bodyguard of Lies

64 hours 42 mins; September 24, 2025

Psychedelics Are Not Just for Hippies and Tech Bros

53 mins; September 17, 2025

Why Banning Drugs and Guns Never Works

56 mins; September 16, 2025

Charlie Kirk and America's History With Political Violence

68 hours 45 mins; September 11, 2025

How We Criminalized Childhood

53 mins; September 10, 2025

If You Don't Like Socialism or the Establishment, Curtis Sliwa Wants Your Vote

47 mins; September 05, 2025

We're Moving Too Slow on AI

50 mins; September 03, 2025

Glenn Jacobs Body-Slams Big Government

36 mins; August 27, 2025

Chip Roy on Why He Backed Trump's Spending Bill

49 mins; August 20, 2025

Did MAGA Kill the Tea Party?

47 mins; August 13, 2025

The Libertarian Case for Postmodernism

73 hours 31 mins; August 06, 2025

Could New York Go Bankrupt Again?

60 hours 9 mins; July 30, 2025

Streaming Music Isn't a Free Market. It's a Regulated Monopoly.

81 hours 30 mins; July 23, 2025

How a Government Mind Control Experiment Backfired

65 hours 39 mins; July 16, 2025

The Surprising Origins of Modern Freedom

41 mins; July 09, 2025

From Big Gulps to Raw Milk: The Rise of MAHA

46 mins; July 02, 2025

How LSD Helped Launch a Radical Libertarian Counterculture

49 mins; June 25, 2025

Did Bombing Iran Make America Safer?

58 mins; June 24, 2025

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

51 mins; June 18, 2025

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

48 mins; June 11, 2025

Helen Lewis: The Dark Side of Genius

95 hours 14 mins; June 04, 2025

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

63 hours 45 mins; May 28, 2025

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

61 hours 43 mins; May 23, 2025

Brian Brushwood: Why We Fall for Scams

51 mins; May 21, 2025

Robert Rosenkranz: How To Use Stoicism To Build a Meaningful Life

51 mins; May 16, 2025

Richard Dawkins: Why Atheism Is Winning

94 hours 7 mins; May 14, 2025

Billionaire Cliff Asness: Can Technology Outrun 'Stupider and Stupider' Government?

51 mins; May 09, 2025

Steven Pinker: Can Harvard Be Saved?

59 mins; May 07, 2025

John Arnold: Government Can't Be Trusted To Fix Any Problems

51 mins; April 30, 2025

Jeffrey Singer: Get Government Out of Health Care

52 mins; April 23, 2025

Jason Furman: Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Economy

53 mins; April 16, 2025

Mark Clifford: A Political Prisoner Fights for Free Speech in China

58 mins; April 09, 2025

Leigh Stein and Julius Taranto: Did Wokeness and Trump Kill Literary Satire?

52 mins; April 02, 2025

James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber: Psychedelics Legalization Will Continue No Matter Who Is President

58 mins; March 26, 2025

Brian Doherty: The Fascinating Women and Weirdos Who Founded Libertarianism

63 hours 53 mins; March 19, 2025

Rachel Barkow: Did Trump and Biden Turn Pardons Into a Corrupt Joke?

81 hours 12 mins; March 12, 2025

Alton Brown: A Culinary Legend Offers Food for Thought

58 mins; March 05, 2025

John McWhorter: Is 'Wokeness' Finally Dead?

49 mins; February 26, 2025

Jim O'Shaughnessy: Don't Squander This Age of Innovation

83 hours 35 mins; February 19, 2025

Sean McMeekin: Don't Whitewash the History of Communism

81 hours 27 mins; February 12, 2025

Nico Perrino: What the Trump-Musk Alliance Means for Free Speech

63 hours 0 mins; February 05, 2025

Alex Nowrasteh and Bryan Caplan: The Case for More Immigration

56 mins; January 29, 2025

Michael Shermer: Conspiracy Thinking, Wokeness, and the Future of Free Thought

53 mins; January 22, 2025

Christina Dent: The Evangelical Christian Fighting To End the Drug War

86 hours 4 mins; January 15, 2025

Douglas Irwin: Why Trump's Tariff Plans Are Dangerous

60 hours 52 mins; January 08, 2025

Helen Prejean: Why This Nun Is Fighting To End the Death Penalty

60 hours 57 mins; January 01, 2025

Jeffrey Edward Green: Why Bob Dylan's Prophecies Continue To Fascinate

64 hours 7 mins; December 25, 2024

Penny Lane: Why I Gave a Kidney to a Total Stranger

49 mins; December 18, 2024

Errol Morris and Jacob Soboroff: Trump's Immigration Policies Are Indefensible

49 mins; December 11, 2024

Brendan O'Neill: The West Went Insane After October 7

67 hours 7 mins; December 04, 2024

Martin Gurri: Political Chaos Brings Colossal Transformation

52 mins; November 27, 2024

Amanda Knox: 'I Have Felt Utterly Exploited' by True Crime

82 hours 49 mins; November 20, 2024

Hyrum and Verlan Lewis: Stop Buying the 'Left v. Right' Myth

65 hours 56 mins; November 13, 2024

Live on Election Night! The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

55 mins; November 05, 2024

Musa al-Gharbi: How Woke Elites Became Out of Touch

72 hours 6 mins; October 30, 2024

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Peace In The Middle East Through Capitalism

63 hours 16 mins; October 23, 2024

Meghan McCain: 'Trump Didn't Break My Brain. What's Your Excuse?'

76 hours 53 mins; October 16, 2024

Will Trump or Harris Win the Working-Class Vote?

86 hours 19 mins; October 09, 2024

Billy Binion: Civil Liberties Don't Just Belong to the Rich

73 hours 58 mins; October 02, 2024

Jeremy Horpedahl: Are Millennials and Gen Z Actually Worse Off Than Their Parents?

72 hours 36 mins; September 25, 2024

Kat Timpf: An Unapologetic Libertarian at Fox News

45 mins; September 18, 2024

Mike Pesca: How NPR Lost Its Way

67 hours 43 mins; September 11, 2024

Eric Boehm: Why Is American Health Care So Dysfunctional?

53 mins; September 04, 2024

Nick Cave: I See the World as 'Systemically Beautiful'

68 hours 28 mins; August 28, 2024

Anna Gát: Building an Intellectual Platform for the Politically Homeless

51 mins; August 21, 2024

Charles Gasparino: 'Woke' Hypocrisy Is Hurting Businesses

78 hours 11 mins; August 14, 2024

Chase Oliver: Q&A With the Controversial Libertarian Party Candidate

69 hours 33 mins; August 07, 2024

Randy Barnett: Originalism, Obamacare, and the Libertarian Movement

81 hours 7 mins; July 31, 2024

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