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The Reason Roundtable
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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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5 days ago
Blundering Into Escalation in Ukraine?
Plus: A listener asks if it’s possible for bureaucracy ever to be good.
59 min
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May 16, 2022
Repulsive Replacement Theory and Economic Delusions
Plus: The editors each point out one key disagreement they have with one another.
1 hr 1 min
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May 9, 2022
Alito, Abortion, and Autonomy
Plus: ruminations on public health, misinformation, and media literacy
1 hr 3 min
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May 2, 2022
The DHS Will Be Disinformation Dolts
Plus: perpetual "scope creep" of the welfare state
1 hr 3 min
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Apr 25, 2022
Why Conservatives Are Wrong To Punish Disney
Plus: the ethics of civil disobedience
1 hr 4 min
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Apr 18, 2022
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Musk? And Yes, Taxation Is Still Theft.
Plus: A short debate on intellectual property
1 hr 9 min
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Apr 11, 2022
The Real War in Ukraine and the Culture War in Florida
Plus, is the "Libertarian tent" too big?
1 hr 2 min
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Apr 8, 2022
A Friday Bonus Reason Roundtable! Live From Reason Weekend in Nashville.
Plus: The editors answer how Reason has changed each of their lives.
59 min
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Apr 4, 2022
Joe Biden Wants To Spend How Much? On What Now?
Plus: What is the libertarian stake in the culture war over school curriculums?
1 hr 7 min
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Mar 28, 2022
Will Smith and Joe Biden Both Messed Up
Plus, the _Reason_ editors' thoughts on Ketanji Brown Jackson
1 hr 2 min
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Mar 21, 2022
Canceling the Cancel Culture Deniers
If everything is cancel culture, nothing is.
58 min
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Mar 14, 2022
Joe Biden Gaslights America About Gas Prices
Plus, the editors talk about alternative strategies to deal with Russia.
1 hr 8 min
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Mar 7, 2022
Sanctions Won't Defeat Russia
Plus, hear the Reason editors' response to President Biden's SOTU.
1 hr 6 min
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Feb 28, 2022
Zelenskyy Goes Viral, Russia Goes Nuclear
Plus, where do the Reason editors get their news?
1 hr 17 min
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Feb 22, 2022
What Ukraine and Joe Rogan Have in Common
Also, Democrats show they can read the polls on mask mandates.
1 hr 7 min
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Feb 14, 2022
The Canadian Truck Protests Aren't Just About Vaccines. They're About Being Heard.
Plus, the editors' takes on the Super Bowl.
59 min
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Feb 7, 2022
Joe Rogan, Canadian Truckers, Coronavirus Mandates, and the Terrible State of Free Speech
What Joe Rogan and Canadian truckers tell us about free speech.
1 hr 12 min
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Jan 31, 2022
The Media's Censorial Freakout Over Joe Rogan
Plus, Supreme Court nominations and affirmative action in schools
1 hr 2 min
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Jan 24, 2022
Joe Biden's Problem Isn't Bad Messaging. It's Bad Policy.
Will bipartisanship fix Joe Biden's presidency?
59 min
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Jan 18, 2022
The Democratic Party Is the President
Plus, what's going on in Virginia.
1 hr 1 min
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Jan 10, 2022
Masking in the Moshpit
What would Lemmy Kilmister say about January 6?
59 min
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Jan 3, 2022
What We Got Right and Wrong About 2021 (and What We Predict for 2022)
Plus, the CDC's amateur psychoanalyzing.
1 hr 12 min
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Dec 20, 2021
A Reality Check on Coronavirus, Congress, and Elon Musk's Taxes
Time to stop pretending
1 hr 6 min
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Dec 13, 2021
Why Aren't Journalists Howling About the Assange Prosecution?
Plus two more topics to howl about...
1 hr 5 min
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Dec 6, 2021
A New Opportunity for the Government To Screw Up Abortion Law
Plus: A reminder to Bill de Blasio of what "incentive" really means
59 min
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Dec 2, 2021
You Asked, We Gave You Libertarian Solutions, Star Trek Characters and…Dating Advice?
Enjoy our special webathon video episode, handling your insane listener email. Now donate, you beautiful crazies!
1 hr 26 min
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Nov 29, 2021
Omicron and COVID-19 Groundhog Day
Let's get it right this time.
1 hr 1 min
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Nov 22, 2021
What the Political Class Should Learn from the Rittenhouse Verdict
Plus, Biden's Build Back Better passes the house.
1 hr 3 min
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Nov 15, 2021
Libertarian Lessons From the Rittenhouse Trial
Plus, what's going on with the labor shortage.
1 hr 2 min
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Nov 8, 2021
The Infrastructure Bill Makes Building Back More Expensive
The U.S. government doesn't reflect on its spending history, and that shows.
1 hr 2 min
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Nov 1, 2021
The Spending Bill Got Smaller, but It's Still Full of Bad Ideas
Plus, speculation around Virginia's heated gubernatorial race
1 hr 2 min
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Oct 25, 2021
Freedom, Responsibility, and Coronavirus Policy
Plus: The _Reason Roundtable_ makes talking about taxes interesting.
54 min
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Oct 18, 2021
The Biden White House Is Lying About the Democrats' Spending Bill
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
1 hr
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Oct 11, 2021
The Economy Is Weird Right Now
We’re low on workers and chicken wings.
1 hr 6 min
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Oct 4, 2021
Our Looming Trillion Dollar Doom
Plus: the unintended consequences of mandating COVID vaccines for students
1 hr 4 min
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Sep 27, 2021
Check Your Authoritarian Blind Spot
And your friends' authoritarian blind spots, too.
59 min
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Sep 20, 2021
Why We Can't Get Anywhere on Immigration
Turns out, building good systems is necessary to get good outcomes.
1 hr 4 min
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Sep 13, 2021
How Biden's Vaccine Mandates Degrade Social Trust
Plus, how his tax hikes won't actually help anyone, either.
1 hr 5 min
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Sep 7, 2021
How 9/11 Actually Changed Everything
Plus, why is no one talking about the Medicare Trustees' entitlement report?
1 hr 1 min
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Aug 30, 2021
Learning To Live With Coronavirus
How the past two years of COVID-19 can better inform how we go about the next two
59 min
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Aug 23, 2021
There Is No FDA-Approved Vaccine for Warmongering
We’ve got good news and bad news.
1 hr 1 min
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Aug 16, 2021
What Happens When an Endless War Ends?
Plus, a pithy summary of how government works
1 hr 9 min
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Aug 9, 2021
Eviction Moratorium Madness
_The Reason Roundtable_ discusses property rights, vaccine passports, and media ethics.
1 hr 9 min
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Aug 2, 2021
Do We Need the CDC?
Plus, why are there cryptocurrency rules in the new infrastructure bill?
1 hr 2 min
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Jul 26, 2021
Government Shouldn't Stop People From Doing Self-Destructive Things
We all do them!
58 min
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Jul 19, 2021
No, Biden, Facebook Isn't Killing People
Also, regulation is (still) not the answer to online misinformation.
1 hr 2 min
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Jul 12, 2021
Space Liberation!
Don't let naysayers fool you. Richard Branson's space flight is a boon for society.
1 hr 1 min
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Jul 6, 2021
How To Snap Out of a Post-COVID Funk
And why the perspective on homeschooling shifted
1 hr 7 min
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Jun 28, 2021
How the Critical Race Theory Debate Misses the Mark
Plus, what's going down in the Libertarian Party?
1 hr 2 min
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Jun 21, 2021
Did Prohibition Teach Us Nothing?
Plus, what to keep in mind through the AUMF repeal.
58 min
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Jun 14, 2021
Financial Privacy May Be Spiraling
Plus: What's the most libertarian state?
58 min
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Jun 7, 2021
Why the FBI Is Afraid of Bitcoin
And why you shouldn't be
1 hr 8 min
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Jun 1, 2021
Big Government Is Back, Baby!
And hope for the future (still) lies outside of the state.
58 min
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May 24, 2021
Has Our Criminal Justice System Gotten Better Since George Floyd's Death?
Plus: critical race theory and ideal libertarian political appointees
57 min
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May 17, 2021
Mask Freedom At Long Last
And more pandemic protocols that won't be missed
1 hr 5 min
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May 10, 2021
Can the State Influence Baby-Making With Policy?
They're sure as hell trying.
1 hr 8 min
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May 3, 2021
The Red Flags in Biden's State of the Union Address
Plus: Is the coronavirus vaccine the most libertarian vaccine yet?
1 hr 2 min
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Apr 26, 2021
How To Navigate Through Virtue Signaling and Disinformation
Also: Should D.C. be a state?
1 hr 5 min
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Apr 19, 2021
The Government Loves To Grab New Powers in the Name of Your Safety
From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
1 hr 6 min
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Apr 12, 2021
Criminal Justice, Gun Regulations, and Labor Unions
We've got good news and bad news.
1 hr 1 min
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Apr 5, 2021
Voting Laws, High-Speed Rails, and Vaccine Passports
It's a regulation-heavy Monday.
1 hr 4 min
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Mar 29, 2021
Big Tech, Voting Rights, and Weed
What more do you need?
1 hr 1 min
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Mar 22, 2021
Immigration, Trade, and Narrative-Warping
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
1 hr 4 min
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Mar 15, 2021
Let's Talk About Our Relationship with the State
_The Reason Roundtable_ tackles COVID, Cuomo, and more.
58 min
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Mar 8, 2021
What Have We Done?
On the largest spending bill in U.S. history and the one year anniversary of life under coronavirus.
59 min
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Mar 1, 2021
Punish Politicians for the Right Reasons
_The Reason Roundtable_ takes on the FDA, Andrew Cuomo, and more.
1 hr 2 min
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Feb 22, 2021
What If Coronavirus Is Almost Over?
Some caution and optimism on _The Reason Roundtable_
1 hr 7 min
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Feb 16, 2021
The Dark Underbelly of Equity Based Thinking
Also: What we learned from impeachment.
1 hr 9 min
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Feb 8, 2021
Calling Out the COVID-19 Relief Bill
After critiquing the COVID-19 relief bill and denouncing the latest Biden policies, the Roundtabler's find some reprieve in imagining legalized opioids for all.
1 hr 3 min
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Feb 1, 2021
Don't Wait For (Any More) Disasters To Adopt Libertarian Values
We literally can't afford it.
1 hr 12 min
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Jan 25, 2021
How COVID-19 Made School Choice a Priority
Out with the CDC and teachers unions, in with school choice for everyone.
1 hr 5 min
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Jan 19, 2021
Inauguration Eve Notes From D.C.'s Green Zone
“Inauguration Day makes me grumpy.”
1 hr 8 min
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Jan 11, 2021
The GOP's Authoritarian Sickness
Impeachment, 25th Amendment, or censure? Deplatforming, Section 230, or inclusion? _The Reason Roundtable_ debates.
1 hr 6 min
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Jan 4, 2021
While Trump Clings to Power, Justin Amash Has Left the Building
You won't have the first Libertarian congressman to kick around anymore.
1 hr 4 min
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Dec 28, 2020
What Did We Learn in 2020?
Pandemics are like margin calls, exposing in a moment the pre-existing weakness of various positions and institutions.
1 hr 7 min
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Dec 21, 2020
Government by 'Harrison Bergeron'
From pandemic relief to public schools, wealth taxes to COVID vaccines, politicians are finding bad ways to redistribute the pie.
1 hr 2 min
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Dec 14, 2020
The GOP's Great Self-Beclownment
What to say to a political party that keeps trying to overturn the results of an election?
1 hr 5 min
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Dec 7, 2020
Why Thomas Massie Is Wrong About the Pot Legalization Bill
Yes, taxes and regulation are bad. No, they're not worse than locking people up.
1 hr 5 min
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Dec 3, 2020
The Reason Roundtable Takes Your Questions!
From COVID-19 to "cocktail parties," anarchism to A.I., baseball to D&D, the podcast tackles your queries in a special webathon video episode!
1 hr 25 min
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Nov 30, 2020
Lockdowns and Leviathan
How pandemics joined war, terrorism, crime, and economic depression in the toolbox for ratcheting up government
1 hr 11 min
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Nov 23, 2020
What Does Trump's Post-Election Behavior Tell Us About American Politics?
Also: Thanksgiving tips and reasons for gratitude, from _The Reason Roundtable_
1 hr 1 min
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Nov 16, 2020
Is There Hope for Libertarianism Within a Post-Election GOP?
This is not your older brother's "Libertarian Moment," caution _Reason Roundtable_ podcasters.
1 hr
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Nov 9, 2020
Maybe the Election Results Were Kinda Good for Libertarians?
Also, maybe not! Previewing divided government and incoming vaccines on the _Reason Roundtable_ podcast.
54 min
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Nov 2, 2020
What Are the Best and Worst Things About Donald Trump and Joe Biden?
An election-eve primer on _The Reason Roundtable_
1 hr 2 min
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Oct 26, 2020
What Will President Biden Do to Us?
_The Reason Roundtable_ war-games the domestic policies of the likeliest next administration.
51 min
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Oct 19, 2020
Politics and Social Media: Should We Use Exit, Voice, or Loyalty?
_The Reason Roundtable_ argues over what to do when Twitter prematurely suppresses oppo-dump journalism unfavorable to Democrats, and when politicians respond with retaliatory regulation.
1 hr 6 min
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Oct 12, 2020
Democrats Have a Massive To-Do List If Joe Biden Wins
But on big-picture fiscal issues, are Democrats and Republicans really so far apart?
1 hr 8 min
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Oct 5, 2020
Does Trump's Weird Hospitalization Jeopardize the Peaceful Transfer of Power?
A vigorous disagreement on _The Reason Roundtable_
58 min
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Sep 28, 2020
The Lessons Americans Refuse To Learn From Trump's Tax Returns
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the _Reason Roundtable_ panelists.
58 min
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Sep 21, 2020
Our SCOTUS Wars Were a Long Time Coming
The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals a long-degraded political culture.
1 hr
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Sep 14, 2020
Donald Trump, Bob Woodward, and the Noble Lie
The Reason Roundtable reads Bob Woodward, goes to the Oscars, weighs in on the NFL, and more.
1 hr 4 min
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Sep 8, 2020
Trump's Struggle To Win the Gary Johnson Vote
Sadly for the president, 2016 Libertarians are _not_ "all Republican voters." Sadly for us, his opposition to "endless wars" doesn't translate into ending them.
1 hr 3 min
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Aug 31, 2020
Everybody Is Losing Their Damn Fool Minds
_The Reason Roundtable_ spits fire at street violence, poison politics, and the nationalization of every local story.
56 min
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Aug 24, 2020
Political Conventions Should Be NC-17
_The Reason Roundtable_ assesses one convention, previews another, and pleads with everyone to get their kids out of politics.
1 hr 11 min
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Aug 17, 2020
Conventions and Conspiracy Theories
Democrats prepare to hold their first virtual convention, while Republicans are poised to elect a Q fan to Congress.
1 hr 3 min
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Aug 10, 2020
Trump's Executive Disorder
The next Democratic president will be all too happy to govern by pen and phone too, say the _Reason Roundtable_ podcasters.
1 hr 4 min
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Aug 3, 2020
Ted Cruz Isn't the Only Politician Talking Nonsense About Tech Companies and Election Integrity
Unpacking TikTok freakouts, mail-in voting controversies, and money printers going brrr, on the _Reason Roundtable_ podcast.
1 hr
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Jul 27, 2020
Coronavirus, Protests, and Policing Expose Government Failure at Every Level
The summer of 2020 got a lot crappier over the weekend, according to the _Reason Roundtable_ podcast.
56 min
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Jul 20, 2020
Sending Secret Police To Do Protester Snatch-n-Grabs Is Bad, Mmmkay?
_The Reason Roundtable_ talks Portland, policing, federalism, coronavirus, and the perennially dumb discourse.
55 min
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Jul 13, 2020
Should Schools Be Fully Reopened in the Fall?
_The Reason Roundtable_ weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
1 hr 13 min
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