The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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

In late 2017, in the name of "zero tolerance," President Donald Trump introduced a policy of separating parents and children who crossed the Southern border and requested asylum in the United States. In all, an estimated 5,500 children were taken from their parents and many were held in detention facilities, some of which had been constructed by the Obama administration . Over 1,000 children are still unaccounted for by the federal government. The policy ended in 2018 after massive public outcry...

Dec 11, 2024•50 min

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

Reason 's annual Webathon is underway. Please considering donating here . Today's guest is Brendan O'Neill , chief political writer for Spiked and the author of the bracing new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . O'Neill and Reason 's Nick Gillespie talk about the response in the United Kingdom and the United States to Hamas' attacks last year, Israel's ongoing military actions, and what's likely to come next in a postwoke world. "On October 7," says O'Neil...

Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 7 min

Martin Gurri: Political Chaos Brings Colossal Transformation

Today's guest is Martin Gurri , a former CIA analyst who is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center and a columnist for The Free Press . A decade ago, in the wake of the Arab Spring and various "color" revolutions around the world, Gurri published The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium , which analyzed how social media empowered ordinary people to resist control from above and anticipated the rise of Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Brexit....

Nov 27, 2024•52 min

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

Today's guest is Amanda Knox, an activist, writer, and host of the podcast Labyrinths . In 2007, while studying abroad in Italy, Knox was accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in what the lead prosecutor claimed was a bizarre sex game gone wrong. Despite mishandled DNA, a coerced confession, and a lack of credible evidence, Knox was convicted and spent nearly four years in an Italian prison before being exonerated in 2015. Her case was a media spectacle that sensationalized every ...

Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 23 min

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

In the wake of massive victories by Donald Trump and Republicans, here's a question worth asking: What does today's GOP really stand for? Longstanding support for free trade and overseas wars seems to have been replaced with tariffs and non-interventionism. Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis are the authors of The Myth of Left and Right . They argue that the way we talk about the political spectrum misleads and confuses us because it reduces complex special-interest coalitions to one or two issues tha...

Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 6 min

Live on Election Night! The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

Join Reason 's Nick Gillespie live on election night at YouTube , X, and Reason.com , starting at 10 p.m. EST. Will history be made? Will it end? Joining Gillespie are The Fifth Column 's Kmele Foster, Bloomberg economics columnist Allison Schrager, and many more special guests, who will break down the weirdest—and possibly the most consequential—election season in any of our lifetimes. The post Live on Election Night! <em> The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie </em> appeared firs...

Nov 05, 2024•55 min

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

Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist at Stony Brook University and the author of the new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite . Al-Gharbi argues that academics, journalists, and other elite professionals that he calls "symbolic capitalists" are disconnected from the marginalized and disadvantaged communities they claim to speak for—and that, by using the rhetoric of class solidarity drawn from the Occupy movement (which pitted the "99 percent versus the 1 percent")...

Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 12 min

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

Today's guest is Faisal Saeed Al Mutar , the co-founder of Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB), a nonprofit that translates books and articles about limited government, freedom of thought, and market economics into Arabic and other languages, and distributes them for free in the Middle East and other parts of the world. (Full disclosure: Reason 's Nick Gillespie is on the board of IBB.) Gillespie talked with Al Mutar about IBB's new book, Untold Stories of the Middle East , which celebrates entrepreneurs...

Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 3 min

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

Today's guest is Meghan McCain, political commentator, former co-host of ABC's The View , and host of the podcast Citizen McCain . Reason 's Billy Binion talks with her about the changing GOP, bias in corporate media, the 2024 election, and what it's like to be a non-MAGA, nonpopulist member of today's Republican Party. 0:00- Introduction 0:21- Ad: St. John's College 1:36- Libertarians vs. the McCains 3:33- Being a non-MAGA, non-populist conservative 6:56- Obama lecturing black male voters 9:38-...

Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 17 min

Will Trump or Harris Win the Working-Class Vote?

Today's guests are Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini, author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP , and American Enterprise Institute fellow Ruy Teixeira, coauthor most recently of Where Have All the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes . Reason 's Nick Gillespie talks with them about the presidential election, how the working class has become the most important—yet most neglected—part of the electorate, and whether libertar...

Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 26 min

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

Today's guest is Billy Binion , who joined Reason 's staff in 2019 after stints at an opera company (!) and as a contractor for NATO (!!). He has written blockbuster stories about the abuse of power by cops and courts, and he just produced an incredible documentary about a citizen journalist in Laredo, Texas, who sued the city after they arrested her for reporting on a couple of controversial local stories. It's a case that could have major First Amendment implications for independent reporters....

Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 14 min

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