Harris and Trump's Terrible Tax Ideas Plus: How will the editors vote in the presidential election? Reason · Oct 14, 2024
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Permission Slips for Innovation Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge. Reason · Sep 19, 2024
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Who Decides What Health Care Is 'Needed'? Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results. Reason · Sep 12, 2024
The Feds Won't Let You Use These Cheap Chinese Cellphones American cellphone service providers don’t carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Reason · Sep 10, 2024
What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate Plus: A listener asks if rebranding tariffs as taxes would make any difference in reducing their appeal to politicians and voters. Reason · Sep 9, 2024
Eric Boehm: Why Is American Health Care So Dysfunctional? The host of Why We Can't Have Nice Things returns to discuss the podcast's second season, which focuses on how government makes Americans poorer and sicker. Reason · Sep 4, 2024
Wait, Democrats Now Say They Love Freedom? Plus: Does the government own too much land in Utah? And the latest response to Friends star Matthew Perry’s drug overdose death. Reason · Aug 26, 2024
J.D. Vance's Revisionist History Plus: Brat summer revisited, Telegram CEO arrested, and more... Reason · Aug 26, 2024
Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal Plus: A listener asks the editors about tariffs and subsidies in the manufacture of electric vehicles. Reason · Aug 12, 2024
Weighing Kamala Harris' Veep Options A very special Reason Roundtable crossover episode with two guests from The Dispatch! Reason · Aug 5, 2024
Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed. Plus: A listener asks the editors if employers should be held responsible for the speech and actions of employees outside of the workplace. Reason · Jul 22, 2024
Is Violent Rhetoric To Blame for the Trump Assassination Attempt? Plus: Is Biden fit to be president today, let alone stand for reelection? Reason · Jul 15, 2024
Biden, Cognitive Decline, and the End of American Empire Plus: The editors reflect on the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Reason · Jul 1, 2024
Should Donald Trump Have Been Convicted? Plus: A single-issue voter asks the editors for some voting advice in the 2024 presidential election. Reason · Jun 3, 2024
Reason · May 28, 2024 Libertarian National Convention: Are You Not Entertained? Plus: A listener asks the editors for voting advice and commiseration in a predominantly democratic state.
Reason · May 13, 2024 Campaigns Can't Get Worse, Can They? Plus: A listener asks the editors about President Joe Biden holding up arms shipments to Israel.
Reason · May 6, 2024 Americans Care About Inflation, but Politicians Don't Plus: A listener asks the editors about cancelling student loan debt.
Reason · Apr 22, 2024 Worst 4/20 Ever Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
Reason · Mar 25, 2024 Biden's Antitrust Case Against Apple Is Truly Stupid Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.
Reason · Mar 18, 2024 The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok. Plus: A listener asks about Republicans and Democrats monopolizing political power in the United States.
Reason · Mar 11, 2024 The State of the Union Is Shouty Plus: A listener asks the editors a question about progressive taxation in the United States.
Reason · Mar 4, 2024 Rank Choices Plus: A listener asks the editors for short quotes from fictional works that are representative of libertarian ideas.
Reason · Feb 21, 2024 Biden Pours Out Another $6.5 Billion for the CHIPS Act's Costly Protectionism It's part of the government's expensive public-private partnership meant to address concerns over a reliance on foreign countries, like China, for semiconductors.
Reason · Feb 20, 2024 Goodbye, Navalny Plus: A listener asks if the editors have criteria for what constitutes a good law.
Reason · Feb 12, 2024 Biden's Cognitive Shrinkflation Plus: A listener asks if the state of Oregon’s policy on drug decriminalization should be viewed as a success.