The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
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The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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100
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Apple Rating
4.7 / 5
730 Apple ratings
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Weekly
~every 5.67516 days
Since
Oct 30, 2024
First episode
Latest
Jun 10, 2026
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100 episodes for longitudinal research

Content Profile

Category
News, Politics
Language
English
Region
United States
Format
Episodic
Content Rating
Explicit

Content Positioning

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.

Recent Content Cues

Why So Many People Feel Lost
Jun 10, 2026
Was Lincoln More Radical Than We Remember?
Jun 03, 2026
How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets
May 27, 2026

Recent Episodes

Why So Many People Feel Lost

Jun 10, 2026 58m

Human beings are "creatures of matter who long to matter," says novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, whose new book is The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us.…

Was Lincoln More Radical Than We Remember?

Jun 03, 2026 52m

At the start of his presidency in 1861, Abraham Lincoln supported a constitutional amendment that would have kept the federal government from banning slavery in states where it already existed. In…

How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets

May 27, 2026 1h 20m

Today's guest is Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin E. Roth, the author of Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work. He talks…

Why Populism Leads to Decline

May 20, 2026 49m

Today's guest is Johan Norberg, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of Peak Human: What We Can Learn From the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages. He talks with Nick Gillespie about the…

The Global War on Free Speech

May 15, 2026 1h 2m

Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff are co-authors of The Future of Free Speech, a new book examining what they describe as a global "free speech recession." In this episode, Mchangama and Kosseff talk…

John Fetterman: 'I'm a Very Pro-Capitalist Democrat'

May 13, 2026 48m

Today's guest is Sen. John Fetterman (D–Pa.), who just a decade ago looked like the future of Bernie Sanders–style populism, a tattooed Colossus clad in downscale hoodies and gym shorts who…

Justice Neil Gorsuch: 'Aspirations for Power Need To Be Checked'

May 04, 2026 35m

This week, Nick Gillespie sits down at the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Neil Gorsuch to discuss his new children's book, Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, co-authored…

Andy Serkis: What Orwell Understood About Tyranny

Apr 29, 2026 34m

Today's guest is the legendary actor and director Andy Serkis, who has played everyone from Gollum to proto-punk icon Ian Dury to King Kong to Marvel villain Ulysses Klaue. His latest project is a…

Prison Doesn't Work the Way You Think

Apr 22, 2026 1h 8m

This week, guest host Billy Binion is joined by Jennifer Doleac, an economist whose research focuses on crime and public safety. She is executive vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures…

Afroman on Becoming the 2028 Libertarian Presidential Nominee

Apr 20, 2026 34m

This week, Andrew Heaton is joined by Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman, who recently turned a police raid on his home and the lawsuit that followed into an unlikely free speech victory and a new…

How the Iran War Could Backfire

Apr 15, 2026 33m

Today's guest is Stimson Center Senior Fellow Emma Ashford, a foreign policy analyst who has written widely on post–Cold War strategy, the Middle East, and the limits of American power. An adjunct…

The Rise of the Information State

Apr 08, 2026 1h 18m

This week, guest host Zach Weissmueller is joined by Jacob Siegel, a journalist and author of The Information State, a sweeping examination of how power has shifted in the digital age from…

Ro Khanna: Congress Has Surrendered on War

Apr 06, 2026 55m

Today's guest is Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.), a self-styled "progressive capitalist" who represents such major Silicon Valley cities as San Jose, Santa Clara, and Cupertino in Congress but who also…

How Capitalism Lost the Working Class

Apr 01, 2026 1h 7m

Today's guest is the Niskanen Center's Brink Lindsey, whose connection to Reason magazine goes back decades and who for years worked at the Cato Institute. His new book is called The Permanent…

Taylor Lorenz: Is Social Media Responsible for Bad Parenting?

Mar 27, 2026 24m

In a precedent-setting verdict this week, a Los Angeles jury held Meta and YouTube responsible for addicting a young woman to their services and exacerbating her mental health struggles. The jury…

Adam Carolla: Why No One Under 30 Trusts Legacy Media

Mar 25, 2026 49m

In a recent interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, veteran news anchor Katie Couric asked him whether he "had a Zoolander"…

Why Civilization Needs Better Manuals

Mar 18, 2026 51m

Today's guest is the legendary Stewart Brand, who has spent decades shaping how we think about technology, the environment, and the future. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a Merry…

Can the Government Ban You from Telling the Truth?

Mar 11, 2026 53m

Mark Chenoweth is president and chief legal officer of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonprofit that brings lawsuits and files amicus briefs designed to reduce the power of the Securities…

Jonah Goldberg: The GOP Is Becoming Anti-Conservative

Mar 04, 2026 1h 14m

Today's guest on The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie is Jonah Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Dispatch, a publication that launched a half-dozen years ago and whose contributors include…

Pete Buttigieg: Federal Agents Are Losing Public Trust

Feb 25, 2026 58m

Today's guest on The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie is Pete Buttigieg, former secretary of transportation and already a leading, if undeclared, contender for the Democratic presidential…

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~every 5.67516 days
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Avg Duration
58m
Consistency
74%
Format
Episodic
Since
Oct 30, 2024
Latest
Jun 10, 2026

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United States
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