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How do we stay free? Just asking questions. Each week, Reason’s Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller scrutinize a current event, controversy, cultural phenomenon or idea with the help of special guests, media clips, visual aids, and data.

23 - Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition?

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23 - Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition?
Jesse Singal questions the science of "gender-affirming care."
Thu, 02 May 2024 - 1h 28min
22 - David Beito: Was FDR a Tyrant?
Why has President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dark side been hidden? Scholars consistently rank FDR as one of America's greatest presidents.…
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 1h 27min
21 - Elica Le Bon: Is War with Iran Coming?
Elica Le Bon, an attorney and Iranian-American activist, talks about Iran's recent strike on Israel on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 - 1h 04min
20 - Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff?
At least 40 U.S. colleges still require a COVID vaccine, according to nocollegemandates.com, an initiative that tracks and opposes the…
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 - 1h 07min
19 - Ethan Mollick: How Will AI Change Us?
"I discovered something remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence," wrote Ethan Mollick in his new book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with…
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 - 1h 25min
18 - Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman: What's the Ideal Immigration Policy?
Immigration ranks as the second-most important issue among registered U.S. voters and the top issue for Republican voters, according to…
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 - 2h 02min
17 - Peter Moskos: What Does Good Policing Look Like?
Are American cities crime-ridden hellscapes right now? Have cities rebounded from pandemic-era homicide spikes? Why do subway shootings in New…
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 1h 13min
16 - Coleman Hughes vs. Radley Balko: Who's Right About George Floyd?
Writer and podcast host Coleman Hughes published a column in The Free Press in January entitled, "What Really Happened to…
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 - 2h 01min
15 - Patri Friedman and Mark Lutter: Does a City Need a State?
In a special edition of Just Asking Questions recorded before a live audience on the Honduran island of Roatán, Reason's Zach…
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 - 53min
14 - Bryan Johnson: Can This Rich Transhumanist Beat Death?
Bryan Johnson made his fortune when he sold his company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million, netting about $300 million…
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 - 1h 12min
13 - Michael Moynihan: What's Up With Tucker Carlson?
"One of the ways you understand a society is through its infrastructure," said Tucker Carlson as he stood in front…
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 - 1h 17min
12 - Curt Mills: Should America Police the World?
"The greatest risk of a Republican administration is a war with Iran, and the greatest risk of a Democratic administration…
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 - 1h 13min
11 - Peter Meijer: Can the GOP Change?
"We're in dark and uncertain times, but we've made it through worse," writes Peter Meijer in a November 6 announcement…
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 - 1h 14min
10 - Do New Documents Prove a COVID Lab Leak?
A recently published document reveals "smoking gun" evidence of COVID-19's lab-based origin, according to Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers…
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 - 1h 17min
9 - Milei vs. the WEF: Who Wins?
Marcos Falcone, a political scientist, project manager at Argentina's Fundación Libertad, and podcast host, joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the…
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 - 1h 32min
8 - Matt Welch: What's Wrong With Populism?
Matt Welch, editor-at-large for Reason and podcaster on The Reason Roundtable and The Fifth Column with Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan,…
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 - 1h 26min
7 - Aaron Sibarium: Did Harvard's Plagiarism Scandal Doom DEI?
Aaron Sibarium, a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon, whose work has been widely credited for exposing the plagiarism…
Thu, 11 Jan 2024 - 1h 18min
6 - Tim Carney: Why Aren't People Having More Kids?
"To be a sane and happy parent, you need to be counter-cultural in our family-unfriendly culture," writes Tim Carney in…
Thu, 04 Jan 2024 - 1h 19min
5 - Russ Roberts: Life in Israel Since October 7
When Russ Roberts, an economist and host of the podcast EconTalk, received a job offer to become president of Jerusalem's…
Thu, 28 Dec 2023 - 1h 12min
4 - Stella Assange: Why Isn't Julian Assange a Free Man?
Julian Assange was arrested outside England's Ecuadorian embassy after Ecuador's president revoked his political asylum. The U.S. unsealed an extradition…
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 - 1h 00min
3 - Thomas Massie: Why Not Vote 'No'?
"I have a history of being the only vote that was a 'no,'" says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). "I've developed…
Thu, 14 Dec 2023 - 37min
2 - Dave Smith: What Is a Libertarian?
In this inaugural episode of Just Asking Questions, podcaster Dave Smith joins the show to tackle a fundamental question: "What is…
Thu, 07 Dec 2023 - 1h 48min
1 - Just Asking Questions: A New Reason Podcast!
For the past several months, Reason Associate Editor Liz Wolfe and Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller have co-hosted a show on Reason's…
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 3min

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