Nick Gillespie
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Libertarian. Editor at large, Reason. On parental leave until Feb. 2, 2026. Contact [email protected] with questions abt Reason Interview podcast.
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TSA PreCheck costs $80 for five years, hardly a driver of social inequity. Nobel laureate Vernon Smith explains how airline deregulation gave rise to 'different lines' for passengers--and made flying a common mode of travel in reach of regular Americans.
Nick Gillespie1,886,348 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
RIP Robert Duvall, who played everything from Boo Radley to Tom Hagen to Lonesome Dove's Gus McRae and everything in between. I remember bonding with my own father while watching his unforgettable turn as the monstrous dad in The Great Santini, one of his best films.
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Why are billionaires fleeing California? Last year, the founders of Google (Sergey Brin and Larry Page), Steven Spielberg, Peter Thiel, Travis Kalanick, Mark Zuckerberg, and Dan Hankey moved their principal residences elsewhere. The short answer: Because the Golden State is taxing and regulating the hell out of them. Later this year, Californians may vote on a one-time billionaire's tax that will grab 5 percent of the wealth of anyone in that rarified crowd. In its current form, the proposed initiative will retroactively cover people living in the state in 2026. Gov. Gavin Newsom is against the plan, fwiw. Here's a snippet of a live reason Roundtable held at Reason Weekend in Palos Verde a week-plus ago.
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'This is a great time to really push back on the idea that somehow global trade has made us poor. What Trump is fundamentally arguing is that if you have a trade deficit with a country, they are ripping you off....That is mental...People in America aren't living worse lives because they don't have to work in coal mines.
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It's great to have serious legislators at work like Rand Paul, who really lays into his fellow Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, currently up to become head of DHS. Markwayne Mullin is a complete meathead who shouldn't be a crossing guard, much less a cabinet-level secretary. Senator Rand Paul was seriously injured when attacked in 2017 by a deranged neighbor. Mullin made light of the incident and, in a series of pathetic displays of obviously fake and performative masculinity, is constantly calling out the equivalent of "It's go time!," like the geriatric Izzy Mandelbaum from Seinfeld. Replacing the corrupt and incompetent Kristi Noem at DHS shouldn't be tough, but Mullin isn't even up to that task.
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For reason, I talked with Helen Lewis about her new book The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea, which I recommend completely--a rich, deep, and powerful analysis of our obsession with galaxybrains past and present. Topics include: 0:00— Introduction 1:36— The Genius Myth 7:20— How dead geniuses fueled national myths 11:30— Thomas Carlyle and the Great Man theory 18:18— Are inventions inevitable? 23:22— Francis Galton and eugenics 33:35— Pro-natalism and declining fertility rates 37:14— William Shockley 48:00— Shakespeare and The Beatles 57:22— Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the gender dimensions of genius 1:03:50— Lewis' Jordan Peterson interview 1:07:18— Germaine Greer and second wave feminism 1:11:05— The gender debate in the UK vs US 1:14:14— Elon Musk's rise and fall? 1:20:57— Do geniuses have second acts?
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'The biggest self-inflicted wound we've put on our economy in history.' Lawrence H. Summers on This Week. Former Clinton cabinet member Summers proactively called out Bidenomics for causing inflation and malinvestment. Worth listening to. Uncertainty destroys growth.
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As Trump goes nuts (2 dolls per girl + 5 pencils/family are more than enough!) and the Dems twist in the wind, libertarian ideas (individual freedoms! a govt that does less and spends less!) are coming back in vogue--expect Rand Paul to emerge as chief political spokesman!
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