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Phil Magness: Who Really Pays The Most Taxes?
Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent 'New York Times' piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes.
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How much do billionaires really pay in taxes?
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How the Lockdowns Drove Us Crazy | Nellie Bowles | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
The former New York Times reporter explores the collective madness that washed over us in 2020, tracing the path from #MeToo to “Intifada Revolution!”
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Phil Magness: Who Really Pays The Most Taxes?
Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent 'New York Times' piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes.
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How much do billionaires really pay in taxes?
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How To End the Drug War for Good | Kat Murti | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
The head of Students for Sensible Drug Policy clarifies the misconceptions around decriminalization, safe injection sites, and whether Trump or Biden is better on drug policy.
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/05/15/kat-murti-how-to-end-the-drug-war-for-good/
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Today's guest is Kat Murti, the new executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the country's oldest and most influential student group challenging the war on drugs. Before taking the helm at SSDP, Kat was a longtime staffer at the libertarian Cato Institute, a founder of Feminists for Liberty, and an SSDP chapter head at the University of California, Berkeley, where she attended undergrad. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Murti about the role that young people in particular can play in ending prohibition, why marijuana has yet to be legalized at the federal level, and whether Donald Trump and Republicans or Joe Biden and Democrats are actually worse when it comes to drug policy reform.
This interview was taped live at an event cosponsored by The Psychedelic Assembly in midtown Manhattan.
00:00:00—Introduction
00:02:03—What is Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)?
00:05:59—The Drug War is far from over
00:08:45—Don't let politicians get away with empty legalization promises
00:10:45—What's the best legalization model?
00:16:26—How do we activate the youth vote?
00:19:10—Harm reduction vs. prohibition
00:22:51—Drug education and safety
00:26:33—ALL of us are on drugs
00:27:17—The Rat Park Experiment
00:29:30—How to make safe injection sites Work
00:34:48—SSDP & psychedelics
00:40:50—Shifting attitudes toward drug legalization
00:46:45—Kat Murti's career in drug policy
00:49:19—How to pursue drug policy wins despite polarization
00:51:19—Audience Q&A
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Nico Perrino: When does protesting become a crime?
Executive VP of FIRE Nico Perrino discusses the history and legality of campus protests
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What should colleges do about pro-Palestinian encampments?
College students across America are camping out to demand their universities divest all investments with Israeli-linked companies that they claim profit from the occupation and oppression of Palestine. It's gone on for weeks, and even administrators at schools known as bastions of progressive activism are finally getting fed up. Harvard's president is threatening "involuntary leave" for protesters. Columbia announced on Monday that it canceled its main commencement ceremony for safety reasons. The University of Southern California has, too.
UCLA called in the cops to clear its encampment, and police have arrested more than 2,100 protesters across all U.S. campuses since April, according to the Associated Press.
Congress has continued to interrogate Ivy League presidents, and a bill to explicitly define antisemitism for civil rights law enforcement purposes just passed the House with overwhelming support last week.
Joining us today to talk about the protests, the backlash, and what it all means for free speech on campus and the wider world is Nico Perrino, executive vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and host of the free speech podcast So to Speak.
Watch the full conversation on Reason's YouTube channel or the Just Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your preferred podcatcher.
Sources referenced in this conversation:
Full Text of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism.
Columbia students define "divest"
Harvard President Garber Breaks Silence on Encampment, Threatens 'Involuntary Leave' for Protesters
Columbia cancels commencement amid campus protests
Map: Where College Protesters Have Been Arrested or Detained
Polling 1,200 college students on Encampments
What Americans think about recent pro-Palestinian campus protests | YouGov
Americans' Views of Both Israel, Palestinian Authority Down
Majority in US Say Israel's Reasons for Fighting Hamas Are Valid | Pew Research Center
Letter from judges saying they won't hire Columbia grads as clerks
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:33 Free Speech on Campus: A Conversation with Nico Perrino
00:02:13 The Historical Context of Campus Protests and Free Speech Debates
00:07:28 The Legal and Social Implications of Campus Encampments
00:31:38 The Role of Civil Disobedience in Campus Activism
00:38:31 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Campus Protests Through Polling Data
00:43:07 Congressional Involvement in Campus Free Speech Issues
00:50:48 The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2023: A New Legal Battleground
00:54:56 The Complexities of Free Speech and Political Expression on Campus
00:59:17 Navigating the Tensions of Privacy and Free Speech
01:03:42 The Role of Public Shaming and Cancel Culture in Free Speech Debates
01:20:03 Nico wants you to ask yourself this question about censorship
01:23:58 Just Ask Us Questions: A Libertarian's Evolving Stance on Immigration
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Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition?
Should kids medically transition between genders?
The number of kids diagnosed with gender dysphoria has surged in recent years. In America, diagnoses have almost tripled from about 15,000 to more than 42,000 from 2017 to 2021. In the United Kingdom, the number of minors referred to the national Gender Identity Development Service grew from 51 in 2009 to 1,766 by 2016, leading to yearslong waitlists for care within the government-run health system.
This surge caused England's National Health Service to commission an extensive study of youth gender treatment. That study is known as the Cass Review, and its results dropped on April 10. The review's author, former head of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Hilary Cass, concluded that modern youth gender dysphoria interventions are informed by "remarkably weak evidence" drawing on studies "exaggerated by people on all sides of the debate to support their viewpoint" and that "we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress." The science, it turns out, is not settled—or anywhere close to it.
NHS England opted to stop routine prescriptions of puberty blockers following the review's publication, as have NHS Scotland and the Welsh government. Major American medical groups such as the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which endorse prescribing puberty blockers for gender-dysphoric kids, have yet to officially respond.
American media coverage of the Cass Review, which could throw the entire youth gender treatment paradigm in this country into question, has been remarkably muted. But today's guest is never muted. Jesse Singal has been covering this topic—and taken a lot of heat for it—for years in the pages of publications such as The Atlantic, The Dispatch, and on his Substack, Singal-Minded.
Watch the full conversation on Reason's YouTube channel or the Just Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your preferred podcatcher.
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Why YOU should surveil the state | Ford Fischer | The Reason Interview
The News2Share cofounder, Ford Fischer, is revolutionizing news coverage.
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Elica Le Bon: War with Iran?
Elica Le Bon, an attorney and Iranian-American activist, talks about Iran's recent strike on Israel
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Regulating smartphones? Jonathan Haidt vs. libertarians | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
The author of "The Anxious Generation", Jonathan Haidt, argues that parents, schools, and society must keep kids off of social media, but libertarians tend to disagree.
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Stop Obsessing Over Our Children's Happiness | Abigail Shrier | The Reason Interview
Abigail Shrier is author of the best-selling new book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up. She argues that the mental health of Gen Z—people born between 1997 and 2012—is a mess because an infantilizing therapeutic culture pervades every aspect of their lives.
0:00- Why do kids have no interest in growing up?
3:37- Do kids see too many doctors?
4:10- The difference between adult therapy and child therapy
7:48- How many children are in therapy?
9:32- Therapy in K-12 education
13:00- Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
16:35- Has every child been traumatized?
18:05- What is trauma?
20:33- Who is Viktor Frankl?
24:20- The redefinition of trauma
28:20- How to understand what our ancestors experienced?
30:44- Are we delaying adulthood?
32:04- What happened to after school jobs?
34:06- Is social media making kids sad?
37:02- Why do parents surrender authority to experts?
42:36- Are we done with the cult of experts?
48:38- How to be a good parent
50:16- How to fix mental health at school
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Shrier stresses that she's not against psychological counseling and help per se, but she believes too many unqualified and misguided people are causing far more problems than they solve.
Her previous book was the controversial Irreversible Damage, which looked at the rapid rise of girls identifying as transgender. We talk about the roots of today's therapeutic culture, the extent of the problems it causes, and how parents, teachers, and young people themselves might find a better way forward.
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The social media panic is based on bad science
In his 1996 book, "The Vision of the Anointed", economist Thomas Sowell sketched out a pattern that many of the "crusading movements" of the 20th century have followed. First, they identify a "great danger" to society, followed by an "urgent need" for government action "to avert impending catastrophe."
A new book by psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation, argues that the government must regulate social media because it's causing a teen mental health crisis. Haidt is, in many ways, a model researcher because of his rigor, transparency, and openness to dissent. On this issue, however, he fits neatly into Sowell's framework.
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Why this Palantir cofounder left California for Texas | Joe Lonsdale | The Reason Interview
Serial entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale, who founded the Cicero Institute to fix government and University of Austin to fix higher education, wanted space to flourish in Texas.
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What went wrong at Harvard | Steven Pinker | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
Psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker is one of the leading defenders of academic freedom and liberal values of limited government, secularism, tolerance, and free enterprise.
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Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman | What's the ideal immigration policy? | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 16
Podcaster Dave Smith and philosopher Chris Freiman debate open borders on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
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Liberalism is the most successful system ever | David Boaz | The Reason Interview
How Vietnam, Watergate, and stagflation supercharged the libertarian movement.
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Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute. Boaz recently turned 70 and gave a keynote address at LibertyCon, the annual gathering of Students for Liberty, in Washington, D.C. Reason's Nick Gillespie caught up with Boaz to discuss the disarray in the libertarian movement, why he thinks the nonaggression principle and cosmopolitanism form the core of the movement, why libertarians can never seem to take wins when they get them, and whether there's anything to look forward to in a rematch of Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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Who's right about George Floyd? | Coleman Hughes vs. Radley Balko | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 14
Radley Balko debates Coleman Hughes about his recent column arguing that Derek Chauvin may have been wrongly convicted of George Floyd's murder on this latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
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0:00- Summary of Coleman Hughes' and Radley Balko's disagreement about George Floyd's death
2:09- Balko asks Hughes to correct his article
9:27- Hughes' response to Balko
19:27- What is maximum restraint technique (MRT)?
27:20- Derek Chauvin ignored warnings from his colleagues and the surrounding crowd
32:42- Why did Chauvin keep kneeling on Floyd after he went limp?
37:18- Was “The Fall of Minneapolis” a trusthworthy documentary?
47:02- Did Floyd die of positional asphyxia?
1:10:50- Would Hughes change anything if he had to rewrite the article?
1:21:14- The aftermath of George Floyd's death
1:36:00- Is there systemic racism in policing?
1:43:13- How do we hold police officers accountable?
1:51:24- Did Derek Chauvin get a fair trial?
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Libertarians are the real liberals | Nate Silver | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
"People are not in politics for truth-seeking reasons," argues the data journalist and author of "On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything."
0:00- The difference between liberals and the left.
11:00- Is progress slowing?
14:57- Is the two-party system dead?
20:00- The future of journalism
27:44- Free speech is in trouble
30:07- Is Biden too old?
35:57- Silver's new book, "On the Edge"
45:00- Questions from the live audience.
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/03/06/nate-silver-libertarians-are-the-real-liberals/
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Journalist Nate Silver burst onto the national scene in 2008, when he correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states in that year's election, outstripping all other analysts. His former website FiveThirtyEight became a must-visit stop for anyone interested in political forecasting and helped mainstream the concept of "data journalism," which utilizes the same sort of hard-core modeling and probabilistic thinking that helped Silver succeed as a professional poker player and a staffer at the legendary Baseball Prospectus. Reason's Nick Gillespie talked to Silver about the 2024 election, why libertarian defenses of free speech are gaining ground among liberals, his take on the "crisis" in legacy media, and his forthcoming book, "On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything."
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Can this rich transhumanist beat death? | Bryan Johnson | Just Asking Questions
Bryan Johnson, venture capitalist and founder of Blueprint, discusses his $2 million a year effort to reverse aging on Just Asking Questions.
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0:00- A day in the life of a transhumanist trying not to die
3:18- How important is our sleep cycle?
8:30- Humanity's imminent "evolutionary transition"
14:02- How close are we to finding the real "Fountain of Youth"?
16:30 - Do genetics trump lifestyle?
22:30- Self-experimentation and scientific progress
24:50- Why Bryan Johnson measures his nighttime boners
35:01- Liz reacts to Bryan Johnson's daily meal plan
48:00 - Coping with the "existential crisis" of AI
1:00:00- In defense of blood boys
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Bryan Johnson made his fortune when he sold his company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million, netting about $300 million for himself. He spends about $2 million a year creating a system to reverse his "biological age." He's 46 years old, chronologically, but claims he's de-aged himself following a program he's branded "the Blueprint protocol."
"I wanted to pose the question in this technological age: Can an algorithm, paired with science, in fact, take better care of me than I can myself?" Johnson tells Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
They talked with Johnson about his daily routine, the results he's published including measurement of his nighttime erections, the transhumanist philosophy he outlines in his free e-book Don't Die, the role that artificial intelligence is likely to play in prolonging human life and health spans, and the value and limitations of self-experimentation in an era of pharmaceutical stagnation.
Watch the full conversation on Reason's YouTube channel or on the Just Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your preferred podcatcher.
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The 'Coolest' Dictator?
The Nayib Bukele model in El Salvador means security without liberty.
https://reason.com/video/2024/02/27/the-bukele-model-means-security-without-liberty/
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"They were delicious," said a woman about the pupusas she received after casting her vote in El Salvador's recent presidential election. The stuffed corn tortillas, the country's best-known dish, were handed out courtesy of the federal government and its incumbent President Nayib Bukele, who was running for reelection despite a constitutional ban on serving consecutive terms. Giving out food at polling stations might qualify as illegal voter interference. Bukele was undeterred.
Bukele ended up winning 85 percent of the popular vote, and his New Ideas party held on to its majority control in Congress. The 42-year-old president called the landslide victory "a record in the entire democratic history of the world."
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America with a population of about 6.3 million, but Bukele has made himself one of the best-known political leaders in the world. His outsized public profile stems from his public embrace of bitcoin and the staggering decline in crime and violence in El Salvador since he took office.
Bukele's gang crackdown suspended constitutional protections and drew allegations of human rights abuses. People were arrested without a judicial order or access to a lawyer. Arrest quotas were handed out and thousands were wrongfully detained. Mass hearings are being held for as many as 300 defendants at a time. There are reports of over 250 people being placed in a single prison cell, and inmates are often denied food for extended periods. There are allegations of torture. And Bukele's government is accused of secretly negotiating a truce with gang leaders, buying their support with financial benefits and special privileges.
But Bukele remains incredibly popular thanks to the dramatic improvement in public safety. According to a recent poll, he has the support of 70 percent to 90 percent of the country.
Bukele brushes aside claims that he is forming a single-party state, pointing to his landslide victory and broad support. There's an understandable tendency to overlook rule-bending for expedience in deeply troubled nations, but if robust institutions don't constrain El Salvador's political majority, it could become yet another Latin American dictatorship.
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Brian Riedl: Who Bankrupted Us More—Trump or Biden?
"I'm concerned about a Trump-Biden rematch," argues Riedl. "You have two presidents with two of the worst fiscal records of the past 100 years."
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You probably already know that the national debt is bigger than our whole economy. But relax, because things can always get worse! And they will, regardless of whether Biden or Trump gets elected in the fall. Each has a proven track record of spending like a drunken sailor and most projections show that debt will grow to between 181 percent and 340 percent of GDP over the next few decades. Reason's Nick Gillespie discussed all of this and more with Brian Riedl, a budget expert at theManhattan Institute. Riedl explains why massive and growing debt is really bad, why reducing it is really hard but really important, and why young people should be really pissed.
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Should America police the world? | Curt Mills | Just Asking Questions
The Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid package as the Biden administration fights Houthis in Yemen without Congressional approval. Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, talks about the state of U.S. foreign policy on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
0:00- Will Russia agree to a ceasefire in 2024?
7:52- What happens if the U.S. stops sending aid to Ukraine?
9:30- What is the connection between border security and foreign aid?
19:36- Is there a new wave of non-interventionists?
27:21- Is Biden still the best candidate that Democrats have for 2024?
39:20- Does Biden have a chip on his shoulder?
41:22- What is Biden doing in Yemen?
53:29- Why has Congress given up its war powers?
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"The greatest risk of a Republican administration is a war with Iran, and the greatest risk of a Democratic administration is a war with Russia," says Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, a magazine for the types of conservatives who are skeptical of foreign military intervention.
Mills joined Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions to talk about a $95.3 billion aid package, including $60 billion for Ukraine, that passed the Senate this week, which Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) called a "middle finger to America" during his filibuster of the bill. In this episode, they discuss the bill's passage, Paul's filibuster, Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent interview with Tucker Carlson, the Biden administration's airstrikes against Yemen, and whether or not the surge of foreign policy noninterventionism within the GOP is likely to last past 2024.
Watch the full conversation on Reason's YouTube channel or on the Just Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your preferred podcatcher.
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Thomas Massie: Warrantless spying has to end
A bipartisan effort to rein in warrantless spying failed this week when Congress reauthorized FISA Section 702. Before the votes, Rep. Thomas Massie discussed his objections to the spy program with Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe.
Watch the full replay of Massie's interview on the Just Asking Questions podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6rxC0JcFPA
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Patriotism for Israel vs. America
“It’s okay in Congress to be patriotic for Israel, but you can’t be patriotic for America," Rep. Thomas Massie says. “Pride in Israel is something we have to vote on two to three times a week now in Congress.” #israel
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Why not vote 'no'? | Thomas Massie | Just Asking Questions - Ep. 2
Congressman Thomas Massie discusses his "no" votes on foreign aid, COVID relief, and labelling anti-Zionism antisemitism on episode two of "Just Asking Questions."
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0:50 - Why does renewing Section 702 threaten Americans' privacy?
9:02 - Why does Massie oppose aid for Ukraine?
14:20 - Why did Massie vote against 19 pro-Israel resolutions?
18:10 - Is anti-Zionism antisemitism?
26:12 - What was it like being slammed by Donald Trump for opposing COVID bailouts?
30:08 - Does Congress have any remorse for bad COVID policy?
31:55 - Can we ever tame the national debt?
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Good news for Taylor Swift ticket resellers
The IRS will once again postpone enforcement of a new provision in the tax code that requires online sellers to report as little as $600 in annual income. So if you sold Taylor Swift concert tickets this year, congrats: the feds won't come after you for not giving them a cut. #taylorswift
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Which US states steal babies’ blood?
New Jersey steals babies’ blood and keeps it for years without parental consent, but they aren’t the only state to do so. Texas used to turn over infant blood samples to the Pentagon in hopes of creating a national registry. #parenting #parenthood #newborn #motherhood
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