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France's Welfare State Is Finally Imploding

#28 trending · Politics

Plus: Trump's tariffs lose support among his own voters, a five-day White House press secretary, and Elizabeth Warren's crusade against corporate mergers

Oct 19
1 h 11 min

J.D. Vance Is Playing Dumb About Socialism

Plus: America's growing deficit, youth protests in France, and Kimberly Guilfoyle's corruption scandal

Oct 12
1 h 13 min

Live Reason Roundtable 10th Anniversary Show!

Join Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch as they celebrate a decade of the show with a special live taping.

Oct 9
1 h 19 min

Are the Cornell 7 Being Tried on Social Media?

Plus: Tennessee botches the execution of Christa Pike, and Sam Altman says the benefits of AI are worth the risks.

Oct 5
1 h 02 min

Trump's Iran War Is Losing With Everyone (Even Republicans)

Plus: rising debt and mortgage rates, whether AI will make government obsolete, and how to pitch Reason to your friends

Sep 28
1 h 09 min

Does CNN Deserve To Be Banned From the White House?

Plus: why parents are abandoning public schools, whether AI requires government intervention, and what happened to fusionism in the conservative movement.

Sep 21
1 h 13 min

Is AI Really an Existential Threat?

Plus: California's new restrictions on social media, Trump's $5,000 “dividend,” and the future of libertarianism.

Sep 14
1 h 08 min

Why Public Schools Lost 1.4 Million Students

Plus: J.D. Vance wants to pay stay-at-home parents, what America got wrong after 9/11, and whether FDA cuts are putting food safety at risk

Sep 8
1 h 08 min

Trump Wants the FCC To Punish His Enemies

Plus: the escalating war with Iran, Meta's $17 billion settlement, and Milo Yiannopoulos gets deported.

Aug 31
1 h 00 min

How Did America Get $40 Trillion in Debt?

Plus: Trump's trade war with Canada, the growing backlash against data centers, and calls to censor journalists in Britain

Aug 24
1 h 20 min

Who Pays for Medicare for All?

Plus: Democrats reckon with the rise of the DSA, Trump scales back America's military presence abroad, and the case for letting kids play outside

Aug 17
1 h 07 min

Are Socialists Actually Leaving Wokeness Behind?

Plus: the rise of affordability politics, Trump attempts to end birthright citizenship, and the Cambridge plagiarism controversy

Aug 10
1 h 12 min

Is Democratic Socialism Going National?

Plus: Trump restarts talks with Iran, the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, and Congress revisits the COVID response.

Aug 3
1 h 17 min

The Democrats Have a Socialism Problem

Plus: the DSA's policy agenda, Trump hits pause on Iran, and deregulating peptides

Jul 27
1 h 06 min

Is the War in Iran Spiraling Out of Control?

Plus: new tariffs on Brazil, Trump's primetime address on election security, and the growing popularity of democratic socialism.

Jul 20
1 h 10 min

Did Lindsey Graham Push Trump Toward War?

Plus: Trump's escalating war with Iran, the bipartisan congressional housing bill, and Graham Platner's campaign collapse

Jul 13
1 h 00 min

Can You Hate the Government and Still Love America?

Plus: World Cup tourists embrace America, the Supreme Court expands gun rights, and Europe's resistance to air conditioning

Jul 6
1 h 13 min

Is Socialism Going Mainstream?

Plus: the DSA's policy agenda, Trump's chaotic Iran strategy, and America's 250th birthday

Jun 29
1 h 01 min

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Plus: the rise of Democratic Socialists, Trump's Iran negotiations, and ICE abandons detention center plans

Jun 22
1 h 08 min

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Trillionaires

Plus: the Supreme Court's biggest pending decisions, renewed court-packing debates, and the economic fallout from the Iran war

Jun 15
1 h 11 min

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What listeners say

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The Reason cast on this podcast is top tier. The topics are always timely, and the conversation lively and entertaining. I highly recommend.

TOWright · Oct 2025

I am not a libertarian per se, I would not be considered “orthodox” enough by most for that label, but the minds at Reason Mag are simply fantastic. The podcast is rigorous, fun, and probative. Well worth your time. In this age of idiocracy, where most of the people you know divide into two odious and disgusting authoritarian camps rife with uninformed culture war bias with almost no humanity in their actions and words, spaces like this are genuinely important.

bookscdsdvdsandcoolstuff · Mar 2025

Love the panel style, love the differing opinions and thoughtful discussion. Wouldn't mind fewer interruptions when someone is getting their thoughts out, and editing for clarity (uhs, ums, etc) would be awesome, but certainly not a deal breaker.

The Moves · Dec 2024

I really enjoy hearing the analyses of current events the Rountable members offer. Different viewpoints than I hear anywhere else in the media. Only reason I can’t give it a 5-star is the arrogance with which they approach any idea with which they disagree. Every member of our government, every member of the Ivy League community…all of them are “idiots.” Maybe a little nuance and grace here.

dduff43 · Jan 2024

I’ve enjoyed listening for several years now, even influenced my decision to subscribe to their magazine! Generally libertarian minded but at times can be a bit milquetoast, naive and overly influenced by the cultural left. Still, a great way to kill an hour of mind numbing physical labour on a Tuesday morning.

CropLogic · Aug 2022

As a centrist who’s grown bored with polarized arguments on the left and right, I was hopeful I’d found a pod with more balanced and substantive commentary. The first few episodes were good but by 5-6 episodes, my interest started to wane. As others have commented, the hosts are ideologues who do nothing but pick apart policy positions on either side without ever putting forth substantive alternatives. The recent episode on gun restrictions and mass shootings was a new low-point. The crew took the easy way out and filled a full 70 minutes blithering on about trivial nonsense that was shockingly aloof and tone deaf in light of recent events. I’m left-leaning and was looking forward to a thoughtful discussion about Second Amendment rights, but instead got an earful of sophomoric and meaningless babble. Time to move on.

MFJATL · Jun 2022

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