Nick Gillespie

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Host of Reason Interview pod, editor at large at Reason, coauthor of Declaration of Independents, literature Ph.D., former teen mag editor. "...is to libertarianism what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit."-NY Times

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Very thoughtful writeup by

Chris Schumerth

of my recent appearance on Jon Stewart's Weekly Show podcast. Check it out.

This Human Experience

Jon Stewart and Nick Gillespie model well how to talk across differences

Nick Gillespie

Good piece on government-funded scientific research by

Benjamin Ryan

. You can be for or against such stuff, but you should at least know what you’re talking about.

the fracas over “transgender mice” reveals more about our polarized politics than it does about the merits of scientific research. Progressives too quickly dismissed Trump’s claim as absurd without digging into the facts, while conservatives seized on a sensationalized talking point to score political points, even at the risk of undermining valuable research.

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Nick Gillespie

The one thing Donald Trump can’t stand is a down market. That’s why he keeps announcing tariffs—which are much more onerous than the ones he muscled through in his first term—and then pulling back. As the Tax Foundation’s Erica York notes, ‘His first term tariffs affected $380 billion of imports, mainly from China, over the course of 201…