Nick Gillespie 

@nickgillespie
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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’s give a TED talk at the group’s TED Next conference in Atlanta. It’s a great discussion of using entrepreneurship to encourage economic development rather than relying on old, ineffective versions of foreign aid administered through local bureaucracies. Proud to be a board member at Ideas Beyond Borders and…

New Reason Interview podcast is up, with Wall Street legend, bestselling author, and Infinite Loops host

. He’s got great ideas about how to keep the age of innovation alive and well, a deep analysis of what went wrong with Joe Biden, and how to build the best possible bullshit detector in an age of AI, Trump, Musk, and social media.

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Building a Better Bullshit Detector

The next issue of Reason, the magazine I’ve worked at for 31 (count ‘em!) years, comes out to print and digital subscribers this Friday. Here’s the cover and the list of feature articles, which look great. All this material eventually gets dribbled out on the website, but why not get it fresh out of the oven? Print sub is $15/year (11 is…

Fascinating stuff from

and Silver Bulletin

So, how did the polls do in 2024? It’s complicated.
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Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall
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Congrats to

on his upcoming TED Talk in Vancouver. He’s going to crush it!

The Unholy Alliance: How college administrators and students unite to silence speakers

Pete Seeger is basically the villain of the new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, always trying to control and direct the ways in which Dylan and other folkies do their thing. What’s left out in the film is Seeger’s longstanding allegiance to cultural diktat from the old Soviet Union and its global propaganda effort, the Comintern, w…

“Gorbachev was just really inept,” Bard College’s Sean McMeekin tells me. “He really did just surrender the Cold War.” From a larger discussion of his excellent new book To Overthrow the World, a fantastic history of what he calls the “rise and fall and rise” of communism… Full Q&A at my Substack.

I’ve got a new Reason Interview podcast up, with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin talking about his book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, which argues that communism is "far from dead as a governing template.” Fascinating discussion of China’s social-credit system and the West’s voluntary form of social-media groupthink.

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Don't Whitewash the History of Communism

Thanks for the shout-out, Greg. You, Nico, and the whole FIRE team are indispensable bulwarks against the enemies of free speech.

A chaos tornado comes to Washington, Paramount mustn’t cave to Trump, a plea for institutional modesty, Justin Amash joins FIRE’s Advisory Council, & more!