The world is getting better. Why is Gen Z so depressed?
Watch the full replay of Nick Gillespie's conversation with psychologist Jean Twenge and Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown: youtube.com/watch?v=xHebMKg2T1Y
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Some millennials want to ban misgendering
Watch the full replay of Nick Gillespie's conversation with psychologist Jean Twenge and Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown: youtube.com/watch?v=xHebMKg2T1Y
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Wikileaks and the future of journalism
"They're threatening this guy with 175 years in prison for doing basically the same thing that every national security journalist does every day," Matt Taibbi says of Julian Assange.
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Is campus free speech dead?
Watch the full replay of Nick Gillespie's conversation with psychologist Jean Twenge and Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown: youtube.com/watch?v=xHebMKg2T1Y
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Matt Taibbi on the FBI and the Twitter Files
"This relationship was not only tolerated, but that it was ongoing, regular, and collusive," @mtaibbi says of the government influence revealed in the Twitter Files.
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Congress is too old
Federal Senior Living & Hospice: where your final years are active, dignified, and pretty much permanent.
https://reason.com/video/2023/07/28/d-c-s-premier-elder-care-community/
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Nestled in the heart of the nation's capital, Federal Senior Living & Hospice offers every resident a fully independent lifestyle. With a staff of over 2 million spread across hundreds of agencies, you're free to abdicate your constitutional responsibilities to highly incentivized lobbyists, career bureaucrats, and college interns.
Our members enjoy perks that your constituents can only dream of, including voting privileges, custom transportation, teleprompters, handrails, generous compensation packages, speechwriters, hordes of lobbyists, countless opportunities for graft and nepotism, and an annual taxpayer-funded allowance of more than $1 million.
Take advantage of our luxurious on-site amenities, like restaurants, pools, gyms, members-only elevators, and substantially weakened insider trading restrictions.
Or maybe you'd just like to relax and unwind in your personal furnished living area away from constituents, microphones, and the uncomfortable truth surrounding your voting record and declining cognitive abilities.
There's no reason to worry about continuity of care, as we carefully gerrymander your district, guaranteeing you'll have a home here for perpetuity. We strive to give our residents the freedom to enact policies that will benefit their own generation for decades to come.
Some of our residents may become disoriented, confused, forgetful, or even completely out of touch with the world. At Federal Senior Living & Hospice, we honestly don't give a damn. If you have a pulse, you have a vote. What better way to spend your twilight years than dictating regulation for highly technical, cutting-edge, billion-dollar industries that affect the lives of millions?
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Matt Taibbi on government boogeymen
“There’s always 'demon X' that they’re warning audiences away from,” says Matt Taibbi. "So it's anti-vaxxer, right? Or domestic violent extremist or insurrectionist or anything."
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Why millennials hate boomers
A recent poll found that 44 percent of millennials want to criminalize misgendering people, betraying a censorial attitude that has been building among some young people for years. Many millennials also feel left behind economically, especially compared to baby boomers.
Can millennials and boomers ever get along?
Join us on YouTube this Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern, when Reason's Nick Gillespie, Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown, and psychologist Jean Twenge will discuss whether there's a new generation gap and, if so, whether it can ever be closed.
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Let’s scrap Social Security
Politicians like Sen. Patty Murray want to save Social Security by “asking the rich to finally pay their fair share” but why should one generation have to pay for the retirement of another? Social Security is set to be depleted by 2033, which is why we should scrap the program entirely and let Americans save for their own retirement.
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Matt Taibbi: How the Left lost its mind
The maverick journalist talks Twitter Files, the end of the anti-government left, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
https://reason.com/video/2023/07/26/matt-taibbi-how-the-left-lost-its-mind/
00:00 Introduction
3:20 The Twitter files
7:35 Suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story
12:35 The anti-proliferation regime
16:26 Russiagate and the preemptive war against Trump
22:25 Conservatives and liberals flip stances on Russia
24:36 Leaving Rolling Stone for Substack
29:26 Matt’s Substack audience
30:40 Young liberals and progressives are turning against free speech
34:17 Breaking with identity politics
38:12 Support for prosecuting Julian Assange
41:52 The eternal villain
44:06 Similarities between RFK Jr. and Trump
46:50 Distrust in government due to COVID
51:11 Race relations and policing
54:14 Binary nature of media
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Before Matt Taibbi was sparring with Democratic members of Congress on Capitol Hill earlier this year over the Twitter Files, he was a darling of the progressive left, appearing regularly on shows like Democracy Now! and others hosted by Bill Moyers and Rachel Maddow.
Though he was always a fierce critic of the Democratic establishment, the rise of Donald Trump suddenly meant that anyone nominally left of center—including progressive journalists like Taibbi—was expected to support Hillary Clinton unconditionally. So when he attacked her as a sellout, argued that the Russiagate narrative was mostly bullshit, and equated the manipulative tactics of right and left media personalities, progressives gave him the cold shoulder. Elected Democrats started treating him like a puppet of the right.
In 2020, Taibbi started publishing his work on Substack and quickly became one of the platform's most popular writers, earning far more than he ever did at Rolling Stone, where he had been chief political reporter. He became even more of a pariah by publishing exhaustive reports that documented how the government sought to control what was said on Twitter about COVID-19 and efforts by Russia to influence U.S. elections. Congressional Democrats unconvincingly pilloried him as a fake journalist, an apologist for Vladimir Putin, and a stooge for Elon Musk.
I caught up with Taibbi at FreedomFest, an annual gathering held this year in Memphis, to talk about the new challenges to free speech, why legacy media is dying, and how identity politics are poisoning political discourse.
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Should We Have Open Borders? A Soho Forum Debate
The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate immigration policy.
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The Cato Institute's Alex Nowrasteh and attorney Francis Menton debate the resolution, "The U.S. should have free immigration except for those who pose a security threat or have a serious contagious disease."
Taking the affirmative is Nowrasteh, the director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute where most of his work has focused on immigration. He's the co-author (with Benjamin Powell) of Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions. A native of Southern California, Nowrasteh received a master's degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.
Taking the negative is Menton who writes at manhattancontrarian.comand was a litigation partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP before retiring in December 2015 after more than 40 years with the firm.
The debate was held at New York City's Sheen Center and hosted byThe Soho Forum, which receives fiscal sponsorship from Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishesReason.
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Here’s how government steals from citizens
Using civil forfeiture, cops can take your assets without the government convicting you of a crime.
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IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden
According to IRS whistleblowers, the Department of Justice handled Hunter Biden’s tax investigation differently from any other case.
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What was Fauci hiding?
"The reason for redacting the whole email was to save Anthony Fauci's face after that exchange with Rand Paul," says Matt Ridley, co-author of "Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19."
Watch the full replay of Ridley's conversation with Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller: youtube.com/watch?v=l_sXcRyKBFM
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They suspected a lab leak and didn't admit it
Newly revealed documents show that the authors of the influential "Proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" paper privately suspected the virus might have originated in a lab despite their public statements to the contrary. Science journalist Matt Ridley dissects the latest developments.
Watch the full replay of Ridley's conversation with Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller: youtube.com/watch?v=l_sXcRyKBFM
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Why aren’t teenagers working?
Mike Rowe talks about why teenagers aren’t working and why we shouldn’t belittle minimum wage jobs.
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How the FDA restricts birth control
The FDA recently approved over-the-counter birth control, but here's the catch. They’ve only approved one type. Women want options, not just Opill.
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What is China still hiding about COVID's origins?
"The lack of transparency has been truly shocking," says Matt Ridley, co-author of "Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19."
Watch the full replay of Ridley's conversation with Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller: youtube.com/watch?v=l_sXcRyKBFM
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Welder vs. Surgeon
What’s the difference between a welder and a surgeon? Both pay well, but the welder graduates with no debt.
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How long do you want to wait for a plumber?
Mike Rowe says the reason people get into trades like plumbing has changed.
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Why did they suppress the lab leak theory?
A widely cited paper dismissing the COVID lab leak theory "expressed conclusions that were not based on sound science or in fact," wrote the authors of a recent House of Representatives committee report entitled "The Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up."
"The question is why," ask the authors.
For a deep exploration of that question and the wider implications of its possible answers, join Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller to discuss the lab leak theory with Matt Ridley, science writer and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, this Thursday at 1:30 pm ET.
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Unintended consequences: Carbon credits
The unintended consequences of the United Nation’s carbon credits was millions in profit for polluters and threats of climate blackmail.
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Mike Rowe on climbing the professional ladder
Mike Rowe talks about the chronology of climbing the professional ladder and how young adults don’t want to waste their time on the lower rug jobs.
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Mike Rowe on well-paying dirty jobs & male decline
The country's favorite blue-collar champion calls attention to the 'skills gap' and asks why young men spend so much time online.
https://reason.com/video/2023/07/19/mike-rowe-on-well-paying-dirty-jobs-nonprofit-whiskey-and-male-decline/
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Mike Rowe is a bestselling author, Emmy winner, and podcaster best known for his stint hosting The Discovery Channel's long-running Dirty Jobs, where he performed the sort of work we all rely on but don't want to think about too much.
From cleaning septic tanks to putting hot tar on roofs to disposing of medical waste, he's done it all—and loves to talk about the value of the hard, honest work that he thinks is devalued by a society fixated on sending everyone to college. I caught up with Rowe at FreedomFest, an annual gathering held this year in Memphis.
We talked about how his mikeroweWORKS Foundation matches young people interested in learning trades with employers dying for applicants, why men continue to fall farther behind women in school and work, and how Knobel Whiskey, named after Mike's maternal grandfather, is fueling his nonprofit's impact.
Photo Credits: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons;Mikerowe.com;Mikerowe.com/Ben Franze; Paul Souders / Danita Delimont Photography/Newscom; Bill Vaughan/Icon SMI 726/Bill Vaughan/Icon SMI/Newscom; Tom Williams/Roll Call Photos/Newscom; CHAD CAMERON/UPI/Newscom.
Music Credits: "Robot Revolt," by Alex Growl via Artlist.
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California’s cancer labels backfired
Instead of reducing exposure to toxic chemicals, California’s Prop 65 resulted in cancer warning labels on everything from toasters to trees.
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