Just Asking Questions

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How do we stay free? Just asking questions. Each week, Reason’s Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller scrutinize a current event, controversy, cultural phenomenon or idea with the help of special guests, media clips, visual aids, and data.

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Just Asking Questions episodes:

05.16.2024
Phil Magness: Who Really Pays the Most Taxes?
Economist and author Phil Magness debunks shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes.
05.09.2024
Nico Perrino: When Does Protesting Become a Crime?
What should colleges do about pro-Palestinian encampments? College students across America are camping out to demand their universities divest all…
05.02.2024
Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition?
Jesse Singal questions the science of "gender-affirming care."
04.25.2024
David Beito: Was FDR a Tyrant?
Why has President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dark side been hidden? Scholars consistently rank FDR as one of America's greatest presidents.…
04.18.2024
Elica Le Bon: Is War with Iran Coming?
Elica Le Bon, an attorney and Iranian-American activist, talks about Iran's recent strike on Israel on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
04.11.2024
Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff?
At least 40 U.S. colleges still require a COVID vaccine, according to nocollegemandates.com, an initiative that tracks and opposes the…
04.04.2024
Ethan Mollick: How Will AI Change Us?
"I discovered something remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence," wrote Ethan Mollick in his new book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with…
03.28.2024
Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman: What's the Ideal Immigration Policy?
Immigration ranks as the second-most important issue among registered U.S. voters and the top issue for Republican voters, according to…
03.21.2024
Peter Moskos: What Does Good Policing Look Like?
Are American cities crime-ridden hellscapes right now? Have cities rebounded from pandemic-era homicide spikes? Why do subway shootings in New…
03.14.2024
Coleman Hughes vs. Radley Balko: Who's Right About George Floyd?
Writer and podcast host Coleman Hughes published a column in The Free Press in January entitled, "What Really Happened to…
03.07.2024
Patri Friedman and Mark Lutter: Does a City Need a State?
In a special edition of Just Asking Questions recorded before a live audience on the Honduran island of Roatán, Reason's Zach…
02.29.2024
Bryan Johnson: Can This Rich Transhumanist Beat Death?
Bryan Johnson made his fortune when he sold his company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million, netting about $300 million…
02.22.2024
Michael Moynihan: What's Up With Tucker Carlson?
"One of the ways you understand a society is through its infrastructure," said Tucker Carlson as he stood in front…
02.15.2024
Curt Mills: Should America Police the World?
"The greatest risk of a Republican administration is a war with Iran, and the greatest risk of a Democratic administration…
02.08.2024
Peter Meijer: Can the GOP Change?
"We're in dark and uncertain times, but we've made it through worse," writes Peter Meijer in a November 6 announcement…
02.01.2024
Do New Documents Prove a COVID Lab Leak?
A recently published document reveals "smoking gun" evidence of COVID-19's lab-based origin, according to Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers…
01.25.2024
Milei vs. the WEF: Who Wins?
Marcos Falcone, a political scientist, project manager at Argentina's Fundación Libertad, and podcast host, joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the…
01.18.2024
Matt Welch: What's Wrong With Populism?
Matt Welch, editor-at-large for Reason and podcaster on The Reason Roundtable and The Fifth Column with Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan,…
01.11.2024
Aaron Sibarium: Did Harvard's Plagiarism Scandal Doom DEI?
Aaron Sibarium, a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon, whose work has been widely credited for exposing the plagiarism…
01.04.2024
Tim Carney: Why Aren't People Having More Kids?
"To be a sane and happy parent, you need to be counter-cultural in our family-unfriendly culture," writes Tim Carney in…
12.28.2023
Russ Roberts: Life in Israel Since October 7
When Russ Roberts, an economist and host of the podcast EconTalk, received a job offer to become president of Jerusalem's…
12.21.2023
Stella Assange: Why Isn't Julian Assange a Free Man?
Julian Assange was arrested outside England's Ecuadorian embassy after Ecuador's president revoked his political asylum. The U.S. unsealed an extradition…
12.14.2023
Thomas Massie: Why Not Vote 'No'?
"I have a history of being the only vote that was a 'no,'" says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). "I've developed…
12.07.2023
Dave Smith: What Is a Libertarian?
In this inaugural episode of Just Asking Questions, podcaster Dave Smith joins the show to tackle a fundamental question: "What is…
12.01.2023
Just Asking Questions: A New Reason Podcast!
For the past several months, Reason Associate Editor Liz Wolfe and Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller have co-hosted a show on Reason's…

What's Just Asking Questions about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Just Asking Questions episodes:

Phil Magness: Who Really Pays the Most Taxes?

Nico Perrino: When Does Protesting Become a Crime?

Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition?

David Beito: Was FDR a Tyrant?

Elica Le Bon: Is War with Iran Coming?

Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff?

Ethan Mollick: How Will AI Change Us?

Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman: What's the Ideal Immigration Policy?

Peter Moskos: What Does Good Policing Look Like?

Coleman Hughes vs. Radley Balko: Who's Right About George Floyd?

Patri Friedman and Mark Lutter: Does a City Need a State?

Bryan Johnson: Can This Rich Transhumanist Beat Death?

Michael Moynihan: What's Up With Tucker Carlson?

Curt Mills: Should America Police the World?

Peter Meijer: Can the GOP Change?

Do New Documents Prove a COVID Lab Leak?

Milei vs. the WEF: Who Wins?

Matt Welch: What's Wrong With Populism?

Aaron Sibarium: Did Harvard's Plagiarism Scandal Doom DEI?

Tim Carney: Why Aren't People Having More Kids?

Russ Roberts: Life in Israel Since October 7

Stella Assange: Why Isn't Julian Assange a Free Man?

Thomas Massie: Why Not Vote 'No'?

Dave Smith: What Is a Libertarian?

Just Asking Questions: A New Reason Podcast!

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