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Nick Gillespie Defends the Indefensible on John Stossel

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Reason's Nick Gillespie appeared on Fox Business' Stossel show on August 18, 2011, to "defend the indefensible." The co-author of the new book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America (http://declaration2011.com), Gillespie and David Boaz of the Cato Institute and Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University made the moral and economic case for often-vilified practices ranging from ticket scalping to human-organ sales to the creation of private currencies.

About 19 minutes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 16

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sit down with Peter Leeson, author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, and David Post, author of In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace, to discuss social contracts amongst pirates, Internet piracy, and whether or not 17th century pirates actually said "shiver me timbers."

Approximately 25 minutes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 15

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sit down with Reihan Salam, an associate editor at The Atlantic and co-author of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream, and Michael Barone, a senior writer for US News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics, talk about the future of the Republican Party, the influence of Rush Limbaugh on the conservative movement, and how the right can win again.

Approximately 25 minutes. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

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The Reason.tv Talkshow, Episode 14

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:00:00 EDT

On January 21, the day after Barack Obama's inauguration, Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sat down with David Frum, the former Bush speechwriter, author of Comeback, and New Majority impresario and Steve Clemons, of the New America Foundation and The Washington Note to talk about foreign policy (especially plans for Afghanistan, Obama's economic plans, and the new direction of American politics.

The second of two parts (watch part one here). Approximately 40 minutes. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 13

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:30:00 EDT

Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sit down with Kristina Rasmussen, Director of Government Affairs for the National Taxpayers Union, and Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, to the prospects of ending the drug war, the Obama administration's policy towards medical marijuana, the stimulus plan, and the Bush tax legacy.

Approximately 20 minutes. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 12

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:30:00 EDT

Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sit down with Dayo Olopade, Washington reporter for The Root, and Nick Schultz, is Editor-in-Chief of The American, to discuss Obama-era gentrification, web journalism, and the stimulus as an "investment in America's future."

Approximately 20 minutes. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 11

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie recently sat down with Tucker Carlson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, to discuss the conservative crackup, the Bush legacy, and bailout mania in Washington.

Approximately 20 minutes. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 10

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:00:00 EST

Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie recently sat down with Julie Stewart, founder and head of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, and Mark Hemingway, a staff reporter at National Review Online.

In a wide-ranging and freewheeling discussion, Stewart and Hemingway discussed the rise of mandatory drug sentencing laws, right-wingers and marijuana use, conservatives vs. libertarians, just how bad President Barack Obama might turn out to be, and much, much more.

Approximately 20 minutes. Shot by Dan Hayes and edited by Roger Richards.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 9

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

On January 21, the day after Barack Obama's inauguration, Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sat down with David Frum, the former Bush speechwriter, author of Comeback, and New Majority impresario and Steve Clemons, of the New America Foundation and The Washington Note to talk about the new president's speech, the tone of Washington, and much more.

The first of two parts. Approximately 16 minutes. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 8

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:00:00 EST

On December 19, Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie and Michael C. Moynihan sat down with Australian-born Cato Institute trade policy analyst Sallie James and memoirist and former Reason magazine staffer Sam MacDonald, whose new book is The Urban Hermit, a slacker update of sorts of Ben Franklin's Autobiography.

Topics covered include the future of free trade under President Obama, what it's like to grow up in Australia, the future of libertarian politics, and whether lentils, which are a huge part of MacDonald's memoir, are inherently awful.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 7

dan.hayes@reason.org (Dan Hayes) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:00:00 EST

On December 16, Reason's Nick Gillespie and Michael C. Moynihan sat down with the journalist Jon Utley, the subject of the excellent new documentary about his father's death in a Soviet labor camp, Return to the Gulag, and economist Michael Munger, head of Duke University's political science department and the surprisingly successful Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina.

The quartet spent about 25 minutes talking about the bailouts, how the Cold War still matters, whether libertarian ideas are on the march or in retreat, and much more.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 6

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie and Michael C. Moynihan sit down with alternative-newspaper legend and Splice Today chief Russ Smith and Washington Times arts and entertainment writer Kelly Jane Torrance to talk about old media, new media, why the left dominates the arts, the cultural geography of Canada, the bailout bonanza, and much more.

Approximately 25 minutes; filmed and edited by Dan Hayes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 5

dan.hayes@reason.org (Dan Hayes) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie and Michael C. Moynihan sit down with Reason magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch and Cato Institute Vice President David Boaz to talk about 40 years of Free Minds and Free Markets, whether we are freer now than we used to be, and the future of libertarian politics, culture, and ideas.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 4

dan.hayes@reason.org (Dan Hayes) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Check out reason.tv's talk show, hosted by Nick Gillespie and Michael C. Moynihan and featuring a freewheeling discussion of politics and censorship with blogger and O'Reilly Factor regular Mary Katherine Ham and First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere.

Approximately 20 minutes.

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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 3

dan.hayes@reason.org (Dan Hayes) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:00:00 EDT

This week, reason's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sit down with journalist Eli Lake and Against the State author and Dickinson College professor Crispin Sartwell to talk about smoking, anarchy, the Iraq war, hip hop, and much more.

Approximately 35 minutes; shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

Previous episodes:

The Onion's Joe Garden and The Atlantic's Megan McArdle.

Alternative to Marriage's Nicky Grist and In Search of Bill Clinton author John D. Gartner.