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Hunter Biden’s real business was leveraging his relationship with his dad.

"I sacrificed my career in academic medicine to challenge the University of California's vaccine mandate policy," says psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty. Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe's conversation with Kheriaty: youtube.com/watch?v=L64oVef6FnU&

"I think we would have done everything differently," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a recent interview. But critics say the evidence was clear at the time that California's policies were harmful. Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe's conversation with Aaron Kheriaty, a vocal Newsom critic and author of "The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State": youtube.com/watch?v=L64oVef6FnU&

"I don't think we want to live in a society where anyone has the right to force another person to inject something," says Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatrist who was fired for defying the University of California's vaccine mandate. Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe's conversation with Kheriaty: youtube.com/watch?v=L64oVef6FnU&

Historian Erika Dyck wants to document the deep roots of and battles over LSD, psilocybin, and other psychoactive substances. https://reason.com/video/2023/09/13/the-secret-history-of-psychedelics/ __________ Erika Dyck is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan who studies the history of psychedelics with a special interest in the legacy of Humphry Osmond, the British-born psychiatrist who coined the term pyschedelic, gave Aldous Huxley his first dose of mescaline, and conducted pathbreaking work using LSD to help alcoholics stop drinking. Among Osmond's best-known patients was Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Reason sat down with Dyck at the MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 conference held in Denver this June, where a reported 13,000 people gathered to talk about all aspects of today's psychedelic renaissance. We talked about why drugs such as MDMA, psilocybin, and LSD are making a comeback; how tensions are rising between indigenous people and medical practitioners; and whether prohibitionists have finally lost the war on drugs. Music: "Life's Journey Begins" by idokay via Artlist

"This is a fraud on the American public," then-President Donald Trump said following the 2020 election. Was that speech part of a criminal conspiracy? George Mason University legal scholar Ilya Somin reacts. Watch the full replay of Somin's live conversation with Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe: youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tCHrG-87k

"Trump isn't being charged simply because he wrongly claimed he won the election. ... He went far beyond that," law professor Ilya Somin wrote for the Volokh Conspiracy last month. Watch the full replay of Somin's live conversation with Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe: youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tCHrG-87k Volokh Conspiracy — Retribution, Deterrence, and the Case for Prosecuting Trump for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/08/02/retribution-deterrence-and-the-case-for-prosecuting-trump-for-conspiring-to-overturn-the-2020-election/

On many campuses, unnecessary COVID mandates never went away even though college-aged adults aren’t at risk for severe COVID complications.

Should college professors be forced to promote "a race-conscious and intersectional lens" through "culturally affirming pedagogy"? Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe's conversation about the lawsuit against California Community Colleges' diversity, equity, and inclusion rules: youtube.com/watch?v=nW_3YvJVie0

"I'm just not going to comply. I am going to teach chemistry the way I always have," says Bill Blanken, plaintiff in a legal challenge against California Community Colleges' diversity, equity, and inclusion rules. Watch the full replay of Zach Wiessmueller and Liz Wolfe's conversation with Blanken and @FIREOrg attorney Jessie Appleby: youtube.com/watch?v=nW_3YvJVie0

Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, spoke with Reason about psychedelic medicine helping veterans with PTSD.

"I think there was definitely a need for a n organization to come out and be willing to defend free speech just because it's free speech," says @TheFIREorg attorney Jessie Appleby. Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe's conversation about the lawsuit against California Community Colleges' diversity, equity, and inclusion rules: youtube.com/watch?v=nW_3YvJVie0

A 12-year-old boy was kicked out of class for sporting a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. Is the patch a symbol of slavery or the American revolution?

The Jones Act is a 103-year-old law that requires ships moving goods from one American port to another must be American-built, American-flagged, American-crewed, and registered in the United States.

California Community Colleges' new teaching standards "mandate viewpoint conformity" and "compel professors to teach and preach the State's perspective," according to a lawsuit called Palsgaard v. Christian, filed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE. JoinReason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe this Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion with Jessie Appleby, an attorney with FIRE, and Bill Blanken, a chemistry professor at Reedley College in California and plaintiff who says the standards advanced by the state's community college board amount to "compelled speech" in the classroom. They'll discuss the details of the case, dive into the proposed changes in the classroom, discuss the origins of the "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) standards that pervade academia and the corporate world, and examine FIRE's other case against Florida's Stop WOKE Act, which prohibits the kind of classroom instruction that California's new standards compel. Sources: Palsgaard v. Christian complaint - https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/palsgaard-v-christian-verified-complaint California Community Colleges DEI curriculum model principles: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/palsgaard-v-christian-dei-curriculum-model-principles FIRE: The Academic Mind in 2022 - https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/academic-mind-2022-what-faculty-think-about-free-expression-and-academic-freedom Tema Okun: Dismantling White Supremacy Culture - https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf The Intercept: Tema Okun on Her Mythical Paper on White Supremacy: https://theintercept.com/2023/02/03/deconstructed-tema-okun-white-supremacy/

Kamala Harris praised Democrats like Gov. Inslee for big government environmental policies. But thanks to those very programs, Washington state residents pay the highest gas prices in the nation.

Does the trans movement encroach on women? Phrases like “trans women are women,” author Brendan O’Neill says, “looks increasing like an encroachment into the hard won freedoms of womankind.”

MAPS founder Rick Doblin talks about the drug war and the psychedelic renaissance.

In Indiana, police can demand bystanders keep a 25-foot distance while cops perform their duties. One man is suing, saying this violates the First Amendment by preventing citizens from recording and observing police activity.

The former Texas governor on helping veterans with PTSD, increasing legal immigration, and the illegal drug he'd most like to try https://reason.com/video/2023/08/29/rick-perry-the-conservative-case-for-psychedelic-medicine/ _________ In June, I traveled to Denver with Zach Weismueller to cover the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference, which was organized by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a group that has been working to gain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and related ailments since the late 1980s. That approval is likely to come in the next year. We produced a 30-minute documentary about what is rightly called today's "psychedelic renaissance," or a new flourishing of substances and subcultures that mostly went underground at the end of the 1960s but are now popping up everywhere: in medical research, therapeutic settings, the arts, the workplace, you name it. Watch the documentary here. The most surprising speaker at the conference was Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and Trump administration energy secretary. What in tarnation was a conservative Republican doing on the stage, extolling the virtues of drugs long associated with hippies and '60s counterculture? I sat down with Perry to learn why he believes psychedelics should be legal medicine for veterans and others suffering from PTSD, how to allow more immigrants to come to America lawfully, and why if he were ever to take a psychedelic drug it would be Ibogaine, a notoriously powerful substance made from the bark of an African tree. Photo Credits: Riccardo Savi/Sipa USA/Newscom; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom; Bob Daemmrich/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; David Peinado/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Kgjerstad, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Marco Schmidt, CC-BY-SA-2.5, via Wikimedia Commons Music Credits: "The Ride" by Itamar Doari via Artlist

If federal employees wrote "Rich Men North of Richmond" they’d sing about 2PM naps and overstaffing.

A Florida law prohibits teaching materials that “describe sexual conduct” but the law can have unintended consequences which keep students away from classic literature too.

Remy parodies Oliver Anthony’s viral “Rich Men North of Richmond” song.

According to U.S. mainstream media, Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei is a right-wing populist. Does that characterization stand up to scrutiny? Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller's conversation with Argentine economist Eduardo Marty and Guatemalan libertarian activist Gloria Álvarez: youtube.com/watch?v=W8MeyFRv16o

"Since they can't beat our arguments and ideas peacefully, they use the repressive apparatus of the state to try to destroy us," Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei said during a South American TV interview. Libertarian activist @GloriaAlvarezOficial and economist Eduardo Marty react. Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller's conversation with Marty and Álvarez: youtube.com/watch?v=W8MeyFRv16o