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"Go to a supermarket. Instead of giving you a price, you need to scan because they are changing the prices all the time," says Argentine economist Eduardo Marty. Watch the full replay of Zach Weissmueller's conversation with Marty and Guatemalan libertarian activist Gloria Álvarez: youtube.com/watch?v=W8MeyFRv16o

Politicians blame everyone except themselves for the rise in drug overdoses. But the real culprit has been government policy all along.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya talks about how the White House was directly involved with social media censorship during the pandemic.

Life in D.C. isn't all sunshine and Fudge Rounds. Parody of Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond" written and performed by Remy. Watch all of Remy's Reason TV music videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02D02B9A144182DB LYRICS: I've been working till the break of 4:45 I get an automatic raise and I can't be fired Must wait to age 57 till I can retire With an inflation-adjusted pension that somehow keeps going higher Oh, it's a damn shame what the world's come to They want us back in the office on Mondays too Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh it is Not living in the real world is a lot harder than you would know Sure I got dental, but it's bad, I go mental 'cuz I had to fill out both of these forms I also see price hikes on necessities I had to purchase my rental in Ocean City Please don't tell anyone, it's so embarrassing The plight of rich men north of Richmond I just sit here a-wasting my whole life away 'Cuz this verification code is taking all day How do you expect me to check my 401(k)? Plus, my Fudge Rounds supplier no longer takes Apple Pay Oh, it's a damn shame what the world's come to It takes one person to do my job, so we have two Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh it is Not living in the real world is a lot harder than you would know Sure I got health care, but I get an in-depth scare, only weeks left to open enroll The new guy plays with his pen, he just sits there and snaps How am I to get in all my 2 p.m. naps? They want us back now on Tuesdays, I just might collapse The plight of rich men north of Richmond We're just like you

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reacts to Dr. Fauci’s deposition where he called the Great Barrington Declaration “dangerous.”

Self-described libertarian Javier Milei surprised the world in Argentina's presidential open primary election last week by finishing first with 30 percent of the vote ahead of candidates for the country's dominant left- and right-wing parties. Milei, the figurehead for La Libertad Avanza party is an Austrian economist and has called himself an anarchocapitalist and made a name for his fiery media appearances excoriating Argentina's "political caste" of "parasites." He's pledged to end the Argentina's central bank and dollarize the economy, privatize its social services, cut taxes, create education vouchers and abolish the health, education and environmental ministries. His opponents and many in the media have repeatedly described him as "far right" and "a new Trump." Latin American political analyst Daniel Raisbeck, on the other hand, paints a more nuanced picture and warns pundits not to "confuse Javier Milei with Jair Bolsanaro." Join Reason's Zach Weissmueller this Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a conversation with author and radio and TV host Gloria Alvarez and Argentine economist Eduardo Marty to discuss the election, Milei's chances of victory in a country experiencing triple digit inflation, the culture war he's fighting in Argentina, and what his rise says for the prospects of libertarian ideas in Latin America. Watch the stream on Reason's YouTube channel or on Facebook. Sources referenced in this conversation: Argentina 2023 Primary Results: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-argentina-election/ WaPo: Who is Javier Milei, Argentina's right-wing presidential front-runner? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/14/javier-milei-argentina-presidential-election/ Opina Argentina: Libertarians make inroads in Argentina—https://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=462085029&subtopic_1 Milei: My alignment with Trump and Bolsonaro is almost natural—https://www.infobae.com/politica/2021/09/29/la-entrevista-de-javier-milei-a-la-prensa-de-brasil-mi-alineamiento-con-bolsonaro-y-trump-es-casi-natural/ Bloomberg: Milei's proposals for Argentina—https://www.infobae.com/politica/2021/09/29/la-entrevista-de-javier-milei-a-la-prensa-de-brasil-mi-alineamiento-con-bolsonaro-y-trump-es-casi-natural/ El Pais: What's in Javier Milei's head? https://elpais.com/argentina/2023-08-15/que-tiene-javier-milei-en-la-cabeza.html Daniel Raisbeck: Argentina should dollarize pronto—https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/argentina-should-dollarize-pronto

Jason Aldean's controversial song "Try That in a Small Town" shot to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Remy wants in on the action.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says Dr. Fauci’s lockdown strategies caused tremendous damage to the poor, children, and the working class.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be a self-described democratic socialist, but when it comes to the Food and Drug Administration’s overregulation—a nontrivial issue—she sounds a lot like a libertarian.

Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with MAPS founder Rick Doblin about the imminent FDA approval of MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapy at the Psychedelic Science. https://reason.com/video/2023/08/23/rick-doblin-welcome-to-the-psychedelic-20s/ ____________ "Welcome to the psychedelic '20s!"Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS, proclaimed in his keynote speech to open the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference. At the event organized by MAPS in Denver this June, a reported 13,000 people gathered to talk about what seemed like every possible topic related to the productive use of these substances. Founded in the late 1980s, MAPS has spent decades working to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and related conditions. The payoff for those decades of work are coming to fruition. The FDA is expected to approve therapy using psilocybin—the psychoactive ingredients in magic mushrooms—and MDMA—the drug also known as ecstasy and molly. And Oregon and Colorado have decriminalized the recreational use of plant-based psychedelics. Watch Nick Gillespie's full interview with Doblin, which was featured in Reason's 32-minute documentary on the psychedelic renaissance, discussing the long path to FDA approval and what comes next in the world of psychedelic legalization.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says Dr. Fauci’s comment about “contradicting science” shows he shouldn’t be trusted.

“The Western creditors are dealing drugs to largely unaccountable governments and authoritarian countries,” says Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer for The Human Rights Foundation.

Corey DeAngelis of the American Federation for Children debates libertarian author Stephan Kinsella. ------ Education activist Corey DeAngelis and attorney Stephan Kinsella debate the resolution, "Today's school-choice movement in the U.S. is worthy of support by libertarians." Taking the affirmative is Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. He is also the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, and a board member at Liberty Justice Center. He was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work on education policy and received the Buckley Award from America's Future in 2020. Taking the negative is Stephan Kinsella, a libertarian writer and patent attorney. He was previously general counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., and an adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston. His publications include Against Intellectual Property, International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution, and a forthcoming book Legal Foundations of a Free Society. 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.

A new Texas law on so-called “drag bans” will have unintended consequences, like making Elvis impersonation illegal.

Whenever Biden or his spokespeople discuss online speech they don't like, they seem to bring up revoking Section 230 and imposing antitrust law on social media. Is that illegal coercion? This is a clip from a longer conversation between Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Jay Bhattacharya and New Civil Liberties Alliance senior counsel John Vechionne about the Missouri v. Biden case, go here: https://www.youtube.com/live/b9nrlw5OLx4?feature=share

YouTube removed this March 2021 roundtable organized by Florida governor Ron DeSantis because of the views Bhattacharya and others expressed about masking children in school. Was this part of an illegal censorship campaign, as a lawsuit in federal court alleges? For the full conversation between Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Jay Bhattacharya and New Civil Liberties Alliance senior counsel John Vechionne about the Missouri v. Biden case, go here: https://www.youtube.com/live/b9nrlw5OLx4?feature=share

In the 1950’s, the CIA, typically without consent, dosed its own employees, soldiers, and mental patients with LSD as part of an experimental mind control program called MK-Ultra.

By focusing their sights on government actors instead of private companies under their boot, the Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs have chosen exactly the right target. This video is based on a longer conversation with Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya and New Civil Liberties Alliance senior counsel John Vechionne: https://youtube.com/live/b9nrlw5OLx4 Music: "Unexpected" by Sero Photo credit: DPST/Newscom

Federal Senior Living & Hospice: where your final years are active, dignified, and pretty much permanent.

JoinReason's Zach Weissmueller this Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of the Missouri v. Biden case with Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University and a named plaintiff in the lawsuit, and John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, an activist law firm that joined the suit on behalf of Bhattacharya and several other plaintiffs who allege the federal government illegally suppressed their speech throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 presidential election. "The freedom of speech in the United States now faces one of its greatest assaults by federal government officials in the Nation's history," reads a line in the opening paragraph of the plaintiff's complaint in Missouri v. Biden, a lawsuit naming the president, the DOJ, the FBI, and nearly the entire federal public health apparatus as defendants. Attorneys general for the states of Missouri and Louisiana brought the case against the federal government in May 2022 for what they describe as "open collusion with social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content." On July 4 of this year, U.S. District Court judge Terry A. Doughty issued a preliminary injunction ordering the federal agencies to cease from meeting with social media companies for the purpose of "inducing in any manner the removal of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms." Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a challenge to that injunction. They'll talk about the state of the lawsuit, what a victory or loss in court would mean for free speech online, the legal limits of government-social media "partnerships," and the ways in which the government blurred the line between private content moderation and outright censorship to suppress or mislabel factual information or opinion as "misinformation" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Timestamps: 0:00 — Intro 2:35 — What is NCLA and how did they get involved in this case? 6:45 — Dr. Bhattacharya’s goals in this lawsuit 11:20 — What are their primary grievances and where does the case stand? 13:00 — How the Backpage case is similar to this case 18:15 — Dr. Bhattacharya’s experience with censorship 24:00 — Dr. Fauci deposition on herd immunity 32:30 — The admin and public health pressure campaign on social media 34:20 — Dr. Bhattacharya reacts to Vivek Murthy 42:50 — Audience questions 49:40 — Section 2301 1:05:30 — Was this really coercion? Responding to the other side. 1:13:15 — Reader questions

In September 2020, police in Moscow, Idaho arrested Gabriel Ranch for a public prayer protest. He sued and recently settled for $300,000. The only problem? It comes at a high cost to city taxpayers, as the city spent about $500,000 of resources on the fight.

Libertarian comedian Doug Stanhope compares a repeat of Biden/Trump to the Buffalo Bills playing four Super Bowls in a row.

Alex Gladstein talks about the problem of writing off government debt.

Everywhere around us, there are signs of a psychedelic renaissance: in medicine, therapy, commerce, and the arts. Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2023/08/16/the-psychedelic-renaissance-is-here/ These drugs are getting serious, positive coverage in glossy magazines, best-selling books, literary memoirs, documentaries, and hit podcasts. Performers like Reggie Watts, Melissa Etheridge, and members of the Flaming Lips openly acknowledge the role of hallucinogens in their work. And a flourishing psychedelic comedy scene is springing out all over the place. But federal prohibition of psychedelics—a term that refers to a broad category of consciousness- and perception-altering substances—is also changing. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve therapy using psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredients in magic mushrooms, and MDMA, the drug also known as ecstasy and molly. And Oregon and Colorado have decriminalized the recreational use of plant-based psychedelics. Word is that even the president—famous as a teetotaler, for having an addict son, and as a major force behind the half-century-long drug war—is "very open-minded" about medicinal use of psychedelics. The most recent, pulsing Day-Glo sign that the psychedelic renaissance is here took place in Denver in late June at the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference, organized and hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS. Produced by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller; edited by Danielle Thompson; sound editing by Ian Keyser; camera by James Marsh. Photos: imageSPACE/ImageSpace/Sipa USA/Newscom; Keiko Hiromi/Polaris/Newscom; Julie Edwards/Avalon/Newscom; Kenny Brown/Mirrorpix/Newscom; CNP/AdMedia/Newscom; Andrew Harnik/UPI/Newscom; CNP/AdMedia/SIPA/Newscom; KEYSTONE Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Everett Collection/Newscom; picture-alliance/Fred Stein/Newscom; DPST/Newscom; Rod Lamkey - CNP/Newscom; Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Newscom; Lev Radin/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Michael Brochstein/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; BONNIE CASH/UPI/Newscom; Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA/Newscom; Facebook/Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research; U.S. Navy; CNP/AdMedia/Newscom; Tim Wagner/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; David Wong/SCMP/Newscom; White House via CNP / MEGA / Newscom/RSSIL/Newscom Music: "The Path of the Himalayas" by Max H. via Artlist; "Clockwork" by Borden Lulu via Artlist; "Can You Make It" by Out of Flux via Artlist; "Magic Forest" by Itamar Doari via Artlist; "Sonokota" by Guy Buttery via Artlist; "Discovery" by We Dream of Eden via Artlist; "The Ride" by Itamar Doari via Artlist; "Cool the Moon" by Alchemorph via Artlist; "The Undertake" by Borrtex via Artlist; "Everlasting Flower" by DaniHaDani via Artlist; "Cool Tees" by Lahis via Artlist; "Oscillating Form" by Charlie Ryan via Artlist; "Theta" by Michael Ellery via Artlist; "Sun Salutation" by Yotam Agam via Artlist; "Canto Delle Sciacalle" by Cesare Pastanella via Artlist; "Morning Sunbeams" by Yehezkel Raz via Artlist; "Life's Journey Begins" by idokay via Artlist; "Flying Above the Sun" by Yehezkel Raz via Artlist; "Percussive Ideas by Max H. via Artlist; "Tibet" by Ben Winwood via Artlist; "Fur Mushon" by Electric Zoo via Artlist; "Knowledge" by Colors and Carousels via Artlist; "Living It Up Letting You Down" by Bunker Buster via Artlist; "18 Kilograms" by Family Kush via Artlist

Libertarian comedian Doug Stanhope talks about Netflix and being canceled.