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“You can get in trouble for saying almost anything these days on a college campus,” says Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Lukianoff’s latest book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, discusses 11

"People don't vote their pocketbooks, people vote what they think is right," says Yaron Brook, president of The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights and author of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government.  "

Since 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has run a museum in Arlington, Virginia that showcases the agency's "tradition of excellence" and the "impact of federal drug law enforcement on the changing trends of licit and illicit drug use in American history."Visitors can check out a replica of a '70s-era head shop, jerry-rigged works for shooting up and getting high, exhibits dedicated to the opium wars and

Reason Foundation’s Vice President of Research Julian Morris appeared on Cavuto to discuss increasing market turmoil in Europe and America and how bailouts and spending doesn't heal an economic crisis caused by bailouts and spending. Air Date: July 23, 2012. Approximately 6.37 minutes.Scroll down for downloadable versions and su

"What [Ron Paul supporters] need to do is prove to the Republican Party that they are not just a radical fringe that can be completely ignored, like in 2008, but that they are the loyal opposition, the other big wing of the party," says Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty, author of Ron Paul's Revolution. 

"We understand that Republicans helped get us into this fix," says FreedomWorks president and CEO Matt Kibbe, who has been instrumental in supporting Tea Party challengers within Republican primaries. "It's a little bit like Groundhog Day: I feel like we keep teaching Republicans the same lessons over and over again"Kibbe's newest book,

Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty appeared on RTAmerica to discuss how politicizing the Colorado tradegy to advocate gun control won't make Americans any safer. Approximately 12 minutes Scroll down for downloadable versions. Subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live. 

"It takes a big studio to make The Avengers, but it doesn't necessarily take a big studio to write a piece of Avengers fan fiction," says Georgetown University law professor and fan fiction advocate Rebecca Tushnet. "Big content companies largely recognize that fan activities are really good for them because they engage people."The growing popularity of fan fiction, a genre in which fans create their own stories featu

Reason editor in chief Matt Welch appeared on RTAmerica to discuss the events at Freedom Fest, the increasing popularity of Gary Johnson, and how the media doesn't take libertarianism seriously. Air Date: July 12, 2012.Almost 10 minutes.Scroll down for HD, iPod and audio versions of this video and subscribe to Reas

The Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibit, The Art of Video Games, is the latest sign that official Washington has finally learned to love Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, and their digital spawn. A mere two decades ago, members of the nascent gaming industry were hauled before Congress and publicly scolded for promoting violence, sexism, racism, and even crimes against humanity. As Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D

"Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government," says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), whose new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats together have brought the U.S. to the brink of fisc

"Williams was really America's first individualist, the first contradictor of authority, the first rebel," explains John M. Barry, author of Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty. While best known as the founder of Rhode Island and for being a leading proponent of a "wall of separation" between church and state, Barry

"If you take the local food movement to its logical extreme...people who live beyond their local food chain are essentially parasites," explains economic geographer Pierre Desrochers, co-author of the book The Localvore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet . Using economic and historical data, Desrochers and his co-author Hiroko Shimizu pick apart the latest food

On July 12, 2012, Reason.com Managing Editor Tim Cavanaugh appeared on the Fox Business' "Money with Melissa Francis" to discuss California's municipal bankruptcy crisis.4.45 minutes. Scroll down for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live.

“We won in our effort to preserve the Constitution and, in fact, we moved the ball in a more positive direction,” says Georgetown Law's Randy Barnett, one of the legal architects behind the constitutional challenge to Obamacare. Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in the 5-to-4 decision upheld Obamacare’s individual mandate as an exercise of Congress’ tax powers, while simultaneously rejecting t