The Reason Roundtable
The Reason Roundtable
4.5from 2,016 ratings
- 244
- Episodes
- 147
- Transcribed
- 2,016
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 442M
- YouTube views
About The Reason Roundtable
Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all.
- Publisher
- The Reason Roundtable
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 23 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
147 of 244 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Does CNN Deserve To Be Banned From the White House?
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is AI Really an Existential Threat?
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Public Schools Lost 1.4 Million Students
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Does CNN Deserve To Be Banned From the White House?
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And this was very much a consensus position within the conservative movement for many decades. And then I trace the way that that consensus broke down in recent years and why there is now a there still is a sort of classically liberal fusionist right of center. There are plenty of people who identify as free market conservatives or libertarians who still believe in limited government rule of law, free markets. But there's now also a lot of very loud voices pushing an anti-fusionist policy, conservatism, a big government, what I call will-to-power conservatism. They're basically saying, forget all this fusionism stuff. […]
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- YouTube views
- 441,976,534
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 1,497 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 519 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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