Plus: A listener asks if it's time for journalists to stop steel-manning Trump's policies. 

The Reason Roundtable

Can Anyone Stop Trump's Tariffs?

Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers.

What Did We Learn From DOGE?

Plus: A listener asks if we're finally defunding NPR and PBS. 

Trump's War on Childhood

Plus: A listener asks about possible book club books that are "subtly libertarian." 

Trump's Independent Voter Problem

Plus: A listener asks who was the better president: Trump or Obama?

Why Due Process Matters

Plus: A listener asks whether or not Thomas Jefferson was right. 

Why Trump's China Tariffs Won't Work

Time for a DOGE Dance Party

Plus: A listener asks why some American libertarians seem to unquestioningly accept everything Vladimir Putin says.

Trump's War With the Courts

Plus: A listener asks the editors whether a Kamala Harris presidency would have been preferable.

Why We Don't Need the Department of Education

Plus: A listener asks the editors to discuss the pros and cons of homeownership.

It's Trump's Economy Now

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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.