Speaking from personal experience, if tuitions hadn't been jacked up after federal subsidies were yanked in the 80s, I wouldn't have been able to attend college without student loans.

This is quite a strange conversation for a supposed libertarian operation.

Condolences for your loss. Losing a dog is the worst. Sounds like he was a great guy though.

Is it open season on embassies now?

@RichardKing-sx6xc

Ай бұрын

Israeli embassies, yes... 😎👍

@TerenceKearns

Ай бұрын

Yeah these guys are stooges...

44:58 not all libertarians are prochoice. Classical liberals and libertarians, we, are still debating. No life no freedom.

9:00 When we said anti-missile defence would never work, we were talking about defences against Soviet ICBMs with MIRVs and decoys coming in from very high trajectory because of their long range and re-entering at very high speed, like Mach 20 or so. Very different from Scuds, drones, and cruise missiles, even supersonic ones. (There were primitive cruise missiles beginning in the 1960s but they weren't very accurate in the days before satellite guidance matured.) I don't think we can be confident that anti-missile defence would work well enough to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths against a determined Russian adversary attacking from sea and land who knew we had defences and would use his forces to try to defeat them.. A rogue attack from N Korea or (someday) Iran?, maybe we could shrug it off. Still it is really beautiful that the missile defences worked so well the other day. Take Providence where it comes.

No more war.

@DarthRadical

Ай бұрын

Okay - tell that to the other guys.

@davidwestwater2219

Ай бұрын

​@@DarthRadicalno these guys supported ALL the wars

Rest in peace big doggy

The truth is, the science focused agencies (USGS, NOAA, the Weather Service, NASA, etc) actually do a lot of really good work and science. There is just always a question of it is worth paying for through taxation.

@laurendoe168

Ай бұрын

The problem is that there's no way to know... until it is. Just listen to NDT describe the history of MRI machines, for example. 60 years ago, the tax money dumped into the space program jump started countless private industry products that may have little or no application in space.

If pro choice means late term abortions than i'm pro life

37:53 The expression on everyone’s faces after the “student loans” item 100% justifies the Reason Roundtable Podcast being released in a video format.

Speaking of NOAA, would love to see Reason do a piece on the pending NOAA speed limit for all vessels (currently only 65' and up) along the Eastern seaboard to help protect Right Whales. It has everything from a government organization overreaching it's mandate to possible '91 luxury tax level of impact on the boating industry.

Who is man in picture behind Matt?

outstanding, as always.

Missile defense worked within 10 years of being brought up. Do you not remember the Israelis using the Patriot system to shoot down scud missiles in 1990?

The fact that the first part of the conversation makes no mention of the Israeli attack on the Iranian Embassy killing 7 officials and that the missiles were in response to that makes it a really unfair, out of context, and even incoherent discussion.

@DarthRadical

Ай бұрын

Which was in response to Oct 7 - since the main target was the mastermind behind it.

@thejeremyjohn

Ай бұрын

The host actually does mention it at the top, but what bothers me is the assertion that civilian population centers were targeted. There's no evidence of that. The one civilian injury we know about occurred because a missile was intercepted over her family's house.

@UserUser45654

Ай бұрын

IKR. Robbie Soave sounds like an Israel Firster on other platforms, strange for a libertarian. Then we see his co-workers on Reason and it is more of the same.

@UserUser45654

Ай бұрын

@@DarthRadicalthe mastermind of 10/7 seems to be whomever Israel says it is. Previously they mentioned Yahya Sinwar and a younger guy who has been deceased since shortly after 10/7. Killed in an airstrike in Gaza City.

Ok that was interesting discussion, thank you.

Anyone with knowledge of history and critical thinking capabilities know the course we're on as a nation and wholy as a civilization. Whats the remedy for our current predicament thats been put to use since the dawn of man?

@JackVz

Ай бұрын

Historically, peasant revolts get stomped but eventually members of the elite become just as disillusioned with the ruling class as the people

@Jeff-nine41149

Ай бұрын

Since the dawn of man? Probably empathy begotten by eating the fruits of the product of their prey 300,000 years ago.

Condolences. Our four legged buds are better than us.

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE ❤

Strange how you guys promote the ending of FISA for violation of privacy, but then promote #BetterHelp which has been sued for transfering customer data to third parties?

Civil War movie presidential third term. You mean like Obama?

The national security state is essential to protecting Americans from foreign threats. While some may be critical of it in certain specific ways, it would be foolhardy to oppose it.

It's very weird that Israel has come to think it's normal to have bombs potentially landing on their homes. It's amazing what the Human experience can normalise.