Atlas Shrugged's Makers Speak! Q&A w producers & actor
Released April 15, 2011, Atlas Shrugged Part I has been predictably panned by reviewers and wildly embraced by audiences. At the movie-review site Rotten Tomatoes, just 8 percent of critics give a thumbs up, compared to 85 percent of moviegoers. Such a sharply split reaction mirrors the reception...
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Former LA Mayor Richard Riordan on Schwarzenegger, Unions, and Bankrupt Cities
"Throughout the country, 90 percent of cities and states are going to go bankrupt within the next five years, many of them sooner." So says former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. Reason.tv's Tim Cavanaugh sat down with Riordan to discuss state and local budget crises, public-sector unions, and...
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Virginia Postrel: Glamour, Politics, & Voter Expectations
Glamour is "not just about movie stars," says Virginia Postrel. The editor in chief of Deepglamour.net and former Editor in Chief of Reason magazine points out that glamour, which originally meant a literal magic spell "that promises to to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real," is espe...
Virginia Postrel: How to Reform Health Care Without Killing Innovation
Former Reason magazine Editor in Chief Virginia Postrel has seen the strengths and the shortcomings of the American health care system both as a kidney donor and a breast cancer survivor. She argues that individuals should be free to sell their organs, and that encouraging organ markets may be th...
The Killing of Allen Kephart: How the Police Lost the Trust of a Law-and-Order Town
On May 10, 43-year old Allen Kephart died after being tased multiple times by three San Bernardino, California sheriff's deputies during a routine traffic stop. Kephart, a quiet and well-liked member of the tight-knit mountain community around Lake Arrowhead, allegedly ran a stop sign and became ...
Reason.tv's Nanny of the Year 2009!
In 2009, America's meddlers worked overtime minding other people's business. Nanny of the Month winners have targeted everything from fish pedicures to feeding the homeless. But there can be only one Nanny of the Year. Who took home top honors as the year's biggest buttinsky? Click the video to f...
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Bootleggers and Baptists: A Conversation with Bruce Yandle
While serving as the Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission during the Reagan years, Bruce Yandle developed a theoretical framework he called "bootleggers and Baptists" to help make sense of regulatory dynamics. As the old story goes, when Baptists lobby for dry Sundays, it's the boot...
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How iPad Technology and iPhone Apps Expand Liberty
Got a pothole? There's an app for that. Need a medical marijuana dispensary? There's an app for that, too. Reason.tv's Ted Balaker sat down with Matt Harrison and Justin Hartfield of the Prometheus Institute to discuss how new technology can expand liberty. Harrison and Hartfield are the creators...
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Taco Truck Takedown: Why is the LAPD hassling food carts?
Taco trucks pull up to curbs and offer LA eaters everything from tofu bowls to Korean barbeque. Customers flock to them, and recently so have police officers. Truck owners report being cited for everything from parking too close to curbs to parking too far away. Sometimes officers shut them down....
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Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann on the Future of Legalization
"We are making remarkable momentum with respect to changing the marijuana laws," says Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on drugs. Reason.tv caught up with Nadelmann at the Drug Policy Alliance's re:FORM Art Auction ...
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Hollywood Hates Capitalism - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Edition
Oliver Stone's uber-villain Gordon Gekko is back in the new film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which (surprise!) features greedy capitalists behaving badly. It might remind you of Avatar, Mission Impossible 2 or roughly a zillion other films in which capitalists destroy the environment, concoc...
Tweeting Around Egypt's Web Blackout: Meet John Scott-Railton
The Egyptian government may have blocked Egyptians' access to the Internet, but it couldn't block the Internet itself. Thanks to the likes of John Scott-Railton, voices of countless Egyptian protesters continue to wend through the web. Once the government imposed muzzling began, the 27-year-old U...
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Free the 'Shine! Why it's finally time to legalize liquor
If drinking makes us healthier and wealthier, why is America's liquor policy so screwy? Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing in 1978, and that newfound freedom fueled the craft beer movement that continues to lavish beer lovers with endless choices. But in many ways, laws that govern whiskey, gin,...
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Nanny of the Month for April 2010: Anti-Flag NC Cop Scott Hunter
Last month's biggest busybody was the New York politician who's waging a war on salt. This month's top honors could have gone to the US senator who wants to block betting on box office sales or the Silicon Valley pol who yanked toys from kids' meals. But the Nanny of the Month goes to the North C...
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LAPD Stands Down on Occupy LA
For days, OccupyLA had been told to evacuate its camp outside Los Angeles City Hall by 12:01 am on Monday, November 28. Throughout Thanksgiving weekend, the deadline approached and tension increased. When the police-led evacuation didn't happen, the movement moved into the streets where they were...
Obama vs. Reagan: Ray Griggs on His New Film, 'I Want Your Money'
"It's beyond what you can think of as bankruptcy," says documentary filmmaker Ray Griggs of the current state of US debt. "In our world, you go bankrupt. In the government world, they just keep writing checks." In his new documentary, I Want Your Money , which opens nationwide in more than 400 th...
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