Once upon a time, travel shows were stodgy as fuck. Television tourism was populated with pleasant, proper people who strolled the Champs-Élysées or the beaches of Rio to show you how to do pleasant, proper, prepackaged things. Then came Anthony Bourdain. More from Reason.TV.
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State and local officials in Wisconsin are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn. The new plant will provide thousands of jobs, so it is widely supported by not only Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but also House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump. But there is a catch: Not all of the farmers or residents whose land is being seized support the new plant. Here is a look at the controversy from Reason.TV.
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Dave Rubin, host of the great and popular Rubin Report, shares the various reasons why he left the Young Turks. He’s interviewed by Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie.
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The U.S. sings the praise for the arrest of El Chapo, the Mexican drug kingpin. But ever since his arrest in 2016, the drug war has turned much more violent. Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron explains why taking out cartel kingpins demonstrates the folly of prohibition. More from Reason.TV.
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The attack on fatty foods, in favor of carbohydrates, contributed to rising rates of obesity and diabetes. As a result, big government made us fat. Gary Taubes explains for Reason.TV.
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The classic Hawaiian-themed song ‘Mele Kalikimaka’ gets a government makeover from Remy. More from Reason.TV.
And, in case you missed out, here’s Remy riding crypto to the moon in “Bitcoin Billionaire.”
Caitlin Long of Symbiont sits down with Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie to discuss how bitcoin and blockchain technology can make the financial system more transparent.
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As disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein half-asses his way through sex-addiction rehab, more and more women, ranging from Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o to former teen star Molly Ringwald, keep coming forward with stories about his abusive and sometimes criminal behavior. Even his brother and longtime business partner Bob Weinstein has disowned him, calling him “indefensible,” “crazy” and “remorseless.” But the Weinstein story is not just about the end of a career. It’s about the end of an era. More from Reason.TV.
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College professor and author Jon Shields says, “diversity really is the religion of the university.” Shields, associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna University, is the co-author of Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University. It’s the first book-length study of conservatives in academia and one finding, Shields says, was that free-market thinkers tend to feel less pressure to conceal their political beliefs than social conservatives. Shields joined host Alexis Garcia in this interview on Reason TV.
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The much-debated $15 minimum wage became the law of the land for millions of citizens in California and New York, but the real impact of the legislation could be devastating. George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux, like a majority of economists, is a staunch believer in the economic theory that if you raise the price of something, everything else being equal, you get less of it.
Thus implementing the $15 minimum wage will destroy jobs for the least skilled members in the workforce. “The vast majority of studies on the minimum wage, I’m estimating 70 percent, show a significant negative effect on minimum wages on the employment of unskilled workers, usually proxy by teen-agers,” Boudreaux says. But not only do you have job loss, Boudreaux reasons, the unskilled workforce, almost 4 percent of them under the age of 25, will lose the valuable opportunity to gain experience in the workplace.
Boudreaux joins host Nick Gillespie to further explain the conundrum in this edition of Reason.TV.
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