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17:53:56 07/31/12
Quote-Faking Imagine Author Jonah Lehrer: Why I Became a Journalist
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Quote-Faking Imagine Author Jonah Lehrer: Why I Became a Journalist
After being unmasked by Reason Contributing Editor Michael C. Moynihan as a quote-faking fabulist, Jonah Lehrer - the author of the widely praised Imagine: How Creativity Works - has resigned his post at The New Yorker and his publisher is pulling his best-selling book from store shelves. Why did Jonah Lehrer get into journalism in the first place? In an exclusive ReasonTV interview that was taped on May 7, 2012, Lehrer told Paul Detrick that he would have preferred to be a scientist but "I sucked at being a scientist....I realized I was very bad at the actual experiments....I still miss science...I miss the hardness of fact." Go to reason.com for more details. Read Moynihan's expose at www.tabletmag.com Read more at Reason.com: reason.com From: ReasonTV Views: 6778 84 ratings Time: 00:34 More in News & Politics
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11:24:34 07/31/12
New Jersey's Insane Seatbelt Law For Your Dog! Nanny of the Month July 2012!
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New Jersey's Insane Seatbelt Law For Your Dog! Nanny of the Month July 2012!
Forget the London Olympics, you'll find the fiercest competition stateside, where faces new and old vied for the title of "Nanny of the Month." Proving it can ruin just about any good idea, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban the city's medical marijuana dispensaries, and a North Carolina pol who claims baggy pants are "a part of a culture that breeds drug sales, drug addiction, crime, and murder" is itching to regulate precisely how much sag his constituents may bust (no more than three inches below the waist). But this month we find the busiest of bodies in the nation's Garden State: Imagine getting pulled over for a seatbelt violation. Imagine it cost you $1000 and six months in the clink. Imagine the cause of this was your failure to buckle up your pooch. Welcome to New Jersey! About a minute long. "Nanny of the Month" is written and produced by Ted Balaker; opening animation by Meredith Bragg. Go to www.youtube.com for previous episodes. And go to reason.com to get downloadable versions of the video. Subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube channel to get automatic notification when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 14128 222 ratings Time: 01:08 More in News & Politics
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15:37:41 07/30/12
Atlas Shrugged Part II: Behind the Scenes
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Atlas Shrugged Part II: Behind the Scenes
ReasonTV visited the set of Atlas Shrugged Part II, the second installment in the new film adaptation of Ayn Rand's epic 1957 novel. The movie is set to hit theaters on October 11, 2012. About 1.30 minutes. Shot by Sharif Matar and Tracy Oppenheimer and edited by Joshua Swain. Read Brian Doherty's account of the filming at reason.com Check out Reason's ever-growing playlist of videos related to Ayn Rand and the continuing interest in her life and work: www.youtube.com The videos feature interviews and commentary from Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, Yaron Brook, David Kelley, Robert Poole, biographers Anne C. Heller and Jennifer Burns, and many more. Read Reason's archives on Ayn Rand at reason.com Go to reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube channel for automatic notification when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 8411 149 ratings Time: 01:35 More in News & Politics
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15:11:48 07/27/12
Greg Lukianoff: How Colleges Fight Free Speech
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Greg Lukianoff: How Colleges Fight Free Speech
"You can get in trouble for saying almost anything these days on a college campus," says Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Lukianoff's latest book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, discusses 11 years of free speech restrictions and the how college bureaucrats have hampered open debate and encouraged a culture of uncritical thinking. Reason correspondent Kennedy sat down with Lukianoff at FreedomFest to discuss the book, his work at FIRE, and what students can do to fight back. Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by over 2000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks. About 4 minutes. Shot by Tracy Oppenhiemer and Alex Manning. Edited by Joshua Swain. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to our YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 7685 233 ratings Time: 04:09 More in News & Politics
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16:15:19 07/26/12
Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand vs. Big Government
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Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand vs. Big Government
"People don't vote their pocketbooks, people vote what they think is right," says Yaron Brook, president of The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights and author of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government. "So we need a moral revolution in this country, and that's how we get a free market revolution." At FreedomFest 2012, Reason's Matt Welch sat down with Brook to discuss what Obama has meant for sales of Atlas Shrugged, why big government hurts the poor, and how Ayn Rand inspired the Tea Party. Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by around 2000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks. For an ever-growing playlist, go here now. About 7 minutes. Camera by Tracy Oppenheimer and Alex Manning; edited by Jim Epstein. Visit www.reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to our YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 7486 254 ratings Time: 07:00 More in News & Politics
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14:13:53 07/25/12
What We Saw at the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum
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What We Saw at the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum
Since 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has run a museum in Arlington, Virginia that showcases the agency's "tradition of excellence" and the "impact of federal drug law enforcement on the changing trends of licit and illicit drug use in American history." Visitors can check out a replica of a '70s-era head shop, jerry-rigged works for shooting up and getting high, exhibits dedicated to the opium wars and cocaine cartels, and good, old-fashioned propaganda such as the classic movie Reefer Madness. Take a guided tour of the place with ReasonTV correspondent Kennedy. And don't forget to exit through the gift shop and pick up DEA compression shorts by Under Armour or a K-9 plush dog stuffed animal. Shot by Jim Epstein and Joshua Swain. Edited by Swain. About 2.30 minutes. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 9486 284 ratings Time: 02:24 More in News & Politics
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16:40:22 07/24/12
Ron Paul and the GOP Convention
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Ron Paul and the GOP Convention
"What [Ron Paul supporters] need to do is prove to the Republican Party that they are not just a radical fringe that can be completely ignored, like in 2008, but that they are the loyal opposition, the other big wing of the party," says Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty, author of Ron Paul's Revolution. Doherty says that even though Paul didn't win Nebraska and will not have a prime speaking slot at the GOP Convention, Paul and his supporters will still be there in full force. "His fans are unstoppable...There will be hundreds of them on the convention floor." Paul has influenced the GOP unequivocally in terms on monetary policy, "an issue that had no traction whatsoever until five years ago," says Doherty, "and now he can get every Republican in the House and plenty of Democrats to vote for 'Audit the Fed' bills." ReasonTV's Nick Gillespie caught up with Doherty at FreedomFest to discuss what can be expected from Ron Paul and his supporters heading into the convention and the future of the GOP. Shot by Tracy Oppenhiemer and Alex Manning. Edited by Oppenheimer. About 4 minutes. Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by over 2000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks. Visit www.reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 11211 251 ratings Time: 04:10 More in News & Politics
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19:14:41 07/23/12
Freedomworks' Matt Kibbe on the Hostile Takeover of The GOP
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Freedomworks' Matt Kibbe on the Hostile Takeover of The GOP
"We understand that Republicans helped get us into this fix," says FreedomWorks president and CEO Matt Kibbe, who has been instrumental in supporting Tea Party challengers within Republican primaries. "It's a little bit like Groundhog Day: I feel like we keep teaching Republicans the same lessons over and over again" Kibbe's newest book, Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America, calls for a grassroots rebellion against the "upper management" of government. "The phrase Hostile Takeover actually comes from an op-ed [former Rep.] Dick Armey and I wrote leading up the the 2010 election where we argued we had to beat the Republicans before we beat the Democrats." Reason's Nick Gillespie caught up with Kibbe at FreedomFest to discuss the book, the power of the Tea Party, and the marquee races to watch in 2012. Shot by Tracy Oppenhiemer and Alex Manning. Edited by Meredith Bragg. About 4:30 minutes. Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by over 2000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks. Visit www.reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 7093 211 ratings Time: 04:31 More in News & Politics
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17:46:44 07/20/12
Fan Fiction vs. Copyright - Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet
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Fan Fiction vs. Copyright - Q%A with Rebecca Tushnet
"It takes a big studio to make The Avengers, but it doesn't necessarily take a big studio to write a piece of Avengers fan fiction," says Georgetown University law professor and fan fiction advocate Rebecca Tushnet. "Big content companies largely recognize that fan activities are really good for them because they engage people." The growing popularity of fan fiction, a genre in which fans create their own stories featuring characters or settings from their favorite works of popular culture, raises thorny copyright issues. "Given how broad copyright is now, it's now possible to say fan fiction is an infringing derivative work," Tushnet explains. "In order to deal with that...we now talk about fair use, which allows people to make fair, limited uses of works without permission from the copyright owner." As a member of the Organization for Transformative Works, Tushnet works to defend fan fiction creators caught in the legal debate between protected intellectual property and fair use. Nick Gillespie sat down with Tushnet to discuss copyright law, fan fiction, and why media companies should embrace fan-created works. Approximately 7.34 minutes. Interview by Nick Gillespie. Camera by Meredith Bragg and Joshua Swain. Editing by Swain. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 7100 184 ratings Time: 07:34 More in News & Politics
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16:52:15 07/19/12
How the Government Makes You Fat: Gary Taubes on Obesity, Carbs, and Bad Science
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How the Government Makes You Fat: Gary Taubes on Obesity, Carbs, and Bad Science
"The government can come along and, with all the best intentions, cause enormous problems" says Gary Taubes, a science writer and author most recently of Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It . Reason.tv's Zach Weissmueller talked with Taubes about his controversial work in the world of nutrition and epidemiology, including Taubes' hypothesis that carbohydrates, not dietary fat, overeating, or lack of physcial activity, are the primary factor causing obesity. Other topics include the inability of governments and large informational institutions such as the American Heart Association to adapt to new information, the mess of bad legislation and bad science that Taubes believes led to America's obesity problem, and why many libertarians seem to love the Paleo Diet . Taubes' work has unsurprisingly invited criticism from scientists, government officials and journalists, even in the pages of Reason Magazine, where he went back and forth with Reason contributor Michael Fumento. Read below and decide for yourself who, if anyone, is right: Fumento on Taubes - reason.com Taubes' response - reason.com Fumento's rebuttal - reason.com Approximately 9:30. Interview and Editing by Zach Weissmueller. Visit reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live. From: ReasonTV Views: 18090 432 ratings Time: 09:57 More in News & Politics
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17:46:07 07/18/12
How Washington Learned to Love Video Games
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How Washington Learned to Love Video Games
The Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibit, The Art of Video Games, is the latest sign that official Washington has finally learned to love Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, and their digital spawn. A mere two decades ago, members of the nascent gaming industry were hauled before Congress and publicly scolded for promoting violence, sexism, racism, and even crimes against humanity. As Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) stated in his opening remarks at a 1993 hearing, "Instead of enriching a child's mind, these games teach a child to enjoy inflicting torture." But then a funny thing happened: As video games became ever more popular, brutal, and artistic, violent crime in America was declining precipitously. As parental and legislative panic over violence%mdashboth real and imagined%mdashsubsided, the gaming industry blossomed into the multibillion dollar business it is today. The video game hysteria of the 1990s followed a predictable cycle, explains University of Southern California sociologist Karen Sternheimer: "Ever since the first nickelodeon [movie theater] opened there are people who were afraid of the impact of popular culture and tried to regulate them right away." And just like film, rock music, and comic books before them, video games are no longer merely tolerated, but embraced by Washington, from the formation of a new congressional caucus to the placement of campaign ads on XBox games to the entombing of a Commodore 64 behind plexiglass at the Smithsonian. "This ... From: ReasonTV Views: 15952 431 ratings Time: 05:34 More in News & Politics
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18:29:59 07/17/12
Sen. Tom Coburn: How Both Parties Bankrupted America
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Sen. Tom Coburn: How Both Parties Bankrupted America
"Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government," says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), whose new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats together have brought the US to the brink of fiscal calamity. First elected to the house in 1994 as part of the "Republican Revolution," Coburn is a staunch fiscal and social conservative, who's been outspokenly critical of members of his own party for compromising their principles out of political expedience. Coburn has publicly taken former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to task for lacking leadership and resolve during his battles with the Clinton White House to cut spending in the mid-90s. Coburn, who's known in the senate as "Dr. No" for vetoing almost all new spending initiatives, says the federal budget is rife with "waste, fraud, and duplication." In 2006, Coburn co-sponsored legislation that created USASpending.gov, which makes publicly accessible a list of all recipients of government funds. In 2010, Coburn was instrumental in getting the Government Accountability Office to undertake researching and documenting wasteful government programs. A supporter of a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, Coburn was a co-author of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003, and he supported a 1996 law requiring that "V-chips" be placed in all television sets to allow parents to block programming deemed unsuitable. In ... From: ReasonTV Views: 11035 206 ratings Time: 27:57 More in News & Politics
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15:37:49 07/16/12
America's First Rebel: Roger Williams and the Birth of Liberty
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America's First Rebel: Roger Williams and the Birth of Liberty
"Williams was really America's first individualist, the first contradictor of authority, the first rebel," explains John M. Barry, author of Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty. While best known as the founder of Rhode Island and for being a leading proponent of a "wall of separation" between church and state, Barry argues that Williams' imprint on America is deeper than most recognize. "When I started writing the book I quickly realized that I was not simply writing about the emergence of the idea of religious liberty, but liberty itself." Barry sat down with ReasonTV's Nick Gillespie to discuss the book, the enduring lessons of Roger Williams' life, and why he is not yet a household name. About 9:10 minutes. Cameras by Meredith Bragg and Jim Epstein. Edited by Meredith Bragg. Barry is the author of numerous books, including The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America. Visit www.reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new videos go live. From: ReasonTV Views: 5416 192 ratings Time: 09:15 More in News & Politics
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16:32:29 07/13/12
The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10000-Mile Diet
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The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10000-Mile Diet
"If you take the local food movement to its logical extreme...people who live beyond their local food chain are essentially parasites," explains economic geographer Pierre Desrochers, co-author of the book, The Localvore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10000-mile Diet. Using economic and historical data, Desrochers and his co-author Hiroko Shimizu pick apart the latest food activist trend extolling the benefits of eating local. "If everything was so great when most food was sourced locally centuries ago," asks Desrochers, "why did we go through the trouble of developing a globalized food supply chain in the first place?" Desrochers sat down with ReasonTV's Nick Gillespie to discuss the book, the benefits of factory farming, and the enduring nature of food activism. About 5:45 minutes. Cameras by Jim Epstein and Joshua Swain. Edited by Meredith Bragg. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new stories go live. From: ReasonTV Views: 8249 222 ratings Time: 05:45 More in News & Politics
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13:31:59 07/12/12
Randy Barnett: Losing Obamacare While Preserving the Constitution
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Randy Barnett: Losing Obamacare While Preserving the Constitution
"We won in our effort to preserve the Constitution and, in fact, we moved the ball in a more positive direction," says Georgetown Law's Randy Barnett, one of the legal architects behind the constitutional challenge to Obamacare. Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion in the 5-to-4 decision upheld Obamacare's individual mandate as an exercise of Congress' tax powers, while simultaneously rejecting the Obama administration's sweeping assertion of federal power under the Commerce Clause. Barnett argues that the chief justice "substituted a less dangerous tax power for a far more dangerous Commerce Clause power." Had the Supreme Court accepted the government's theory of the Commerce Clause, Barnett explains, Congress would have had the power "to do anything it wants with respect to the economy." A professor of legal theory at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of nine books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (2004), Barnett represented the National Federation of Independent Business in its challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Reason Senior Editor Damon Root recently sat down with Barnett to discuss the Obamacare decision, the "echo chamber" of liberal academia, and why the Constitution is fully consistent with libertarian principles. Approximately 33 minutes. Shot by Jim Epstein and Joshua Swain, and edited by Epstein. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube ... From: ReasonTV Views: 7986 183 ratings Time: 32:50 More in News & Politics
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14:59:09 07/11/12
Killing California's Costly Death Penalty
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Killing California's Costly Death Penalty
Is the death penalty too expensive and ineffective to keep? This November, California voters will have the chance to decide on that question by voting for or against a ballot initiative called SAFE (Savings Accountability Full Enforcement), which would replace the death penalty with life without possibility of parole as the state's maximum punishment. Putting the moral issues of the death penatly aside, SAFE proponents argue that California's death penalty is costly to taxpayers and broken beyond repair. "Over the last 32 years its cost California tax payers about 4 billion dollars to have the death penalty, and over that period only 13 executions have been carried out," says LMU Law Professor Paula Mitchell. Mitchell's study, "Rethinking the Death Penalty in California," shows that once the death penalty comes into play for a case, the legal costs skyrocket to an extra $134 million dollars per year, well above the cost to implement life without possibility of parole. Death penalty cases require more attorneys, more experts, and an automatic review by the California Supreme Court, making it a seemingly endless process. "The average time on death row is now approaching 30 years," says former San Quentin Death Row Warden Jeanne Woodford. "So we have more inmates on death row who have died by natural causes or by suicide." Opponents of SAFE, such as Legal Director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation Kent Scheidegger, say California simply needs to streamline its system ... From: ReasonTV Views: 8180 150 ratings Time: 06:57 More in News & Politics
07/31/12