Just Asking Questions

Just Asking Questions

Interrogating current events, challenging assumptions, uncovering facts, and exposing realities that the government and the media would rather not talk about. Reason’s "Just Asking Questions" is a weekly show for honesty and open inquiry. We're skeptics of unexamined power. We don't want to be told what to think. But we do want to know which questions to start asking. Hosted by Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller. Produced by John Osterhoudt. Just Asking Questions is published by the Reason Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) research and educational organization based in Los Angeles.

Episodes

May 1, 2025 63 mins
The New York Times columnist warns that digital life may be eroding the cultural foundations needed to sustain meaning, family, and community.
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The journalist joins the show to discuss due process, immigration enforcement, and the growing tensions between the courts and the executive branch.
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The Danger Zone co-author joins the show to discuss China's peaking power, and why that actually makes them more dangerous.
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April 11, 2025 67 mins
The Atlantic's Derek Thompson urges Democrats to embrace more libertarian, pro-growth policies in his new book.
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The Kentucky senator joins Just Asking Questions to explain why he's fighting against the president's unilateral tariffs.
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The author and columnist joins the show to discuss immigration, deportations, and being a "MAGA leftist."
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Economic historian Phil Magness on the real history of tariffs and why Trump is so wrong about them.
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Vox's Kelsey Piper joins the show to discuss the drastic differences between the Biden and Trump administrations on AI—and what it all means for the future of humanity.
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March 14, 2025 47 mins
Reply to this post with questions for Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe, who will address listener comments.
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The historian and podcaster joins us on the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 emergency to relive all the pandemic policy failures.
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Vanity Fair's James Pogue dives into the dissident right, his personal experiences with MAGA, and how Ukraine policy is unfolding.
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The award-winning journalist discusses the collapse of a post–World War II consensus, online speech police, and the legacy media on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
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February 20, 2025 76 mins
Georgetown constitutional law professor Randy Barnett discusses the legality of DOGE, Trump's executive orders, and birthright citizenship.
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February 13, 2025 82 mins
The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium discusses the various slashes the Trump administration has made to DEI projects and USAID.
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Stanford economist John Cochrane discusses DOGE, tariffs, and what it will take to prevent a debt crisis.
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Demographer Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute joins Just Asking Questions to discuss the likely effects of the president's executive orders on immigration.
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The Libertarian Party national chair talks about the role the party played in securing a presidential pardon for Ulbricht on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
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Mike Pesca reacts to Trump's inauguration and slate of executive orders on the latest Just Asking Questions.
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Author and podcaster Meghan Daum lost her home in one of the wildfires affecting the Greater L.A. area. She joins the show to discuss what the city is like right now, and how it got this way.
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Economist Tyler Cowen on historical lessons, populism today, and the philosophical debates within libertarianism.
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