FreedomFest 2018

Ronald Bailey is the award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and the author of The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century (2015) and Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution (2005). His work was featured in... Read More →

Nick Gillespie is an editor-at-large of Reason. A two-time finalist for National Magazine Awards, he is co-author, with Matt Welch, of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (2011/2012). Along with writing, he produces videos and... Read More →

Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason, the magazine of "free minds and free markets." A few of her more memorable cover stories include a defense of plastic bags, an argument for why you almost certainly shouldn’t vote, and a welcome to our new robot overlords. She started... Read More →

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (2004), and For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (1998). His work has appeared... Read More →

Matt Welch is an editor-at-large of Reason. He served as Reason's editor-in-chief from 2008-2016 and is co-author, with Nick Gillespie, of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (2011/2012). Welch also wrote McCain: The Myth of... Read More →

Reason is the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets." It covers politics, culture, and ideas through a provocative mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. Reason provides a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled... Read More →