The Reason Roundtable The Reason Roundtable

Although I don’t agree with everything they say, and they rarely agree with each other about everything, this roughly hour long show feels like it’s 15 minutes long, which means something….. IT’S ENTERTAINING!

Also check out The Fifth Column - Matt Welch’s other podcast, involves a lot more alcohol, laughs, Moynihans and the funniest dude ever - Kmele Foster

As a centrist who’s grown bored with polarized arguments on the left and right, I was hopeful I’d found a pod with more balanced and substantive commentary. The first few episodes were good but by 5-6 episodes, my interest started to wane. As others have commented, the hosts are ideologues who do nothing but pick apart policy positions on either side without ever putting forth substantive alternatives. The recent episode on gun restrictions and mass shootings was a new low-point. The crew took the easy way out and filled a full 70 minutes blithering on about trivial nonsense that was shockingly aloof and tone deaf in light of recent events. I’m left-leaning and was looking forward to a thoughtful discussion about Second Amendment rights, but instead got an earful of sophomoric and meaningless babble. Time to move on.

These smug ideologues talk over each other, offer no practical solutions, and stay very shallow on all issues. In all fairness I did outgrow libertarianism years ago with these precise complaints, after law school.