Three Reasons to Support Reason’s Webathon!

We’re looking to raise $200,000 in
our annual
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Overruled. Go here for
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Here are three reasons to give to Reason:

1. We’re the planet’s top source of news, information, and
analysis from a libertarian perspective. Between the print mag,
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teh interweb hub for discussions about “Free Minds and Free
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2. We’re reaching journalists
and public figures with a new way of thinking about the world and
the role of government, commerce, and individuals. Fox Business’s
John Stossel credits Reason with turning him from a conventional
consumer-affairs reporter who played gotcha in predictable and
un-illuminating ways.
Here’s my gloss on the way he described it in his 2004 book,
Give Me a Break:

After growing disillusioned with liberal and conservative media
outlets, he turned to reason. “It was a revelation,” he writes.
“Here were writers who analyzed the benefits of free markets that I
witnessed as a reporter. They called themselves libertarians, and
their slogan was ‘Free Minds and Free Markets.’ I wasn’t exactly
sure what that meant, but what they wrote sure made sense.”

Watch Stossel tonight at 9pm ET on Fox Business.

Something similar happened to Drew Carey, who told
Time magazine in 2007:

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason
magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

3. We’re
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Maher, and when Jacob Sullum bears the withering scorn of Bill
O’Reilly (watch
this classic clip), we’re standing up for a radical libertarian
perspective that deserves a bigger and bigger audience (and is
getting one; see reason number 1).

The same thing happens when we either host debates or show up in
the pages of publications ranging from Forbes to The
Daily Beast to The Week, or on NPR and PBS (where I
had the privilege
of debating Bill Moyers and Lawrence Lessig about Citizens
United).

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or edifies – please make a donation
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And make sure to catch Matt Welch and I doing a
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