Dec 9, 20142 min read

Donate to Reason to Produce More Stimulating Q&As With Fascinating People!

Oh, Manny, we are SO CLOSE to filling up that orange bar on the upper right hand corner of this page! SO CLOSE to cracking the 1,000-donor level! What can I get you last fence-sitters to join Reason's annual Webathon and help us get to $200,000 in tax-deductible donations by the end of today in order to produce even better journalism and commentary in defense of Free Minds and Free Markets?

How about this: Our awesome long-form Q&As. Our new print issue on "libertarian realism" features not one but TWO lengthy Q&As with famous libertarian-leaning politicians with the last name "Paul." Here with Ron and here with Rand we probe their definitions of when (if ever!) the United States should use deadly force abroad. This is just what we do. Let's go through the years looking at some classic interviews, shall we?

2014: TV host Mike Rowe: Diplomas vs. Dirty Jobs

2013: America's most syndicated columnist: George Will's Libertarian Evolution

Decades' more worth, after the jump.

2012: Economist, physicist, and market anarchist: David Friedman on How to Privatize Everything

2011: Former MTV VJ and Radio Host Kennedy on Medical Marijuana, The Politics of Alt Rock, and How She Went From Conservative to Libertarian

2010: Adam Carolla Uncensored: Legalize Drugs, Cut Taxes, Drive Through Red Lights!

2009: John Mackey's Conscious Capitalism

2008: Grover Norquist: An Alliance for Freedom?

2007: An Interview With Matt Taibbi: Rolling Stone's controversial chief political reporter on Campaign 2008, following Hunter S. Thompson, and his new book

2006: Trey Parker and Matt Stone: South Park Libertarians

2005: The Iconoclast: Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection

2004: David Simon Says: The creator of HBO's The Wire talks about the decline of journalism, the failure of the drug war, and a new kind of TV