

Over the past 15 years he’s published a sequence of essential books about American politics, starting with “Dead Certain,” a narrative account of the George W. Robert, a Texas native, is a deeply sourced reporter with a long and impressive track record covering politics in books and as a magazine journalist. He will be based in Washington, covering politics and political figures, especially Republican officials. For more details and to buy tickets, go here now.We’re thrilled to announce that Robert Draper, who has been a contributing writer at the magazine since 2009, will be coming on board as a staff writer, working for both the Washington bureau and the magazine. Tickets are $10 and include beer, wine, soft drinks, and appetizers. The next one takes place in New York City on Thursday, December 1, with Nick Gillespie interviewing Kaytlin Bailey , the founder of Old Pros, a sex worker rights group, host of The Oldest Profession Podcast, and the writer and performer of Whore's Eye View, a one-woman show about 10,000 years of prostitution, female emancipation, and sexual freedom. The Reason Speakeasy is a live, monthly, unscripted conversation with outspoken defenders of free thinking and heterodoxy in an age of cancel culture and thought police. We also talked about Draper's 2014 New York Times Magazine cover story, " Has the Libertarian Moment Finally Arrived?," which prominently featured me and Matt Welch. Is this a sign that Trump's hold on his party-and the country-is weakening? And is there any reason to believe that the party of Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater may return to its small government roots?

I spoke with Draper shortly after the midterm elections, in which the GOP had an unexpectedly poor showing against a massively unpopular Joe Biden. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–Ga.) and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who are diehard Trump loyalists, and established party leaders such as likely Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, who is openly terrified to cross the former president.


That's the question that journalist Robert Draper investigates in his new book Weapons of Mass Delusion, which looks at rising Republican stars such as Rep. Has the Republican Party lost its mind-and its way-in its slavish devotion to Donald Trump, who insists that the 2020 election was stolen from him through extensive voter fraud? :15 :15 Download Robert Draper: The GOP Needs a Post-Trump Reality Check
