Matt Welch
Matt Welch is editor at large of Reason, the magazine of "free minds and free markets," and panelist on The Reason Roundtable podcast.
Welch served as editor in chief of Reason from 2008-2016, during which time the magazine won 18 first place awards from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club and five from the Western Publications Association. He was a magazine columnist before and after his tenure, on media and politics, respectively. He has written cover stories on COVID policy, the death of Communism, bipartisan fiscal incontinence, biased fact-checking, deregulation, John McCain, Rand Paul, Gary Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the Ukraine War.
He is co-author, along with Nick Gillespie, of the 2011 book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, and also wrote the 2007 book McCain: The Myth of a Maverick.