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Reason
March 2005 issue of Reason
Editor-in-Chief	Nick Gillespie
Categories	general interest, public policy
Frequency	11 issues annually
Circulation	60,000
First issue	1968
Company	Reason Foundation
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.reason.com
ISSN	0048-6906

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Reason is a libertarian monthly magazine from the Reason Foundation.

Reason was founded in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander as a more-or-less monthly mimeographed publication. In 1970 it was purchased by Robert W. Poole, Manuel S. Klausner, and Tibor R. Machan, who set it on a more regular publishing schedule. As the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets", it covers politics, culture, and ideas with a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews.

Nick Gillespie has been the magazine's editor-in-chief since 2000. Other Reason writers include Charles Paul Freund, Jacob Sullum, Jesse Walker, Brian Doherty, Ronald Bailey, Radley Balko, Tim Cavanaugh, Julian Sanchez, Kerry Howley, David Weigel, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Michael C. Moynihan, Cathy Young, Jonathan Rauch, and cartoonist Peter Bagge. Former editors include Marty Zupan and Virginia Postrel.

Erik Spiekermann, the inventor of the typeface Meta, headed a redesign of Reason in 2001, aiming for a look that is "cleaner, more modern, making use of the Meta typeface throughout".

In June 2004, subscribers to Reason magazine received a personalized issue that had their name, and a satellite photo of their home or workplace on the cover.

The magazine now has a circulation of around 60,000 and has twice been named one of the "50 best magazines" by the Chicago Tribune.[1]

Hit & Run is Reason's group blog. It is maintained and written by the staff of the magazine. It was started in 2002. Reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie and Reason Web Editor Tim Cavanaugh, both veterans of Suck.com, modeled the blog in some ways after that website: they brought along several other Suck.com writers to contribute, fostered a style in the blog matching that former website's sarcastic attitude, and even the name "Hit & Run" was taken from what had been a weekly news roundup column on Suck.com. The Reason editors referred to this co-opting of the former website as the "Suck-ification of Reason."[2]

In 2005, Hit & Run was named as one of the best political blogs by Playboy.^{[citation needed]}

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