Indeed, Nick Gillespie recently wrote an editorial entitled "The FCC's Not Our Mommy or Daddy" — taking to task the Commission's proposals to regulate violence on TV. His assessment of the current climate of content regulations? "The result is a list of recommendations to Congress that seems as comically and absurdly detached from contemporary America as an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants."

REASON, the libertarian monthly named one of "The 50 Best Magazines" three out of the past four years by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE was established in 1968 and now has a print circulation of 40,000 — Reason Online, the magazine's Web edition, draws 1.75 million visits per month, and the staff weblog HIT & RUN has been named by PLAYBOY, WASHINGTONIAN, and others as one of the best political blogs.

Gillespie originally joined Reason's staff in 1993 as an assistant editor and ascended to the top slot in 2000. His work has appeared In THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK POST, SLATE, SALON, Time.Com, MARKETPLACE, among others. He is a frequent commentator on radio and television networks such as National Public Radio, CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Gillespie received his Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo.