👤 Nick Gillespie

6 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
6
2026-08-28 – 2026-10-07
Claims per article
31
186 extracted in total
Hedged claims
5%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,724
characters
Writes for Reason.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Education
33%
Politics
33%
Economy/Business
17%
Entertainment
17%
Most-tagged topics
AmericaReasonAmericans1619 Project9/11African AmericanArmyBoston College

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.08 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-11 · Reason · Politics
Americans Have Learned Virtually No Lessons From 9/11
35 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-18 · Reason · Politics
Despite Nativist Outcry, Texas Shows the Melting Pot Works Incredibly Well
7 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-07 · Reason · Economy/Business
Are Economists Measuring the Wrong Things?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-01 · Reason · Education
Like Nikole Hannah-Jones, My Parents Put Ideology Over Pedagogy in Sending Me to Catholic School
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-16 · Reason · Education
Why Kids Need More Freedom
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-28 · Reason · Entertainment
Idiocracy Predicted Our World, But Not in the Way You Think
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-08-28 · Reason
Idiocracy Predicted Our World, But Not in the Way You Think
🔮 Any sentient being watching the 2024 Republican National Convention—especially the moment in which Hulk Hogan tore off his own shirt and declared "Let Trumpamania run wild, brother!"—would have to compare that spectacle to Idiocracy. assertive
2026-09-11 · Reason
Americans Have Learned Virtually No Lessons From 9/11
🔮 Of outrage at the tin-eared dismissal on September 12 of "the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers" by an academic who would later be unmasked as a liar about Native American heritage. assertive
2026-09-18 · Reason
Despite Nativist Outcry, Texas Shows the Melting Pot Works Incredibly Well
🔮 If Texans are interested in continuing the sort of uninterrupted economic and cultural growth they've experienced over the past 40 years, they will spurn nativism and tribalism and embrace the future-oriented, individualistic, and open-minded attitudes and policies that have made the state America's "new centre of gravity" (according to The Economist). assertive
2026-10-01 · Reason
Like Nikole Hannah-Jones, My Parents Put Ideology Over Pedagogy in Sending Me to Catholic School
🔮 Later in the piece, Najya, now 16 years old and attending a competitive public high school of her own choosing, tells her mother, "Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me. assertive
2026-10-07 · Reason
Are Economists Measuring the Wrong Things?
🔮 His research showing that intensive, early interventions can help low-income children close achievement gaps has been, he says, willfully misinterpreted as support for expensive and unworkable universal preschool programs that he calls "political ploys." assertive
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