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A weekly show about politics and liberty, featuring conversations with top scholars, philosophers, historians, economists, and public policy experts. Hosted by Trevor Burrus.
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A weekly show about politics and liberty, featuring conversations with top scholars, philosophers, historians, economists, and public policy experts. Hosted by Trevor Burrus.
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    Fighting Government Secrecy (with Patrick Eddington)

    Fighting Government Secrecy (with Patrick Eddington)

    The Jones Act biases American shippers and shipbuilders at the expense of international competition, passing higher prices onto consumers and kneecapping free trade. The Cato Institute (and others) have been urging the government to reform this protectionist policy for several years now. But new findings prompt us to ask; how could such an ordinary task for a think tank constitute treason?
    Cato Institute Senior Fellow Patrick Eddington joins Trevor today to explain how the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) sheds light onto the dark and hidden memos, documents, and recommendations shuffled between bureaucrats behind closed doors—when it can. But how did FOIA come about? What is the process involved? And how do agencies avoid complying with requests?

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    • 52 min
    When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)

    When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)

    The rise of global populism reveals a tension in Western thinking about democracy. Warnings about the "populist threat" to democracy and "authoritarian" populism are now commonplace. However, as Emily B. Finley argues in The Ideology of Democratism, dismissing "populism" as anti-democratic is highly problematic. In effect, such arguments essentially reject the actual popular will in favor of a purely theoretical and abstract "will of the people."
    On today’s episode, Emily Finley and Trevor sit down to trace a line from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson and John Rawls, point out the flaws in deliberative democratic practices, and try to find a way to conceive of a better democratism—one without mob rule.

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    • 46 min
    Floods, Nuclear Power, and Wages (with Peter Van Doren)

    Floods, Nuclear Power, and Wages (with Peter Van Doren)

    The illustrious, ingenious, notorious PVD is back with us once again. Today, he and Trevor sit down to discuss dilemmas of flood damages following Hurricane Ian, the viability of subsidies for nuclear energy, and minimum wage increase’s effects on workers’ wages.
    Peter references the following:
    The National Flood Insurance Program: Solving Congress’s Samaritan’s Dilemma by Peter Van Doren
    Hurricane Ian’s Toll Is Severe. Lack of Insurance Will Make It Worse.
    Subsidies to Nuclear Power in the Inflation Reduction Act by David Kemp and Peter Van Doren
    How Important are Minimum Wage Increases in Increasing the Wages of Minimum Wage Workers? by Jeffrey Clemens and Michael R. Strain

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    • 49 min
    How the 14th Amendment Changed America (with Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick)

    How the 14th Amendment Changed America (with Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick)

    Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick in their new book The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendment’s key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws.
    On today’s episode, they join us to answer questions as simple as; what is the fourteenth amendment, and why is it possibly one of our most important? As well as more complex ones, including; does the equal protection clause guarantee positive rights? And what can libertarians learn from the anti-slavery Republicans who wrote the 14th Amendment?

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    • 52 min
    Free Market: The History of an Idea (with Jacob Soll)

    Free Market: The History of an Idea (with Jacob Soll)

    After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In his new book Free Market: The History of an Idea, MacArthur Fellow and USC professor Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market thought. He helps us answer questions such as; what role did early market theorists believe that states had in building and maintaining free markets? How do many get John Stuart Mill, John Locke, and Adam Smith wrong? And what do stoicism, Christianity, friendship, and love have to do with free markets?
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    • 55 min

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This is easily one of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to. They cover so many interesting topics from economics (Hayek, von Mises, etc), philosophy (Mill, Socrates, etc), and of course current events. I highly recommend this to anyone, regardless of your political ideology.

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