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Print-Capitalism Created Modern Europe
The printing press acted as a catalyst for cohesion by creating a standard language.
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Pop & Locke
The Good Place
The Good Place argues, time and again, that the perpetual uncertainty about what happens next is part of what makes life so precious and magical.
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The Best Governments are Small and Boring
A boring government is the best kind of government, and cults of personality can’t do boring.
Free Thoughts
Must Politics Be War? (with Kevin Vallier)
Kevin Vallier joins the show today to discuss how politics itself is nothing more than a power struggle between groups with irreconcilable aims.
Building Tomorrow
Tech Goes Viral (with Alec Stapp)
Technology has eased our transition to the new socially distant world.
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Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun was a prominent 14th-century historian famous for being the precursor or even founder, according to some historians, of the social sciences.
The Pursuit
The New American Dreamers (Pt. II)
The U.S. has known for a long time that the immigration system is broken.
Free Thoughts
The Nationalism Problem (with Stephanie Slade)
Stephanie Slade joins the show to talk about her new cover story for Reason Magazine; Against the New Nationalism.
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Libertarianism and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Libertarian principles and insights can provide some guideposts for how to respond in this unprecedented global emergency.
Portraits of Liberty
Poullain and Equality
François Poullain de la Barre was a philosopher who was completely ahead of any of his contemporaries on the topic of gender equality.
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Cicero Was Locke’s Greatest Inspiration
One of the most significant thinkers who shaped Locke’s philosophy, despite preceding him by eighteen centuries, is Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Pop & Locke
Parks and Recreation
We discuss the absurd antics of Pawnee, Indiana’s public officials as they pursue projects to make their city a better place.
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Josiah Warren, the Most Practical Anarchist
Defying categorization as a socialist or capitalist thinker, Josiah Warren was staunchly individualist—distrustful of institutions like states that subsumed individuals into “combinations.”
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An Introduction to John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
On Liberty is not merely a political text explaining the intricacies of how the state ought to act. It is a love letter to the individual virtues of intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and open-mindedness.
Free Thoughts
Politics Makes Us Worse
In the United States, nothing makes us hate each other quite like politics.
Building Tomorrow
Did the Military Build Silicon Valley?
The government has long played a role in advancing (and delaying) technological innovation.
The Pursuit
The New American Dreamers
Imagine being told, as a child, that you were undocumented and you didn’t belong here.
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Cronyism: A Toxic Friendship between Business and Government
When the government’s rules favor incumbent firms at the expense of current and potential competitors, we all lose.