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African Heroes of Freedom: Queen Moremi Ajasoro
As we continue to uncover more about the ancient African world, Anoba will highlight figures who had a profound impact on early Africa’s development.
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The Fairness Doctrine Was Terrible for Broadcasting and It Would Be Terrible for the Internet
American was founded upon the immodest proposition that the best response to bad speech is more speech. It is a fundamentally democratic proposition, one that is as appropriate for the digital age as it was for the 1780s.
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Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Beveridge’s Social Insurance and Allied Services
Beveridge targeted “five giants”; want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness, all needed solutions from the welfare state.
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5G Won’t Destroy Weather Forecasting
The turf war between government agencies over 5G could delay innovation and harm America’s international leadership in the technology.
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How America Gullibly Supported Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements (with Ted Galen Carpenter)
Future U.S. leaders should to adopt a policy of skepticism and restraint toward foreign movements that purport to embrace democracy, argues Ted Galen Carpenter.
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Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Introduction
How did F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Sir William Beveridge’s Social Insurance and Allied Services shape the politics of the welfare state in the United States and the United Kingdom?
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John Gray Mischaracterizes Nietzsche’s Influence on Ayn Rand
Continuing his review of Gray’s Seven Types of Atheism, Smith explains how Gray greatly exaggerates Nietzsche’s influence on Rand, and he criticizes Gray’s misstatements about Rand’s notion of sacrifice.
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The Automation Revolution is Upon Us
Carl B. Frey joins us to discuss how we can study the industrial revolution to inform our understanding of the imminent automation revolution.
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School Choice from Rand to Ron
Currie-Knight’s study of libertarian views on education shows that there has never been ‘a’ libertarian approach to school choice.
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How Petty Misdemeanors Get Seriously Punished (with Alexandra Natapoff)
Alexandra Natapoff joins us today to discuss how misdemeanors turn innocent people in to criminals.
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What is the Actual Difference Between Micro and Macro Economics?
The major difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics is actually their respective methods, not their subject matters.
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Every Day I’m Side Hustling
Paul Matzko and Matthew Feeney dissect the gig economy & how their contractors generally seem to enjoy the flexibility of their work.
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For the Throne: Our Watch Has Ended (with Ilya Somin)
All TV series must die! Ilya Somin joins us today to unravel the medieval epic fantasy; Game of Thrones.
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John Gray and the Myth of the Ayn Rand Cult
John Gray’s discussion of Objectivism in Seven Types of Atheism, which is egregiously and inexcusably bad, relies on portraying Ayn Rand as a cult leader.
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower: A Dispiriting Assessment of Higher Education
A review of an extraordinary analysis that tackles the problems besetting the world of higher education.
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Free Speech Online: Unfriended
Zach Graves and Ryan Radia join us this week to debate if anti-conservative bias on social media is real or not.
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How a Honey Bear Is Reinvigorating Cryptocurrency Mining
Satoshi Nakamoto hoped that crypto-mining would be decentralized, not the domain of large mining outfits. Honey Bear aims to realize that vision.
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Everything Wrong with the Buchanan Administration
President Buchanan amassed the largest fiscal imbalance of a pre-Civil War administration not engaging in a foreign war and that fact only scrathes the surface of his shortcomings.