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What, to an American, is the Fourth of July?
Independence Day is a celebration of America, yes, but it’s also a day to rededicate ourselves to critiquing the job we’re doing at living up to our own mission statement.
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Postmodernism: A Libertarian Introduction
What is postmodernism, really? And how does it relate to libertarian thought?
Building Tomorrow
The Supremacy of Permissionless Innovation
Cryptocurrency Forking as Voice and Exit
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Idealizing the Government: Political Philosophy for the Real World (with Chris Freiman)
What does the government look like in a world of entirely just people? Chris Freiman helps us answer this question.
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Could Chernobyl Happen Again?
To suss out fact from fiction, Paul and Matthew invited Matt Crozat from the Nuclear Energy Institute to discuss HBO’s portrayal of Chernobyl.
Everything Wrong with the Presidents
Everything Wrong with the Filmore Administration
For Filmore, slavery was a moral wrong, and imposing on states’ rights was a legal wrong, but for U.S. history, the chimera of legislation that became the Compromise of 1850 was a catastrophic mistake.
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The Brazilian People Reject Censorship
The United States is not the only country arguing over free speech. In Brazil, recent developments have also put free speech in jeopardy.
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Are Libertarians Selfish?
Libertarianism is, fundamentally, an other-regarding philosophy that emphasizes our obligations to refrain from dominating others and from imposing our vision of the good life on them.
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How Did the Western World Get Rich? (with Stephen Davies)
Stephen Davies joins us today to discuss how we live in a social and economic world that’s fundamentally different from the one of our ancestors.
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Canning Spam: Getting Rid of Robocalls
Have you been bombarded with robocalls? The average American is getting 22 calls per month and Ethan Garr joins us to discuss how he is trying to mitigate the pestering.
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Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom
In The Road to Serfdom F. A. Hayek warned that allowing the government the powers needed to enact a welfare state risked undermining political liberty.
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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)
U.S. leaders should to adopt a policy of 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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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.