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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.
Everything Wrong with the Presidents
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.
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Commerce and Trade in Ancient Africa: Aksum
The power and importance of Aksum were paralleled by no other African civilization during the period of its existence besides Egypt writes Ibrahim Anoba in his latest installment of Ancient African economies.
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New Conspiracism and Modern Politics (with Russell Muirhead)
Russell Muirhead joins us to discuss the difference between conspiracism and conspiracy theory and how it influences modern political discussions.
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What Lawmakers Don’t Understand About Tech Policy
Zach Graves and Daniel Schuman join us to discuss how Congress is designed to be a debate process, but it is hard to debate when you don’t have the expertise in a certain topic area, like technology.
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In Defense of Big Business (with Tyler Cowen)
Tyler Cowen joins us to discuss the value of work and how big businesses give people opportunities to feel fulfilled in their lives.
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Parlez-Vous Français? There’s an App for That
Learning a foreign language used to be long, expensive process requiring teachers. Today, there are apps that make language learning easier and cheaper.
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SimCity 5: Exploring Charter Cities (and More!)
Paul interviews Ian Adams and Mark Lutter on two very different topics with one connection: the value of planning for the future.
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A Libertarian Perspective on the Modern American Welfare State
The American welfare state is expensive, of limited efficacy, and crowds out better options for alleviating poverty.
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The Use of Euphemisms in Political Debate
Euphemisms tend to serve as signals of political-tribal membership, but also as means to convince ambivalent voters to support one policy or the other.
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Objections to Libertarianism (with Eric Mack)
Eric Mack joins our show again to talk about common objections to libertarianism by dissecting John Rawls viewpoint.