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Willful Partisan Blindness: The Immigration Example
We must overcome our political-cultural group affinities if we wish to see things as they are: the problem isn’t ultimately who controls the state, but the state itself.
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Where Have All the Disney Redheads Gone?
Disney’s recasting of redheaded characters with black actors makes historical and artistic sense.
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Eugenics and the Immigration Act of 1924 (with Daniel Okrent)
Daniel Okrent joins us to discuss how the “science” of eugenics was the basis of the rationale for the Immigration Act of 1924.
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Haters Gonna Hate Speech
What was the real beef between Crowder and Maza? Matthew Feeney and Paul Matzko dive in to the mines of content moderation.
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The Historical Context of the Third Amendment
The quartering of soldiers on private property was a real, pressing threat to liberty when the Bill of Rights was drafted.
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower (with Jason Brennan & Phil Magness)
Jason Brennan and Phil Magness join us today to talk about all the perverse incentives that are at play in higher education.
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King George III or Donald Trump? Reading the Declaration of Independence in 2019
Donald Trump is more similar to King George III than many care to admit, but we should.
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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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Speech Police
David Kaye joins us today to discuss how social media platforms are actually massive bureaucracies.
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Postmodernism: A Libertarian Introduction
What is postmodernism, really? And how does it relate to libertarian thought?
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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.
Building Tomorrow
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.