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Our Criminal Injustice System (with Jason Brennan and Chris Surprenant)
Jason Brennan and Chris Surprenant join us today to diagnose why and where the American criminal just system fails.
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Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell is Director and Editor of Libertarianism.org, a project of the Cato Institute. Libertarianism.org presents introductory material as well as new scholarship related to libertarian philosophy, theory, and history. He is also co-host of Libertarianism.org’s popular podcast, Free Thoughts. His writing has appeared in Liberty and The Cato Journal. He earned a JD from the University of Denver.
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Are Social Networks Censoring Conservatives? (with John Samples & Matthew Feeney)
Trevor and Aaron are joined by Cato’s Matthew Feeney and John Samples (a new member of the Facebook Oversight Board), to talk about the pros and cons of content moderation.
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The Radio Right (with Paul Matzko)
Paul Matzko, the host of Building Tomorrow, joins the show to talk about how the government orchestrated one of the largest censorship campaigns in history against right wing radio in the 1960’s, but many people still don’t know about it.
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When Innovation Breaks the Rules (with Adam Thierer)
Evasive Entrepreneurs, innovators who don’t always conform to social or legal norms, are changing the world and challenging their governments.
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Answering Questions about Libertarianism
Join the hosts of the Free Thoughts podcast as they answer questions about libertarian philosophy and policy.
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Forgotten Libertarians (with Paul Meany)
The host of Portraits of Liberty, Paul Meany, joins the show to highlight historical thinkers who may not have been strictly libertarian, but argued for a freer world.
Pop & Locke
Hackers
Aaron Ross Powell, Julian Sanchez, and Eva Galperin join the show today to hack the planet.
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The Covid-19 Economy
Ryan Bourne and Diego Zuluaga come back to the show to talk about how both fiscal and monetary policy are changing drastically to respond to COVID-19.
Building Tomorrow
Decentralizing Social Media (with Bill Ottman of Minds.com)
Why doesn’t Facebook pay it’s users for their incredibly valuable data? Minds.com does do just that, explains CEO Bill Ottman.
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Is Homeschooling Dangerous? (with Kevin Currie-Knight)
Kevin Currie-Knight comes back to the show to discuss different methods of homeschooling and how parents are handling the education of their children during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Libertarianism and Copyright (with Radu Uszkai)
Radu Uszkai joins the show today to talk about if the case against intellectual property can be strengthened by appealing to the work of F.A. Hayek.
Building Tomorrow
Innovation Isn’t Guaranteed (with Matt Ridley)
What do cowpox pus, the radio, and coffee have in common? More than you might think.
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How Innovation Works (with Matt Ridley)
Matt Ridley joins the show today to talk about his new book, How Innovation Works.
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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.
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Introduction to Visions of Liberty
Visions of Liberty sets out to explore libertarianism by describing the hopeful future it could bring about.
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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.
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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Politics Makes Us Worse
In the United States, nothing makes us hate each other quite like politics.