The Curious Task

By Institute for Liberal Studies

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Episodes: 279

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We explore philosophy, politics, economics, and other ideas from a classical liberal perspective.

Episode Date
Nimish Adhia - Is Tipping A Good Practice?
Nov 20, 2024
Erwin Dekker - What Is The Value Of Art?
Nov 13, 2024
Lauren Hall - What Is Radical Moderation?
Nov 06, 2024
Elias Khalil - Who Was Ibn Khaldûn?
Oct 30, 2024
Larry White - What Is Free Banking?
Oct 23, 2024
Alex Edmans - How Do Stories, Stats And Studies Exploit Our Biases?
Oct 16, 2024
Mike Munger - Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Oct 09, 2024
Jeffrey Miron - Should Government Discourage Sin?
Oct 02, 2024
Adam Lovasz - Is Spontaneous Order Just A Human Phenomenon?
Sep 25, 2024
Colin Craig - How Bad Is Canadian Healthcare?
Sep 18, 2024
Sabine El-Chidiac - What Helps Refugees Succeed?
Sep 11, 2024
Mark Koyama - How Can Monopoly Lead To Shipwreck?
Sep 04, 2024
Jacob Levy - What Is The Idea Of A Liberal Party?
Aug 28, 2024
Nathan Goodman - How Can Border Control Affect Domestic Life?
Aug 21, 2024
Ignacio Cofone - What Is The Privacy Fallacy?
Aug 14, 2024
Bruce Pardy - Do We Have The Rule Of Law?
Aug 07, 2024
Rosolino Candela - What Is The Morality Of Illicit Markets?
Jul 31, 2024
Matt Zwolinski - What Is Bleeding Heart Libertarianism?
Jul 24, 2024
Chris Coyne - How Do You Run A War?
Jul 17, 2024
Greta Lynn Uehling - What Happens To Relationships During War?
Jul 10, 2024
Marc-William Palen - Were There Left-Wing Visions of Free Trade?
Jul 03, 2024
Joanna Baron - Did The Pandemic Undermine Civil Liberties?
Jun 26, 2024
Jonathan Blanks - What Is Systemic Racism?
Jun 19, 2024
Kevin Erdmann - Why Are We Afraid Of Building Homes?
Jun 12, 2024
Dominic Parker - Do Environmental Agencies Actually Help The Environment?
Jun 05, 2024
Ryan Bourne - Is There A War On Prices?
May 29, 2024
Kent Roach - Does Canada Have A Wrongful Conviction Problem?
May 22, 2024
Ethan Nadelmann - Has Drug Decriminalization Failed?
May 15, 2024
Craig Biddle - What Is Objectivism?
May 08, 2024
Bryce Tingle - How Are Regulations Damaging Markets?
May 01, 2024
Eric Merkley - What Motivates NIMBYs?
Apr 24, 2024
Ben Klutsey - How Do We Rebuild Trust?
Apr 17, 2024
Rachael LaRose - What Happened To Our Relationships During The Pandemic?
Apr 10, 2024
Sam Bowman - Why Can't We Have Nice Things?
Apr 03, 2024
Akshaya Kamalnath - Does Corporate Diversity Work?
Mar 27, 2024
Deirdre McCloskey - Why Does Liberalism Work?
Mar 20, 2024
Alex Nowrasteh - What's Wrong With Nationalism?
Mar 13, 2024
Oyebade Oyerinde - Has Federalism Hurt Nigeria?
Mar 06, 2024
Jason Kuznicki - What Does Technology Have To Do With Gender?
Feb 28, 2024
Marian Tupy - Are We Better Off Than Before?
Feb 21, 2024
Aeon Skoble - How Is Limiting Access to Information Harmful?
Feb 14, 2024
Eric Schliesser - Is Post-Liberalism Already Here?
Feb 07, 2024
Akiva Malamet and Mikayla Novak - How Do Markets Influence Gender?
Jan 31, 2024
Ryan Thorpe - Is Journalism In Trouble?
Jan 24, 2024
Tyler Cowen - Who Is The Greatest Economist Of All Time?
Jan 17, 2024
Matthew Mitchell and Peter Boettke - What Can We Learn From Estonia?
Jan 10, 2024
Nick Cowen - Is Public Ignorance A Problem?
Jan 03, 2024
Mike Munger - Can Classical Liberalism Be Saved?
Dec 27, 2023
Lauren Hall - Is Gender An Emergent Order?
Dec 20, 2023
Clara Piano - Does Greater Economic Freedom Lead To More Babies?
Dec 13, 2023
Sarah Skwire - Why Should Liberals Read Shakespeare?
Dec 06, 2023
David Friedman - What Is Anarcho-Capitalism?
Nov 29, 2023
Iain Murray - What Has Happened to Conservatism?
Nov 22, 2023
Brad Lips - Is The Liberty Movement In Trouble?
Nov 15, 2023
Mark Mercer - What’s Wrong With Universities?
Nov 08, 2023
Cory Massimino - How Do We Abolish Prisons?
Nov 01, 2023
Seth Kaplan - Why Are Neighbourhoods Important?
Oct 25, 2023
Noah Schwartz - Does Canada Have A Gun Problem?
Oct 18, 2023
Monica Guzman - How Can Curiosity Fix Polarization?
Oct 11, 2023
Kevin Vallier - Must Politics Be War?
Oct 04, 2023
Jayme Lemke - Who Was Elinor Ostrom?
Sep 27, 2023
Alex Aragona - 200th Episode Celebration
Sep 20, 2023
Nathan Goodman - What Does Immigration Have To Do With Climate Change
Sep 13, 2023
Paige MacPherson - What Does School Choice Look Like?
Sep 06, 2023
Peter Jaworski - What Is Libertarianism?
Aug 30, 2023
Tony Gill - Why Do We Tip?
Aug 23, 2023
Kevin Vallier - What Are The New Religious Threats To Liberalism?
Aug 16, 2023
Stefanie Haeffele - Can We Live Better Together?
Aug 09, 2023
Scott Scheall - How Are Carl and Karl Menger Important For Liberalism?
Aug 02, 2023
Jason Lee Byas - How Should We Deal With Historic Injustice?
Jul 26, 2023
Nigel Ashford - Can We Change The World For Liberty?
Jul 19, 2023
Jake Monaghan - Is Just Policing Possible?
Jul 12, 2023
Trevor Burrus - What Is The Statrix?
Jul 05, 2023
Camden Hutchison - Why Restrict Freedom of Expression?
Jun 28, 2023
Pete Boettke - Is Hayek Still Relevant?
Jun 21, 2023
Darwyyn Deyo - How Does Occupational Licensing Increase Barriers for Workers?
Jun 14, 2023
Fiona Harrigan - How Does Immigration Make Us Freer?
Jun 07, 2023
James Harrigan - What’s Wrong With Utopias?
May 31, 2023
Daniel Weinstock - Should Adolescents Vote?
May 24, 2023
Jacob Levy - Is Liberalism Neutral?
May 17, 2023
Aurelian Craiutu - Why Not Moderation?
May 10, 2023
Jason Kuznicki - Why Is It So Hard To Think About Freedom?
May 03, 2023
Monica Guzman - How Can Curiosity Fix Polarization?
Apr 26, 2023
Nolan Gray - Do We Need Zoning?
Apr 19, 2023
Mike Munger - What Is The Difference Between Directionalism and Destinationism?
Apr 12, 2023
Dennis Rasmussen - Who Wrote The American Constitution?
Apr 05, 2023
Sabine El-Chidiac - How Is Classical Liberalism Doing In Canada?
Mar 29, 2023
Noah Schwartz - Does Canada Have A Gun Problem?
Mar 22, 2023
Liya Palagashvili - What Is The State Of The Gig Economy?
Mar 15, 2023
Jay Goldberg - Does Canada Have A Censorship Problem?
Mar 08, 2023
Bryan Caplan — What’s a University Degree Worth?
Mar 01, 2023
Neil Boyd - Does Drug Decriminalization Work?
Feb 22, 2023
Vincent Geloso - What Effects Income Mobility?
Feb 15, 2023
David D’Amato - Should Intellectual Property Be Part Of A Free Society?
Feb 08, 2023
Jeremy Horpedahl - Why Do Baptists Need Bootleggers?
Feb 01, 2023
Scott Beyer - What Does Urbanism Look Like Around The World?
Jan 25, 2023
Brandon Turner - What Is Conservatism?
Jan 18, 2023
Rachel Lomasky - Can A.I. Be Ethical?
Jan 11, 2023
Geoff Sigalet - What Is The Alberta Sovereignty Act?
Jan 04, 2023
Russ Roberts — How Can Adam Smith Change Your Life?
Dec 28, 2022
2022 Holiday Wrap-up Episode
Dec 21, 2022
Lauren Hall — What’s Wrong With Modern Healthcare?
Dec 14, 2022
Matt Bufton - How Do We Feel About The Monarchy?
Dec 07, 2022
Peter Jaworski - What Is The Ought-State Gap?
Nov 30, 2022
Christy Horpedahl - How Can Books Advance Liberal Society?
Nov 23, 2022
Alex Aragona - What Is Classical Liberalism (According To Our Host)?
Nov 16, 2022
Jayme Lemke - Who Was Elinor Ostrom?
Nov 09, 2022
Thomas Bunting - What Can Baseball Tell Us About Politics?
Nov 02, 2022
Edward Slingerland - How Has Alcohol Influenced Civilization?
Oct 26, 2022
Scott Scheall - Why Is Spontaneity Important For Liberalism?
Oct 19, 2022
Claudia Williamson - Does Culture Effect Economic Progress?
Oct 12, 2022
Rosemarie Fike - How Does Inequality Effect Women’s Wellbeing?
Oct 05, 2022
John Wood Jr. - Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Sep 28, 2022
Brent Orrell - How Can We Flourish At Work?
Sep 21, 2022
Rachel Davison Humphries - What Is Education For A Free Society?
Sep 14, 2022
Sarah Skwire - Can Literature Influence Liberalism?
Sep 07, 2022
Paige MacPherson - What Does School Choice Look Like?
Aug 31, 2022
Emily Chamlee-Wright - Why Work To Advance Liberalism?
Aug 24, 2022
Chris Freiman - Why Not Anarchism?
Aug 17, 2022
Lauren Hall - How Do Libertarians Approach The Family?
Aug 10, 2022
Moin Yahya - What Is Inflation Really?
Aug 03, 2022
Jen Dirmeyer - What Do Markets Do For Us?
Jul 27, 2022
Graeme Thompson - What Is Canadian Liberalism?
Jul 20, 2022
Peter Jaworski — What Is Libertarianism?
Jul 13, 2022
Janet Bufton - Are Libertarians Liberals?
Jul 06, 2022
Jacob Levy — What Is Academic Freedom?
Jun 29, 2022
Eric Mack - Why Read Anarchy, State and Utopia? (Part Two)
Jun 22, 2022
Eric Mack - Why Read Anarchy, State and Utopia?
Jun 15, 2022
Abigail Hall - How Does Government Propaganda Manufacture Militarism?
Jun 08, 2022
Kevin Munger - Why Do Baby Boomers Still Dominate Politics and Culture?
Jun 01, 2022
Stephen Davies — What is Global Catastrophic Risk?
May 25, 2022
Deirdre McCloskey - Why Does Liberalism Work?
May 18, 2022
Dwight Newman - How Can We Maintain The Rule Of Law In An Emergency?
May 11, 2022
Jason Lee Byas - How Should We Deal With Historic Injustice?
May 04, 2022
David Friedman - What Does Law Have To Do With Economics?
Apr 27, 2022
Ryan Patrick Hanley - What Is Our Great Purpose?
Apr 20, 2022
Jacob Levy - What Is Academic Freedom?
Apr 13, 2022
Russ Roberts - What’s Wrong With Education?
Apr 11, 2022
Aaron Powell - Is Fusionism Dead?
Apr 06, 2022
Sabine El-Chidiac and Peter Jaworski - Does Immigration Make A Better World?
Mar 30, 2022
Charles Cockell - Why Is Freedom Important Beyond Earth?
Mar 23, 2022
Pete Boettke — Is a Better World Possible?
Mar 16, 2022
Matt Bufton - What Is The Future Of Liberalism From 2022?
Mar 09, 2022
Mike Munger - What’s Wrong With Anti-Trust and Industrial Policy?
Mar 02, 2022
Bryan Caplan - How Do We Fix The Housing Crisis?
Feb 23, 2022
Andrew Smith - Do Entrepreneurs Help Create Peace?
Feb 16, 2022
Adam Gurri - What ls Mere Liberalism?
Feb 09, 2022
Chandran Kukathas - What’s Wrong With Immigration Control?
Feb 02, 2022
Stephen Davies - What Is Global Catastrophic Risk?
Jan 26, 2022
Dan Shahar - Is It Okay To Eat Meat?
Jan 19, 2022
Will Clare Roberts - What Was Marx’s Relation To Liberalism?
Jan 12, 2022
James Harrigan - What Does Pop Culture Say About A Society?
Jan 05, 2022
Year in Review with Matt Bufton and Sabine El-Chidiac
Dec 29, 2021
Tony Gill - Why Do We Give Gifts?
Dec 22, 2021
Lotta Stern - Is Classical Liberalism Important for Sociology?
Dec 15, 2021
Bill Glod - Is It Okay To Make Bad Choices?
Dec 08, 2021
Gary Chartier - Do Markets Need Capitalism?
Dec 01, 2021
Ben Klutsey - How Do We Bridge Divides?
Nov 24, 2021
Jacob Levy - Why Is Montesquieu Important For Liberalism?
Nov 17, 2021
Geoff Kellow - Do Markets Promote Virtue?
Nov 10, 2021
Dan Smith - Can The Rule of Law Fix Monetary Problems?
Nov 03, 2021
Bruce Caldwell - How Did The Mont Pelerin Society Begin?
Oct 27, 2021
Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli - Is Monarchy Absurd?
Oct 20, 2021
Maria Pia Paganelli - Why Read The Wealth of Nations?
Oct 13, 2021
Emily Nacol — Is Politics Risky Business?
Oct 06, 2021
Andrew Sabl — What Is Realist Liberalism?
Sep 29, 2021
Michelle Schwarze — Should We Sympathize With Resentment?
Sep 22, 2021
Stefan Kolev — What Is Ordoliberalism?
Sep 15, 2021
Travis Smith — The Tyranny of Which Majority?
Sep 08, 2021
Caroline Breashears — What Does Adam Smith Have To Do With Literature?
Sep 01, 2021
Pete Boettke — Is A Better World Possible?
Aug 25, 2021
James Otteson — What Are The Seven Deadly Sins of Economics?
Aug 18, 2021
Moshe Lander — Should Governments Build Stadiums?
Aug 11, 2021
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili — Does Self Governance Work?
Aug 04, 2021
Eric Schliesser — What Is Neoliberalism?
Jul 28, 2021
Tom Palmer — War, What Is It Good For?
Jul 21, 2021
James Tooley — Is Low-Cost Private Education Possible?
Jul 14, 2021
Celebrating 100 Episodes
Jul 12, 2021
Steve Horwitz — What Drives Progress?
Jul 07, 2021
Tyler Cowen — Is Scarborough The Dining Capital of the World?
Jun 30, 2021
Aeon Skoble — Is Anarchy Relevant For Classical Liberalism?
Jun 23, 2021
Janet Bufton and Sarah Skwire — Why Tweet The Wealth of Nations?
Jun 16, 2021
Anton Howes — What Powered Innovation In Britain?
Jun 09, 2021
Bill Easterly — What Is The Tyranny of Experts?
Jun 02, 2021
Dennis Rasmussen — Did America Fail?
May 26, 2021
Graeme Thompson — What Is Canadian Liberalism?
May 19, 2021
Jacob Levy — How Should Liberals Think of Social Injustice?
May 18, 2021
Sandy Ikeda — What Would Jane Jacobs Do?
May 05, 2021
Terence Kealey — Should Government Fund Science?
Apr 28, 2021
Nick Cowen — Should We Regulate Online Sex Work?
Apr 21, 2021
Alex Salter — Did Central Banks Get COVID-19 Right?
Apr 14, 2021
Dan Griswold & Sabine El-Chidiac — What Should Immigration Policy Look Like After The Pandemic?
Apr 07, 2021
Bas van der Vossen — Who Owns Your Labour?
Mar 31, 2021
Matt Warner — What's Wrong With Foreign Aid?
Mar 24, 2021
Paul Robinson — Is Russia a Threat to Democracy?
Mar 17, 2021
Scott Scheall — What Is The Fundamental Problem of Political Life?
Mar 10, 2021
Shikha Dalmia — How Does Minority Activism Help Stop Authoritarianism?
Mar 03, 2021
Art Carden — Why Are We Rich?
Feb 24, 2021
Erik Kimbrough — What Influences Our Choices?
Feb 17, 2021
Ross Emmett and Steve Slivinski — What Policies Hurt Business?
Feb 10, 2021
Peter Jaworski — What Is Libertarianism?
Feb 03, 2021
Sandra Peart — What Can We Learn From John Stuart Mill?
Jan 27, 2021
James Tooley — Is Low-Cost Private Education Possible?
Jan 20, 2021
Steve Horwitz — What Drives Progress?
Jan 13, 2021
Clark Neily — How Can America's Policing Problem Be Fixed?
Jan 06, 2021
Matt Bufton and Sabine El-Chidiac — What Was 2020 Like For Liberalism?
Dec 30, 2020
Mike Tanner — Why Does Poverty Persist?
Dec 23, 2020
Janet Bufton — Are Libertarians Liberals?
Dec 16, 2020
David Skarbek — How Do Prisoners Govern?
Dec 09, 2020
Mustafa Akyol — How Free Is The Muslim World?
Dec 02, 2020
Kevin Vallier — Can Polarization Be Reversed?
Nov 25, 2020
Sabine El-Chidiac — What Helps Refugees Succeed?
Nov 18, 2020
Tom Palmer — War, What Is It Good For?
Nov 11, 2020
Virginia Postrel — How Do Textiles Shape Society?
Nov 04, 2020
Eric Merkley — Why Don't We Trust The Experts?
Oct 28, 2020
Bart Wilson — Is The Idea of Property Universal?
Oct 21, 2020
Michael Strong — Can Entrepreneurship Solve The World's Problems?
Oct 14, 2020
Cara Zwibel — Can We Maintain Civil Liberties During a Pandemic?
Oct 07, 2020
Bryan Caplan — What's a University Degree Worth?
Sep 30, 2020
Eric Schliesser — What Is Neoliberalism?
Sep 23, 2020
Lynne Kiesling — Can Markets Restructure Energy?
Sep 16, 2020
Matt Ridley — How Does Innovation Flourish?
Sep 09, 2020
Terry Anderson — How Can We Unlock The Wealth of Indigenous Nations?
Sep 02, 2020
Diana Thomas — Why Is Childcare So Expensive?
Aug 26, 2020
Vincent Geloso — Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane?
Aug 19, 2020
Dan Griswold — Can You Win a Trade War?
Aug 12, 2020
Kerry McDonald — Do We Need Schooling Alternatives?
Aug 05, 2020
Nimish Adhia — Did Bollywood Liberalize India?
Jul 29, 2020
Malcolm Lavoie — Why Are Property Rights So Important?
Jul 22, 2020
Linda Kavuka — How Do Free Markets Help Africa?
Jul 15, 2020
Fabio Rojas — What Happened to the Anti-War Movement?
Jul 08, 2020
Travis Smith — Why Are Superheroes So Popular?
Jul 01, 2020
Ilya Somin — Can You Vote With Your Feet?
Jun 24, 2020
Dennis Rasmussen — How Did A Friendship Shape Modern Thought?
Jun 17, 2020
Steve Davies — What Happens After The Pandemic?
Jun 10, 2020
Shikha Dalmia — How Are Indian Immigrants Saving Canadian Hockey?
Jun 03, 2020
Ben Perrin — What's the Solution to the Opioid Crisis?
May 27, 2020
Sarah Skwire — Why Should Women Care About Economic Freedom?
May 20, 2020
Russ Roberts — How Can Adam Smith Change Your Life?
May 13, 2020
Pete Boettke — What Is The Curious Task of Economics?
May 06, 2020
Mike Munger — Is Price Gouging Wrong?
Apr 29, 2020
David Clement — Is Marijuana Legalization Working?
Apr 22, 2020
Ray Pennings — Does School Choice Work?
Apr 15, 2020
Jason Brennan — Why Not Capitalism?
Apr 08, 2020
Jesse Walker — Did We Really Go to The Moon? (April Fool's Day Episode)
Apr 01, 2020
Matt Bufton — Are There Libertarians in a Pandemic?
Mar 25, 2020
Scott Beyer — What is Market Urbanism?
Mar 18, 2020
Jason Sorens — Could Alberta Leave Canada?
Mar 11, 2020
Chris Freiman — Is it Okay to Ignore Politics?
Mar 04, 2020
Adam Bartha — Is Populism a Threat to Liberalism?
Feb 26, 2020
Jacob Levy — How Should Liberals Think of Civil Society?
Feb 19, 2020
Vincent Geloso — Should We Care About Inequality?
Feb 12, 2020
Trevor Burrus — How Has The Drug War Failed?
Feb 05, 2020
Kevin Vallier — Must Politics Be War?
Jan 29, 2020
Glenn Fox — Is Free Market Environmentalism an Oxymoron?
Jan 22, 2020
Sandy Ikeda — Why Can't a City Be a Work of Art?
Jan 15, 2020
Mike Munger — Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Jan 08, 2020
Matt Bufton — What is the Future of Liberalism?
Jan 01, 2020
Alex Tabarrok — Is Giving Gifts Inefficient?
Dec 25, 2019
James Stacey Taylor — Should People Be Allowed to Sell Their Organs?
Dec 18, 2019
Lauren Hall — What's Wrong With Modern Healthcare?
Dec 11, 2019
Alex Nowrasteh — Is Immigration Important to a Free Society?
Dec 04, 2019
Sarah Burns — Is American Foreign Policy Broken?
Nov 27, 2019
Alain Bertaud — Who Knows Best About Planning a City?
Nov 20, 2019
Jen Dirmeyer — What Do Markets Do For Us?
Nov 13, 2019
Steve Horwitz — How Has Capitalism Helped Create The Modern Family?
Nov 06, 2019
Abigail Hall — How Does Foreign Policy Create a Boomerang Effect at Home?
Oct 30, 2019
Jason Kuznicki — What Is Government For?
Oct 23, 2019
Sigal Ben-Porath — How Can Speech Be Protected on Campus?
Oct 16, 2019
Chris Freiman — Do People Have the Right to Immigrate?
Oct 09, 2019
Jessica Flanigan — Should We Legalize All Drugs?
Oct 02, 2019
Andrew Work — Has The Extradition Law Conflict Pushed Hong Kong Toward a More Liberal Environment?
Sep 25, 2019
Eric Mack — Why Not Socialism?
Sep 18, 2019
Paul Robinson — Does Military Intervention Work?
Sep 11, 2019
Pierre Desrochers & Joanna Szurmak — Is Overpopulation Hurting the Planet?
Sep 04, 2019
James Harrigan — Can We Have Principled Politicians?
Aug 28, 2019
Jacob Levy — Does a Liberal Society Need to be Democratic?
Aug 21, 2019
Peter Jaworski — Should Markets Have Limits?
Aug 14, 2019
Nigel Ashford — What is Classical Liberalism?
Jul 29, 2019