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A weekly show about politics and liberty, featuring conversations with top scholars, philosophers, historians, economists, and public policy experts. Hosted by Trevor Burrus.

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Episode Date
Coming Soon: The Liberty Exchange
Oct 02, 2023
Fighting Government Secrecy (with Patrick Eddington)
Oct 21, 2022
When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)
Oct 14, 2022
Floods, Nuclear Power, and Wages (with Peter Van Doren)
Oct 07, 2022
How the 14th Amendment Changed America (with Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick)
Sep 30, 2022
Free Market: The History of an Idea (with Jacob Soll)
Sep 23, 2022
Can Public Schools Work? (with Neal McCluskey)
Sep 16, 2022
Why More People Means More Wealth (with Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley)
Sep 09, 2022
Racial Classification in America (with David Bernstein)
Sep 02, 2022
The Statrix: How Government Warps Our Perception of the World (Rerun)
Aug 26, 2022
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Drug War (with Johann Hari)
Aug 19, 2022
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge (with Matt Ridley) (Rerun)
Aug 12, 2022
Black Liberation Through the Marketplace (with Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher)
Aug 05, 2022
How Evil are Politicians? (with Bryan Caplan)
Jul 29, 2022
Inflation! (with Norbert Michel)
Jul 22, 2022
What’s Wrong with Zoning (with M. Nolan Gray)
Jul 15, 2022
Forensic Frauds and Criminal Justice (with M. Chris Fabricant)
Jul 08, 2022
Conservatism Vs. The Right (with Matthew Continetti)
Jul 01, 2022
The Socialist Temptation (with Iain Murray)
Jun 27, 2022
A Conversation About Guns (with Clark Neily)
Jun 17, 2022
Why Did America Invade Iraq? (with Michael Mazarr)
Jun 10, 2022
Seven Deadly Economic Sins
Jun 03, 2022
What Broke American Health Care?
May 27, 2022
Big Tech & Free Speech
May 20, 2022
Real Economics (with Peter Boettke)
May 12, 2022
Justice Before the Law (with Michael Huemer)
May 06, 2022
Why Privacy Matters (with Neil Richards)
Apr 29, 2022
Free Speech, A History (with Jacob Mchangama)
Apr 22, 2022
The ABCs of Inflation
Apr 15, 2022
Growing up in the USSR
Apr 08, 2022
The DNA of War (with Andrew Heaton)
Apr 01, 2022
Poverty in the Golden State (with Michael Tanner)
Mar 25, 2022
Labor Econ Versus the World (with Bryan Caplan)
Mar 18, 2022
American Terror After 9/11 (with Spencer Ackerman)
Mar 11, 2022
Aaron's Farewell to Free Thoughts
Mar 04, 2022
Is Nuclear Power Worth It? (with Peter Van Doren)
Feb 25, 2022
The Philosophy of Honesty (with Christian Miller)
Feb 18, 2022
The Allure of the “Natural” (with Alan Levinovitz)
Feb 11, 2022
How to Protect Our Elections (with Walter Olson and Andy Craig)
Feb 05, 2022
How Prisons are Governed (with David Skarbek)
Jan 28, 2022
How The Force Can Fix The World (with Stephen Kent)
Jan 21, 2022
Punishment Without Trial (with Carissa Byrne Hessick)
Jan 14, 2022
Rerun: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Jan 07, 2022
Rerun: Why Can't You Email Your Doctor?
Dec 31, 2021
Rerun: Lessons from a Bank-Robbing Law Professor
Dec 24, 2021
Tech Panic (with Robby Soave)
Dec 17, 2021
Do Markets Make Us Worse? (with Ginny Choi)
Dec 10, 2021
A Libertarian in Government (with Mark Calabria)
Dec 03, 2021
Rerun: Remaining Grateful with Steven Horwitz
Nov 26, 2021
Nationalism in America
Nov 19, 2021
Regulation Games (with Peter Van Doren)
Nov 12, 2021
The Drug War in Mexico (with Benjamin T. Smith)
Nov 05, 2021
Blind Injustice (with Mark Godsey)
Oct 29, 2021
How to Fix African Poverty (with Magatte Wade)
Oct 22, 2021
Undoing Drugs (with Maia Szalavitz)
Oct 15, 2021
America’s War Propaganda (with Chris Coyne and Abby Hall)
Oct 08, 2021
Is Section 230 a Problem? (with Jeff Kosseff)
Oct 01, 2021
What Happened in Afghanistan (with Sahar Khan)
Sep 24, 2021
America's Political Instability
Sep 17, 2021
Don't Do Your Own Research (with Julian Sanchez)
Sep 10, 2021
How Covid Changed the School Choice Debate (with Corey DeAngelis)
Sep 03, 2021
What's Next for Criminal Justice Reform (with John Pfaff)
Aug 27, 2021
Thinking Philosophically (with Michael Huemer)
Aug 20, 2021
What is Corporate Social Responsibility? (with Don Boudreaux)
Aug 13, 2021
How to Govern Internet Platforms (with Neil Chilson)
Aug 06, 2021
Libertarianism & Egalitarianism (with Daniel Shapiro)
Jul 30, 2021
Where College Students Stand (With Clay Routledge and John Bitzan)
Jul 23, 2021
What is Neoliberalism? (with Kevin Vallier)
Jul 16, 2021
The Ideas of Thomas Sowell (with Jason Riley)
Jul 09, 2021
Rise of the Warrior Cop (with Radley Balko)
Jul 02, 2021
Why Government Fails (with Chris Edwards)
Jun 25, 2021
Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars (with Chris Lombardi)
Jun 18, 2021
Seeking Truth in the Misinformation Age (with Jonathan Rauch)
Jun 11, 2021
Getting Environmentalism Right (with Michael Shellenberger)
Jun 04, 2021
Stoic Wisdom (with Nancy Sherman)
May 28, 2021
Reopening Muslim Minds (with Mustafa Aykol)
May 21, 2021
More Immigration, More Freedom (with Chandran Kukathas)
May 14, 2021
Does the FDA Save Lives? (with Peter Van Doren)
May 07, 2021
War is Stupid (with John Mueller)
Apr 30, 2021
Economics in One Virus (with Ryan Bourne)
Apr 23, 2021
How Textiles Made the Modern World (with Virginia Postrel)
Apr 16, 2021
Fighting the Foreign Policy Establishment (with Justin Logan)
Apr 09, 2021
Who Messed with Texas's Electricity (with Peter Van Doren)
Apr 02, 2021
Why It's OK to Want to Be Rich (with Jason Brennan)
Mar 26, 2021
Making Fun of Dictators (with Bassem Youseff)
Mar 19, 2021
GameStop & the Mysteries of the Stock Market
Mar 12, 2021
Does Trade Harm National Security? (with Scott Lincicome)
Mar 05, 2021
Immigration's Economic Impact (with Alex Nowrasteh)
Feb 26, 2021
Drug Use for Grown Ups (with Carl Hart)
Feb 19, 2021
Did the New Deal End the Great Depression? (with George Selgin)
Feb 12, 2021
Trust in a Polarized Age (with Kevin Vallier)
Feb 05, 2021
The 2020 Election and the Capitol Insurrection (with Walter Olson)
Jan 29, 2021
How Technology is Changing Education (with Andy Matuschak)
Jan 22, 2021
Are Monopolies a Problem? (with Peter Van Doren)
Jan 15, 2021
Open Societies & Human Progress (with Johan Norberg)
Jan 08, 2021
(Re-Release): The Story of Money in the United States
Jan 01, 2021
(Re-Release): Equality of Capabilities, or Equality of Outcomes?
Dec 25, 2020
Fixing Supreme Court Nominations (with Ilya Shapiro)
Dec 18, 2020
America's Revolutionary Mind (with C. Bradley Thompson)
Dec 11, 2020
The Comedy of Politics (with Andrew Heaton)
Dec 04, 2020
The Property Species (with Bart Wilson)
Nov 27, 2020
The Conservative Liberalism of Burke, Smith, and Hume (with Dan Klein)
Nov 20, 2020
The Art of Gender (with Jason Kuznicki)
Nov 13, 2020
The Ethics of Capitalism (with John Thrasher)
Nov 06, 2020
The Politics of Genetic Enhancement (with Jonathan Anomaly)
Oct 30, 2020
The Free Spirits of Liberalism (with Steven Pittz)
Oct 23, 2020
How America Could Fall (with David French)
Oct 16, 2020
Can We Evolve Beyond Government? (with Max Borders)
Oct 09, 2020
It’s Okay to Ignore Politics (with Chris Freiman)
Oct 02, 2020
The Philosophy of Gerald Gaus (with Kevin Vallier and Chad Van Schoelandt)
Sep 25, 2020
Zoning Ruins Everything (with Emily Hamilton)
Sep 18, 2020
The Experience of Policing (with Renée Mitchell)
Sep 11, 2020
Capitalism and its Critics (with Michael Munger)
Sep 04, 2020
Rothbardian Anarchism (with Cory Massimino)
Aug 28, 2020
What is Free Speech? (with Adam Gurri)
Aug 21, 2020
Explaining Postmodernism (with Akiva Malamet)
Aug 14, 2020
Climate Change Panic (with Bjorn Lomborg)
Aug 07, 2020
Unpacking Constitutional Law (with Randy Barnett & Josh Blackman)
Jul 31, 2020
What Divides Us (with Emily Ekins)
Jul 24, 2020
You Are (Probably) Not a Good Person (with Christian Miller)
Jul 17, 2020
The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (with Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke)
Jul 10, 2020
Black Lives and Guns (with Nicholas Johnson)
Jul 03, 2020
Bleeding Heart Libertarianism: A Retrospective (with Matt Zwolinski)
Jun 26, 2020
The Power of Voting with Your Feet (with Ilya Somin)
Jun 19, 2020
Who Broke Congress? (With Rep. Justin Amash)
Jun 12, 2020
Our Criminal Injustice System (with Jason Brennan and Chris Surprenant)
Jun 05, 2020
Are Social Networks Censoring Conservatives? (with John Samples & Matthew Feeney)
May 29, 2020
The Radio Right (with Paul Matzko)
May 22, 2020
When Innovation Breaks the Rules (with Adam Thierer)
May 15, 2020
Forgotten Libertarians (with Paul Meany)
May 08, 2020
The Covid-19 Economy
May 01, 2020
Is Homeschooling Dangerous? (with Kevin Currie-Knight)
Apr 24, 2020
Libertarianism and Copyright (with Radu Uszkai)
Apr 17, 2020
How Innovation Works (with Matt Ridley)
Apr 10, 2020
Must Politics Be War? (with Kevin Vallier)
Apr 03, 2020
The Nationalism Problem (with Stephanie Slade)
Mar 27, 2020
Politics Makes Us Worse
Mar 20, 2020
Do We Have a Duty to Vote? (with Julia Maskivker)
Mar 13, 2020
Overdoing Democracy (with Robert Talisse)
Mar 06, 2020
Innovation and Creative Destruction (With Arthur Diamond)
Feb 28, 2020
Medicalization of Birth & Death (with Lauren K. Hall)
Feb 21, 2020
The Evolution of Cooperation (with Nicholas A. Christakis)
Feb 14, 2020
Bitcoin: Boom or Bust?
Feb 07, 2020
Why We are Wrong About Nearly Everything (with Bobby Duffy)
Jan 31, 2020
Rebuilding America (with Yuval Levin)
Jan 24, 2020
Can Science Save Us? (with Peter Van Doren)
Jan 17, 2020
The Politics of Science (with Terence Kealey)
Jan 10, 2020
Exploring Wealth Inequality
Jan 03, 2020
Tyranny of Public Health (with Jacob Sullum)
Dec 27, 2019
Foreign Policy and the Trump Doctrine
Dec 20, 2019
Government-Created Segregation (with Richard Rothstein)
Dec 13, 2019
Becoming a Whistleblower (with Patrick Eddington)
Dec 06, 2019
The Case for Open Borders (with Bryan Caplan & Zach Weinersmith)
Nov 29, 2019
How to be Epicurean (with Catherine Wilson)
Nov 22, 2019
The War on Tobacco (with Jacob Grier)
Nov 15, 2019
Why Liberalism Works (with Deirdre McCloskey)
Nov 08, 2019
Finding Meaning in an Age of Individualism (with Clay Routledge)
Nov 01, 2019
From the Magna Carta to Brexit (with David Starkey)
Oct 25, 2019
How Mao Broke China (with Frank Dikötter)
Oct 18, 2019
What is Liberalism? (with Helena Rosenblatt & Daniel Klein)
Oct 11, 2019
Being Nice and Self-Reliant: A New England Libertarianism (with Dan Moller)
Oct 04, 2019
The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski (with Timothy Sandefur)
Sep 27, 2019
Talking Across Political Divides (with Arnold Kling)
Sep 20, 2019
Why is Populism So Popular? (with Tom Palmer)
Sep 12, 2019
How the World's Poorest are Educating Themselves (with James Tooley)
Sep 06, 2019
What's Wrong with National Conservatism?
Aug 30, 2019
Young Radicals in the Age of Trump (with Robby Soave)
Aug 23, 2019
Social Media's Moral Panic (with Milton Mueller)
Aug 16, 2019
Remaining Grateful with Steve Horwitz
Aug 09, 2019
Education in the Marketplace (with Kevin Currie-Knight)
Aug 02, 2019
Tyranny Comes Home (with Chris Coyne and Abigail Hall)
Jul 26, 2019
Celebrating 300
Jul 19, 2019
Eugenics and the Immigration Act of 1924 (with Daniel Okrent)
Jul 12, 2019
Cracks in the Ivory Tower (with Jason Brennan & Phil Magness)
Jul 05, 2019
Stranger Thoughts
Jul 03, 2019
Idealizing the Government: Political Philosophy for the Real World (with Chris Freiman)
Jun 28, 2019
How Did the Western World Get Rich? (with Stephen Davies)
Jun 20, 2019
How America Gullibly Supported Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements (with Ted Galen Carpenter)
Jun 14, 2019
How Petty Misdemeanors Get Seriously Punished (with Alexandra Natapoff)
Jun 07, 2019
For the Throne: Our Watch Has Ended (with Ilya Somin)
May 30, 2019
New Conspiracism and Modern Politics (with Russell Muirhead)
May 24, 2019
In Defense of Big Business (with Tyler Cowen)
May 17, 2019
Objections to Libertarianism (with Eric Mack)
May 10, 2019
The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
May 03, 2019
Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy
Apr 26, 2019
Unbundling the State (with Jason Kuznicki)
Apr 19, 2019
The Birth of American Imperialism (with Stephen Kinzer)
Apr 12, 2019
Quitting the Border Patrol (with Josh Childress)
Apr 05, 2019
How Taxation Affects Income Inequality (with Phil Magness)
Mar 29, 2019
Happy (Belated) Birthday James Madison!
Mar 22, 2019
Liberty and the African American Experience (with Jonathan Blanks)
Mar 15, 2019
The Collapse of the Local Community (with Tim Carney)
Mar 08, 2019
The Intellectual Tradition of Libertarianism (with Eric Mack)
Mar 01, 2019
Overparenting & Bad Public Policy (with Lenore Skenazy)
Feb 22, 2019
Is There Any Justification for Paternalistic Policies? (with Christopher Snowdon)
Feb 15, 2019
A Duty to Resist (with Candice Delmas)
Feb 08, 2019
The FDA Ruins Everything You Eat (with Baylen Linnekin)
Feb 01, 2019
The Unintended Consequences of Drug Prohibition (with Jeff Miron)
Jan 25, 2019
Is Trump Deregulating? (With Peter Van Doren)
Jan 18, 2019
Can We Reduce the Footprint of the Fed? (with George Selgin)
Jan 11, 2019
Resisting State Injustice (with Jason Brennan)
Jan 04, 2019
The World is Getting Better (with Marian Tupy)
Dec 28, 2018
Is Wall Street Overregulated? (with Todd Zywicki)
Dec 21, 2018
Why Being Poor is Expensive (with Ryan Bourne)
Dec 14, 2018
Bringing Wealth to the Poor (with Michael Tanner)
Dec 07, 2018
Teaching Economics (with Steve Horwitz)
Nov 30, 2018
Free Thoughts/Power Problem Crossover: Are Libertarians Isolationists? (with Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford)
Nov 23, 2018
What are State Constitutions Good for? (with Hon. Jeffrey Sutton)
Nov 16, 2018
The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System (with Christy Ford Chapin)
Nov 09, 2018
Derailed: The False Promises of Trains, Subways, and Light Rail (with Randal O'Toole)
Nov 02, 2018
Understanding Impeachment (with Gene Healy)
Oct 26, 2018
Emerging Tech (with Matthew Feeney)
Oct 19, 2018
Regulation Magazine Fall 2018 (with Peter Van Doren)
Oct 17, 2018
Understanding Pakistan (with Sahar Khan)
Oct 12, 2018
The Coddling of the American Mind (with Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff)
Oct 05, 2018
The Many Myths About Adam Smith (with Jesse Norman)
Sep 28, 2018
Laughing about Politics (with P.J. O'Rourke)
Sep 21, 2018
How Superpowers See the World (with Christopher Fettweis)
Sep 14, 2018
Is Public Transportation Worth It? (with Peter Van Doren)
Sep 07, 2018
Was the Buddha a Libertarian? (with Matthew J. Moore)
Aug 31, 2018
Can we ever downsize government? (with Chris Edwards)
Aug 24, 2018
The Moral Collapse of Evangelical America (with Rob Schenck)
Aug 17, 2018
Should We Fear 3D Printed Guns? (with Matthew Larosiere)
Aug 10, 2018
Helping Refugees in an Era of Nationalism (with Adam Bates)
Aug 02, 2018
Cato, Congress, and the Realities of Governing (with Jeff Vanderslice and Matt Weibel)
Jul 27, 2018
The Sad History of the FCC (with Thomas Hazlett)
Jul 20, 2018
When FDR Took Americans’ Gold (with Sebastian Edwards)
Jul 13, 2018
Regulation Magazine, Summer 2018 (with Peter Van Doren)
Jul 09, 2018
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (with Alex Nowrasteh)
Jul 06, 2018
Introducing Building Tomorrow!
Jul 05, 2018
An Ecological Theory of Free Expression (with Gary Chartier)
Jun 29, 2018
Beyond the Sea: The Possibilities of Seasteading
Jun 22, 2018
Our Fragile National Ego: Foreign Policy and the Struggle for Prestige
Jun 15, 2018
Pharmaceutical Freedom (with Jessica Flanigan)
Jun 08, 2018
Hamilton v. Madison (with Jay Cost)
Jun 01, 2018
Tomorrow 3.0: Uberizing The Economy (with Mike Munger)
May 25, 2018
The Future of Money (with Diego Zuluaga)
May 18, 2018
Trade War! (with Dan Ikenson)
May 11, 2018
What’s Facebook Done With My Data? (with Will Duffield)
May 04, 2018
Peter Van Doren Vs. MS-13
Apr 27, 2018
Ayn Rand: An Introduction (with Eamonn Butler)
Apr 20, 2018
Speak Freely (with Keith E. Whittington)
Apr 13, 2018
WTF?! Economics (with Peter T. Leeson)
Apr 06, 2018
Understanding Common Law (with John Hasnas)
Mar 30, 2018
Forensics, Pseudoscience and Criminal Injustice (with Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington)
Mar 23, 2018
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man (with Timothy Sandefur)
Mar 16, 2018
Why Are Cops Unaccountable? (with Jay Schweikert and Clark Neily)
Mar 09, 2018
Is the DEA Trippin'? (with Rick Doblin)
Mar 02, 2018
The Pope’s Politics
Feb 23, 2018
The Case Against Education
Feb 16, 2018
Contracts and Cryptography
Feb 09, 2018
How the Media Really Works
Feb 02, 2018
Choose Your Own Government
Jan 26, 2018
Trump’s Assault on America’s Institutions
Jan 19, 2018
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Jan 12, 2018
Guns and Mass Shootings
Jan 05, 2018
How the Federal Reserve Works
Dec 29, 2017
Free Speech Online
Dec 22, 2017
How Conscious Capitalism Can Solve Global Poverty
Dec 15, 2017
How the Powerful Captured the Economy
Dec 08, 2017
Punk Rock Politics
Dec 01, 2017
How the Right Lost Its Mind
Nov 24, 2017
Do Employers Rule Our Lives?
Nov 17, 2017
Your World on the Blockchain
Nov 10, 2017
The Implications of Behavioral Economics
Nov 03, 2017
How Drug Prohibition Caused the Opioid Crisis
Oct 27, 2017
Washington's Five Tricks
Oct 20, 2017
Is the Iran Deal a Good Deal?
Oct 13, 2017
The Real James Buchanan
Oct 06, 2017
North Korea 101
Sep 29, 2017
Ten Things Political Scientists Know that You Don’t
Sep 22, 2017
Lessons from the Anti-Federalists
Sep 15, 2017
What's the Right Number of Koala Bears?
Sep 08, 2017
Rights and Radicalism
Sep 01, 2017
Arguments for Liberty: Utilitarianism
Aug 25, 2017
Free Thoughts on Free Thoughts: 200 Episodes and Counting
Aug 18, 2017
Close America's Overseas Bases
Aug 11, 2017
The Fate of the West
Aug 04, 2017
Neoliberalism in the U.K.
Jul 28, 2017
We Broke the First Rule of Fight Club
Jul 21, 2017
Who Elected Donald Trump?
Jul 14, 2017
Arguments for Liberty: Rawlsianism
Jul 07, 2017
Liberalism 1.0
Jun 30, 2017
Markets in Everything?
Jun 23, 2017
Lessons from a Bank-Robbing Law Professor
Jun 16, 2017
Private Schooling for Everyone
Jun 09, 2017
Is Liberalism in Danger?
Jun 02, 2017
Stories from Putin's Economist
May 26, 2017
Nothing Is Secure
May 19, 2017
The True Causes of Mass Incarceration
May 12, 2017
Why We're Too Complacent
May 05, 2017
The War on Sex Work
Apr 28, 2017
Guantanamo Bay Is Still Open
Apr 21, 2017
How Much Should We Worry About ISIS?
Apr 14, 2017
Stuck in Political Nostalgia
Apr 07, 2017
Can Anarchy Work?
Mar 31, 2017
The CIA Listens to Free Thoughts
Mar 25, 2017
Must You Obey Government?
Mar 17, 2017
The Cato Institute at 40
Mar 10, 2017
How Economists Think About Health Care
Mar 03, 2017
A Muslim Case for Liberty
Feb 24, 2017
The Libertarian Student Movement
Feb 17, 2017
Taking Government Un-Seriously
Feb 10, 2017
The Truth About Immigration
Feb 03, 2017
Liberaltarianism and Trump
Jan 27, 2017
King Obama, King Trump: The Dangers of an Imperial Presidency
Jan 20, 2017
Wages and Workers
Jan 13, 2017
Arguments for Liberty: Kantianism
Jan 06, 2017
Harambe to Trump: 2016 Was the Worst
Dec 30, 2016
The Gold Standard Won't Be Coming Back
Dec 23, 2016
The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It
Dec 16, 2016
Why Schools Haven't Changed in Hundreds of Years
Dec 09, 2016
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Dec 02, 2016
College: Too Costly, Too Little Learning, Too Much Underemployment
Nov 25, 2016
Why Can't You Email Your Doctor?
Nov 18, 2016
The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians
Nov 11, 2016
Bonus Election Day Episode: Should Libertarians Vote?
Nov 08, 2016
Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
Nov 04, 2016
People, Not Ratios: Why the Debate Over Income Inequality Asks the Wrong Questions
Oct 28, 2016
Communicating Liberty Through Film and the Making Of "Freedom on Trial"
Oct 21, 2016
Explaining the Rise of Donald Trump
Oct 14, 2016
Rituals of Freedom: Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism
Oct 07, 2016
Politics As a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy
Sep 30, 2016
Thin Blue Lies: How Pretextual Stops Undermine Police Legitimacy
Sep 23, 2016
Against Democracy
Sep 16, 2016
Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time
Sep 09, 2016
The World According to Star Wars
Sep 02, 2016
Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People
Aug 26, 2016
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
Aug 19, 2016
The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism
Aug 12, 2016
Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions
Aug 05, 2016
John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Part 1
Jul 29, 2016
How American Politics Went Insane
Jul 22, 2016
Campus Freedom
Jul 15, 2016
Specialization and Trade: A Re-introduction to Economics
Jul 08, 2016
How New Technology Is Changing Law Enforcement
Jul 01, 2016
The Constitution in Practice: From Liberty to Leviathan
Jun 24, 2016
The Philosophical Foundations of the Constitution
Jun 17, 2016
The Statrix: How Government Warps Our Perception of the World
Jun 10, 2016
Teaching School Choice to the American Education System
Jun 03, 2016
The Bourgeois Era
May 27, 2016
Socrates on Trial, Part 2: Crito
May 20, 2016
The Skeptical Libertarian
May 13, 2016
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
May 06, 2016
The Ideas of Adam Smith
Apr 29, 2016
Why Liberty Takes Character
Apr 22, 2016
Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, Part 2
Apr 15, 2016
Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment
Apr 08, 2016
The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America
Apr 01, 2016
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
Mar 25, 2016
The Fight for Free Speech in the Courts
Mar 18, 2016
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Mar 11, 2016
What's Wrong With Labor Unions?
Mar 04, 2016
Transportation, Land Use, and Freedom
Feb 26, 2016
Why Property Rights Matter
Feb 19, 2016
How Well Does the Constitution Protect Liberty?
Feb 12, 2016
Socrates on Trial, Part 1: Apology
Feb 05, 2016
What Role Should Science Play in Public Policy?
Jan 29, 2016
Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy
Jan 22, 2016
Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System
Jan 15, 2016
The Tyranny of Silence
Jan 08, 2016
Intellectual Influences on Our 2015 Guests
Jan 01, 2016
Politics and Principle in New Zealand
Dec 25, 2015
The Politics of Star Wars
Dec 18, 2015
What Are the Risks of Terrorism?
Dec 11, 2015
Building a Better Government
Dec 04, 2015
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
Nov 27, 2015
Taking a Stand
Nov 20, 2015
The Politics of Star Trek
Nov 13, 2015
The Legacy of Roy A. Childs, Jr.
Nov 06, 2015
The Distinction Between Governance and Government
Oct 30, 2015
America's Authoritarian Alliances
Oct 23, 2015
Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, Part 1
Oct 16, 2015
"Ideological Dorks"
Oct 09, 2015
The End of Doom
Oct 02, 2015
"Net Neutrality" vs. Internet Freedom
Sep 25, 2015
Why Young People Aren't Interested in Running for Office
Sep 18, 2015
Toleration
Sep 11, 2015
The Libertarian Moment?
Sep 03, 2015
War Is the Health of the State
Aug 28, 2015
Lysander Spooner's Letter to Grover Cleveland
Aug 21, 2015
Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?
Aug 14, 2015
A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America
Aug 07, 2015
Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis
Jul 31, 2015
When Is Voluntary Choice Really Voluntary?
Jul 24, 2015
What Does It Mean to Think Philosophically?
Jul 20, 2015
How Much Should Philosophy Influence Public Policy?
Jul 13, 2015
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
Jul 06, 2015
The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State
Jun 29, 2015
The Education Apocalypse: How It Happened and How to Survive It
Jun 22, 2015
Taxation: How the Government Funds Itself
Jun 15, 2015
The Ideas of Friedrich Hayek
Jun 08, 2015
The Austrian Tradition in Economics
Jun 01, 2015
From Jailer to Jailed: Bernard Kerik's Story
May 25, 2015
End the IRS Before It Ends Us
May 18, 2015
How Free Trade Creates Wealth
May 11, 2015
The Cato Institute and the Libertarian Movement
May 04, 2015
The Radical Notion of Individualism
Apr 27, 2015
Big Business Loves Big Government: Cronyism in American Politics
Apr 20, 2015
The End of Socialism
Apr 13, 2015
Why Transparency Matters in Local Politics
Apr 06, 2015
How Does Libertarianism Deal with the Problem of Pollution?
Mar 30, 2015
Did Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Really Save America?
Mar 23, 2015
The Problem of Police Misconduct
Mar 16, 2015
Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption
Mar 09, 2015
How Obamacare Really Works...and How It Doesn't
Mar 02, 2015
What Makes a Fair Election?
Feb 23, 2015
The Second Amendment at the Supreme Court
Feb 16, 2015
When the Government Takes Things
Feb 09, 2015
The Moral Arc of Science and Reason
Feb 02, 2015
How Government Housing Policy Distorts the American Dream
Jan 26, 2015
What Does Libertarian Feminism Look Like?
Jan 19, 2015
An Introduction to Public Choice
Jan 12, 2015
The Right to Earn a Living
Jan 05, 2015
The Inhumanity of Torture
Dec 29, 2014
Science Doesn't Need Public Funding
Dec 22, 2014
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Dec 15, 2014
Welcome to the Sharing Economy
Dec 08, 2014
The Limits of Utilitarianism
Dec 01, 2014
Liberty and the American Experience
Nov 24, 2014
What Influences Elections?
Nov 17, 2014
The Cost of Earning More Money
Nov 10, 2014
The Internet Doesn't Need to Be Saved
Nov 03, 2014
When Is It Appropriate to Go to War?
Oct 27, 2014
"Libertarian" Paternalism?
Oct 20, 2014
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Oct 13, 2014
The Changing Role of Criminal Law
Oct 06, 2014
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Sep 29, 2014
Deconstructing the Surveillance State
Sep 22, 2014
The Problem of Political Authority
Sep 15, 2014
Listener Q&A: Where Are All the Libertarian Countries?
Sep 08, 2014
The Story of Money in the United States
Sep 01, 2014
The Libertarian Supreme Court
Aug 25, 2014
Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
Aug 18, 2014
The Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Aug 11, 2014
The Problem of Judicial Abdication
Aug 04, 2014
The State of State Education in America
Jul 28, 2014
Libertarianism and Christianity
Jul 21, 2014
The Up Side of Down
Jul 14, 2014
Discrimination Law in an Overlawyered America
Jul 07, 2014
The Specter of Wall Street
Jun 30, 2014
Why Not Capitalism?
Jun 23, 2014
The Structure of Liberty
Jun 16, 2014
Regulations Gone Wrong
Jun 09, 2014
Why Aren't There More Black Libertarians?
Jun 02, 2014
Intellectual Privilege
May 26, 2014
Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
May 19, 2014
America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
May 12, 2014
Equality of Capabilities, or Equality of Outcomes?
May 05, 2014
Capitalism Can Save the Environment
Apr 28, 2014
Is Income Inequality a Problem?
Apr 21, 2014
The Three Languages of Politics
Apr 14, 2014
Is Bitcoin the Future of Money?
Apr 07, 2014
Millennials and Immigration (at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference)
Mar 31, 2014
The Virtue of Justice
Mar 24, 2014
The Death Penalty
Mar 18, 2014
How to Fix Health Care
Mar 10, 2014
Democracy and Political Ignorance
Mar 03, 2014
The Conscience of the Constitution
Feb 24, 2014
The Rise of the Independents
Feb 17, 2014
The Synthesis of Rights and Consequences
Feb 10, 2014
The Ethics of Dynamite
Feb 03, 2014
Benjamin Tucker and the Individualist Anarchists
Jan 27, 2014
The Primitivism of Politics
Jan 20, 2014
Bias in Scientific Research
Jan 13, 2014
Is There a Purpose to History?
Jan 06, 2014
What Is Libertarianism?
Dec 30, 2013
When Markets Fail
Dec 23, 2013
You Are Now Free to Move About the Planet
Dec 16, 2013
Listener Q&A: But Who Will Build the Roads?
Dec 09, 2013
Do We Have a Duty to Obey the Government?
Dec 02, 2013
What's Okay to Buy and Sell?
Nov 25, 2013
Libertarians and the Poor
Nov 18, 2013
Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia"
Nov 11, 2013
Can Money Buy Elections?
Oct 28, 2013
Politics and Community
Oct 22, 2013