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Why is Populism So Popular? (with Tom Palmer)
Why is Populism So Popular? (with Tom Palmer)
There is no doubt that we are in a global tend of authoritarian populism. Tom Palmer joins the show today to discuss how... Read more
12 Sep 2019
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How Did the Western World Get Rich? (with Stephen Davies)
How Did the Western World Get Rich? (with Stephen Davies)
How did the modern dynamist economy of wealth and opportunity come about? The processes of transformational changes coul... Read more
20 Jun 2019
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Why Not Capitalism?
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Did Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Really Save America?
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Did FDR’s New Deal policies help pull America out of the Great Depression, or were they in fact responsible for the high... Read more
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The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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Big Business Loves Big Government: Cronyism in American Politics
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Timothy P. Carney joins us this week for a discussion on how the complex system of lobbying and regulating and subsidizi... Read more
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
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Tyranny of Public Health (with Jacob Sullum)
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Jacob Sullum goes beyond the debate on legalization or the proper way to win the “war on drugs,” to the heart of a socia... Read more
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The Cost of Earning More Money
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Dan Russell claims that business ethics is more than just a set of ethical dilemmas. Isn’t that what ethics is about, th... Read more
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End the IRS Before It Ends Us
End the IRS Before It Ends Us
This week we’re joined by Grover Norquist for a frank discussion about every libertarian’s favorite part of the governme... Read more
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The Up Side of Down
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Megan McArdle joins us to talk about her new book The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success (2014). We... Read more
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Can we ever downsize government? (with Chris Edwards)
Can we ever downsize government? (with Chris Edwards)
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Ayn Rand: An Introduction (with Eamonn Butler)
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An Introduction to Public Choice
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The Cato Institute and the Libertarian Movement
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4 May 2015
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