Free Thoughts Podcast
1) The True Causes of Mass Incarceration
John Pfaff joins us this week to talk about the United States’s unusually high rate of incarceration. How many Americans are in prison or in jail? What did they do to get there?If we have roughly the ...Show More
2) Coming Soon: The Liberty Exchange
Coming soon, a brand new podcast from Libertarianism.org... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3) Fighting Government Secrecy (with Patrick Eddington)
The Jones Act biases American shippers and shipbuilders at the expense of international competition, passing higher prices onto consumers and kneecapping free trade. The Cato Institute (and others) ha...Show More
4) When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)
The rise of global populism reveals a tension in Western thinking about democracy. Warnings about the "populist threat" to democracy and "authoritarian" populism are now commonplace. However, as Emily...Show More
5) Floods, Nuclear Power, and Wages (with Peter Van Doren)
The illustrious, ingenious, notorious PVD is back with us once again. Today, he and Trevor sit down to discuss dilemmas of flood damages following Hurricane Ian, the viability of subsidies for nuclear...Show More
6) How the 14th Amendment Changed America (with Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick)
Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated...Show More
How the 14th Amendment Changed America (with Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick)
52:17 | Sep 30th, 2022
7) Free Market: The History of an Idea (with Jacob Soll)
After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In his new book Free Market: The History of an Idea, MacArthur...Show More
8) Can Public Schools Work? (with Neal McCluskey)
American public schooling was established to unify diverse people and prepare citizens for democracy. Intuitively, it would teach diverse people the same values, preferably in the same buildings, with...Show More
9) Why More People Means More Wealth (with Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley)
Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued, “The world's rapidly growing population is consuming t...Show More
10) Racial Classification in America (with David Bernstein)
Americans are understandably squeamish about official racial and ethnic classifications. Nevertheless, they are ubiquitous in American life. Applying for a job, mortgage, university admission, citizen...Show More