Free Thoughts
A weekly show about politics and liberty, featuring conversations with top scholars, philosophers, historians, economists, and public policy experts. Hosted by Trevor Burrus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episodes (1401)
Regulation Games (with Peter Van Doren)
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The Drug War in Mexico (with Benjamin T. Smith)
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Blind Injustice (with Mark Godsey)
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How to Fix African Poverty (with Magatte Wade)
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Undoing Drugs (with Maia Szalavitz)
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America’s War Propaganda (with Chris Coyne and Abby Hall)
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Is Section 230 a Problem? (with Jeff Kosseff)
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What Happened in Afghanistan (with Sahar Khan)
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America's Political Instability
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Don't Do Your Own Research (with Julian Sanchez)
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How Covid Changed the School Choice Debate (with Corey DeAngelis)
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What's Next for Criminal Justice Reform (with John Pfaff)
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Thinking Philosophically (with Michael Huemer)
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What is Corporate Social Responsibility? (with Don Boudreaux)
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How to Govern Internet Platforms (with Neil Chilson)
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Libertarianism & Egalitarianism (with Daniel Shapiro)
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Where College Students Stand (With Clay Routledge and John Bitzan)
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What is Neoliberalism? (with Kevin Vallier)
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The Ideas of Thomas Sowell (with Jason Riley)
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Rise of the Warrior Cop (with Radley Balko)
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Why Government Fails (with Chris Edwards)
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Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars (with Chris Lombardi)
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Seeking Truth in the Misinformation Age (with Jonathan Rauch)
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Getting Environmentalism Right (with Michael Shellenberger)
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Stoic Wisdom (with Nancy Sherman)
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Reopening Muslim Minds (with Mustafa Aykol)
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More Immigration, More Freedom (with Chandran Kukathas)
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Does the FDA Save Lives? (with Peter Van Doren)
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War is Stupid (with John Mueller)
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Economics in One Virus (with Ryan Bourne)
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How Textiles Made the Modern World (with Virginia Postrel)
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Fighting the Foreign Policy Establishment (with Justin Logan)
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Who Messed with Texas's Electricity (with Peter Van Doren)
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Why It's OK to Want to Be Rich (with Jason Brennan)
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Making Fun of Dictators (with Bassem Youseff)
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GameStop & the Mysteries of the Stock Market
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Does Trade Harm National Security? (with Scott Lincicome)
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Immigration's Economic Impact (with Alex Nowrasteh)
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Drug Use for Grown Ups (with Carl Hart)
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Did the New Deal End the Great Depression? (with George Selgin)
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Trust in a Polarized Age (with Kevin Vallier)
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The 2020 Election and the Capitol Insurrection (with Walter Olson)
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How Technology is Changing Education (with Andy Matuschak)
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Are Monopolies a Problem? (with Peter Van Doren)
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Open Societies & Human Progress (with Johan Norberg)
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(Re-Release): The Story of Money in the United States
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(Re-Release): Equality of Capabilities, or Equality of Outcomes?
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Fixing Supreme Court Nominations (with Ilya Shapiro)
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America's Revolutionary Mind (with C. Bradley Thompson)
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The Comedy of Politics (with Andrew Heaton)
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