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)
Contracts and Cryptography
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How the Media Really Works
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Choose Your Own Government
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Trump’s Assault on America’s Institutions
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Guns and Mass Shootings
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How the Federal Reserve Works
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Free Speech Online
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How Conscious Capitalism Can Solve Global Poverty
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How the Powerful Captured the Economy
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Punk Rock Politics
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How the Right Lost Its Mind
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Do Employers Rule Our Lives?
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Your World on the Blockchain
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The Implications of Behavioral Economics
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How Drug Prohibition Caused the Opioid Crisis
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Washington's Five Tricks
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Is the Iran Deal a Good Deal?
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The Real James Buchanan
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North Korea 101
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Ten Things Political Scientists Know that You Don’t
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Lessons from the Anti-Federalists
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What's the Right Number of Koala Bears?
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Rights and Radicalism
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Arguments for Liberty: Utilitarianism
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Free Thoughts on Free Thoughts: 200 Episodes and Counting
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Close America's Overseas Bases
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The Fate of the West
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Neoliberalism in the U.K.
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We Broke the First Rule of Fight Club
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Who Elected Donald Trump?
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Arguments for Liberty: Rawlsianism
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Liberalism 1.0
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Markets in Everything?
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Lessons from a Bank-Robbing Law Professor
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Private Schooling for Everyone
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Is Liberalism in Danger?
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Stories from Putin's Economist
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Nothing Is Secure
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The True Causes of Mass Incarceration
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Why We're Too Complacent
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The War on Sex Work
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Guantanamo Bay Is Still Open
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How Much Should We Worry About ISIS?
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Stuck in Political Nostalgia
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Can Anarchy Work?
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The CIA Listens to Free Thoughts
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Must You Obey Government?
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The Cato Institute at 40
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How Economists Think About Health Care
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