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)
A Muslim Case for Liberty
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The Libertarian Student Movement
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Taking Government Un-Seriously
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The Truth About Immigration
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Liberaltarianism and Trump
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King Obama, King Trump: The Dangers of an Imperial Presidency
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Wages and Workers
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Arguments for Liberty: Kantianism
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Harambe to Trump: 2016 Was the Worst
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The Gold Standard Won't Be Coming Back
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The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges...
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Why Schools Haven't Changed in Hundreds of Years
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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
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College: Too Costly, Too Little Learning, Too Much Underemployment
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Why Can't You Email Your Doctor?
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The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians
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Bonus Election Day Episode: Should Libertarians Vote?
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
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People, Not Ratios: Why the Debate Over Income Inequality Asks the Wrong Questio...
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Communicating Liberty Through Film and the Making Of "Freedom on Trial"
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Explaining the Rise of Donald Trump
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Rituals of Freedom: Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism
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Politics As a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political E...
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Thin Blue Lies: How Pretextual Stops Undermine Police Legitimacy
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Against Democracy
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Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time
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The World According to Star Wars
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Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the Peop...
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Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to th...
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The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism
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Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institut...
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John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Part 1
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How American Politics Went Insane
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Campus Freedom
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Specialization and Trade: A Re-introduction to Economics
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How New Technology Is Changing Law Enforcement
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The Constitution in Practice: From Liberty to Leviathan
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The Philosophical Foundations of the Constitution
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The Statrix: How Government Warps Our Perception of the World
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Teaching School Choice to the American Education System
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The Bourgeois Era
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Socrates on Trial, Part 2: Crito
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The Skeptical Libertarian
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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The Ideas of Adam Smith
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Why Liberty Takes Character
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Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, Part 2
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Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment
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The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America
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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
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