‘[Politics] is not just about the people who have drawn the long daggers and are at each other’s throats’
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‘There’s an error, just an error, in thinking that the project to generate greater freedom has nothing to do with institutions’
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January 2023

It’s Not Policy Disagreements But Wrong-Headed Means That Are Polarizing AmericaListen now | The country is losing the political and personal virtues necessary for "skillful" politics.
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December 2022

What's Wrong with Anarcho-Capitalism (w/ William Gillis)Listen now (59 min) | I sometimes hear market anarchists say that "Anarcho-capitalism isn't anarchism." This claim, and the disagreements about the…

November 2022

The Reasonableness of Radicalism (w/ Jason Lee Byas)Listen now (59 min) | Years ago, a then colleague and I pitched the idea of a book called "The Reasonableness of Radicalism," which would've set out the…
Liberty in a Changing World (w/ David Boaz)Listen now (54 min) | I've spent my entire career as what you might call a professional liberty advocate. But the last six or seven years have forced a…
What to Do About Poverty (w/ Michael Tanner)Listen now (45 min) | We all want to alleviate poverty, and help those living with it. The hard question is how. The left has a set of ideas, focused on…

October 2022

Critical Race Theory (w/ Sam Hoadley-Brill)Listen now (64 min) | Few terms in our contemporary political scene provoke stronger reactions than “critical race theory.” If you listen to much of the…
Don Lavoie and the Case Against Planning (w/ Pete Boettke)Listen now (59 min) | Chances are, you've never heard of Don Lavoie. I certainly didn't run across him when I was getting into libertarianism in…

September 2022

Growing the Liberty Movement (w/ Trevor Burrus)Listen now (56 min) | Across nearly a decade, and over four hundred episodes, of the Free Thoughts podcast, Trevor Burrus and I talked a lot about…
Liberalism vs. Leftism (w/ Akiva Malamet)Listen now (50 min) | What's the relationship between libertarianism or radical liberalism and the ideas of the left? Most place them in clear and…

August 2022

Making Criminal Justice More Just (w/ Radley Balko)Listen now (47 min) | We can argue at length about the proper role of government. But if we're to have any state at all, one of its clear jobs is to…