How Textiles Made the Modern World (with Virginia Postrel)
The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven tec...
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A weekly show about politics and liberty, featuring conversations with top scholars, philosophers, historians, economists, and public policy experts. Hosted by Aaron Ross Powell and Trevor Burrus.
Fighting the Foreign Policy Establishment (with Justin Logan)
The foreign policy establishment in D.C. is stubborn. In fact, there is so much consensus about America's interests' abroad that it's rare that meanin...
Who Messed with Texas's Electricity (with Peter Van Doren)
Alternating current electricity systems require that demand equals supply in real-time. Any supply-demand imbalance must be remedied in minutes to avo...
Why It's OK to Want to Be Rich (with Jason Brennan)
In Jason Brennan's new book, Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich, he shows that the moralizers have it backwards. He argues that, in general, the more mone...
Making Fun of Dictators (with Bassem Youseff)
Bassem Youseff joins the show to talk about his experience hosting the show, El-Bernameg (The Show), a satirical news program in Egypt, from 2011 to 2...
GameStop & the Mysteries of the Stock Market
A stock market professional joins the show to discuss how investors and hedge fund managers work differently. In recent stock market news, we had a fr...
Does Trade Harm National Security? (with Scott Lincicome)
The resurgent of “security nationalism" extends far beyond the limited theoretical scenarios in which national security might justify government actio...
Immigration's Economic Impact (with Alex Nowrasteh)
Economic arguments favoring increased immigration restrictions suggest that immigrants undermine the culture, institutions, and productivity of destin...
Drug Use for Grown Ups (with Carl Hart)
Carl Hart is one of the world’s preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about t...
Did the New Deal End the Great Depression? (with George Selgin)
George Selgin believes that the New Deal failed to bring recovery because, although some New Deal undertakings did serve to revive aggregate spending,...