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Samuel Gregg on The Next American Economy

28 Apr 2023

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Send us a textDr. Samuel Gregg is a distinguished fellow in political economy and senior research faculty at the American Institute for Economic Resea...

Scott Lincicome on the New American Worker

21 Apr 2023

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Send us a textScott Lincicome is the vice president of general economics and trade at the Cato Institute. He recently coauthored and edited Empowering...

Mark Calabria on Shelter from the Storm

14 Apr 2023

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Send us a textMark Calabria was the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Instit...

Troy Senik on Grover Cleveland

07 Apr 2023

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Send us a textTroy Senik is the author A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland. He also was a white house spee...

Nico Perrino on Individual Rights and Free Expression

31 Mar 2023

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Send us a textNico Perrino is FIRE's Executive Vice President and the creator and host of FIRE’s So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast. He is al...

Eli Dourado on Energy Abundance

24 Mar 2023

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Send us a textEli Dourado, a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, talks to us today about energy ...

Timothy Sandefur on Freedom's Furies

17 Mar 2023

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Send us a textTimothy Sandefur is the vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute and the author of six books, including Frederick Dougla...

Chris Freiman on Consequentialism

10 Mar 2023

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Send us a textChris Freiman, a professor of philosophy at William and Mary and the author of several books, talks to us about another philosophy of li...

Chris Freiman on Consequentialism

03 Mar 2023

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Send us a textChris Freiman, a professor of philosophy at William and Mary and the author of several books, talks to us about another philosophy of li...

Robert Tracinski on Left and Right Illiberalism

24 Feb 2023

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Send us a textRobert Tracinski is the editor of Symposium, a substack and podcast about liberalism, the author of several books, a columnist at Discou...

Ryan Hanley on the Morality of Markets

10 Feb 2023

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Send us a textRyan Hanley is a professor of political science at Boston College and the author of several books, including Our Great Purpose: Adam Smi...

Eric Daniels on History

03 Feb 2023

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Send us a textEric Daniels is the assistant director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, as well as a professor with Clemson’s Lyc...

Kaytlin Bailey on the Oldest Profession

27 Jan 2023

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Send us a textKaytlin Bailey is the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization Old Pros, which aims at decriminalizing and destigma...

Peter Boettke on Don Lavoie and Central Planning

20 Jan 2023

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Send us a textPeter Boettke is a professor of economics and philosophy at George Mason University. He talks to us today about Don Lavoie, a late GMU e...

Scott Bullock on Criminal Justice - Rerun

13 Jan 2023

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Nadine Strossen on Hate Speech - Rerun

06 Jan 2023

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Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life - Rerun

30 Dec 2022

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Samuel Gregg on Christianity and Liberalism - Rerun

23 Dec 2022

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Send us a textThe Great Antidote is on a break from recording new content right now, but please enjoy this rerun of one of our favorites in the meanti...

Daniel Rothschild on Liberalism and Think Tanks

16 Dec 2022

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Send us a textDaniel Rothschild is the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we talk about liberalism and insti...

Craig Biddle on Philosophy and Objectivism

09 Dec 2022

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Send us a textCraig Biddle is the founder and director of the Objective Standard Institute, as well as the author of several books including Loving Li...

Henry C. Clark on Montesquieu

02 Dec 2022

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Send us a textHenry C. Clark, professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Political Economy Project, talks to us today about Montesquieu. List...

Colin Grabow on The Jones Act 2: Treason and Cruises

25 Nov 2022

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Send us a textColin Grabow, a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies, talks to us today about the Jones Act. He giv...

Dianne Durante on Innovators in Sculpture

18 Nov 2022

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Send us a textDianne Durante holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Cincinnati and has been a freelance writer, lecturer, and tour guide for t...

Phil Magness on Academic Integrity: Public Choice Edition

11 Nov 2022

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Send us a textPhil Magness is the author of multiple books, a scholar at the American Institute for Economic Research, and the intellectual watchdog f...

James Kirchick on The Secret History of Gay Washington

04 Nov 2022

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Send us a textJames Kirchick is the author of two books: Secret City and The End of Europe. Today, he talks to us about the intertwined history of gay...

Michael Cannon on Medicare

28 Oct 2022

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Send us a textMichael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, talks to us today about Medicare. He provides statistics on the...

Rachel Ferguson on Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

21 Oct 2022

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Send us a textRachel Ferguson is an economic philosopher at Concordia University Chicago and the director of the Free Enterprise Center, as well as an...

Timothy Sandefur on Frederick Douglass

14 Oct 2022

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Send us a textTimothy Sandefur, vice president of legal affairs at the Goldwater Institute, talks to us today about his book, Frederick Douglass: Self...

Matthew Continetti on The American Right

07 Oct 2022

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Send us a textMatthew Continetti, is a senior fellow and the Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institu...

Darren Staloff on the American Founding

30 Sep 2022

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Send us a textDarren Staloff is a history professor at the City College of New York and the author of two books: Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Polit...

David Epstein on Range

23 Sep 2022

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Send us a textDavid Epstein is the author of New York Times #1 bestsellers, Range and The Sports Gene, and an investigative reporter at ProPublica. To...

Michael Cannon on Employer-Sponsored Health Care

16 Sep 2022

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Send us a textMichael Cannon, Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies, talks to us today about health and health policy, reminding us of ...

William B. Allen on The State of Black America

09 Sep 2022

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Send us a textWilliam B. Allen, resident scholar and former chief operating officer of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, talks to us today a...

Matthew Mitchell on the Continuing Punishment of Criminal Records

02 Sep 2022

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Send us a textYour criminal sentence doesn’t necessarily end when you get out of jail. Criminal records prevent many Americans from entering jobs re...

Jon Murphy on The Jones Act and Adam Smith

29 Jul 2022

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Send us a textJon Murphy, recent PhD graduate from George Mason University and incoming instructor at Western Carolina University, talks to us today a...

Weifeng Zhong on China's Propaganda

22 Jul 2022

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Send us a textWeifeng Zhong, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks to us today about the distinction between...

Jason Fichtner on Why You Should Save Today

15 Jul 2022

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Send us a textJason Fichtner, vice president and chief economist at the Bipartisan Policy Center, talks to us about retirement and saving strategies. ...

Clark Neily on the Supreme Court's New Justice

08 Jul 2022

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Send us a textClark Neily, senior vice president of legal studies at the Cato Institute, talks to us about upcoming Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brow...

Peter Van Doren on Energy Independence

01 Jul 2022

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Send us a textPeter Van Doren is the editor of the quarterly journal Regulation and is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where he specializes in ...

Daniel Klein on Adam Smith's Justice

24 Jun 2022

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Send us a textDaniel Klein, professor of economics at George Mason University and expert on Adam Smith, talks to us about Smith’s definition of just...

Walter Olson on Election Fraud

17 Jun 2022

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Send us a textWalter Olson is the author of several books and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies. Today, w...

Thomas Hoenig on Inflation and the Federal Reserve

10 Jun 2022

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Send us a textInflation is always around, but it has been particularly worrisome recently. A startling departure from the United States' usual av...

Arnold Kling on The Three Languages of Politics

03 Jun 2022

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Send us a textArnold Kling is an economist and the author of the book The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across Political Divides. His substack,...

Randy Simmons on Public Choice

27 May 2022

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Send us a textRandy Simmons is the author of Beyond Politics and the director of the Institute of Political Economy at Utah State University. Today, w...

Brian Knight on Woke Capitalism

20 May 2022

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Send us a textBrian Knight, director of Innovation and Governance and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talk...

Jay Bhattacharya on the US Response to COVID-19

13 May 2022

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Send us a textJay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an...

Philip Klein on Fight Club Conservatives vs. Disney

06 May 2022

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Send us a textPhilip Klein, author of two books and editor of National Review Online, talks to us today about the unprecedented move by Florida govern...

Henry Clark on The Enlightenments

29 Apr 2022

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Send us a textHenry Clark, professor and program director of the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College, talks to us today about the French an...

Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics

22 Apr 2022

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Send us a textKenneth Elzinga, Robert C Taylor Professor of Economics at UVA , author, and antitrust expert,  talks to us today about teaching econo...

Chris Coyne on Manufacturing Militarism

15 Apr 2022

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Send us a textChris Coyne is an economics professor at George Mason University and the author of several books, including Manufacturing Militarism: US...

Jason Brennan on the Incentives in Criminal Justice

08 Apr 2022

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Send us a textJason Brennan, professor of business ethics at Georgetown University and author of many, many books, talks to us today about the book he...

Josh Rauh on the Pending Public Pension Crisis

01 Apr 2022

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Send us a textJosh Rauh, professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and senior fellow at Hoover Institution, talks to us today a...

Lauren Hall on the Medicalization of Birth and Death

25 Mar 2022

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Send us a textLauren Hall is professor and chair of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology and a prolific author. Her most recent book...

James Otteson on What Adam Smith Knew

18 Mar 2022

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Send us a textJames Otteson is a business ethics professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of several books, including What Adam Smith Knew...

Abby Hall on Military Drones

03 Mar 2022

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Send us a textAbby Hall is an associate professor in economics at Bellarmine University and co-author of many books on defense in America with Chris C...

Gary Leff on Airline Bailouts and Travel

17 Feb 2022

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Send us a textGary Leff, the chief financial officer at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and writer of View From the Wing, talks to us a...

Jason Fichtner on Social Security

10 Feb 2022

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Send us a textJason Fichtner, the vice president and chief economist at the Bipartisan Policy Center, talks to us about social security, how it works,...

Jonathan Rauch on The Constitution of Knowledge

03 Feb 2022

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Send us a textToday I talk with Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, contributing editor of National Journal and The Atlantic a...

Todd Zywicki on the 17th Amendment

27 Jan 2022

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Send us a textTodd Zywicki is a professor of Law at George Mason University, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the...

Katherine Mangu-Ward on Being Libertarian and More

20 Jan 2022

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Send us a textKatherine Mangu-Ward, Editor in Chief of Reason Magazine, joins us in the first episode of season three to discuss libertarianism, Reaso...

Season Two Finale

19 Aug 2021

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Send us a textThe tables are turned for the Season 2 Finale of the Great antidote, and Juliette is the one being interviewed by her podcast producer I...

Ike Brannon on Disaster Relief

29 Jul 2021

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Send us a textIke Brannon, former economic advisor to the U.S. Treasury and Senior Fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation, joins us this week to discuss d...

Samuel Gregg on Christianity and Liberalism

22 Jul 2021

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Send us a textDr. Samuel Gregg, research director at the Acton Institute, joins us this week to discuss culture, the origins of morality, and the inte...

Timothy Sandefur on Privacy

15 Jul 2021

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Send us a textTim Sandefur, vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute, joins us this week to discuss right-to-privacy, disclosure, and ...

Trevor Burrus on Campaign Finance

08 Jul 2021

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Send us a textTrevor Burrus, research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cat...

Scott Winship on Poverty & Welfare

01 Jul 2021

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Send us a textScott Winship, resident scholar and the director of poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), joins us this week to di...

Nadine Strossen on Hate Speech

24 Jun 2021

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Send us a textNadine Strossen, civil liberties activist and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), joins us this week to discu...

Randy Barnett on the 14th Amendment

17 Jun 2021

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Send us a textRandy E. Barnett, professor of constitutional law and Georgetown University and Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, ...

Shikha Dalmia on Nationalism

10 Jun 2021

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Send us a textShikha Dalmia, columnist at the Week, and former senior analyst at Reason, joins us this week to discuss Nationalism, its history, and i...

Megan McArdle on Failure

03 Jun 2021

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Send us a textMegan McArdle, economic columnist at the Washington Post, joins us this week to discuss her ideas on personal failure, and why it is suc...

Nick Gillespie on Independents

27 May 2021

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Send us a textNick Gillespie, author, journalist, and former editor-in-chief at Reason joins us this week to discuss libertarianism, elections, voting...

Sally Satel on Addiction

20 May 2021

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Send us a textSally Satel, M.D., psychiatrist, lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, and  Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise I...

Tim Carney on Cronyism

13 May 2021

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Send us a textTim Carney, columnist at the Washington Examiner and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins us this week to discuss...

Matt Welch on Teachers Unions

06 May 2021

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Send us a textMatt Welch, author, blogger, and journalist, joins us this week to discuss libertarianism, teachers unions, and the future of education ...

Michelle Minton on Vaping

29 Apr 2021

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Send us a textMichelle Minton, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins us this week to discuss vaping, tobacco use, sodium intake...

Chris Edwards on "Infrastructure"

22 Apr 2021

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Send us a textChris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, joins us this week to discuss the Biden administration's lates...

Colin Grabow on the Jones Act

15 Apr 2021

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Send us a textColin Grabow, policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, joins us this week to discuss...

Liya Palagashvili on The Future Economy

08 Apr 2021

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Send us a textLiya Palagashvili, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, joins us this week to discuss the gig and s...

Jason Riley on Black America

01 Apr 2021

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Send us a textJason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute,  journalist, and author joins us this week to discuss the history of black Ameri...

Will Rinehart on Broadband Internet

25 Mar 2021

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Send us a textWill Rinehart, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity,  joins us this week to discuss broadband access, broadb...

Lisa Snell on School Choice

18 Mar 2021

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Send us a textLisa Snell, the director of K-12 education policy partnerships at the Charles Koch Institute,  joins us this week to discuss funding fo...

Adam Michel on Taxes

11 Mar 2021

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Send us a textHappy tax season! Adam Michel, Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation,  joins us this week to discuss the federal tax system,...

Shoshana Weissmann on Positivity in Politics

04 Mar 2021

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Send us a textShoshana Weissmann, Senior Manager of Digital Communications and Policy Fellow at R-Street,  joins us this week to discuss occupational...

Lenore Skenazy on Free Range Kids

25 Feb 2021

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Send us a textLenore Skenazy, co-founder and President of Let Grow and author of "Free-Range Kids", joins us this week to discuss modern par...

Todd Zywicki on Law and Economics

18 Feb 2021

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Send us a textTodd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the GMU...

Brian Riedl on the Federal Budget

11 Feb 2021

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Send us a textBrian Riedl, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and former staff director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibil...

Radley Balko on Criminal Justice

04 Feb 2021

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Send us a textRadley Balko, journalist, author, and criminal justice blogger, joins us this week to discuss the U.S. criminal justice system as a whol...

Ronald Bailey on Human Progress and the "End of Doom"

28 Jan 2021

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Send us a textWelcome to Season 2 of the Great Antidote! Ron Bailey, the science correspondent for Reason Magazine, joins us this week to discuss huma...

Season One Recap

17 Dec 2020

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Send us a textThe Great Antidote is wrapping up its first season with this very special episode. Juliette reflects back on some of her favorite respon...

Trevor Burrus on Guns

10 Dec 2020

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Send us a textTrevor Burrus, research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor‐​in-chief of th...

Tevi Troy on the U.S. Presidency

03 Dec 2020

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Send us a textTevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian, and a former senior government official joins us this week to discuss the U.S. presidenc...

Robby Soave on College Radicals

19 Nov 2020

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Send us a textRobby Soave, a Senior Editor at Reason, joins us to discuss college culture, activism, and intersectionality.Support the showNever miss ...

Scott Lincicome on Daylight Savings and Free Trade

12 Nov 2020

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Send us a textScott Lincicome, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Cato Institue and International Trade Attorney, joins us to discuss daylight-s...

Eli Dourado on Technology and Stagnation

05 Nov 2020

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Send us a textEli Dourado, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University,  joins us to discuss economic st...

John F. Cogan on The National Debt

29 Oct 2020

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Send us a textJohn F. Cogan, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University, joins us t...

Jennifer Huddleston on Big Tech and Antitrust

22 Oct 2020

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Send us a textJennifer Huddeston, director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the American Action Forum, joins us for the second part of the antit...

Don Boudreaux on Antitrust Laws

15 Oct 2020

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Send us a textDon Boudreaux, GMU economics professor and blogger at Cafe Hayek, talks to us about the origins, purpose, and effects of antitrust laws ...

Jonathan Rauch on Cancel Culture and Free Speech

08 Oct 2020

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Send us a textJonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, contributing editor of National Journal and The Atlantic and author of many ...

Rachel Greszler on Paid Leave

01 Oct 2020

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Send us a textRachel Greszler, a senior research fellow in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget at the Heritage Foundation, talks to us...

David Boaz on Libertarianism

24 Sep 2020

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Send us a textDavid Boaz, executive vice president of Cato Institute and author of The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom, talks to us about th...