Podcast Episodes

Trump's Worst Trade Error

Exiting the Trans Pacific Partnership was a costly Trump administration error that Americans will have to live with for a long time. Scott Lincicome …

4 years, 3 months ago

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

There are many social and economic ills that could be addressed by dramatically reducing or abolishing zoning. That task is far from simple. M. Nolan…

4 years, 3 months ago

Educational Freedom, Blaine Amendments, and Carson v. Makin

The Supreme Court's decision in Carson v. Makin comes at the end of a long line of cases relating to state-level discrimination against schools and o…

4 years, 3 months ago

The January 6 Committee and Electoral Reform

The wild theories advanced to help Donald Trump hang onto the White House again highlight the need for a bit more clarity in how presidential electio…

4 years, 3 months ago

The Bank Secrecy Act and Inflation

Financial privacy in the U.S. is very much on the wane, and inflation only makes the problem worse. Nick Anthony explains.

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4 years, 3 months ago

Fed Accelerates Rate Hikes to Combat Inflation

The Fed's uneven response to inflation highlights some of the central bank's more longstanding problems: the framework adopted in the wake of the fin…

4 years, 3 months ago

Drug Paraphernalia Laws Stymie Harm Reduction

State and federal laws governing "drug paraphernalia" make it more difficult to set up and operate private programs to get people clean needles and o…

4 years, 3 months ago

Has the American Right Abandoned Free Speech?

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may be the best exemplar of a movement on the right to view corporations as political punching bags when those firms di…

4 years, 3 months ago

Toward Accountability for FBI Misconduct

Recent revelations about wide-scale FBI misconduct raises the question: What would appropriate accountability look like? Patrick Eddington comments.

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4 years, 3 months ago

Promise and Pitfalls in Taking Psychedelic Medicine Mainstream

The promising results thus far in the clinical use of psychedelics shouldn't obscure the pitfalls of the regulatory processes. Researcher William Leo…

4 years, 3 months ago