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Sustaining and Revitalizing Democracies: A Conversation with Brook Manville and Josiah Ober
Episode 12
In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Brook Manville and Josiah Ober about their recent book, The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (Princeton, 2023). Manville and Ober identify essential …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
FDR’s War on the Bill of Rights
Episode 11
In this episode, Jonathan Fortier speaks with David T. Beito, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Alabama. Together the…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Liberty in our Lifetime: A Conversation with Jason Sorens
Episode 10
In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Jason Sorens, Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute of Economic Research and Founder of the Free State Project. They discuss the origins and pu…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Adventures in Hayek: A Conversation with Bruce Caldwell
Episode 9
In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Professor Bruce Caldwell, the general editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press) and Director of the Center for the Study …
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Executive Power: The Cult of the Presidency with Gene Healy
Episode 8
In this episode Jonathan Fortier talks with Gene Healy about the growth in the scope and power of the office of the American President, and some of the ways that this has negative consequences for po…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Liberty in Review: A Conversation with Todd Zywicki
Episode 7
As part of our “Janus Week” in which we look back on 2023 and forward to 2024, Jonathan Fortier and Todd Zywicki discuss the recent high points for liberty and potential threats on the horizon. Zywic…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Classical Liberalism and the Higher Things
Episode 6
For a philosophy that seeks to allow us the choice in how we pursue our own interests, some argue liberalism leaves us unmoored or adrift. Dan Klein thinks differently. In a wide-ranging conversation…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
America's Founders, Christianity, and the Path to Liberty
Episode 5
As terms like Christian nationalism and Catholic integralism are bandied about regarding their place (or lack thereof) in modern American politics, it becomes important to ask; what role did Christia…
Published on 2 years ago
A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Sanford Ikeda on Jane Jacobs and Spontaneous Complexity
Episode 4
Our Centers of Progress theme this week has revolved around the history and nature of cities, and their role in promoting values central to free societies –including a respect for liberty, individual…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
How Cities Can Change the World
Episode 3
When you imagine a city what comes to mind? Is it a crumbling locale jampacked with residents yet devoid of any sense of community? Or is it a densely populated but vibrant network of people coexisti…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago