Podcast Episodes

Episode 368: Hampden-Sydney College Q&A

Season 1 Episode 368

Last week, we recorded live from Hampden-Sydney College. This week’s episode is the Q&A from that recording.

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Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Episode 367: Live from Hampden-Sydney College

Season 1 Episode 367

Last week, we talked about the incongruity of not only having a majority of voters not like either major party candidate, but to have those two candidates appear twice in back-to-back elections. This…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Episode 366: What’s Up With the President?

Season 1 Episode 366

Last week, we talked about the incongruity of not only having a majority of voters not like either major party candidate, but to have those two candidates appear twice in back-to-back elections. This…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Episode 365: Democracy Might Not Be a Good Thing

Season 1 Episode 365

The Trump vs Biden election of 2020 was noteworthy because, for so many voters, it wasn’t a matter of selecting the person they thought was best suited for the job so much as a matter of selecting …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Episode 364: $34 Trillion

Season 1 Episode 364

People used to scared about the federal debt. But it's been so huge for so long that people have lost interest. Yet, despite people's lack of attention - or perhaps, in part, because of it - the debt…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Episode 363: Labor and Marx

Season 1 Episode 363

Many people share an intuition that “excess” profits are a sign of something having been stolen from labor. Karl Marx shared this intuition and formalized it in his writings on the surplus value of l…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Episode 362: Shareholders and Stakeholders

Season 1 Episode 362

For whom does the corporation exist: investors, workers, customers, the community? Economists tend to answer, "investors." That's not to say that workers, customers, and the community aren't importan…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Episode 361: Degrowth

Season 1 Episode 361

Economic "degrowth" seems to be the new socialism. Like the old, it promises all manner of wonderful things, from equality to a cleaner environment. And like the old, it will deliver nothing but mise…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Episode 360: Time is Money

Season 1 Episode 360

Intuitively, people understand the value of time. We consider it every time we decide to put off something we want now for something better later. Psychologists call it, “delayed gratification.” But …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Episode 359: A Conflict of Moral Principles

Season 1 Episode 359

Colleges and universities, for years now self-proclaimed bastions of “safe spaces,” are allowing some students to express anti Semitism and call for genocide. Should colleges allow this in the name o…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago