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Episode 368: Hampden-Sydney College Q&A
Last week, we recorded live from Hampden-Sydney College. This week’s episode is the Q&A from that recording.
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2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 367: Live from Hampden-Sydney College
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 candi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 366: What’s Up With the President?
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 candi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 365: Democracy Might Not Be a Good Thing
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 su…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 364: $34 Trillion
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 attenti…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 363: Labor and Marx
Many people share an intuition that “excess” profits are a sign of something having been stolen from labor. Karl Marx shared this intuition and forma…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 362: Shareholders and Stakeholders
For whom does the corporation exist: investors, workers, customers, the community? Economists tend to answer, "investors." That's not to say that wor…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 361: Degrowth
Economic "degrowth" seems to be the new socialism. Like the old, it promises all manner of wonderful things, from equality to a cleaner environment. …
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 360: Time is Money
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. Ps…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 359: A Conflict of Moral Principles
Colleges and universities, for years now self-proclaimed bastions of “safe spaces,” are allowing some students to express anti Semitism and call for …
2 years, 5 months ago