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Episode 338: Age, Ability, and Incumbency
The Constitution sets lower age limits for members of Congress and the President, but sets no upper limits. Before modern medicine, this wasn’t as mu…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 337: The (Hollow) Sound of Freedom
James and I both went to see the recent box office hit, The Sound of Freedom. I liked it. James didn’t. But we both were appalled at what appear to b…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 336: A Fireside Chat Without the Fire
Howie Baetjer, Rob McDonald, James Stacey Taylor, and Clark Neily join us to talk about gun rights, canceling the Founders, and animal rights. Get Y…
2 years, 11 months ago
Encore Episode 335: When Benevolence Backfires
This encore performance is of our most popular episode. This episode, in which we explore unintended consequences, first aired in September of 2019. …
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 334: Live at Brookfield Academy, pt.2
James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and h…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 333: Live at Brookfield Academy, pt.1
James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and h…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 332: Should Speech be Free?
This week’s episode is a live recording of a panel discussion on free speech at the University of Washington. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coerc…
3 years ago
Episode 331: A Fireside Chat
This week, historian Rob McDonald, Constitutional scholar and lawyer Clark Neily, philosophy James Stacey Taylor, and economist Howard Baetjer join J…
3 years ago
Episode 330: What’s Up in the Economy?
Weird things are happening. Retail sales have stagnated, savings are markedly down, yet unemployment is low, inflation isn’t as bad as it was. Have w…
3 years ago
Episode 329: The Chevron Doctrine
For decades and where the law is ambiguous, courts have invoked the Chevron doctrine in allowing regulatory agencies to decide for themselves the mea…
3 years ago