51. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley - Superabundance
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance.
50. Michael Huemer – Can We Know Anything?
Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat.
49. Chandran Kukathas - Immigration and Freedom
Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens.
48. Jason Brennan – Democracy: A Guided Tour
Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy.
47. David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom
David Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism.
46. David Lawrence – Debunking Determinism
David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more.
45. Bryan Caplan - You Will Not Stampede Me
Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity.
44. Max Borders – Political Decentralization
Max Borders claims we don’t take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should.
43. James Tooley – Really Good Schools
James Tooley shows how the world’s poorest people educate their children without government.
42. Maarten Prak - Pioneers of Capitalism
Maarten Prak shows how capitalism developed from the bottom up.
41. David Beito - The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights
David Beito exposes the many civil liberties abuses of FDR.
40. Sean Mirski - We May Dominate the World
Sean Mirski reviews the causes and consequences of early US foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere.
39. David Schmidtz - Living Together
David Schmidtz discusses the inseparability of successful communities and successful lives.
38. Rachel Ferguson & Marcus Witcher - Black Liberation Through the Marketplace
Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher explain how black Americans have been held down by the state and lifted up by the market.
37. Michael Huemer - Understanding Knowledge
Michael Huemer talks about puzzles and insights in the study of knowledge.
36. James Otteson - Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
James Otteson argues against wealth redistribution.
35. Deirdre McCloskey - The Bourgeoise Era
Deirdre McCloskey explains how freedom and bourgeoise dignity enriched the world.
34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists
Bryan Caplan discusses political irrationality, partisan loyalty, and more.
33. Peter Boghossian - Wokeness and Impossible Conversations
Peter Boghossian talks about wokeness, scholarly corruption, and how to have impossible conversations.
32. Matt Zwolinski - The Individualists
Matt Zwolinski reviews 200 years of libertarian intellectual history.