05/10/2023

Episode 226: “The Weaponization of Loneliness” with Stella Morabito

Guest(s): Stella Morabito

In this episode Stella Morabito returns to talk about her recently published book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. Stella, a prolific author at The Federalist, writes incisively about the social fallout of propaganda,…

11/23/2022

Episode 208: “How Policy Responses to the Pandemic Continue to Shatter Our World” with Jeffrey Tucker

Guest(s): Jeffrey Tucker

The world has suffered and continues to suffer catastrophic economic and social damage from the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 – but not from the virus itself. Rather we’re in the midst of a continuing global crisis created by governments’ policy responses to the pandemic.…

05/03/2022

Episode 184: “A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19” with Phil Kerpen

Guest(s): Phil Kerpen

We’re more than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic. So by now, we should know enough to assess what we’ve learned about the measures our governments took to mitigate the virus?  What worked? What didn’t? Fortunately, we now have a comprehensive comparative study, published…

01/25/2022

Episode 169: George F. Will on “American Happiness and Discontents” with Don Boudreaux and John Tamny

Guest(s): George Will

In this episode we get to talk with George F. Will about his latest collection of essays, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020, and also about his magnum opus, The Conservative Sensibility. Joining in on the conversation are John Tamny, Vice President…

01/11/2022

Episode 167: “The Great Reset” with Jay Richards and James Patrick

Guest(s): Jay Richards

Unprecedented government measures to stop the spread of an unstoppable virus have morphed into mortal threats to our liberties and civil rights, not just here in the United States, but worldwide. First we were told that lockdowns, masks, and social distancing stop the spread…

12/21/2021

Episode 165: “Just Facts about the Virus” with Jim Agresti

Guest(s): Jim Agresti

Albert Einstein said science can only flourish in an atmosphere of free speech.  Today, despite claims about “following the science” with regard to Covid 19, this is simply not happening. Why? Because “they” have taken away one of the essential elements of science: allowing…

12/14/2021

Episode 164: “Wrath: America Enraged” with Peter Wood

Guest(s): Peter Wood

Over the course of roughly four generations, from around 1950 to the present, American culture has been transformed from a culture that believed in the value of self-control into a culture that celebrates self-expression. And that “self-expression” has now twisted into a new form…

12/07/2021

Episode 163: “Challenging Leviathan” with Mark Chenoweth and Jenin Younes

Guest(s): Jenin Younes

In this episode, we're talking again about the coercive power of the Administrative State and its serious threat to our constitutional freedoms. No other development in contemporary American law denies more rights to more Americans. Joining me to discuss is Mark Chenoweth, Executive Director, and…

10/26/2021

Episode 158: “After Covid: Recovering Our Liberty” with John Tamny and Don Boudreaux

Guest(s): John Tamny

It’s almost two years on from the onset of the Covid virus and we know a lot now that we didn’t then. Society should be healing. But we live in vitriolic and partisan times, and widespread disagreement abounds about what it was, what it…

10/13/2021

Episode 156: “Liberty or Lockdown” with Jeffrey Tucker

Guest(s): Jeffrey Tucker

It is hard to overstate the assault  on civil liberties we are witnessing  in America today.  What began over a year and a half ago as temporary government measures to keep us safe from a virus spread from China, have now metastasized into something…

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