Free Thoughts

A podcast about politics and ideas. Hosted by @TCBurrus. Produced by @LandryEAyres. A project of @libertarianism.

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Why are gun‐​targeting policies ineffective and impractical, and what can we do instead to stop gun violence, while still respecting everyone’s rights?

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Think you are saving the planet when you recycle? This video from @JohnStossel may make you think twice before you organize your trash.

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"How we treat addiction in this country, it's not very progressive or even humane or even good medicine." -@drcarlhart
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From the archives: Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) joined the show to discuss how new security nationalism proposals warrant extreme skepticism, and market‐​oriented policies should be prioritized.

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Free Thoughts is a weekly show about politics and liberty, featuring conversations with top scholars, philosophers, historians, economists, and public policy experts. Hosted by @TCBurrus, it's available wherever you get your podcasts.

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"If our listeners take only one thing away from this, it’s that because information is power, struggles over privacy are in reality struggles over power, political power, economic power, social power, and personal power." - @neilmrichards
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"It took WWII to economically recover from the Great Depression." -@GeorgeSelgin
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"The people who read Ayn Rand and got the point didn’t just become aware of costs and benefits, incentives and trade‐offs. They became passionate advocates of liberty." - @David_Boaz
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Listen again: Michael Huemer joined @TCBurrus to explain the thesis of his new book, “Justice Before the Law.”
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"When [people] say an unjust law is not is no law at all, what they really mean is, it’s not a legitimate law... or it shouldn’t be enforced or something like that, which actually, I agree with." - Michael Huemer
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"So I went from reading Henry Hazlitt and Senholtz’ lectures to then reading Milton Friedman, and that book is so punchy and condensed with so much great information, and the PBS series is involved and so that my whole world changes." - Peter Boettke
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What is the business model of a social media company, and that they connect us and they let us see our friends and see what they’re doing, but what is the actual product that they’re selling at the end of the day?, asks @TCBurrus.
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LISTEN: Michael F. Cannon (@MFCannon), Director of Health Policy studies @CatoInstitute joins the show to discuss his study on the tax exclusion for employer‐​sponsored health insurance.
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"If you have a moral goal, either in your own life or for your society or for the world, then that moral goal should entail different choices you are going to make. In other words, it should affect what you actually decide to do." - @jroii
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"With waves of slave holders & slaves arriving in California, questions emerged around the legality of slavery in a techically free territory. By way of the Compromise of 1850, the Gold Rush accelerated California’s entry into the union." - @greatbookminds
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From the archives: "Doing your own research, if you do it half‐​way is a very easy way to just convince yourself of your priors." -@normative
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Listen: @DavidSkarbek joined us to discuss the variety of carceral methods used across the world.
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"Scholars define nationalism as the demand that the people and the state coincide, such that each distinctive people has its own state within its own borders, within which it can conduct its distinctive form of life." -@SWGoldman
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Daniel Shapiro joined the podcast to discuss how egalitarianism and many forms of liberalism — should converge to reject central welfare state institutions.
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Jesse Binga recognized that he could arbitrage racism for profit while helping black families buy homes.

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"When I was a prosecutor, if you cut a case early, you don’t allow it to go forward, there’s a political price for that, so there’s pressures not to do that, even if the case is on the margins." -Mark Godsey
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