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Bryan Caplan explains why housing costs are so high.
Today's book: Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
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Chris Coyne gives a master class in how to energize a population for war.
Today's book: How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite by Christopher Coyne & Abigail Hall
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Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance.
Today’s book: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
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Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat.
Today’s book: Can We Know Anything? A Debate
by Bryan Frances & Michael Huemer
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Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens.
Today’s Book: Immigration and Freedom
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Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy.
Today’s Book: Democracy: A Guided Tour, by Jason Brennan
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David Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism.
Today’s book: The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
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David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more.
Today’s book: Debunking Determinism: Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, and the Crusade Against Free Will
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Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity.
Today’s book: You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism
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Max Borders claims we don’t take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should.
Books by Max Borders
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James Tooley shows how the world’s poorest people educate their children without government.
Today’s Book: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education, by James Tooley
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Maarten Prak shows how capitalism developed from the bottom up.
Today’s Book: Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800, by Maarten Prak & Jan Luiten van Zanden
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David Beito exposes the many civil liberties abuses of FDR.
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Today’s book: The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance by David Beito
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Sean Mirski reviews the causes and consequences of early US foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere.
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Today’s book: We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus by Sean Mirski
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David Schmidtz discusses the inseparability of successful communities and successful lives.
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Today’s Book: Living Together: Inventing Moral Science
David’s university page & author page
Discussed and recommended: The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle; The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith; A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume; Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View by Immanuel Kant; Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society by James Otteson;
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Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher explain how black Americans have been held down by the state and lifted up by the market.
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Today’s book: Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America
Rachel Ferguson: Twitter, website,
Marcus Witcher: Twitter
Discussed and Recommended
The Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy
Financial Exclusion: How Competition Can Fix a Broken System
The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Black Boom
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
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Michael Huemer talks about puzzles and insights in the study of knowledge.
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Today’s book: Understanding Knowledge
Discussed and recommended: Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume, and The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Mike’s blog, author page, and website
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James Otteson argues against wealth redistribution.
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Today’s book: Should Wealth Be Redistributed? A Debate
James’s website, Twitter, author page, university page.
Recommended and discussed: From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 by David Beito; Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America by Rachel Ferguson & Marcus Witcher; The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato; & The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel
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Deirdre McCloskey explains how freedom and bourgeoise dignity enriched the world.
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The Bourgeoise Era Trilogy
Vol. 1 - The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
Vol. 2 - Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
Vol. 3 - Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
Shorter summary volume: Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World, by Deirdre McCloskey & Art Carden
Discussed and Recommended: Four Essays on Liberty by Isaiah Berlin; The Conservative Sensibility by George Will; Kathleen Stock & Deirdre McCloskey Debate Issues of Sex, Gender, & Identity
Professor McCloskey’s email, website, Twitter, & author page
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Bryan Caplan discusses political irrationality, partisan loyalty, and more.
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Today’s book: Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrationality
Bryan’s recommendations: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction & Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? both by Philip Tetlock
Bryan’s Twitter, Author Page, Substack, and personal website.
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