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

Joined March 2014
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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? Join @TCBurrus and @ConLawWarrior for a conversation about guns ⬇️ #FreeThoughtsPod libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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"How we treat addiction in this country, it's not very progressive or even humane or even good medicine." -@drcarlhart libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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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. Listen here ⬇️ libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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. Subscribe ➡️ libertarianism.org/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 libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
Listen again: Michael Huemer joined @TCBurrus to explain the thesis of his new book, “Justice Before the Law.” 👉 libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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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 libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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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 libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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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. libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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. libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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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 libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
"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 libertarianism.org/articles/…
Listen: @DavidSkarbek joined us to discuss the variety of carceral methods used across the world. libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
"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 libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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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. libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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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 libertarianism.org/podcasts/…
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