Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 17 days 4 hours 46 minutes
Julian Sanchez joins us this week for a discussion about online privacy in the era of mass data collection. When we’re online, what kind of data are we creating, and who’s watching us?
We talk about data mining, ad blockers, the internet of things, developer keys, passwords and fingerprint security, encrypted messaging apps, and more...
John Pfaff joins us this week to talk about the United States’s unusually high rate of incarceration...
Tyler Cowen joins us this week to talk about the slowing pace of innovation and growth in the United States over the past few decades. Has American society become too complacent? What would a more dynamic society look like?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Cowen’s book on the subject is The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream (2017)...
Elizabeth Nolan Brown joins us this week for a discussion about sex work. What’s the difference between sex trafficking and prostitution? How much sex trafficking is going on in the United States?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Much of Brown’s work at Reason focuses on sex work, here’s a reverse-chronological list of all the articles she’s written there...
Andrew Turner joins us to talk about his experience being stationed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in 2009 and 2010.
What is working at Guantanamo Bay like? Who are the detainees? How did they end up there? Are we ever going to be able to close the facilities there?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Here’s the Vice News article by Jason Leopold that Turner was interviewed in, “Guantanamo’s Untold Trauma,” and the accompanying Vice News Tonight video...
Emma Ashford joins us this week to discuss the rise of the Islamic State...
Yuval Levin joins us to talk about political nostalgia and American individualism...
Peter T. Leeson joins us this week to discuss rational choice theory as it applies to self-governance. What happens in the absence of government?
We discuss the difference between government and governance, what it means to be stateless, and how anarchy is perceived in the world today.
Show Notes and Further Reading
Leeson’s book on this topic is Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think (2014)...
Patrick G. Eddington joins us this week to tell us about the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, how the CIA operates, and what the new Wikileaks revelations mean for our privacy online...
Aaron and Trevor have a discussion about the political authority of the state. Should one obey the government? Is there a compelling reason to? Why does it matter?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Listeners interested in this topic should check out our episode of Free Thoughts with Michael Huemer on this topic, and this Guide lecture with Jason Brennan...