The Library

The show’s format was a book and its author. These are the 116 titles that came up in two or more episodes, of 1019 named across the archive. Bob’s own five are at Books by Bob Zadek; everything mentioned once is in brief mentions.

Free to ChooseRyan Young The Once and Future KingFrank Buckley Common SenseHarlo Unger The Republican Workers PartyFrank Buckley The Wealth of NationsArt Carden World War IIHarlow Giles Unger 12 Angry MenTerry Pell and Jeffrey Barke Atlas ShruggedRichard Epstein Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government isIlya Somin Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political FreedomIlya Somin Free-Range KidsRon Jones Minority ReportRyan Young Reefer MadnessDr. Rick Doblin The Road to SerfdomDavid Boaz Vietnam WarIlya Somin American RevolutionThaddeus Russell American SecessionFrank Buckley Cato Supreme Court ReviewTrevor Burrus Democracy and Political IgnoranceIlya Somin Free ThoughtsTrevor Burrus Free to MoveIlya Somin Guardrails of DemocracyIlya Somin Lincoln-Douglas debatesJohn Cribb Magna CartaSam Gedge Profiles in CourageFrank H. Buckley Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the ConstClark Neily The Big ShortArnold Kling The Coddling of the American MindLenore Skenazy The LibertarianRichard Epstein The Republic of VirtueFrank H. Buckley Three Felonies a DayAlice Goffman Twitter FilesWill Duffield Wretched RefuseAlex Nowrasteh An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court CasRandy Barnett Ballot BattlesNed Foley Battle of TrentonHarlo Unger BottleneckersDick Carpenter Cato at LibertyJohn Allison Child of the '50sAndrew J. Coulson Cuban Missile CrisisIan Vasquez Does the United States Have Too Much Democracy?Richard Foglesong Don't Freak OutGene Healy Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their StuffDr. Michael Edelstein Economic Freedom IndexJoe Mathews Economics in One LessonJeff Deist Federalist 65Gene Healy Federalist 78David Kaplan For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny Jacob Sullum Free to LearnLenore Skenazy Freedom in the 50 StatesWilliam Ruger and Jason Sorens Gone ViralJustin Hart Green Energy is the Modern Broken WindowMike Munger GunsmokeBen Shapiro Heroin in TransitionDr. Jeffrey Singer and David Bier Home from the Dark Side of UtopiaClif Ross Impeachment: The Indispensable RemedyGene Healy Is Capitalism Sustainable?Mike Munger Law & OrderBen Shapiro Libertarianism: A PrimerDavid Boaz Liberty in PerilRandall Holcombe License to WorkDick Carpenter Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and OrlandoRichard Foglesong One Person, One VoteNick Seabrook Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign PolicyChris Preble Pearl HarborJonathan Bydlak Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become AmericF.H. Buckley Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad DealCarissa Hessick Reason RoundupElizabeth Nolan Brown Rise of the Warrior CopAlice Goffman Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug UseJacob Sullum Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the EnvironmeMichael Strong and Joe Quirk Second Treatise on GovernmentIlya Somin Sex and the StateCathy Reisenwitz Silent SpringSterling Burnett Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Ben Powell The ApprenticeGene Healy The BibleJohn Cribb The EconomistSam Batkins The Guardrails ProjectNed Foley The Hard Problem of Abortion RightsClark Neily The Honest CourtesanMaggie McNeill The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America's PoorMichael Tanner The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in IranSigrid Fry-Revere The Labor InjunctionRichard Epstein The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market CureJohn Allison The Libertarian MindDavid Boaz The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for FreedomDavid Boaz The Myth of the Rational VoterBryan Caplan The New Jim CrowDr. Rick Doblin The Paranoid Style in American PoliticsNed Foley The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, FailFrank Buckley The Rise and Fall of American GrowthRichard Epstein The Rise of the Warrior CopRadley Balko The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its ProRichard Epstein The United States of AnonymousWill Duffield The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Ed Conard The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban MythsRandal O'Toole The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of AmericaF.H. Buckley This Week in Ridiculous RegulationsRyan Young TrumponomicsDavid Henderson Visions of LibertyClark Neily Washington's Farewell AddressChris Preble World War IHarlow Giles Unger Wretched Refuse: The Political Economy of Immigration and InAlex Nowrasteh

Every featured title

Free to Choose

7 episodes · discussed with Ryan Young, Matt Beienburg, Dick Carpenter

Where is Everyone Going? (2013) · The End of Nation-States? (2018) · Sally Pipes on the High Cost of Free Stuff (2019) · Antitrust 101 with Ryan Young (2019) · Arizona’s School Choice Reform is a Model for the Nation (2022) · Arizona’s School Choice Reform is a Model for the Nation (2022) · New data shows that occupational licensing does nothing to increase quality (2022)

The Once and Future King

6 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley

Has America Become an “Elective Monarchy”? (2014) · F.H. Buckley on The Republic of Virtue (2017) · Did California Just Declare Itself a Nation-State? (2020) · Curiosity & American Capitalism (2021) · Progressive Conservatism with F.H. Buckley (2022) · Trumpism After Trump (2022)

Common Sense

5 episodes · discussed with Harlow Giles Unger, Tom Campbell, Skipper Young

Skip Young on The Wisdom of 76: Young America’s Way to Wealth (2016) · Founding Healer (2019) · Thomas Paine: Apostle of Liberty (2021) · The United States of Anonymous (2022) · Moving California Forward with the Common Sense Party (2023)

The Republican Workers Party

5 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley

F.H. Buckley on The Republic of Virtue (2017) · The One Book You Must Read to Understand American Politics in 2018 (2018) · Did California Just Declare Itself a Nation-State? (2020) · Progressive Conservatism with F.H. Buckley (2022) · Trumpism After Trump (2022)

The Wealth of Nations

5 episodes · discussed with Art Carden, Andrew J. Coulson, Clifton Ross

End the Unconstitutional Federal Involvement in Education (2009) · Skip Young on The Wisdom of 76: Young America’s Way to Wealth (2016) · Hugo Chavez: Failed Messiah (2019) · Mike Munger is Taking Public Choice Seriously (2019) · Art Carden on Price Theory & Its Discontents (2022)

World War II

5 episodes · discussed with Harlow Giles Unger, Thaddeus Russell, Jonathan Bydlak

How Washington Invented the Presidency (2013) · United Iraq Falls: Ivan Eland on Partitioning for Peace (2014) · Thaddeus Russell on Renegades vs. Conformists (2018) · Understanding the Victim Cult (2021) · The Economic Consequences of Russian Sanctions (2022)

12 Angry Men

4 episodes · discussed with Terry Pell, Jeffrey Barke, Alan Dershowitz

California’s New Union Gag Order Violates 1st Amendment (2020) · What happened to the right to a trial by jury? (2022) · What happened to the right to a trial by jury? (2022) · Confronting the ‘Cancelists’ with Alan Dershowitz (2023)

Atlas Shrugged

4 episodes · discussed with Richard Epstein, Jessica Thompson, Gary Johnson

Straight Talk with Gary Johnson (2011) · Will Americans Accept Second Class Medicine? (2013) · Elizabeth Warren’s Socialist Dogwhistle (2018) · Food Truck v. Farmville (2022)

Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter

4 episodes · discussed with Ilya Somin

Is America Doomed by Voter Ignorance? (2013) · Ilya Somin on Democracy and Political Ignorance (2016) · How to Create a Legitimacy Crisis (2019) · Foot Voting > Ballot Voting (2020)

Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom

4 episodes · discussed with Ilya Somin

Foot Voting > Ballot Voting (2020) · Hard Questions About Asylum and Afghanistan (2021) · 3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022) · 3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022)

Free-Range Kids

4 episodes · discussed with Ron Jones, Jonathan Haidt, Lenore Skenazy

Lenore Skenazy: World’s Worst Mom (2014) · Jonathan Haidt on The Coddling of the American Mind (2018) · Back to School: A History Lesson from the 1918 Pandemic (2020) · Remember when kids were free to be kids? (2023)

Minority Report

4 episodes · discussed with Ryan Young, Joe Lancaster, David Harsanyi

Entrepreneurs, Outlaws, and the Right to Bear Arms – David Harsanyi on First Freedom (2018) · Antitrust 101 with Ryan Young (2019) · Rachel Barkow on Fixing the Fundamentals of Criminal Justice (2019) · Checking in on Bail Reform (2022)

Reefer Madness

4 episodes · discussed with Rick Doblin, Lucy Steigerwald, Jeffrey Miron

Lucy Steigerwald on The Drug War and Private Prisons (2015) · Dr. Rick Doblin on MAPS and the War on Drugs (2016) · Miron vs. Sessions on the Drug War (2017) · Towards a Libertarian Theory of Anti-Racism (2020)

The Road to Serfdom

4 episodes · discussed with David Boaz, Thomas DiLorenzo, Abigail Hall

David Boaz on The Libertarian Mind (2015) · The Dubious Morality of the Modern Administrative State (2020) · Manufacturing Militarism: A Fresh Look at Propaganda (2022) · Lies, Damned Lies & the Inflation Reduction Act (2022)

Vietnam War

4 episodes · discussed with Ilya Somin, Thaddeus Russell

Thaddeus Russell on Renegades vs. Conformists (2018) · Ivan Eland on the Rogue Presidency (2019) · 3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022) · 3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022)

American Revolution

3 episodes · discussed with Thaddeus Russell, Robert C. Wright

Thaddeus Russell on Renegades vs. Conformists (2018) · The Decline of American Independence (2020)

American Secession

3 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley

Did California Just Declare Itself a Nation-State? (2020) · Progressive Conservatism with F.H. Buckley (2022) · Trumpism After Trump (2022)

Cato Supreme Court Review

3 episodes · discussed with Trevor Burrus, Ilya Shapiro

Ilya Shapiro on the Supreme Court in the Balance (2016) · Judge Gorsuch on the Hot Seat (2017) · Escaping the Statrix: Trevor Burrus’s Rent Control Red Pill (2021)

Democracy and Political Ignorance

3 episodes · discussed with Ilya Somin

Is America Doomed by Voter Ignorance? (2013) · Ilya Somin on Democracy and Political Ignorance (2016) · How to Create a Legitimacy Crisis (2019)

downsizinggovernment.org

3 episodes · discussed with Chris Edwards

A Libertarian Infrastructure Plan (2017) · Is it too late to step back from the edge of fiscal insanity? (2020) · Debt & Taxes (2021)

Free Thoughts

3 episodes · discussed with Trevor Burrus, Chris Preble, Bart J. Wilson

On Foreign Policy, will Trump heed the Restraining Constituency or John Bolton? (2019) · Escaping the Statrix: Trevor Burrus’s Rent Control Red Pill (2021) · The Foundations of Property (2021)

Free to Move

3 episodes · discussed with Ilya Somin, Jeffrey Sutton

How to Create a Legitimacy Crisis (2019) · Hard Questions About Asylum and Afghanistan (2021) · Who Decides? (2022)

Guardrails of Democracy

3 episodes · discussed with Ilya Somin, Ned Foley

3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022) · 3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022) · Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022)

Lincoln-Douglas debates

3 episodes · discussed with John Cribb, Frank Buckley

America’s Second Founding (2021) · Progressive Conservatism with F.H. Buckley (2022) · Trumpism After Trump (2022)

Magna Carta

3 episodes · discussed with Sam Gedge, Philip Hamburger

Awaiting the Verdict in Timbs v. Indiana (2018) · Ivan Eland on the Rogue Presidency (2019) · The New Civil Liberties Movement (2021)

Profiles in Courage

3 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley, Glenn Roper

Has America Become an “Elective Monarchy”? (2014) · The Mini-Administrative State (2020) · The Radio Right and The Fairness Doctrine (2021)

Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government

3 episodes · discussed with Clark Neily

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Revisit Unqualified Immunity (2020) · Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022) · Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022)

The Big Short

3 episodes · discussed with Arnold Kling, Jeff Deist, Peter Wallison

Will We Know Who the President Is on November 4? (2020) · Austrian Economics Triumphs (2021) · Arnold Kling: We Just Nationalized the Banking System—Now What? (2023)

The Coddling of the American Mind

3 episodes · discussed with Lenore Skenazy, David Henderson, Jonathan Haidt

A Sunday Morning Chat with The World’s Worst Mom (2018) · Jonathan Haidt on The Coddling of the American Mind (2018) · David Henderson on Trumponomics, Deficits, and Immigration (2019)

The Libertarian

3 episodes · discussed with Richard Epstein

An Intellectual Discussion of Sexual Harassment with Richard Epstein (2018) · The Dubious Morality of the Modern Administrative State (2020) · Which Side Are You On? (2022)

The Republic of Virtue

3 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley

F.H. Buckley on The Republic of Virtue (2017) · Progressive Conservatism with F.H. Buckley (2022) · Trumpism After Trump (2022)

Three Felonies a Day

3 episodes · discussed with Alice Goffman, Harvey Silverglate

Is Your Alma Mater a Soviet Gulag? (2011) · Alice Goffman on Fugitive Life in an American City (2014) · The FBI: Our Uninvited Federal Police Force (2022)

Twitter Files

3 episodes · discussed with Will Duffield, Robert Mahoney

Life!Line - Guest hosting: Robert Mahoney on The Infodemic (2023) · ‘Jawboning against Speech’ with Will Duffield (2023) · ‘Jawboning against Speech’ with Will Duffield (2023)

Wretched Refuse

3 episodes · discussed with Alex Nowrasteh, Benjamin Powell

The Immigration Crisis in Context (2021) · The Economics of Immigration (2022) · American anxiety about immigration is unwarranted. Here’s why. (2023)

An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know

2 episodes · discussed with Randy Barnett, Josh Blackman

Eight-Dimensional Chess (2020) · Amy Coney Barrett on Trial (2020)

Ballot Battles

2 episodes · discussed with Ned Foley

Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022) · Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022)

Battle of Trenton

2 episodes · discussed with Harlow Giles Unger

Founding Healer (2019) · Thomas Paine: Apostle of Liberty (2021)

Bottleneckers

2 episodes · discussed with Dick Carpenter

New data shows that occupational licensing does nothing to increase quality (2022) · New data shows that occupational licensing does nothing to increase quality (2022)

Cato at Liberty

2 episodes · discussed with John Allison, Randal O’Toole

John Allison on the Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure (2015) · Randal O’Toole on Rising Rents (2016)

Child of the ’50s

2 episodes · discussed with Andrew J. Coulson, Lenore Skenazy

End the Unconstitutional Federal Involvement in Education (2009) · Lenore Skenazy: World’s Worst Mom (2014)

Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America

2 episodes · discussed with David Bernstein

Exploring the Borderlands of Legal Whiteness with David Bernstein (2022) · Exploring the Borderlands of Legal Whiteness with David Bernstein (2022)

Cuban Missile Crisis

2 episodes · discussed with Ian Vasquez, John Glaser

Rethinking Pax Americana with John Glaser (2017) · Cuba Libre & The July 11th Uprising (2021)

Dear Colleague letter

2 episodes · discussed with Sam Batkins, Ted Galen Carpenter

A Lame Duck’s Last Stand (2017) · Taking the Lapdog Press to Task on Foreign Policy Reporting (2023)

Does the United States Have Too Much Democracy?

2 episodes · discussed with Richard Foglesong

Disney World’s Model for Cities of the Future (2022) · Disney World’s Model for Cities of the Future (2022)

Don’t Freak Out

2 episodes · discussed with Gene Healy

Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019) · Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019)

Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff

2 episodes · discussed with Michael Edelstein, Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson: G.O.P. Should Embrace the Welfare State (2017) · How to Stay Sane in a Statist World (2017)

EconLog

2 episodes · discussed with Bryan Caplan, David Henderson

Bryan Caplan’s Case Against Higher Education (2018) · David Henderson on Trumponomics, Deficits, and Immigration (2019)

Economic Freedom Index

2 episodes · discussed with Joe Mathews, Benjamin Powell

California Discovers Federalism (2018) · Socialism… Still Not Cool (2019)

Economics in One Lesson

2 episodes · discussed with Jeff Deist, Mark Joffe

Not Enough Bricks (2019) · Austrian Economics Triumphs (2021)

Federalist 65

2 episodes · discussed with Gene Healy

Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019) · Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019)

Federalist 78

2 episodes · discussed with David Kaplan, Jeffrey Sutton

Demystifying the Supreme Court (2019) · Who Decides? (2022)

For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health

2 episodes · discussed with Jacob Sullum

Hate Crimes Legislation (2009) · How to Stay Sane as a Libertarian on Lockdown (2020)

Free to Learn

2 episodes · discussed with Lenore Skenazy

Lenore Skenazy: World’s Worst Mom (2014) · A Sunday Morning Chat with The World’s Worst Mom (2018)

Freedom in the 50 States

2 episodes · discussed with William Ruger, Jason Sorens

Which State is the Most Free? (2022) · Ranking Freedom in the 50 States (2022)

Gone Viral

2 episodes · discussed with Justin Hart

Gone Viral with Justin Hart (2022) · Gone Viral with Justin Hart (2022)

Gone Viral: How COVID Drove the World Insane

2 episodes · discussed with Justin Hart

Gone Viral with Justin Hart (2022) · Gone Viral with Justin Hart (2022)

Great Barrington Declaration

2 episodes · discussed with Jeffrey Singer, Rand Paul

Free Speech & the Scientific Method (2022) · Senator Rand Paul Exposes the Great COVID Coverup (2023)

Green Energy is the Modern Broken Window

2 episodes · discussed with Mike Munger

The ‘Broken Window Fallacy’ is Back (2023) · The ‘Broken Window Fallacy’ is Back (2023)

Gunsmoke

2 episodes · discussed with Ben Shapiro, Nick Gillespie

Hollywood: Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda (2011) · The Capitol Riot in Context (2021)

Heroin in Transition

2 episodes · discussed with Jeffrey Singer, David Bier

The Iron Law of Prohibition (2022) · The Iron Law of Prohibition (2022)

Home from the Dark Side of Utopia

2 episodes · discussed with Clifton Ross

Utopia Unmasked (2019) · Hugo Chavez: Failed Messiah (2019)

Hunter Biden laptop story

2 episodes · discussed with Joe Lancaster, Robert Mahoney

Checking in on Bail Reform (2022) · Life!Line - Guest hosting: Robert Mahoney on The Infodemic (2023)

Impeachment: The Indispensable Remedy

2 episodes · discussed with Gene Healy

Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019) · Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019)

Is Capitalism Sustainable?

2 episodes · discussed with Mike Munger

Mike Munger is Taking Public Choice Seriously (2019) · The ‘Broken Window Fallacy’ is Back (2023)

Law & Order

2 episodes · discussed with Ben Shapiro, Lenore Skenazy

Hollywood: Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda (2011) · Remember when kids were free to be kids? (2023)

Libertarianism: A Primer

2 episodes · discussed with David Boaz

David Boaz on The Libertarian Mind (2015) · David Boaz on the Libertarian Ethos (2018)

Liberty in Peril

2 episodes · discussed with Randall Holcombe

Randall G. Holcombe on Liberty in Peril (2019) · Randall G. Holcombe on Liberty in Peril (2019)

Liberty in Peril: How the Fundamental Principle of American Government Was Transformed from Liberty to Democracy

2 episodes · discussed with Randall Holcombe

Randall G. Holcombe on Liberty in Peril (2019) · Randall G. Holcombe on Liberty in Peril (2019)

License to Work

2 episodes · discussed with Dick Carpenter

New data shows that occupational licensing does nothing to increase quality (2022) · New data shows that occupational licensing does nothing to increase quality (2022)

Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando

2 episodes · discussed with Richard Foglesong

Disney World’s Model for Cities of the Future (2022) · Disney World’s Model for Cities of the Future (2022)

One Person, One Vote

2 episodes · discussed with Nick Seabrook

Who’s Electing Whom? Politicians or the Voters? (2022) · Who’s Electing Whom? Politicians or the Voters? (2022)

Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy

2 episodes · discussed with Chris Preble

On Foreign Policy, will Trump heed the Restraining Constituency or John Bolton? (2019) · Chris Preble on Ukraine (2022)

Pearl Harbor

2 episodes · discussed with Jonathan Bydlak, Glenn Roper

The Mini-Administrative State (2020) · The Economic Consequences of Russian Sanctions (2022)

Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party

2 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley

Progressive Conservatism with F.H. Buckley (2022) · Trumpism After Trump (2022)

Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal

2 episodes · discussed with Carissa Hessick

What happened to the right to a trial by jury? (2022) · What happened to the right to a trial by jury? (2022)

Reason Roundup

2 episodes · discussed with Elizabeth Nolan Brown

The Student Loan Debt Fiasco (2022) · The Student Loan Debt Fiasco (2022)

Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy

2 episodes · discussed with Ned Foley

Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022) · Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022)

Rise of the Warrior Cop

2 episodes · discussed with Alice Goffman, Radley Balko

Posse Comitatus – Repealed but Not Gone (2013) · Alice Goffman on Fugitive Life in an American City (2014)

Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use

2 episodes · discussed with Jacob Sullum

Hate Crimes Legislation (2009) · How to Stay Sane as a Libertarian on Lockdown (2020)

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians

2 episodes · discussed with Michael Strong, Joe Quirk, Tom W. Bell

Michael Strong on Creating a World in Which All Humanity Flourishes (2017) · Vote to Float (2020)

Second Treatise on Government

2 episodes · discussed with Ilya Somin

3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022) · 3 Libertarian Ideas to Strengthen Democracy (2022)

Sex and the State

2 episodes · discussed with Cathy Reisenwitz

The War on Sex (2022) · The War on Sex (2022)

Silent Spring

2 episodes · discussed with Sterling Burnett, Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey on the End of Doom (2015) · How to Spot Tabloid Climate Science (2018)

Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World

2 episodes · discussed with Benjamin Powell

Socialism… Still Not Cool (2019) · The Economics of Immigration (2022)

sunrise report

2 episodes · discussed with Dick Carpenter

New data shows that occupational licensing does nothing to increase quality (2022) · New data shows that occupational licensing does nothing to increase quality (2022)

The Apprentice

2 episodes · discussed with Gene Healy

Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019) · Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching? (2019)

The Bible

2 episodes · discussed with John Cribb, Alan Dershowitz

America’s Second Founding (2021) · Confronting the ‘Cancelists’ with Alan Dershowitz (2023)

The Economist

2 episodes · discussed with Sam Batkins, Sean McElwee

Inclusive Capitalism: Economic Savior or Socialism in Disguise? (2015) · A Lame Duck’s Last Stand (2017)

The Guardrails Project

2 episodes · discussed with Ned Foley

Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022) · Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022)

The Hard Problem of Abortion Rights

2 episodes · discussed with Clark Neily

Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022) · Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022)

The Honest Courtesan

2 episodes · discussed with Maggie McNeill

America, The Most Sexually Hypocritical Nation on Earth (2014) · Of Sex Work and Censorship (2020)

The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor

2 episodes · discussed with Michael Tanner

Libertarian Anti-Poverty Policy (2019) · Towards a Libertarian Theory of Anti-Racism (2020)

The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran

2 episodes · discussed with Sigrid Fry-Revere, Virginia Postrel

A Vital Issue: Sigrid Fry-Revere on Iranian Kidney Markets (2014) · Virginia Postrel on Stasis vs. Dynamism (2014)

The Labor Injunction

2 episodes · discussed with Richard Epstein

The Dubious Morality of the Modern Administrative State (2020) · Which Side Are You On? (2022)

The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure

2 episodes · discussed with John Allison, Mike Munger

Who Wants to Buy a Politician? With Mike Munger (2015) · John Allison on the Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure (2015)

The Libertarian Mind

2 episodes · discussed with David Boaz

David Boaz on The Libertarian Mind (2015) · David Boaz on the Libertarian Ethos (2018)

The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

2 episodes · discussed with David Boaz

David Boaz on The Libertarian Mind (2015) · David Boaz on the Libertarian Ethos (2018)

The Myth of the Rational Voter

2 episodes · discussed with Bryan Caplan, Abigail Hall

Bryan Caplan’s Case Against Higher Education (2018) · Manufacturing Militarism: A Fresh Look at Propaganda (2022)

The New Jim Crow

2 episodes · discussed with Rick Doblin, Jeffrey Miron

Dr. Rick Doblin on MAPS and the War on Drugs (2016) · Miron vs. Sessions on the Drug War (2017)

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

2 episodes · discussed with Ned Foley

Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022) · Enhancing Trust in Democracy (2022)

The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do About It

2 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley

F.H. Buckley on The Republic of Virtue (2017) · Did California Just Declare Itself a Nation-State? (2020)

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

2 episodes · discussed with Richard Epstein

The Dubious Morality of the Modern Administrative State (2020) · Which Side Are You On? (2022)

The Rise of the Warrior Cop

2 episodes · discussed with Radley Balko, Pat Eddington

Posse Comitatus – Repealed but Not Gone (2013) · The “Ratchet Effect” in Real Time (2020)

The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits

2 episodes · discussed with Richard Epstein, Ed Freeman

Elizabeth Warren’s Socialist Dogwhistle (2018) · Stakeholder Value: A New Story About Business (2021)

The United States of Anonymous

2 episodes · discussed with Will Duffield, Jeff Kosseff

The United States of Anonymous (2022) · ‘Jawboning against Speech’ with Will Duffield (2023)

The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class

2 episodes · discussed with Edward Conard

Debunking Inequality Myths with Ed Conard (2017) · Questioning Biden’s Inequality Narrative (2021)

The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths

2 episodes · discussed with Randal O’Toole

Randal O’Toole on Rising Rents (2016) · Never let a good crisis go to waste (2020)

The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America

2 episodes · discussed with Frank Buckley

F.H. Buckley on The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America (2016) · The One Book You Must Read to Understand American Politics in 2018 (2018)

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

2 episodes · discussed with Ryan Young

Antitrust 101 with Ryan Young (2019) · Reversing the Ratchet (2020)

Trumponomics

2 episodes · discussed with David Henderson, Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore on Trumponomics (2018) · David Henderson on Trumponomics, Deficits, and Immigration (2019)

UnlawfulShield.com

2 episodes · discussed with Clark Neily

Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022) · Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022)

Unmasking the Administrative State

2 episodes · discussed with Randall Holcombe, John Marini

John Marini on Unmasking the Administrative State (2019) · Randall G. Holcombe on Liberty in Peril (2019)

Visions of Liberty

2 episodes · discussed with Clark Neily

Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022) · Dobbs, the Democratization of Rights, and the Disaster of Qualified Immunity (2022)

Washington’s Farewell Address

2 episodes · discussed with Chris Preble, Yoram Hazony

Liberalism vs. Nationalism (2018) · Chris Preble on Ukraine (2022)

World War I

2 episodes · discussed with Harlow Giles Unger, Ivan Eland

How Washington Invented the Presidency (2013) · United Iraq Falls: Ivan Eland on Partitioning for Peace (2014)

Wretched Refuse: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions

2 episodes · discussed with Alex Nowrasteh

The Immigration Crisis in Context (2021) · American anxiety about immigration is unwarranted. Here’s why. (2023)