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44 articles — entities the show returned to in three or more episodes. Everything seen once or twice is listed in brief mentions.

• 12 Angry Men — Bob Zadek repeatedly invokes the 1957 film 12 Angry Men on The Bob Zadek Show, once as the organizing theme for an episode on California’s Section 3550 union
• 1619 Project — The 1619 Project appears in these episodes not as a subject in its own right but as a shorthand for contested curriculum content in American schools. Jonathan B
• American Revolution — The Bob Zadek Show treated the American Revolution less as a military event than as an intellectual and moral revolution, invoked repeatedly as a standard for j
• American Secession — The Bob Zadek Show’s treatment of American secession centers on Frank Buckley’s argument that a return to original federalism—not civil war—is already underway,
• Atlas Shrugged — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Atlas Shrugged functions less as a text under discussion than as a shared shorthand for libertarian arguments about
• Cafe Hayek — Cafe Hayek is the economics blog of Don Boudreaux, a George Mason University economics professor and Mercatus Center senior fellow, described by host Bob Zadek
• Cato Supreme Court Review — The Cato Supreme Court Review is an annual publication of the Cato Institute, described on The Bob Zadek Show through the voices of two of its editors-in-chief,
• Civil War — Across five episodes of the Bob Zadek Show, the Civil War appears less as a subject in its own right than as a boundary marker and analogy in arguments about ot
• ‘Common Sense’ (category: library) — The Common Sense Party of California, founded as a third-party movement to break what its organizers call a political monopoly, is the subject of three Bob Zade
• Declaration of Independence — The Declaration of Independence appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a single document than as a contested touchstone — excised from Texas
• Defining Ideas — ‘Defining Ideas’ is a Hoover Institution online publication referenced across several episodes of the Bob Zadek Show. Guests Richard Epstein and David Henderson
• Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter — An episode of The Bob Zadek Show devoted to Ilya Somin’s book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter examines why rising educati
• Democracy and Political Ignorance — In a 2013 interview, law professor Ilya Somin argues that voter ignorance is rational: because a single vote almost never decides an election, citizens have lit
• downsizinggovernment.org — downsizinggovernment.org is a Cato Institute website edited by Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies at Cato, and presented on The Bob Zadek Show as a r
• Federalist Papers — The Federalist Papers, eighty-five essays by Madison, Jay, and Hamilton urging New York to ratify the Constitution, are treated across these episodes less as au
• Free-Range Kids — Lenore Skenazy’s Free-Range Kids movement, as presented across three Bob Zadek Show episodes, argues that a culture of fear has replaced childhood independence
• Free Thoughts — ‘Free Thoughts’ is a podcast from the Cato Institute’s libertarianism.org project, described on The Bob Zadek Show by two separate guests as a weekly program co
• Free to Choose — Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose recurs across The Bob Zadek Show as a shared reference point for libertarian arguments about markets, migration, healthcare,
• Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom — Ilya Somin’s Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom argues that choosing where to live—within a country, across borders, or among private
• Free to Move — ‘Free to Move’ is Ilya Somin’s book arguing that foot voting—choosing which government to live under by moving—is often a more effective and informed mechanism
• Guardrails of Democracy — The National Constitution Center’s ‘Guardrails of Democracy’ project convened independent progressive, conservative and libertarian teams to diagnose what is fa
• Lincoln-Douglas debates — The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 appear in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in themselves but as a shared reference point in two unrelated arguments: John
• Magna Carta — Magna Carta appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject in its own right than as a shared point of origin for rights the guests are arg
• Minority Report — Across three episodes, Bob Zadek and his guests treat ‘Minority Report’ as shorthand for pre-crime: government action against someone for what they might do rat
• Profiles in Courage — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, ‘Profiles in Courage’ appears not as a subject in its own right but as a recurring reference point in arguments abou
• Reefer Madness — ‘Reefer Madness,’ the 1930s anti-marijuana film, recurs across The Bob Zadek Show as shorthand for drug propaganda and for the racial origins of drug prohibitio
• Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government — Clark Neily’s Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government argues that courts should enforce constituti
• The Big Short — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, The Big Short functions less as a subject than as a shared reference point for arguments about expertise, regulati
• The Coddling of the American Mind — The Coddling of the American Mind is the title of both a 2015 Atlantic article and a subsequent book by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, which argue that a ge
• The Federalist Papers — The Federalist Papers appear across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a fixed text than as a contested resource — cited by some guests as evidence of
• The Libertarian — The Libertarian is a recurring topic across The Bob Zadek Show, spanning episodes on Gary Johnson’s 2012 presidential campaign, Judge Jim Gray’s account of libe
• The Once and Future King — Frank H. Buckley’s The Once and Future King argues that the American presidency has grown into an ‘elective monarchy’ with powers exceeding those of any histo
• The Republic of Virtue — F.H. Buckley’s The Republic of Virtue argues that the American founders sought a corruption-free covenant grounded in ‘republican virtue’ but failed, and that
• The Republican Workers Party — Frank Buckley’s The Republican Workers Party argues that Donald Trump’s 2016 victory remade the GOP around blue-collar interests rather than libertarian philo
• The Road to Serfdom — This article collects what The Bob Zadek Show’s guests said about F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom — its 1944 publication, its place in the lineage of the mo
• The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776) recurs across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a touchstone for arguments about education, investing, socialis
• Three Felonies a Day — Harvey Silverglate’s Three Felonies a Day argues that the modern federal criminal code is so vast and ill-defined that the average American unknowingly commit
• Twitter Files — The Twitter Files are a collection of documents released by journalists from Twitter after Elon Musk’s purchase of the company, recounting Twitter’s decisions a
• U.S. Constitution — The U.S. Constitution appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a single document than as a set of contested questions: whether the Articles of Confederation sh
• Vietnam War — Across four episodes, Bob Zadek’s guests treat the Vietnam War less as a military event than as a hinge in American political psychology. Rick Doblin roots drug
• Volokh Conspiracy — The Volokh Conspiracy is a group law blog discussed across several episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, where host Bob Zadek repeatedly describes it as his daily mus
• Wall Street Journal — The Wall Street Journal appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — a paper Bob Zadek once read daily, later the ’
• World War II — The Bob Zadek Show treats World War II less as a discrete event than as a hinge in arguments about war’s costs, its causes, and its popularity. Ivan Eland conce
• Wretched Refuse — Wretched Refuse: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions, co-authored by Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell, is the through-line of three Bob Za