Organizations

The organizations the show’s guests came from. 42 pages, A–Z. Everyone else the show mentioned is in mentioned on the show, with the episodes they come up in.

• American Enterprise Institute — The American Enterprise Institute appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through the affiliations of three guests: Virginia Postrel’s friend and kidney-donation adv
• Arizona State University — Arizona State University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing — as the administrator of the Zócalo Public Square blog, as the home of the Sandra Day O’
• Arizona Supreme Court — The Arizona Supreme Court appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts as the court on which Justice Clint Bolick sits and as the body that has upheld the state’s e
• Atlas Network — Atlas Network appears in three Bob Zadek Show episodes as a nonprofit service organization for a worldwide network of locally led, government-independent think
• Boston College — Boston College appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the academic home of three scholars whose work anchors episodes on childhood independence, campus free speech, a
• Brookings Institution — The Brookings Institution appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through its people: three guests identified as Brookings fellows or economists, each brought on to
• Cato Institute — The Cato Institute appears across eight episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the institutional anchor of the program’s libertarian conversation, supplying guests w
• Chapman University — Chapman University appears in The Bob Zadek Show as an academic home for libertarian and originalist scholars rather than as a subject in its own right. Sheldon
• Columbia Law School — Columbia Law School appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing, as a biographical waypoint for two guests: Thaddeus Russell notes that Barack Obama attended
• Competitive Enterprise Institute — The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a free-market think tank founded in 1984 by Fred Smith, described across several Bob Zadek Show episodes as focusing alm
• Duke University — Duke University appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the academic home of economist and political scientist Michael Munger, who is introduced by that affili
• Facebook — Facebook is treated across three episodes as the central case study of private content moderation: a for-profit, multi-sided advertising platform whose algorith
• FIRE — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, ‘fire’ appears less as a single organization than as a recurring test case for libertarian arguments about governmen
• Gallup — Gallup appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a polling and research organization whose surveys are cited by guests on topics from public perceptions of demographics
• George Mason University — George Mason University appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as the institutional home of the guests Bob Zadek interviews —
• Georgetown University — Georgetown University appears in three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, each time as a brief institutional reference rather than a subject in its own right. Bayl
• Goldwater Institute — The Goldwater Institute appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as a libertarian think tank whose staff litigate and design policy: Timothy Sandefur helped
• Harvard — Harvard appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as an institution with a history than as a recurring reference point — the elite campus where law-school commence
• Heritage Foundation — The Heritage Foundation appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a Washington think tank that guests worked for or with, and that joined coalitions on cri
• Hoover Institution — The Hoover Institution appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the institutional home of legal scholar Richard Epstein, who is introduced by that affiliation a
• Independent Institute — The Independent Institute is a public policy think tank in Oakland, California, whose scholars appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show across a decade. Guests
• Institute for Justice — The Institute for Justice is a public interest law firm whose attorneys appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to describe its litigation and research on eco
• Institute for Spending Reform — The Institute for Spending Reform is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded and headed by Jonathan Bydlak, dedicated to finding solutions to the escalati
• Mercatus Center — The Mercatus Center at George Mason University appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as the institutional home of three guests: Veronique de Rugy, Don Bou
• Mises Institute — The Mises Institute, formally the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as both a subject and a source
• MIT — MIT appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing, as the alma mater of a congressional chief of staff described during a 2020 interview with Rep. Thomas Massie
• National Constitution Center — The National Constitution Center is a Philadelphia institution, chartered by Congress, that educates the public about the Constitution and commissions paired id
• New Civil Liberties Alliance — The New Civil Liberties Alliance is a public-interest law firm founded by Columbia law professor Philip Hamburger as an alternative to the ACLU, built on the th
• New York Post — The New York Post appears across five Bob Zadek Show episodes as both a subject and a source: its Hunter Biden laptop story was blocked by Twitter and became th
• Northwestern University — Northwestern University appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a credential and an address: it is where guests and the scholars they cite teach l
• NYU — NYU appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the academic home of guests rather than as a subject in its own right. Richard Epstein, a professor of law at NYU,
• Pacific Legal Foundation — The Pacific Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm that litigates for individual liberty, property rights, economic freedom, and the separation of power
• Princeton University — Princeton University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a point of contrast and as a speaker’s affiliation, never as a subject in its own right. In the 2014
• Reason — Reason is the magazine and media outlet of the Reason Foundation, described on The Bob Zadek Show by editor Nick Gillespie as ‘the voice of reason’ with the tag
• Seasteading Institute — The Seasteading Institute, co-founded by Patri Friedman, promotes building autonomous communities on the high seas outside any nation’s territorial limits as a
• SEC — The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts touching the SEC are limited and oblique: no episode in this set examines the Securities and Exchange Commission directly. The clo
• The New Yorker — The New Yorker appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring point of reference: a magazine whose writers Bob Zadek interviews, whose repo
• UCLA — UCLA appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as a biographical marker for guests and as a recurring example of campus culture, rather than as an institution exami
• University of Chicago — The University of Chicago appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the academic home of economists and legal scholars who argue for free markets and against the
• University of Pennsylvania — The University of Pennsylvania appears in The Bob Zadek Show as an institution whose members and alumni illustrate the show’s recurring themes: the gap between
• University of Virginia — The University of Virginia appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the institutional home of guests and as the subject of a single historical aside by host Bob
• Wall Street Journal — The Wall Street Journal appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a marker of credibility and a venue for arguments its guests and host were m