People

People the show was about: each is the subject of an episode or a segment of one. 32 pages, A–Z by first name. Everyone else the show mentioned is in mentioned on the show, with the episodes they come up in.

• Abraham Lincoln — Abraham Lincoln appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a biographical subject than as a contested symbol: the president who enacted the first incom
• Adam Smith — Adam Smith appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as an authority invoked for the case that voluntary exchange, self-interest and
• Al Gore — Al Gore appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject in his own right than as a recurring foil for arguments about ethanol subsidies, th
• Al Sharpton — Al Sharpton appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a name invoked in passing, never as a guest or subject. In a 2012 episode, Larry Klayman groups Sharpton with
• Alexander Hamilton — Alexander Hamilton appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring reference point: the first insider trader, the archi
• Amy Coney Barrett — Amy Coney Barrett’s 2020 nomination to the Supreme Court, following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, prompted libertarian radio discussions of court packing, j
• Andrew Johnson — Andrew Johnson appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as the one president whose removal trial actually turned on the two-thirds Senate threshold, and as t
• Benedict Arnold — Benedict Arnold appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring reference point — the archetype of betr
• Elizabeth Warren — Elizabeth Warren appears in two Bob Zadek Show episodes as a target of libertarian criticism: in 2019 she is grouped with Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal as
• Frédéric Bastiat — Frédéric Bastiat appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as a recurring authority invoked to explain unintended consequences, poli
• Gavin Newsom — Gavin Newsom appears across five Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a biographical subject than as a test case for libertarian and federalist arguments — over high
• Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton appears across five Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — for a childhood play history, for a campaign
• Hugo Chavez — Hugo Chávez appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the central figure in Venezuela’s transformation from one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations into a socialist ‘b
• James Buchanan — James Buchanan, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, is discussed across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the central figure of Public Choice theory. Micha
• James Madison — James Madison appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as an authority cited in constitutional argument — on enumerated powers, the
• Jeff Sessions — Jeff Sessions appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as the target of libertarian criticism: for his drug-war enforcement and sentencing views, for his de
• John Bolton — John Bolton appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a peripheral figure — a prospective impeachment witness whose testimony Republicans feared, and one of the ‘la
• John Locke — John Locke appears across The Bob Zadek Show as the philosophical anchor of private property, the non-aggression principle, and the right to the fruits of one’s
• John Roberts — John Roberts appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the Supreme Court justice most identified with judicial deference — the doctrine that unelect
• Josh Hawley — Josh Hawley appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring foil — the senator whose proposed tech-censorship legislation and whose role in the
• Julian Simon — Julian Simon appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the economist who argued that people are the ultimate resource and that population growth and
• Kamala Harris — Across seven episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Kamala Harris appears not as a subject in her own right but as a recurring reference point in libertarian arguments
• Merrick Garland — Merrick Garland appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a justice but as a nominee and an attorney general. In 2016 callers and guests debated the Republican Senat
• Milton Friedman — Milton Friedman appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as an authority invoked on several distinct questions: immigration and the
• Murray Rothbard — Murray Rothbard appears across these episodes not as a guest but as the intellectual reference point other libertarians cite for their own positions. Walter Blo
• Neil Gorsuch — Neil Gorsuch’s 2017 nomination to the Supreme Court is treated across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a pivotal test of judicial philosophy and political levera
• Ron Paul — Ron Paul appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject of extended interview than as a recurring reference point — a libertarian politician whose electora
• Ronald Reagan — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Ronald Reagan appears less as a subject than as a reference point in arguments about drug policy, trade, and regulat
• Rush Limbaugh — Rush Limbaugh appears in these episodes less as a biographical subject than as a marker of the talk-radio era that followed the Fairness Doctrine’s repeal. Paul
• Teddy Roosevelt — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Teddy Roosevelt appears less as a biographical subject than as a marker for the turn toward federal activism and exe
• Thomas Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson appears across these episodes less as a biographical subject than as a recurring reference point for libertarian argument: a founder whose birt
• Thomas Paine — Thomas Paine appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as a founding-era writer whose pamphlets and books shaped two revolutions, and as a man who repeatedly