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248 articles — entities the show returned to in three or more episodes. Everything seen once or twice is listed in brief mentions and single-appearance guests.

Aaron Burr — Aaron Burr appears in these excerpts only in passing, as a supporting figure in three separate historical anecdotes rather than as a subject in his own right. B
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, not government di
Adolf Hitler — Adolf Hitler appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a case study in causation and in the politics of victimhood. Ivan Eland argues t
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 at the margins — named by Larry Klayman in 2012 as one of the ‘black supremacist racists’ profiting from the Tray
Alan Dershowitz — Alan Dershowitz appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring reference point in discussions of impeachment and campus politics. In two impeac
Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein appears in these excerpts only in passing, as a name invoked by guests rather than as a subject discussed. In one episode Bob Zadek announces th
Alex Nowrasteh — Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration policy specialist at the Cato Institute who appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that the factual case for restri
Alexander Hamilton — Alexander Hamilton appears across five episodes of the Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as a recurring reference point: the first insider trad
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts less as a subject than as a marker of two separate debates: the Green New Deal’s fiscal and en
Alexis de Tocqueville — Alexis de Tocqueville appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring authority invoked by guests on two separate topics: Jon
Amy Coney Barrett — Amy Coney Barrett’s 2020 nomination to the Supreme Court, following Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, prompted Bob Zadek to devote episodes to the Court’s compositio
Andrew Carnegie — Andrew Carnegie appears in two episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, but never as the subject of an episode. In one, Bob Zadek uses him as a benchmark for how far ord
Andrew Cuomo — Andrew Cuomo appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a recurring example of executive power exercised during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Andrew Jackson — Andrew Jackson appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a recurring reference point in arguments about party organization, congression
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
Anthony Fauci — Anthony Fauci appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a target of criticism on two fronts: his public messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic and his role
Anthony Kennedy — Anthony Kennedy appears in these excerpts only as the author of the Citizens United decision, which Mike Munger defends as resting on freedom of association rat
Antonin Scalia — Antonin Scalia appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a subject than as a reference point — invoked by guests to explain the structural theory of t
Aristotle — Aristotle appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring reference point, invoked by host and guests to anchor arguments about responsibility
Arnold Schwarzenegger — Arnold Schwarzenegger appears in these excerpts not as a subject in his own right but as a passing figure in three unrelated policy discussions — an AI metaphor
Arthur Laffer — Arthur Laffer appears in the Bob Zadek Show archives chiefly as co-author of Trumponomics and as the namesake of the Laffer curve, the idea that cutting taxes
Ayn Rand — Ayn Rand appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a reference point — invoked by Bob Zadek as the source of his own libertarianism, cited as
Barack Obama — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Barack Obama appears less as a subject than as a foil for libertarian arguments about the growth of government, cron
Barbra Streisand — Barbra Streisand appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring reference point in arguments about speech, media and law. Ben Shapiro cites h
Barney Frank — Barney Frank appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a recurring symbol of government intervention in housing and of regulatory capture in financ
Barry Goldwater — Barry Goldwater appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring reference point in discussions of impeachment, the Fairness D
Baylen Linnekin — Baylen Linnekin, executive director of the Keep Food Legal Foundation, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that food freedom—the right to grow, buy, sell, c
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 byword for betray
Benjamin Powell — Benjamin Powell is an economist at Texas Tech University who appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that immigration restrictions are economically costly and m
Bernie Sanders — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Bernie Sanders appears not as the subject of a dedicated interview but as a recurring reference point in libertarian
Betsy DeVos — Betsy DeVos appears in these excerpts not as a biographical subject but as the Education Secretary whose department rescinded the Obama-era ‘Dear Colleague’ let
Bill Clinton — Bill Clinton appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring reference point — for the 1990s surplus and tax rates, for t
Bill de Blasio — Bill de Blasio appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing, as the New York City mayor whose COVID-era policies guests cite when arguing about mask guidance,
Bill Gates — Bill Gates appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring reference point in arguments about politics, governm
Brett Kavanaugh — Brett Kavanaugh appears in these excerpts less as a subject than as an open question — a newly seated justice whose vote on partisan gerrymandering is treated a
Bryan Caplan — Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that higher education functions primarily as a signaling mechanis
Catherine Lhamon — Catherine Lhamon appears in these excerpts chiefly as the Obama-era head of the Office for Civil Rights who, in R. Shep Melnick’s account, told Senator Lamar Al
Charlie Deist — Charlie Deist is a guest host of The Bob Zadek Show, filling in for Bob Zadek on episodes about capitalism and governance innovation and about the history of th
Chris Christie — Chris Christie appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a foil in two policy discussions — one on innovation and regulatory captur
Chris Edwards — Chris Edwards is an economist at the Cato Institute who appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show as the host’s go-to guest on federal spending, tax policy and
Chris Preble — Chris Preble, a Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy, appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that the Founders designed a fo
Chuck Schumer — Chuck Schumer appears in three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, never as a guest, always as a foil cited by host Bob Zadek or by guest John Rothmann. Zadek invok
Clarence Thomas — Clarence Thomas appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing reference, in a single 2021 episode on vaccine mandates and the non-delegation doctrine. Guest B
Clark Neily — Clark Neily, Vice President for Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute, appeared twice on The Bob Zadek Show in July 2022 to discuss the Supreme Court’s Dobbs d
Cornelius Vanderbilt — Cornelius Vanderbilt appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a rhetorical benchmark for modern prosperity — twice invoked (via econom
Cory Booker — Cory Booker appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring reference point in discussions of bipartisan criminal justice reform. Across three e
Damon Root — Damon Root, a senior editor of Reason Magazine and author of Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to
David Boaz — David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute, appeared twice on The Bob Zadek Show to explain libertarianism as a political philosophy grounded in
David Henderson — David Henderson is an economist identified in these excerpts as a professor emeritus at the Naval Postgraduate School, a Hoover Institution research fellow, edi
David Hume — David Hume appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes not as a subject but as an intellectual reference point. Bart J. Wilson describes reading Hume and John
Derek Chauvin — Derek Chauvin appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a byword for the police-misconduct cases that frame discussions of qualified immunity, indemnification, and
Dianne Feinstein — Dianne Feinstein appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring foil — a Democratic senator whose name marks gun-control
Don Boudreaux — Don Boudreaux is an economics professor at George Mason University and author of the blog Cafe Hayek who appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show as a guest ex
Donald Trump — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host assess Donald Trump as a mixed figure for libertarians: a president whose tax and deregulation polic
Dorothy Rabinowitz — Dorothy Rabinowitz appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a cited journalist whose Wall Street Journal work is invoked twice: once for her 2008 col
Doug Ducey — Doug Ducey appears in these excerpts as Arizona’s governor at two moments of state-level policy: his 2016 appointment of Clint Bolick to the Arizona Supreme Cou
Dr. Anthony Fauci — Dr. Anthony Fauci appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as the central figure in a libertarian critique of pandemic-era public health authority. In the e
Dr. Jeffrey Singer — Dr. Jeffrey Singer is a general surgeon in Phoenix and a scholar at the Cato Institute who appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that government in
Dwight D. Eisenhower — Dwight D. Eisenhower appears in these excerpts chiefly through his 1961 farewell address, invoked by two guests for two different warnings: the military-industr
Dwight Eisenhower — Dwight Eisenhower appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, but never as the subject of an episode. He is invoked as a small-r republican president, a
Edward Snowden — Edward Snowden appears in these excerpts not as a biographical subject but as the reference point for two surveillance debates: Bill Ottman cites the NSA’s PRIS
Elbridge Gerry — Elbridge Gerry, the Massachusetts governor and reluctant framer whose 1812 state Senate map gave gerrymandering its name, appears across four episodes of the Bo
Elena Kagan — Elena Kagan appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a Supreme Court justice whose participation in cases was contested on recusal grounds. In a 2012 episode, Larry Kla
Elizabeth Nolan Brown — Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason magazine who appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to discuss President Biden’s 2022 executive order forgiving stude
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
Elon Musk — Elon Musk appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject of biography but as a case study in two distinct arguments: government subsidy of the wealthy, and gove
Eric Holder — Eric Holder appears in three Bob Zadek Show episodes, but never as a guest: he is invoked by Larry Klayman as the attorney general whose civil rights investigat
Eugene Volokh — Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor and co-blogger at The Volokh Conspiracy, appears on The Bob Zadek Show as a leading scholar of free speech law. In a 2021
F.H. Buckley — F.H. Buckley, a law professor at George Mason University, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show in 2016 and 2022 to argue that American economic and social mobility ha
Felix Frankfurter — Felix Frankfurter appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the intellectual architect of judicial deference and of the pro-union turn in American
Fidel Castro — Fidel Castro appears in these episodes not as a subject in his own right but as an offstage force shaping Latin American socialism — negotiating Chávez’s return
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
Francis Collins — Francis Collins appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a supporting figure in episodes about COVID-19 policy, named as the NIH director who, according to guests,
Frank Buckley — Frank Buckley is a law professor, author and frequent guest on The Bob Zadek Show, where he discussed social media censorship regulation in 2019 and, in 2021, h
Frank H. Buckley — Frank H. Buckley is a law professor, author, and frequent guest on The Bob Zadek Show, where he discussed social media censorship and his book *Curiosity and It
Franklin D. Roosevelt — Franklin D. Roosevelt appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a case study in the expansion and abuse of state power. Ilya Somin cite
Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Franklin Delano Roosevelt appears across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as a hinge figure in arguments about constitutio
Franklin Roosevelt — Franklin Roosevelt appears across these episodes less as a biographical subject than as a marker of the New Deal’s institutional legacy — the SEC, judicial defe
Friedrich Hayek — Friedrich Hayek appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as an authority invoked by guests and host alike. Matt Zwolinski cites him f
Gary Johnson — Gary Johnson, former two-term governor of New Mexico, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show in 2010 and 2011 to argue for a sharply reduced military footprint, deep sp
Gavin Newsom — Gavin Newsom appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as a case study in how libertarian and federalist commentato
Gene Healy — Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that impeachment is a constitutional remedy rather than a
George Borjas — George Borjas appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as the economist most cited by opponents of immigration restriction, described by Alex Nowrasteh
George Floyd — George Floyd’s 2020 killing is invoked across four Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a subject in itself than as a trigger for arguments about qualified immunity,
George H.W. Bush — George H.W. Bush appears across five Bob Zadek Show episodes, but never as a subject in his own right — only as a passing reference point in discussions of thir
George III — George III appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as the negative reference point against which the American presidency was designe
George Orwell — George Orwell appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a rhetorical touchstone, invoked by guests and the host to name the corruption
George W. Bush — George W. Bush appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a reference point for libertarian arguments about federal
George Will — George Will appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing reference, never as a guest or the subject of discussion. In a 2011 episode on immigration, Bob Zade
Gerald Ford — Gerald Ford appears in these excerpts not as a president but as a source of the most-quoted line about impeachment — that an impeachable offense is whatever Con
Gouverneur Morris — Gouverneur Morris appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a name in a single episode, invoked by guest Ilya Somin alongside James Madison as a founder who believe
Greg Lukianoff — Greg Lukianoff appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts only as an off-air reference point — the co-author, with Jonathan Haidt, of *The Coddling of the America
Gretchen Whitmer — Gretchen Whitmer appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as an example, cited by guest Glenn Roper of PLF, of what he calls an ‘egregious’ case of arbitrary pandemic
Harry Truman — Harry Truman appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as the subject of an episode but as a recurring reference point in arguments about republican virtue, entitlement
Harvey Silverglate — Harvey Silverglate appears twice on The Bob Zadek Show, first as a defender of campus free speech and founder of FIRE, later as an advocate for abolishing the F
Henry Fonda — Henry Fonda appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as the figure behind 12 Angry Men, the film Bob Zadek twice invokes as the definitive statement
Henry Ford — Henry Ford appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes not as a biographical subject but as a recurring reference point in arguments about entrepreneurship, inn
Henry Hazlitt — Henry Hazlitt appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the author of Economics in One Lesson, the short primer whose ‘seen and unseen’ rule is inv
Herbert Hoover — Herbert Hoover appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring supporting figure in arguments about immigration restric
Hernando de Soto — Hernando de Soto appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a cited authority on the economic cost of missing property institutions. Michael Strong cre
Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in her own right but as a recurring reference point in arguments about child
Howard Zinn — Howard Zinn appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring reference point in arguments about who controls the American historical narrative. B
Hugo Chávez — Hugo Chávez appears in these episodes as the central figure in Venezuela’s turn from a resource-rich democracy to a socialist ‘basket case.’ Fergus Hodgson trac
Hugo Chavez — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Hugo Chávez appears as the central figure in Venezuela’s transformation from one of Latin America’s wealthiest nati
Ibram X. Kendi — Ibram X. Kendi appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the principal expositor of Critical Race Theory, discussed by guest Jonathan Butcher in a 2022 episode on CRT an
Ilya Shapiro — Ilya Shapiro appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that judicial selection should turn on a nominee’s approach to judicial engagement rather than on litmus te
Ilya Somin — Ilya Somin is a professor of law at George Mason University School of Law who appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that voter ignorance is rationa
Irving Kristol — Irving Kristol appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a voice from the 1990s urging that, with the Cold War over, the United States bring its troops home and attend t
Ivan Eland — Ivan Eland, a senior fellow and director at the Independent Institute’s Center on Peace and Liberty, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that U.S. foreign w
Jack Dorsey — Jack Dorsey appears in these excerpts not as a guest but as a recurring reference point in debates over social media censorship and antitrust. Bill Ottman credi
Jacob Sullum — Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason magazine, appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that hate crimes legislation and pandemic lockdowns both il
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 invoked in arguments about constitutional limits, the Bill o
Jamie Dimon — Jamie Dimon appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring shorthand for the apex of elite finance. In the one episode that names him, host Bob
Janet Yellen — Janet Yellen appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as the named sponsor of two policies: a global minimum corporate tax and expanded d
Jared Kushner — Jared Kushner appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a secondary figure in discussions of immigration policy and Republican Party strategy. In a 2019 episode, Al
Jason Sorens — Jason Sorens is a political scientist identified in The Bob Zadek Show as the founder of the Free State Project and, later, as co-author of the Cato Institute’s
Jay Bhattacharya — Jay Bhattacharya appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a Stanford professor and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, cited by guests as an authority on nat
Jeff Bezos — Jeff Bezos appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring example in arguments about corporate governance, minimum wage,
Jeff Sessions — Jeff Sessions appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as the target of libertarian criticism on drug enforcement, civil asset forfeiture, and immigration a
Jeff Singer — Jeff Singer is a practicing general surgeon in Phoenix and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where he works on health policy. Across two 2020 appearances o
Jeff — This article collects what three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show say about figures named Jeff: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as criticized by economist Jeffrey
Jeffrey Immelt — Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric, appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the exemplar of crony capitalism — a business leader whose company, in Bob Zadek’
Jeffrey Miron — Jeffrey Miron is a Harvard economist and Cato senior fellow who appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to argue against the War on Drugs and to discuss the economics of
Jeffrey Rosen — Jeffrey Rosen appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as the head of the National Constitution Center, the organization Bob Zadek repeatedly describes as the only in
Jeffrey Singer — Jeffrey Singer is a general surgeon and Cato Institute scholar who appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that government intervention—Medicare’s co
Jerry Brown — Jerry Brown appears across five episodes of the show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring reference point for California governance: the tax-rai
Jimmy Carter — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Jimmy Carter appears less as a full biographical subject than as a recurring test case for a libertarian argument: t
Joe Biden — Joe Biden appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a subject than as a marker of how American politics was argued in 2020–21: the impeachment trial’
Joe Manchin — Joe Manchin appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a recorded voice in a 2014 episode on EPA coal regulations, where he warns about grid reliability and the effe
John Adams — John Adams appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring reference point — invoked for his warnings about property and law, his role in
John Allison — John Allison, former CEO of BB&T and head of the Cato Institute, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to discuss his book *The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market C
John Bolton — John Bolton appears in The Bob Zadek Show only at the margins — as a witness Senate Republicans were said to fear in the 2020 impeachment trial, and as one of t
John F. Kennedy — John F. Kennedy appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring reference point — invoked for Profiles in Courage in tw
John Locke — John Locke appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as a recurring reference point for the show’s libertarian framework — invoked f
John Marshall — John Marshall appears across five episodes of the Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a recurring reference point in arguments about judicial re
John Maynard Keynes — John Maynard Keynes appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the pivot on which twentieth-century economics turned away from a social science of hu
John McCain — John McCain appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a recurring foil: the co-author of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law that
John Pickering — John Pickering was a federal judge impeached in 1803 and the first federal officer convicted and removed by the Senate. Because he was not guilty of any crime—h
John Roberts — John Roberts appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the Supreme Court’s leading practitioner of judicial deference — the view that unelected judg
Jonathan Haidt — Jonathan Haidt appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to discuss The Coddling of the American Mind, co-authored with Greg Lukianoff, arguing that overprotective paren
Joseph Schumpeter — Joseph Schumpeter appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the economist credited with the concept of ‘creative destruction,’ invoked by guests to
Joseph Stalin — Joseph Stalin appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a historical actor in a single episode’s discussion of the Korean Peninsula. Bob Zadek credits Stalin with r
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 Bob Zadek Show episodes as the ‘ultimate resource’ economist — the man who reversed his own position on population growth and a
Justin Amash — Justin Amash appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a rare example of a member of Congress willing to defy party leadership on structural questio
Kamala Harris — Kamala Harris appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject of a dedicated interview but as a recurring foil in libertarian arguments about bail, single-pa
Karl Marx — Karl Marx appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a thinker to be expounded but as a foil: the origin of a ‘vulgar Marxism’ that guests say has been grafted onto r
Kim Jong-un — Kim Jong-un appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a test case for three arguments: that markets erode top-down control from bel
King George III — King George III appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as the founding generation’s negative reference point — the absolute monarch who
Lamar Alexander — Lamar Alexander appears in The Bob Zadek Show excerpts in two distinct roles: as the sponsor of a school voucher bill that would redirect $24 billion in federal
Larry Summers — Larry Summers appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring reference point in arguments about economists and politics. G
Lenore Skenazy — Lenore Skenazy, a newspaper columnist and author of Free-Range Kids, became known as ‘The World’s Worst Mom’ after letting her nine-year-old son ride the New
Lorena Gonzalez — Lorena Gonzalez appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the California legislator behind both AB 5, the statute that reclassified gig-economy work
Louis Brandeis — Louis Brandeis appears in these excerpts not as a biographical subject but as a recurring reference point in arguments about judicial review and American federa
Ludwig von Mises — Ludwig von Mises appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the namesake of the Mises Institute and as the author of the ‘calculation problem,’ the argument that socialis
Lyndon B. Johnson — Lyndon B. Johnson appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a legislative subject than as a marker of two perceived breaks with the past: the 1965 education legisla
Lyndon Johnson — Lyndon Johnson appears across these episodes less as a biographical subject than as the pivot of a constitutional and political argument: the 1965 education leg
Mao Zedong — Mao Zedong does not appear in these excerpts as a subject; he is named only in passing as the Chinese case within Joshua Muravchik’s account of communism. Murav
Marco Rubio — Marco Rubio appears in The Bob Zadek Show excerpts only as a name invoked in passing — as a sponsor of a 2013 immigration reform bill and the target of a ‘Gang
Margaret Thatcher — Margaret Thatcher appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in her own right but as a recurring reference point in arguments about impeachment, nationalism
Mark Janus — Mark Janus was the plaintiff in Janus v. AFSCME, the 2018 Supreme Court case that ended compulsory agency fees for public employees and was litigated as a free
Mark Zuckerberg — Mark Zuckerberg appears in these excerpts not as a subject but as a recurring example in arguments about permissionless innovation, platform business models, an
Martin Kulldorff — Martin Kulldorff appears in these excerpts not as a speaker but as a signatory and co-author cited by others: an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School who co
Martin Luther King Jr. — Martin Luther King Jr. appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a victim of FBI misconduct, discussed by attorney Harvey Silverglate in a 2022 episode on the burea
Matt Kibbe — Matt Kibbe appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a cited author: his book’s formulation of libertarianism — ‘don’t harm me and don’t take my stuff
Matt Welch — Matt Welch, editor-in-chief and later editor at large of Reason magazine, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show across more than a decade to argue that federal power s
Merrick Garland — Merrick Garland appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as a flashpoint in arguments about judicial appointments and executive pow
Michael Bloomberg — Michael Bloomberg appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as an illustration, never as a guest or subject: in a 2009 episode Bob Zadek cites Mayor Bloomberg’s New Yo
Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a recurring example in arguments about farm subsidies, sc
Mike Munger — Mike Munger is a political scientist, economist and public policy scholar at Duke University who appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show to argue that governm
Impeachment, Election Law, and the Limits of Constitutional Design — Bob Zadek and Gene Healy examine whether impeachment is a legal or political process, with Healy arguing it is a mix of both and not a criminal process. In late
Mike Pompeo — Mike Pompeo appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing: as the secretary of state designated to lead the working-out of the Trump–Kim joint communique after
Milton Friedman — Milton Friedman appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as an authority invoked in arguments about immigration, conscription, educ
Mitch Daniels — Mitch Daniels appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring reference point — the public figure Bob Zadek repeatedly names as his ideal leader
Mitch McConnell — Mitch McConnell appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring example of institutional and political d
Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring reference point in discussions of libertarian politics, higher education, and presid
Morris Kleiner — Morris Kleiner appears in The Bob Zadek Show archives not as a guest but as the author of a quantitative study on occupational licensing, cited by Dick Carpente
Muammar Gaddafi — Muammar Gaddafi appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a case study in the costs of denuclearization and the consequences of U.S. in
Murray Rothbard — Murray Rothbard appears across The Bob Zadek Show as an intellectual reference point rather than a guest: Walter Block calls him a hero and guru for the Lockean
Nancy Pelosi — Nancy Pelosi appears across five Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a subject than as a marker of institutional power — the punchline of a textbook-censorship rant
Neil Gorsuch — Neil Gorsuch’s 2017 nomination to the Supreme Court runs through four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a test case for how libertarians weigh judicial power. Bob Zade
Newt Gingrich — Newt Gingrich appears in these excerpts not as a speaker but as a name invoked twice: once among the establishment figures Bob Zadek says did not engineer the T
Nick Gillespie — Nick Gillespie, editor at Reason, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show in 2011 to argue against government arts funding and in 2021 to place the Capitol riot in a lon
Nicolás Maduro — Nicolás Maduro appears in these episodes as the successor to Hugo Chávez and the man at the center of Venezuela’s collapse into hyperinflation, currency control
Nikita Khrushchev — Nikita Khrushchev appears in these excerpts not as a biographical subject but as a case study in two arguments about U.S. foreign policy. In one episode, John G
Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a foil: Bob Zadek quotes Chomsky’s definition of privatization as ‘an unaccountable tyranny’ to frame the pri
Oliver Wendell Holmes — Oliver Wendell Holmes appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the judicial symbol of deference to the legislature and of Progressive-era faith in
Osama bin Laden — Osama bin Laden appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as the pivot on which libertarian arguments about war, bl
Patri Friedman — Patri Friedman appeared on The Bob Zadek Show more than a decade apart, first as co-founder of the Seasteading Institute promoting autonomous floating micro-nat
Paul Krugman — Paul Krugman appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring foil — cited by Bob Zadek and by guests Peter Suderman, Stephe
Paul Ryan — Paul Ryan appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring foil — the congressional leader blamed for blocking Trump-era deals on healthcare and
Pete Wilson — Pete Wilson appears in three Bob Zadek episodes as the Republican governor whose anti-immigrant politics and veto of high-speed rail legislation shaped Californ
Peter Gray — Peter Gray is a developmental psychologist at Boston College, cited across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the authority on free play and childhood inde
Peter Thiel — Peter Thiel appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a funder and philosophical ally of governance-innovation projects rather than as a guest: he
Philip Hamburger — Philip Hamburger is a Columbia Law School professor, founder and president of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, and author of *Purchasing Submission: Conditions
Quentin Kopp — Quentin Kopp, a California judge and legislator, sponsored the legislation that created the California High-Speed Rail Authority and later sponsored Proposition
Radley Balko — Radley Balko appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as an investigative reporter whose work on civil asset forfeiture and the militarization of Amer
Ralph Nader — Ralph Nader appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring antagonist invoked by libertarian and conservative guests across four episodes spann
Rand Paul — Rand Paul appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a subject than as a marker of libertarian positioning — cited for opposing EPA coal regulations, f
Randy Barnett — Randy Barnett is a Georgetown constitutional law professor presented across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a leading architect of the libertarian legal
Rebecca Friedrichs — Rebecca Friedrichs was a California teacher and plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a Supreme Court challenge to compulsory public-secto
Richard Epstein — Richard Epstein, a law professor and Hoover Institution senior fellow, was a recurring guest on The Bob Zadek Show, where he applied classical-liberal and law-a
Richard Nixon — Richard Nixon appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a single topic but as a recurring reference point — for the inflation of the 1970s, for impoundment and t
Rick Perry — Rick Perry appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as an interview subject but as a recurring foil: a Republican governor whose tax and regulatory record libertarians
Robert Bork — Robert Bork appears in these excerpts chiefly as a symbol of judicial deference — the school of thought holding that judges should uphold democratically enacted
Robert Klein — Robert Klein appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a recurring point of reference: Bob Zadek repeatedly invokes Klein’s comedy album Child of the ’50s to fram
Robert Nozick — Robert Nozick appears in two episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, cited by guests on opposite sides of a tax debate. In a 2015 episode on inclusive capitalism, Sean
Rochelle Walensky — Rochelle Walensky appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the CDC director whose public messaging on COVID-19 vaccines and school reopenings is treated by host and gue
Ron DeSantis — Ron DeSantis appears in The Bob Zadek Show in two unrelated contexts: a 2019 drug-importation segment, where Sally Pipes notes that as Florida’s governor he sig
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 Bob Zadek Show episodes (2015–2020), Ronald Reagan appears less as a subject than as a contested reference point: Lucy Steigerwald blames his drug-w
Ross Perot — Ross Perot appears in these excerpts not as a subject in his own right but as a case study in how third-party candidates can disrupt major-party vote shares and
Rush Limbaugh — Rush Limbaugh appears in these excerpts less as a biographical subject than as a marker of the talk-radio era that followed the Fairness Doctrine’s repeal. Paul
Ryan Young — Ryan Young appears in these excerpts only as a name mentioned in passing during a discussion of campus due process; the sources do not identify him, his role, o
Saddam Hussein — Saddam Hussein appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in his own right but as a recurring reference point in arguments about Americ
Samuel Chase — Samuel Chase, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was impeached in 1804 and tried in 1805, escaping removal by four votes. His case is central to debates
Sarah Palin — Sarah Palin appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing reference, not as a subject of discussion. In a 2011 episode, Ben Shapiro cites her as a target of g
Scott Wiener — Scott Wiener appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a legislator invoked by guests on two policy fronts: housing supply and sex work decriminalizat
Stephen Breyer — Stephen Breyer appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing reference in a 2022 episode on economics, where guest Steven E. Rhoads cites Breyer’s confirmatio
Stephen Moore — Stephen Moore, a supply-side economist and former Club for Growth president, appeared on The Bob Zadek Show in October 2018 to explain ‘Trumponomics,’ the dereg
Steve Bannon — Steve Bannon appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a supporting figure in three unrelated discussions: union litigation funding, the 2017 inaugu
Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring example in arguments about capitalism, risk, and governance. Guests and host invoke
Susan Sarandon — Susan Sarandon appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring illustration of a single libertarian distinction: the Constitution restrains go
Ted Cruz — Ted Cruz appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a guest but as a recurring reference point in discussions of immigration, antitrust and the direction of the Repub
Ted Kennedy — Ted Kennedy appears in these excerpts not as a subject in his own right but as a supporting figure in two policy narratives: as a bipartisan ally of President G
Teddy Roosevelt — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Teddy Roosevelt appears less as a biographical subject than as a marker of a turn in American governance — the point
Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through Pat Eddington’s account of the origins of federal policing, in which Roosevelt used the Secret Ser
Thomas Edison — Thomas Edison appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a recurring reference point in arguments about markets, mandates, and technolog
Thomas Fleming — Thomas Fleming was an American historian and author who appeared on The Bob Zadek Show to discuss how the Founders viewed the relationship between money and pol
Thomas Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a biographical subject than as a recurring reference point — invoked for his violin at Colonial Willi
Thomas Massie — Thomas Massie appears in four excerpts from The Bob Zadek Show, three of them concentrated in a single 2020 episode about the PRIME Act. Across these fragments
Thomas Paine — Thomas Paine appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as a founding-era writer whose pamphlets and books shaped two revolutions and who repeatedly refused t
Thomas Sowell — Thomas Sowell appears in these episodes not as a guest but as an authority cited by others—Don Boudreau invokes his ‘first law of economics,’ Amity Shlaes calls
Timothy Geithner — Timothy Geithner appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a target of criticism, never as a guest or a defended figure. In the 2009 Cash for Clunkers episode, Bob
Timothy Sandefur — Timothy Sandefur, vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute, served on the libertarian team of the National Constitution Center’s Libertarian Con
Veronique de Rugy — Veronique de Rugy appeared on The Bob Zadek Show across more than a decade, arguing that prison spending and the War on Drugs waste money and ruin lives, that t
Vladimir Lenin — Vladimir Lenin appears in these excerpts not as a biographical subject but as the pivot from idealistic socialism to coercive communism. Joshua Muravchik argues
Vladimir Putin — Vladimir Putin appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s Russia coverage less as a biographical subject than as a recurring test case for libertarian foreign-policy argum
Volodymyr Zelensky — Volodymyr Zelensky appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as the recipient of the 2019 phone call between him and Donald Trump, discussed on a single episode about
Walter Block — Walter Block is an economist at Loyola University New Orleans, author of Defending the Undefendable, and a radical libertarian who appeared on The Bob Zadek S
Ward Connerly — Ward Connerly appears in The Bob Zadek Show archives not as an interview subject but as a remembered first guest, invoked by host Bob Zadek to frame later discu
Warren Buffett — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Warren Buffett appears not as a subject but as a recurring rhetorical reference point — an emblem of capitalist succe
Wayne Crews — Wayne Crews is a regulatory-policy scholar invoked across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, though he never appears as a guest in these excerpts. Guests and
Winston Churchill — Winston Churchill appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a biographical subject but as a recurring rhetorical resource — a source of quotations about democracy th
Woodrow Wilson — Woodrow Wilson appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a biographical subject than as a recurring reference point: a racist who purged African Ameri

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