ZadekpediaFifteen subjects hold every episode; each opens onto its topics and the episodes that argued them. Terms without a topic of their own are in the glossary; the people the show was about are in People.
- The Constitution and the courts (66) — What the Constitution says, what the courts have made of it, and who gets to decide.
- Federalism and exit (46) — Power pushed down to the states, and the right to leave: foot voting, charter cities, seasteads.
- Crime, police and punishment (42) — Policing, prosecution and prisons: forfeiture, plea bargains, the drug war and due process.
- Free speech and civil liberties (45) — The First Amendment, censorship old and new, privacy and surveillance.
- Regulation and the administrative state (62) — Agencies that write their own rules, licensing boards, and who regulation really serves.
- Markets and money (96) — How prices, trade, money and enterprise work, and what happens when government steps in.
- Taxes, spending and debt (37) — What government takes, what it spends, and what it owes.
- Health and medicine (38) — The FDA, prescriptions, public health and the COVID years.
- Education (19) — Schools, school choice, universities and campus rules.
- Housing and land (25) — Property rights, zoning, rent control and the cost of a place to live.
- Immigration (24) — Who gets to come, on what terms, and what the evidence says about it.
- Elections and politics (64) — Voting rules, parties, campaigns, and the incentives of the people who run for office.
- War and foreign policy (20) — War powers, alliances, intervention and the national-security state.
- History and the Founders (20) — The founding era and the history the show kept returning to.
- Ideas (59) — Libertarianism itself: its first principles, its thinkers and its moral case.