Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS What’s the best economic system for achieving prosperity, while maximizing liberty and autonomy? Capitalists give one answer, socialists another. Capitalists say that free markets not only produce wealth, but that wealth then empowers workers to have more say over their conditions

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS What’s the relationship between libertarianism or radical liberalism and the ideas of the left? Most place them in clear and direct opposition, and argue that liberty advocates should have more affinity for conservatism, at least in its American variety. My guest

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS A lot of people seem to be pretty down on freedom right now. Some take it so far as to blame liberty, and political liberalism, for not just our economic woes, but also for allowing our culture to drift away from some

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS We can argue at length about the proper role of government. But if we’re to have any state at all, one of its clear jobs is to protect us from crime, and to punish criminals. And yet the American criminal justice

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Across nearly a decade, and over four hundred episodes, of the Free Thoughts podcast, Trevor Burrus and I talked a lot about liberty. Today I invited him on ReImagining Liberty to continue that conversation. At issue is the question of how to

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Chances are, you’ve never heard of Don Lavoie. I certainly didn’t run across him when I was getting into libertarianism in college, and it wasn’t until years into my time working for the Cato Institute that I learned about

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | YouTube Music | Pocket Casts | Overcast | RSS Few terms in our contemporary political scene provoke stronger reactions than “critical race theory.” If you listen to much of the right, CRT is a Marxist plot to literally destroy America by teaching children to hate the country, its

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS We all want to alleviate poverty, and help those living with it. The hard question is how. The left has a set of ideas, focused on redistribution and the welfare state. The right tends instead to view poverty as the result of

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Years ago, a then colleague and I pitched the idea of a book called “The Reasonableness of Radicalism,” which would’ve set out the case for an unapologetically radical political liberty and defended it against calls for moderation. The project never went

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS I sometimes hear market anarchists say that “Anarcho-capitalism isn’t anarchism.” This claim, and the disagreements about the nature and values of a free society underpinning it, raises a lot of fascinating questions about liberty, radical liberalism, the characteristics of capitalism, how