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Libertarian National Convention: Are You Not Entertained?

Plus: A listener asks the editors for voting advice and commiseration in a predominantly democratic state.

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Death of an Authoritarian

Plus: The editors field a question from a Gen Z libertarian.

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Campaigns Can't Get Worse, Can They?

Plus: A listener asks the editors about President Joe Biden holding up arms shipments to Israel.

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Noam Dworman: Free Speech for All, From Finkelstein to Chapelle

The owner of the Comedy Cellar and viral podcaster wants to argue with you about Israel, the media, and whether women are funny.

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Americans Care About Inflation, but Politicians Don't

Plus: A listener asks the editors about cancelling student loan debt.

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Rob Long: God is Good, Drugs Are Better

The former Cheers producer talks faith, ayahuasca, and what it’ll take to bring back the blockbuster comedy.

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Where Do Libertarians Stand on the Campus Wars?

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the magical thinking behind the economic ideas of Modern Monetary Theory.

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Justin Amash on Why Congress Is Broken

"Today it is highly centralized, where a few people at the top control everything," the former five-term congressman tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.

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Worst 4/20 Ever

Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.

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Regulating Smartphones? Jonathan Haidt vs. Libertarians

The author of The Anxious Generation argues that parents, schools, and society must keep kids off of social media.

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Congress Does Not Come Back With a Warrant

Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).

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Iran Attacks Israel

Plus: Trump's trial, MMA fighter trots out Mises, the forgotten canceling of Brendan Eich, and more...

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Abigail Shrier: Stop Obsessing Over Our Children's Happiness

The author of Bad Therapy argues that we have created a generation of "emotional hypochondriacs."

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The White House Lied About Its IRS Funding Only Targeting the Rich

Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of left-leaning thinkers who also hold libertarian ideas.

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Why Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale Left California for Texas

The entrepreneur, who founded the Cicero Institute to fix government and the University of Austin to fix higher education, wanted space to flourish.

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Steven Pinker: What Went Wrong at Harvard

The psychologist and bestselling author argues that Harvard's free speech policy was so "selectively prosecuted that it became a national joke."

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Biden's Antitrust Case Against Apple Is Truly Stupid

Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.

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Hardcore History's Dan Carlin: 'History Is Not Like Math'

The podcasting pioneer argues that "history is a moving target."

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The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok.

Plus: A listener asks about Republicans and Democrats monopolizing political power in the United States.

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Patrick Ruffini: Why Blacks and Hispanics Are Turning to Trump

The Republican pollster argues that the "working class is concentrated in states that are more electorally significant to the outcome of the election."

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The State of the Union Is Shouty

Plus: A listener asks the editors a question about progressive taxation in the United States.

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Nate Silver: Libertarians Are the Real Liberals

"People are not in politics for truth-seeking reasons," argues the data journalist and author of On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.

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Rank Choices

Plus: A listener asks the editors for short quotes from fictional works that are representative of libertarian ideas.

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Brian Riedl: Who Bankrupted Us More—Trump or Biden?

"I'm concerned about a Trump-Biden rematch," argues Riedl. "You have two presidents with two of the worst fiscal records of the past 100 years."

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Justin Amash: 'I'd Impeach Every President'

Former Rep. Justin Amash says "the idea of introducing impeachment legislation suggests there's other people who will join you. Otherwise, it's just an exercise in futility."

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