Discourse Magazine Podcast

In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with George Washington University professor Samuel Goldman about different historical narratives about American identity, definitions of nationalism and why consensus should not be our goal.Resources:John L. Loeb, Jr. Institute for Religious FreedomPolitics & Values ProgramSamuel Goldman, God's Country: Christian Zionism in AmericaSamuel Goldman,After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of DivisionFrederick Douglas,Our Composite NationalityFor a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Roland Merullo about taking liberal democracy, and each other, for granted as well as what people can do in our own lives to be more mindful about the decisions we make and how we treat others. Merullo is an award-winning author of 24 books including 17 works of fiction. His book Breakfast with Buddha was a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and his latest book Once Night Falls was selected as a November 2019 pick by Amazon First Reads editors. Resources:Roland Merullo, Breakfast with BuddhaRoland Merullo, Once Night Falls Roland Merullo, “We can't Keep Taking Liberal Democracy for Granted,” PersuasionRoland Merullo, “What Liberal Academics Don't Get,” The Chronicle of Higher EducationRoland Merullo, On the Plus SideMartin Buber, I and Thou

In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Ian Marcus Corbin about the difference between solitude and loneliness, how the internet is affecting people's sense of self, the virtues of ska punk music and much more. Corbin is a writer, researcher and teacher in Cambridge, Mass., where he is currently writing a book on solitude and human solidarity.For a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this eighth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with David Goldhill about how to fix the incentives in healthcare, why the insurance system is outdated, why the government is a poor regulator in this industry, and much more. Goldhill is an American business executive and writer on healthcare policy. He co-founded and runs the independent healthcare marketplace organization Sesame.For a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the Director of Academic Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Keith Whittington about his latest book, “Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech,” his work with the Academic Freedom Alliance, free speech on college campuses, self-censorship and much more. Whittington is the Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. In addition to “Speak Freely,” he has written several books on constitutional law and the judiciary, and he hosts the Academic Freedom Podcast.For a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this seventh installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Jason Hwang about healthcare innovations such as the MinuteClinic and telemedicine, the history of disruption in healthcare and other industries, the need for change in medical education and much more. Hwang is the co-founder and former healthcare executive director of Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. He also co-authored “The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care.” He is an internal medicine physician who obtained his M.D. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and he also received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.For a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this fourteenth installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Tara Isabella Burton about religion in America today, encompassing everything from yoga to witchcraft to wellness culture. They discuss the decline of trust in religious institutions, contemporary spirituality's focus on self-determination, the role of the internet in creating new religious affinities and much more. Burton is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction works, including the novels “Social Creature” and “The World Cannot Give” and the nonfiction book “Strange Rites.” She has a doctorate in theology from Trinity College, Oxford.This series also includes interviews with Alan Charles Kors, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Ilana Redstone, Richard Ebeling, Robert Talisse, Danielle Allen, Roger Berkowitz, Virgil Storr, Kevin Vallier, Juliana Schroeder, John Inazu, Jonathan Rauch and Peter Boettke.

In this episode of the Discourse Magazine Podcast, Mercatus senior research fellow Alden Abbott speaks with Rob Atkinson about the Biden administration's recent executive order on competition, privacy and free speech issues in Big Tech, two competing philosophies of antitrust law and much more. Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank focused on science and technology policy. He has served on various presidential commissions throughout the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations, and he has also authored several books, most recently “Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Mythology of Small Business.”For more helpful links and resources from this conversation, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this sixth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Keith Smith about his innovative pricing strategy at the Surgical Center of Oklahoma and the economic theory behind those pricing decisions. Smith founded the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, where he works as an anesthesiologist. He is also co-founder of the Free Market Medical Association, whose mission is to promote transparency in healthcare and accelerate the speed and growth of the free market healthcare revolution.Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data. The fourth is a discussion with Devi Shetty on India's Narayana hospital system and innovations in healthcare. The fifth talk with Eric Topol is about medicine's slow progress and machine learning in healthcare.

In this thirteenth installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the Director of Academic Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Peter Boettke about the promise held by the idea of liberal cosmopolitanism and the importance of considering the political economy of institutional arrangements in reaching our potential. Boettke is a University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mercatus. Boettke's analytical framework is grounded especially in Austrian economics, the Bloomington School of institutional analysis and the Virginia school of political economy. He has authored and co-authored numerous book, including “The Struggle for a Better World” (2021), “F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy” (2018), and “Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” (2012).This series also includes interviews with Alan Charles Kors, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Ilana Redstone, Richard Ebeling, Robert Talisse, Danielle Allen, Roger Berkowitz, Virgil Storr, Kevin Vallier, Juliana Schroeder, John Inazu and Jonathan Rauch.For more helpful links and resources from this conversation, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this fifth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Eric Topol about the slow progress of medicine, how machine learning will improve healthcare, the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, the triumph of the mRNA vaccines and much more. Topol is a cardiologist, scientist and author of several books, including “The Patient Will See You Now” and “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.” He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of molecular medicine at the Scripps Research Institute and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Scripps Clinic.Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data. The fourth is a discussion with Devi Shetty on India's Narayana hospital system and innovations in healthcare.For more helpful links and resources from this conversation, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this episode of Discourse Magazine Podcast, Alden Abbott, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, interviews antitrust scholar-practitioners James Rill and William Kovacic about the development of global antitrust law, the International Competition Network, America's role in the future of antitrust and much more. James Rill is one of America's foremost antitrust lawyers, and he has served as assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. William Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy and the director of the Competition Law Center at the George Washington University School of Law. He was formerly a member of the Federal Trade Commission and chaired the agency in 2008-2009.For a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this twelfth installment of our series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the Director of Academic Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Jonathan Rauch about fallibilism, groupthink, cancelers and trolls, and why the constitution of knowledge is better than the marketplace of ideas. Rauch is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. His latest book is “The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth” (2021). Previous works include “The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50” (2018), “Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy” (2015) and “Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America” (2004).This series also includes interviews with Alan Charles Kors, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Ilana Redstone, Richard Ebeling, Robert Talisse, Danielle Allen, Roger Berkowitz, Virgil Storr, Kevin Vallier, Juliana Schroeder and John Inazu.Resources:Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of TruthS.E. Asch, Studies in the Principles of Judgments and Attitudes: II. Determination of Judgments by Group and by Ego Standards Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abrams et al. vs United StatesSaturday Night Live, Jane, you Ignorant SlutMartin Gurri, Revolt of the PublicPolanyi, Republic of Science

In this episode, economists Don Boudreaux, Steve Davies, Douglas Irwin, and Arvind Panagariya reflect on the legacy of Britain's Corn Laws 175 years after their repeal on June 25, 1846. They discuss the effects of the Corn Laws, the circumstances leading to the laws' repeal, the ensuing rise of free trade both in Britain and globally, and much more. Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Davies is the head of education at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Douglas is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Panagariya is a professor of economics and the Jagdish N. Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.Resources:The Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity by Steve DaviesClashing Over Commerce by Doug IrwinFree Trade and Prosperity by Arvind PanagariyaFor more helpful links and resources from this conversation, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

In this fourth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Devi Shetty about the innovations of the Narayana hospital system, the ways in which technology can improve healthcare, how to fix medical education and much more. Shetty is the founder, chairman and executive director of Narayana Health, as well as a cardiac surgeon with more than 30 years' experience. He is a professor at Rajiv Gandhi Univesrity of Medical Sciences in Bengaluru, India, and at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has received several awards and honors, including the Padma Shri Award in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan Award in 2012, both conferred by the government of India for his contribution to the field of affordable healthcare. Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data. Want more content? Visit DiscourseMagazine.com. Love the show? Give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. It helps other listeners like you find the show.

In this eleventh installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with John Inazu to discuss what changes in constitutional rules and inter-personal norms can be more effective at better fostering environments of patient, tolerant, and intellectually humble conversations. Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He specializes in First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion, and related questions of legal and political theory. His books include Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. He's also the executive director of The Carver Project, an organization that empowers Christian faculty and students to serve and connect university, church, and society. For a full transcript of this conversation, visit DiscourseMagazine.com. Love the show? Give us a rating on Apple Podcasts or on your favorite podcast app. It helps other podcast listeners find the show. Resources: John Inazu, Liberty's Refuge, the Forgotten Freedom of Assembly, https://www.jinazu.com/libertys-refuge John Inazu, Confident Pluralism, Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, https://www.jinazu.com/confident-pluralism John Inazu and Tim Keller, Uncommon Ground, Living Faithfully in a World of Difference, https://www.jinazu.com/uncommon-ground Carver Project, https://www.carverstl.org/ Ben Klutsey and Danielle Allen, A Matter of Trust, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2020/12/04/a-matter-of-trust/ Danielle Allen, Talking to Strangers, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo3636037.html James Boyd White, Living Speech, https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138374/living-speech John Inazu, The Purpose (and Limits) of the University, https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2018/iss5/1/ Alasdair Macintyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry, https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268018771/three-rival-versions-of-moral-enquiry/ James Davison Hunter, Faithful Presence, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730803.001.0001/acprof-9780199730803-chapter-18

Editors' note: This podcast was recorded on March 11, 2021, and the situation in India has changed significantly since then. On April 29, we asked Dr. Shanker if he wanted to omit these comments, and he said unabashedly, “It was my opinion at the time!” Dr. Graboyes commented, “One of the things I've enjoyed most about Pradheep's pandemic posts has been his intellectual honesty and willingness to highlight where his predictions have not been borne out.” In this second installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on the Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow here at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Pradheep Shanker, a radiologist who focuses on health policy. They discuss the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the different policies implemented by various national and state governments, and the outcomes of those policies. They also talk about pandemic politics and speculate on COVID-19's long-term effects. Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series are two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. Want more content? Visit DiscourseMagazine.com. Love the show? Give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. It helps other listeners like you find the show.

In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with Juliana Schroeder to discuss the psychology underlying how trust and distrust are generated as well as practical ways to better facilitate productive interactions, even across severe cultural, ideological, or other divides. Dr. Schroeder is a professor in the Management of Organizations group at the Haas School of Business and a faculty affiliate in the Social Psychology Department, the Cognition Department, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley. She also co-founded and directs the Psychology of Technology Institute, which supports and advances scientific research studying the psychological consequences and antecedents of technological advancements. Her research examines the psychological processes underlying how people think about the minds of those around them, and how their judgments then influence their social judgments, decisions, and interactions. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and awards from the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. Want more? Check out Discourse Magazine for more pieces on classical liberalism, politics, economics, and culture. Resources Shannon White, Juliana Schroeder, and Jane L. Risen, When Enemies become Close, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5f6a300a0c80ed485d74a75b/1600794637679/White%2C+Schroeder%2C+%26+Risen+2020+JPSP.pdf Juliana Schroeder and Jane L. Risen, Befriending the enemy: Outgroup friendship longitudinally predicts intergroup attitudes in a coexistence program for Israelis and Palestinians, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7b0015b208fcd4071df492/1551564822844/befriending-the-enemy.pdf Seeds of Peace, https://www.seedsofpeace.org/ Braver Angels, https://braverangels.org/ Living Room Conversations, https://livingroomconversations.org/ Psychology of Technology Institute, https://www.psychoftech.org/ Juliana Schroeder, Michael Kardas, and Nicholas Epley, The Humanizing Voice: Speech Reveals, and Text Conceals, a More Thoughtful Mind in the Midst of Disagreement, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7aff6ae4966b9aba01f4d6/1551564652086/the-humanizing-voice.pdf Alicea Lieberman and Juliana Schroeder, Two social lives: How differences between online and offline interaction influence social outcomes, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5d5acd294a8ef600016e778a/1566231850150/TwoSocialLives_LiebermanSchroeder.pdf Jamie E. Guillory PhD Jeffrey T. Hancock PhD Christopher Woodruff MD, FRCPC, and Jeffrey Keilman MD, Text Messaging Reduces Analgesic Requirements During Surgery, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pme.12610 The Flipside, https://www.theflipside.io/ The Factual, https://www.thefactual.com/ All Sides, https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news Daniel H. Stein, Juliana Schroeder, Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton, When Alterations Are Violations: Moral Outrage and Punishment in Response to (Even Minor) Alterations to Rituals, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5fda6b470917ce2aa86a82d8/1608149834372/When+alterations+are+violations+-+proofs.pdf Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton, Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7aff16e2c4834c1a2bee7c/1551564567399/handshaking-promotes-deal-making-by-signaling-cooperative-intent.pdf James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, Richard J. Davidson, Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01832.x Robert Talisse, Too Much of a Good Thing, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2020/11/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/ Danielle Allen, A Matter of Trust, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2020/12/04/a-matter-of-trust/

In this second installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on the Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow here at Mercatus, continues his conversation with Temple Grandin, a pioneer in the humane treatment of livestock and a well-known spokesperson on autism. Their discussion encompasses the need for many different types of thinkers, the importance of observing real-world things, not just mathematical models, the role of small businesses in innovation, deficiencies in modern educational systems, and much more. The first Fortress and Frontier podcast episode and transcript can be found here.

In this 9th episode on our series on liberalism, Ben Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Kevin Vallier about the connections between declining social and political trust as well as possible solutions for rebuilding faith in our neighbors and establishing a broad-based civic friendship. Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. His interests lie primarily in philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation, Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society, and Trust in a Polarized Age. Resources mentioned Kevin Vallier, Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation, https://www.kevinvallier.com/books/liberal-politics-and-public-faith/ Kevin Vallier, Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society, https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/must-politics-be-war-redux-500-words/ Kevin Vallier, Trust in a Polarized Age, https://www.kevinvallier.com/books/trust-in-a-polarized-age/ Kevin Vallier, Reconciled Blog Post, https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/new-finding-us-social-trust-has-fallen-23-points-since-1964/ Robert Talisse, Discourse Interview, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2020/11/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/ Robert Talisse, Overdoing Democracy, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overdoing-democracy-9780190924195?cc=us&lang=en&m Martin Gurri, Revolt of the Public, https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143 Philip Tetlock Superforcasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-Philip-Tetlock/dp/0804136718

On today's episode, Dr. Robert Graboyes, Senior Research Fellow and healthcare scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. They discuss the logistics of livestock handling facilities, Temple's life growing up and living with autism, the US educational system and its shortcomings, and much more. The audio as well as the transcript of this conversation has been slightly edited for clarity. Resources mentioned: Temple's TED talk The World Needs All Kinds of Minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds?language=en The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care by Clayton M. M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, and Jason Hwang M.D.: https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-Solution-Health/dp/1259860868 Temple Grandin (HBO Movie): https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GVU4KuQQ3K4NJjhsJAbXd/?utm_id=sa%7c71700000067760082%7c58700005914635609%7cp54043592318&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhP2BBhDdARIsAJEzXlHNhLDkt5rJHQ4_rV6grIPnEvIkZ3zA31onBDQ1acAFYEy0DY0luQgaAg7pEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Pictures-Expanded-Life-Autism/dp/0307275655 The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin: https://www.amazon.com/Autistic-Brain-Thinking-Across-Spectrum-ebook/dp/B009JWCR56 Oliver Sacks' essay on Temple Grandin: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/12/27/anthropologist-mars

On today's episode, Brian Knight, Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus, has a roundtable discussion with a panel of experts on the GameStop stocks saga that has unfolded over the past couple of weeks. Brian is joined by Christopher Russo, Martin Gurri, and Andrew Vollmer to discuss the market's response to this anomaly, security regulators and policymaker reactions, if they think something like this will ever happen again, and much more.

In this week's episode, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Virgil Storr about bottom-up solutions for facilitating greater social trust and a generally liberal ethos, especially the market mechanism. Dr. Storr is the Vice President of Academic and Student Programs and Don C. Lavoie Senior Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He specializes in Austrian economics, culture and economic development, and economic sociology. His books include Do Markets Corrupt our Morals? and Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship. Resources mentioned: Virgil Storr and Ginny Choi, Do Markets Corrupt our Morals https://www.amazon.com/Do-Markets-Corrupt-Our-Morals/dp/3030184153/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FMTBIFEE8ICC&dchild=1&keywords=do+markets+corrupt+our+morals&qid=1611592979&sprefix=do+markets%2Cstripbooks%2C198&sr=8-1 Virgil Storr and Stephanie Haeffele, Bottom-up Responses to Crisis https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030393113 Tyler Cowen, The Complacent Class https://www.amazon.com/Complacent-Class-Self-Defeating-Quest-American/dp/1250108691 Robert Talisse, Overdoing Democracy https://www.amazon.com/Overdoing-Democracy-Must-Politics-Place/dp/0190924195 Mark Granevettor, “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness” https://www.jstor.org/stable/2780199?seq=1

In today's episode, Eileen Norcross, Vice President for Policy Research at the Mercatus Center, chats with Alex Salter about a big question with a long pedigree, namely, is liberalism, in particular, classical liberalism, at odds with the concept of the common good. Salter is Associate Professor of Economics at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University and Comparative Economics Research Fellow at The Free Market Institute. His research interests include monetary policy and the commercialization of space travel. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Norcross and Salter, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out Discourse Magazine for more. Resources: Eileen Norcross and Paul Dragos Aligica, Catholic Social Thought And New Institutional Economics: A Preliminary Assessment of Their Affinities and Areas of Potential Convergence Alexander Salter, Could Adam Smith Have Loved Distributism? Eugene Callahan and Alexander Salter, DEAD ENDS AND LIVING CURRENTS: DISTRIBUTISM AS A PROGRESSIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM Alexander Salter, THE CONSTITUTION OF ECONOMIC EXPERTISE: SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE, PAST AND PRESENT Alexander Salter, Learning to Love the Liberalism of Ludwig von Mises

In this seventh installment of our series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with Roger Berkowitz to discuss the effects that democratic conversations, elite technocratic prejudices, and mass loneliness have on pluralism and liberalism. Dr. Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. He specializes in law, political theory, and continental philosophy. His books include The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and Thinking In Dark Times: Hannah Arendt On Ethics And Politics. Berkowitz also edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Berkowitz, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more. Resources Boris Vormann and Michael D. Weinman, The Emergence of Liberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon Roger Berkowitz, The Failing Technocratic Prejudice and the Challenge to Liberal Democracy Roger Berkowitz, Crisis of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times Uday Singh Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, The Upswing How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism William James, Dedication of a Monument to Robert Gould Shaw Hannah Arendt, The Crisis in Culture Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes Living Room Conversations Future Worlds Open Society University Network Danielle Allen, Talking to Strangers

In the sixth installment of our series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Danielle Allen about trust, civic friendship, political and social equality as an essential foundation for liberty, and the importance of overcoming our fear of talking (and really listening) to strangers. Dr. Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, specializing in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, our discussion touches on her writings in The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014), and Education and Equality (2016). The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Allen, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more. Further Resources: Allen, Danielle. 2000. The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens. Allen, Danielle. 2004. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education. Allen, Danielle. 2014. Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. Allen, Danielle. 2016. Education and Equality. Hayek, F.A. 1945. The Use of Knowledge in Society. Talisse, Robert. 2019. Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place.

On today's episode, Ben Klutsey, our Director of Academic Outreach at Mercatus, sits down with Robert Talisse, author of Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place. Dr. Talisse discusses how political saturation of the social space and polarization are affecting how we do democracy and associate with each other outside of the political sphere. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Talisse, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more. Resources mentioned: Robert Talisse, Overdoing Democracy

Dr. Richard Ebeling, BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel, joins us for today's podcast. Dr. Ebeling discusses his new book, For a New Liberalism, and the importance of living out the ideals of Liberalism in our lives every day. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Ebeling, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more. Resources mentioned: Richard Ebeling, For a New Liberalism Israel Kirzner, The Economic Point of View: An Essay on the History of Economic Thought Richard Ebeing, Lost Papers of Ludwig von Mises Ludwig von Mises, Memoirs Gustav Schmoller, “On the Methodology of the Political and Social Sciences” Carl Menger, The Errors of the German Historical School Ludwig von Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics Ludwig von Mises, Human Action Adam Smith, An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy Henry Fawcett, Pauperism: Its Causes and Remedies E. G. West, Education and the State F. A. Hayek, Intellectuals and Socialism

In this installment, Ben Klutsey talks with Dr. Ilana Redstone, Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and founder of Diverse Perspectives Consulting. We dig into the epistemic question of how we know what we know and the usefulness of respecting viewpoint diversity by focusing on Dr. Redstone's new course, Bigots and Snowflakes: Living in a World Where Everyone Else is Wrong, and her forthcoming book, Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Redstone, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more. Resources mentioned: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Ilana Redstone, Prepare Students to be Foxes, not Hedgehogs Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History Philip Tetlock, Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Ilana Redstone, FIRE 2019 paper: The Silent Crisis in the Classroom Ilana Redstone, Syllabus for Bigots and Snowflakes: Living in a World Where Everyone Else is Wrong Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas Ilana Redstone and John Villesenor, Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education Ilana Redstone, Diverse Perspectives Consulting

In this episode, Ben Klutsey, Director of Academic Outreach at Mercatus, chats with Dr. Emily Chamlee-Wright, President and CEO of the Institute for Humane Studies. Dr. Chamlee-Wright explores the benefits of tolerance, good faith, and humility in a society of diverse individuals. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Chamlee-Wright, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more. Resources mentioned: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Jacob Levy, Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom Emily Chamlee-Wright, Self-Censorship and Associational Life in the Liberal Academy IHS, Funding and Support for Scholars IHS, The Discourse Initiative

In this conversation, Director of Academic Outreach at Mercatus, Ben Klutsey, speaks with Dr. Alan Charles Kors, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kors surveys the history of Liberalism's triumphs and setbacks from the Enlightenment to modern college classrooms. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Kors, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more. Resources mentioned: Voltaire, Letters on England John Stuart Mill, On Liberty John Locke, Second Treatise on Government F. A. Hayek, Road to Serfdom Alan Kors, Syllabus for History of Classical Liberal Thought Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow, Dan Griswold, sat down with Ilya Somin to discuss his new book, Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration and Political Freedom. Somin is a professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia School of Law. In addition to Free to Move, Somin is the author of several other books, including Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter, and is a regular contributor to the popular blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Griswold and Somin, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more.

In this episode, the Mercatus Center's Executive Director, Dan Rothschild, sat down with Arnold Kling and Martin Gurri to discuss the post-truth phenomenon, how a collapse of trust in established institutions has led to a world of competing truths. The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Rothschild, Kling, and Gurri, has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more.

Martin Gurri doesn't like to make predictions. But if you were lucky enough to read his groundbreaking 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public, when it was first published, you'd have an excellent guide for understanding much of what subsequently happened in the United States and around the world. Gurri's thesis—that information technology, particularly social media, has helped to dramatically widen the distance between ordinary people and elites—has proven invaluable in explaining not only the election of Donald Trump, but other recent populist events around the globe. Arnold Kling was one of the first people to see the importance of Gurri's book. He's also written his own influential contribution to our understanding of recent social and political trends. In 2013's The Three Languages of Politics, Kling shows how three different political tribes in the US—liberals, conservatives and libertarians—have been speaking past each other, rather than to each other, helping to increase political polarization. On January 31, 2020, Kling sat down with Gurri at the Mercatus Center to discuss the latter's views on the push and pull between the public and elites, focusing on three institutions: the academy, journalism and politics. Gurri, who is a visiting research fellow at the Mercatus Center, worked for many years as a media analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He currently writes a monthly column for the Mercatus Center's online magazine, The Bridge. Kling, who is a senior affiliated scholar at Mercatus, is a housing economist who has worked both at Freddie Mac and for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In addition to The Three Languages of Politics, Kling has authored a number of other volumes, including Specialization and Trade, and is a regular contributor to The Bridge. Disclaimer: The audio of the conversation between Kling and Gurri has been slightly edited for clarity. Love the show? Consider giving us a rating on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out the Discourse Magazine for more.

Welcome to the Discourse Magazine Podcast. This is David Masci, Senior Managing Editor of Discourse, a new online journal on politics, economics, and culture published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. On this podcast, you'll hear from a diverse range of authors, thinkers, and scholars who are dedicated to discourse, to the notion that good thinking and good ideas arise amid the interplay of different viewpoints and perspectives. In these conversations, we discuss a variety of different topics, and almost everything is on the table, as long as it's interesting and relevant. Check out Discourse magazine, which is available online at www.discoursemagazine.com. You can subscribe to the Discourse Magazine Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We hope that you enjoy the podcast and that the conversation you hear today helps spark new thinking and more... discourse.