Podcast appearances and mentions of Liberty Fund

Send us a textIn this special episode of The Great Antidote, Amy Willis of Liberty Fund takes the mic to interview Juliette Sellgren, the voice behind the show. Together, they reflect on the evolution of the podcast—from its early days to the hundreds of guests it has featured—and how Juliette herself has grown in the process.They talk about what it means to foster curiosity, how Juliette approaches reading (and recommends you do, too), and what makes for a great question. They also discuss the future of the podcast, the future of Juliette, and how The Great Antidote continues to explore the ideas of liberty and flourishing through meaningful conversation.We explore questions like:What have been the most surprising lessons from interviewing economists, philosophers, and thinkers about liberty?How has Juliette's own worldview changed since the podcast began?What is her approach to reading—and how does it fuel her curiosity?If she could have dinner with any past guest (or figure), who would it be?Juliette Sellgren is the creator and host of The Great Antidote, a podcast by Liberty Fund that explores the ideas, institutions, and people behind a free society. She's a researcher, writer, and lover of questions whose work bridges classical liberal ideas and public conversation.Whether you're a longtime listener or just tuning in, this behind-the-scenes episode offers an honest, reflective look at the voice behind the mic—and what's next.Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Send us a textWhy do harmful policies like tariffs keep coming back despite universal condemnation from economists? The answer lies in the dynamics of collective action and concentrated interests.In this eye-opening conversation with G. Patrick Lynch, Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Mike Munger explores the fascinating world of public choice theory and how it explains some of democracy's most persistent puzzles. Lynch, a self-described "popularizer of public choice," breaks down complex economic principles into digestible insights about political behavior.The discussion begins with the foundations of public choice theory—the application of economic reasoning to political decisions. Far from portraying politicians as uniquely self-interested, public choice simply acknowledges that all humans respond to incentives, whether in markets or politics. As Lynch explains, "It's a mistake to characterize public choice as people being just materially self-interested." Even Mother Teresa was pursuing her goals single-mindedly—the definition of self-interest properly understood.When the conversation turns to tariffs, Lynch delivers a masterclass in why bad policies persist. Manufacturing interests receive concentrated benefits and organize effectively, while consumers bear diffuse costs. "That $70,000 job costs consumers $210,000 to $250,000 in increased prices," Munger notes. But since an individual consumer might pay just pennies more per purchase, they won't mobilize political opposition.Perhaps most fascinating is the exploration of Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning work on common-pool resources. Conventional wisdom suggested that without government intervention, shared resources face inevitable destruction through overuse. Yet Ostrom discovered countless examples worldwide where communities developed sophisticated management systems to sustain resources over generations.If you've ever wondered why policies that economists universally condemn keep returning, or why small groups seem to dominate our politics despite majority rule, this conversation offers profound and sometimes unsettling answers. Subscribe now for more insights that will transform how you understand politics, economics, and collective decision-making.LINKS:G. Patrick Lynch:https://www.econlib.org/author/plynch/ https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/the-young-americas-need-each-other https://lawliberty.org/author/patrick-lynch/https://lawliberty.org/book-review/public-choice-with-chinese-characteristics/ Shaggy Dog story: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/shaggy-dog-story.html The ORIGINAL Shaggy Dog story:  https://stephengreensted.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/the-original-shaggy-dog-joke/Book'o'da Month:    Two Books, both by William Bernstein. The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004, If you have questions or comments, or want to suggest a future topic, email the show at taitc.email@gmail.com ! You can follow Mike Munger on Twitter at @mungowitz

Send us a textWe've talked about objectivism before on the podcast, but that was fairly introductory. Today, for the first time ever, I host two guests on the podcast to discuss the limitations of objectivism and where it fails to depict the good life. We talk about how they got interested in Rand's thought, how they philosophically dealt with works that were mostly fiction, and where their philosophy, individualistic perfectionism, diverges from Rand's and fills in some important blanks. Den Uyl is a resident scholar at Liberty Fund, and Rasmussen is a professor emeritus in philosophy at St. John's University and senior affiliated scholar at the Center for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University. Together, they have written extensively on the subject, including editing a collection called The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand. They've written a lot on the topic at the Journal for Ayn Rand Studies. Den Uyl has a book on the subject, titled The Fountainhead: An American Novel.Want to explore more?Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market, an EconTalk podcast.Timothy Sandefur on Freedom's Furies, a Great Antidote podcast.Caroline Breashears, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and the Power of Stories, at Econlib.Craig Biddle on Philosophy and Objectivism, a Great Antidote podcast.Dianne Durante on Innovations in Sculpture, a Great Antidote podcast.Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Steve Ealy as he attempts to convince us of the importance of reading All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren! Steve Ealy is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at Liberty Fund, Inc. He has published academic articles on Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, the Qur'an, and The Federalist Papers. He received his BA in political science from Furman University, and earned an MA in government at Claremont Graduate University and his PhD in political science from the University of Georgia. We all know we need to read more and there are literally millions of books on shelves with new ones printed every day. How do we sort through all the possibilities to find the book that is just right for us now? Well, the McConnell Center is bringing authors and experts to inspire us to read impactful and entertaining books that might be on our shelves or in our e-readers, but which we haven't yet picked up. We hope you learn a lot in the following podcast and we hope you might be inspired to pick up one or more of the books we are highlighting this year at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center. Stay Connected Visit us at McConnellcenter.org Subscribe to our newsletter  Facebook: @mcconnellcenter Instagram: @ulmcenter  Twitter: @ULmCenter This podcast is a production of the McConnell Center

Send us a textAdam Smith was a man who read the Stoics. He liked them, too, talking them up in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, particularly in the section on grief. Then he lost two of his closest relations (old timey, right?), David Hume and his mother. These world-shaking events caused him to reevaluate what he said about grief in TMS and change our interpretation of his commentary on grief.So what did he say about grief before, and how did the actual experience of grief change his mind? How does grief work, and how do we get through hard times? How do art and philosophy play different roles in the human experience?Today, I'm excited to welcome Liberty Fund's Sarah Skwire back to the podcast. She is a Senior Program Officer there, and a resident scholar on people-who-thought-things-and-wrote-things. I truly enjoyed this conversation and I hope you do too! Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Alex speaks with Elias Khalil about the influential ideas of Ibn Khaldun, delving into Khaldun's theories on the rise and fall of civilizations, the nature of political communities, and the importance of solidarity (Asabiyya). Khalil connects these insights to classical liberal thought and the works of Adam Smith, emphasizing Khaldun's impact on understanding political order as a product of social dynamics rather than divine intervention. References 1. "The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History" by Ibn Khaldun, translated by Franz Rosenthal Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Muqaddimah-Introduction-History-Ibn-Khaldun/dp/0691166285 2. “Ibn Khaldoun and Adam Smith—Two Heroes of the Modern Age.” https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/ibnkhaldoun-and-adam-smith (Liberty Fund), 11 November 2020; 3. “Ibn Khaldûn on Property Rights, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.” Journal of Institutional Economics, August 2007, 3:2, pp. 227-238. (It includes a long excerpt (pp. 233-238) from Ibn Khaldûn's The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744137407000677 4. "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith Link: https://a.co/d/j7XuEp4 5. "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Wealth-Nations-Adam-Smith/dp/1505577128   

The Declaration of Independence audaciously declares certain “truths” to be “self-evident”.  And, in so doing, offered a justification for not only a break with Great Britain and Revolutionary War, but the foundation upon which a new nation could be built.  But how uniformly were these “truths” held and understood by the Founding Fathers?  Were they disparate views that were ultimately incoherent or inconsistent?  Did the divergent cultures of the American North and South have fundamentally different ideas of what they conceived of America to be?  Were the Founders simply protecting their material interests and reaching for any argument at hand that seemed useful to that end?   Who was most responsible for the ideas of the American founding?  John Locke?  Scottish Enlightenment thinkers?  Egalitarianism?  Modernity?  Scientific rationalism?  Christian teachings?  Joining Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is historian Hans Eicholz who argues it was actually a harmonization of many of these different, but not incompatible, sentiments that lead to the founding of America.   About Hans Eicholz Hans Eicholz is a historian and Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund.  Much of his work has been in the history of economic thought, looking initially at the influence of market ideas in the American founding period, but also extending up through the 19th century.   Hans is the author of Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government (2001; Second Edition, 2024), and a contributor to The Constitutionalism of American States (2008).  

In February of 2004 the late Charles Krauthammer delivered the keynote address at AEI's Annual Dinner.  It was a year into the Iraqi war and several years into the War on Terror.  Krauthammer's address—entitled Democratic Realism—lauded much of the Bush administration's approach to the war, but offered some stern warnings on how the war and rebuilding efforts might go awry.  His warnings proved to be profoundly prescient as the following years led to the disillusionment of what broadly (and wrongly) became known as NeoCon foreign policy.   What had the Right missed in Krauthammer's warnings?  What foreign policy approaches has the United States historically taken, and are any of them still relevant?  How might conservatism shed light on the most appropriate foreign policy we could pursue?  Joining Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is returning guest Michael Lucchese to think through the lessons learned in American foreign policy.   About Michael Lucchese Michael Lucchese is the founder and CEO of Pipe Creek Consulting, a communications firm based in Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at the Liberty Fund.  Previously, he was a communications aide to U.S. Senator Ben Sasse.   He received a BA in American Studies at Hillsdale College and was a Hudson Institute Political Studies fellow and an alumnus of the Röpke-Wojtyła Fellowship at Catholic University of America's Busch School of Business. Michael is an Associate Editor at Law & Liberty and a contributing editor to Providence.  His writings have also appeared in multiple publications, including the Washington Examiner and National Review, Engelsberg Ideas, and Public Discourse. Michael Lucchese is from Chicago, Illinois.   Michael was a previous guest on Saving Elephants in episode 143 – The Conservative Mind at 70 with Michael Lucchese  

Alice Temnick joins us today on The Great Antidote. She is an IB economics teacher at the United Nations International School in Manhattan and is an education consultant for Liberty Fund's Adam Smith Works. We continue a previous conversation on Adam Smith, this time exploring his time at Glasgow and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres, lectures from his time there. We talk about why he left the University and the ways that we as modern day learners benefit, but how it impacted his students at the time. Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

What You Need to Know is the source materials of our founding fathers are still accessible! On this celebration of George Washington's Birthday (President's Day), celebrate by going and gathering up the incredible source materials we have from Washington and his contemporaries. Free and downloadable or inexpensive and orderable, places like Liberty Fund have made the volumes of their work and correspondence available to you and me, so we can understand our legacy and preserve this incredible homeland! Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.), spokesperson for the National Police Association, joins Ed to discuss the current state of policing in America. Sgt. Smith talks about the terrible policies, like bail reform and criminal justice reform, that have led to attacks on the police as an institution and also have led to an increase in crime. This situation is untenable and the crime problem is widespread. Mark Biltz, founder and Senior Pastor of El Shaddai Ministries in Washington State, joins Ed to discuss his upcoming book: America at War 2024-2026: The Sons of Light vs. The Sons of Darkness. Mark draws on Biblical history and prophecy and contextualizes it to our current historical moment. Mark warns Ed that civil war is coming to the United States in many ways and on many levels. WYNDO: First read George Washington's farewell address (1796) and then Dwight Eisenhower's (1961) and THEN let's have a discussion about Ukraine, Israel, and U.S. Foreign relations! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alice Temnick teaches IB Economics for the United Nations International School in Manhattan and is an education consultant with Liberty Fund's Adam Smith Works and Econlib. Today, we begin what is going to be a long conversation about Adam Smith and education. We begin with Adam Smith's upbringing and education and talk about our own. We discuss how important being a student is to being a teacher. Stay tuned for more! Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Alice Temnick teaches IB Economics for the United Nations International School in Manhattan and is an education consultant with Liberty Fund's Adam Smith Works and Econlib. Today, we begin what is going to be a long conversation about Adam Smith and education. We begin with Adam Smith's upbringing and education and talk about our own. We discuss how important being a student is to being a teacher. Stay tuned for more! Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

  Fred Fransen is the President of Huntington Junior College and Co-Founder of Certell, Inc. He also previously served as Executive Director at the Center for Excellence in Higher Education and as Senior Fellow for Liberty Fund. He has been working to make breakthroughs in how to improve education at both the K-12 and higher education levels.   Garrett & Fred talk about the role of junior colleges in the reformation of education in the United States, particularly about the changes Fred is making at Huntington Junior College to incorporate civics and Great Books education into the college's programs. Fred shares about the defining role the Fall of the Berlin Wall played in his realization of how important freedom is, and how that moment led him to the University of Chicago, which underscored his future career in higher education reform and philanthropy. They also explore Fred's time in a small town called Eureka Springs, Arkansas.    Committee on Social Thought at University of Chicago Find Fred Fransen on LinkedIn Alan Bloom Liberty Fund Huntington Junior College   Garrett Ballengee, Host President & CEO - @gballeng Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy   Amanda Kieffer, Executive Producer Vice President of Communications & Strategy - @akieffer13  Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy   Nate Phipps, Editor & Producer Communications & Social Media Associate - @Aviv5753 Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy   Follow: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram Support: Patreon, Donate, Newsletter

#LiberalismInQuestion #CIS #libertarian #liberty Watch this episode here David Hart is the Online Library director at the Liberty Fund and academic editor of the Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Dr. Hart is an historian and a libertarian with interests in the history of the classical liberal tradition (especially the French), war and culture, libertarian class theory, and film. He has a PhD from King's College, Cambridge, a masters from Stanford University, and a BA Honours degree from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He taught in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide in South Australia for 15 years.   Are you looking for sound, thought-provoking conversations on current affairs, politics, and culture from a Classical Liberal perspective? If yes, you are in the right place. Liberalism in Question engages some of our society's most prominent researchers, political figures, and free speech advocates --finding out their views on the state of Classical Liberalism.   About the host: The Right Reverend Robert Forsyth was the Anglican Bishop of South Sydney, a region of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, from 2000 to 2015. Before this he was the rector of St. Barnabas, Broadway and chaplain to the University of Sydney. Robert gave the 2001 Acton Lecture Dangerous Protections: How some ways of protecting the freedom of religion may actually diminish religious freedom and was awarded the Alan McGregor Fellowship at Consilium in 2010. Robert has been extensively involved in the areas of religious freedom and public policy.

Jimmy is joined by G. Patrick Lynch, Senior Fellow at the Liberty Fund, to discuss the election of Javier Milei as Argentina's president and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston promised to crack down on auto theft but hasn't - and now we learn that he had his own car stolen... again!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jimmy is joined by G. Patrick Lynch, Senior Fellow at the Liberty Fund, to discuss the election of Javier Milei as Argentina's president and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston promised to crack down on auto theft but hasn't - and now we learn that he had his own car stolen... again!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1953 a little-known political theorist Russell Kirk repurposed his doctoral dissertation as a book for publication.  His book, The Conservative Mind, would quickly become a bestseller, give the nascent conservative movement its name and intellectual moorings, be reviewed and debated in respectable publications across the country, and launch its author to international fame.   Seventy years later, the book is still going strong.  Now on its seventh edition and reprinted in multiple languages, The Conservative Mind is among the indispensable tomes for understanding the conservative movement.  In this episode, Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is joined by Michael Lucchese to explore the enduring legacy of The Conservative Mind at seventy.   About Michael Lucchese   Michael Lucchese is the founder and CEO of Pipe Creek Consulting, a communications firm based in Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at the Liberty Fund.  Previously, he was a communications aide to U.S. Senator Ben Sasse.   He received a BA in American Studies at Hillsdale College and was a Hudson Institute Political Studies fellow and an alumnus of the Röpke-Wojtyła Fellowship at Catholic University of America's Busch School of Business.   His writing have appeared in multiple publications, including the Washington Examiner and National Review, Engelsberg Ideas, Public Discourse, and Law & Liberty.  Michael Lucchese is from Chicago, Illinois.   The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal Celebrates the 70th Anniversary of The Conservative Mind   In celebration of the 70th anniversary of Russell Kirk's landmark book, The Conservative Mind, the Russell Kirk Center cordially invites you to join them for a special evening event with a panel of emerging conservative thinkers: Adapting Conservatism for the Current Generation   The celebration will be held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, December 5.   Reserve Your Tickets  

In the Ransom Trilogy, C.S. Lewis presents a theory of reality as a gift. Through the metaphors of fruit and waves, Lewis suggests that we rational creatures find our best flourishing when we receive reality and unfold its riches throughout our lives.Josh Herring, Professor of Classical Education at Thales College, presented this talk based on a chapter of his recently completed dissertation. Josh Herring (PhD, Humanities) serves as Professor of Classical Education at Thales College. He hosts The Optimistic Curmudgeon, an interview show platforming the best in conservative thought. He tweets at @TheOptimisticC3. He regularly writes for Liberty Fund and the Acton Institute.This lecture was delivered live at the Fall Classical Summit, a regional classical conference held at Thales Academy Rolesville Junior High-High School on October 6, 2023.Interested in teaching at Thales Academy? Please check out our website if you are interested in pursuing a career at Thales Academy and learning about needs across our network. Find out more at https://www.thalesacademy.org/contact/careers.

Michael Lucchese is the founder of Pipe Creek Consulting , a communications firm based in Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at the Liberty Fund. Previously, he was a communications aide for U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse. Dear media: The Chinese Communist Party really is a threat to the US

You are NOT going to want to miss this one, guys! St. George Tucker is a forgotten Founding Father and a man whose life and example are beyond compare. Start reading his book View of the Constitution of the United States and you will IMMEDIATELY discover why THEY don't want you reading his book! St. George Tucker. This month is his 271st birthday, so celebrate by reading his stuff. You can get his book free online from Liberty Fund. #forgottenfoundingfather #foundingfathers #stgeorgetucker #stgeorge #tuckersofvirginia #collegeofwilliamandmary #williamandmary #constitution #truehistory #law #bermuda #famouspeoplefrombermuda #stgeorgetucker #tucker #tenthamendment #10A #secondamendment #2A #battleofyorktown #battleofguilfordcourthouse #nathanielgreene #quakers #joewolverton #teacherofliberty #ushistory #americanhistory #history

An excellent teacher inspires students to love learning, has high expectations for content and behavior, and invests in students beyond the classroom. Dr. Josh Herring of Thales College describes three excellent teachers from his own education as a way of encouraging teachers to pursue excellence in their craft as they consider the beginning of a new school year.Josh Herring (PhD, Humanities) serves as Professor of Classical Education at Thales College. He hosts The Optimistic Curmudgeon, an interview show platforming the best in conservative thought. He tweets at @TheOptimisticC3. He regularly writes for Liberty Fund and the Acton Institute.Josh Herring delivered this conference presentation at the Conference of Miletus on July 10, 2023. The Conference of Miletus was a series of short lectures from members of the Thales Academy leadership team discussing what is true, what is good, and what is beautiful and the importance of these transcendental ideas to classical education.Interested in teaching at Thales Academy? Please check out our website if you are interested in pursuing a career at Thales Academy and learning about needs across our network. Find out more at https://www.thalesacademy.org/contact/careers.

*We've improved this audio!* Due to the style and age of recording for this particular event, some audio quality issues may still persist. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we revisit a 2010 event where Professor Emeritus of Economics at George Mason University and Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.This event was co-hosted by the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Liberty Fund, the George Mason University Economics Department, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and took place at George Mason University's Fairfax campus.The panel discussion of Buchanan's work was led by the Dean Emeritus of the GMU Law School, Henry Manne, who was joined by:Amartya K. Sen, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, 1998, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard UniversityElinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, 2009, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana UniversityJames M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, 1986, Professor Emeritus of Economics, George Mason UniversityAlan G. Merten, Former President of George Mason UniversityDaniel Houser, Professor of Economics, George Mason UniversityChris Talley, Former President & CEO of Liberty Fund (now the chairman of the board of trustees for the Winchester Foundation)If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Virtual Sentiments, our new podcast series from the Hayek Program is now streaming! Subscribe today and listen to season one on digital democracy.Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatusCC Music: Twisterium

Join Roger in this week's Liberty + Leadership Podcast as he speaks with Davor Kunc, a senior coordination officer at the European Investment Fund in Luxembourg. Roger and Davor discuss what it was like attending three TFAS programs, how TFAS's programs help bridge the divide among students from adversary states, Davor's internship at the Voice of America Croatian Service, the work he does at the European Investment Fund, the historic connections between the U.S. and Croatia, and how "the pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the spirit" is the best way to approach challenges.Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Davor Kunc serves as a senior coordination officer of mandate management at the European Investment Fund, where he manages working groups on EU multi-annual financial framework and sustainability, policy and climate, and assists with improvement of mandate management strategy. Davor attended three TFAS programs: Prague 2002, Greece 2004, and the Public Policy and Economics program in Washington, D.C. in 2005. He is also a recipient of TFAS's Kevin Burket Alumni Service Award. In 2023, he attended the TFAS Alumni Curriculum of Liberty Seminar in Athens, Greece, co-sponsored with TFAS and Liberty Fund. He is an alumnus of University of Zagreb and earned a master's degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).The Liberty + Leadership Podcast is hosted by TFAS President Roger Ream and produced by kglobal. If you have a comment or question for the show, please drop us an email at podcast@TFAS.org. To support future TFAS students like Davor, visit TFAS.org/support.Support the show

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Michael Flight is known as the Godfather of Blockchain Real Estate. It may sound unusual in the days of FTX, but when he was exposed to The CEO of the Liberty Real Estate Fund had a novel idea: "What if we did something legal and concrete in the crypto real estate space?" Michael explains that issuing a security token follows exactly the same same process and steps as issuing a regular syndication, but the blockchain enables instantaneous communication and immediate transfers of value, information, and currency.; among other things. He also gives his thoughts on the FTX scandal before giving us a deep dive into Triple Net Leases. Key Takeaways: - FTX has given crypto a black eye, but what they did was outright fraud, regardless of the technology used. It doesn't change the fact that the blockchain can bring tremendous innovation and capability to a number of industries, including real estate. - Bringing blockchain technology into a structured, regulated industry like real estate can provide credibility and security for investors - that's why they're called security tokens. - You can easily remember what a triple net lease is through the acronym T.I.M. - Taxes, Insurance and Maintenance. - During downturns, institutional real estate owners will flip into triple nets because it's something that's steady, it's cash flow, and it smooths out the up and downs of the downturns. Contact Michael: You can contact Michael through the Liberty Fund website: www.libertyfund.io. Are you REady2Scale Your Multifamily Investments? Learn more about growing your wealth, strengthening your portfolio, and scaling to the next level at www.bluelake-capital.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been renewed interest in the role Christianity has played in liberalism since Larry Siedentop's 2014 book, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. Building on Siedentop, Daniel Klein says universal benevolent monotheism, and Christianity in particular, has led to the articulation of a specific social grammar and corresponding rights—in short Adam Smith's “liberal plan.” But can liberalism be sustained in a world that no longer takes its ethics from that monotheism?Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where Erik Matson and he lead a program in Adam Smith. He is also associate fellow at the Ratio Institute (Stockholm), research fellow at the Independent Institute, and chief editor of Econ Journal Watch. He and Matson also lead CL Press and curate the Liberty Fund column called Just Sentiments.Subscribe to our podcastsAbout Daniel Klein Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Carswell discusses how he is exponentially growing his platform by creating massive amounts of content, and shares his recent interactions with influential people in his life. In this episode, Adam talks about:Putting in the work necessary for getting better The #1 rule of maximum output Two people he recently connected with about projects in the worksFast-approaching RaiseMasters events that elite capital raisers won't want to miss Adam would like to give a huge thanks to everyone listening for contributing their most valuable resource—their time. Episode Resources:Adam J. Carswell Facebook Group | RaiseMasters | Buck Knows Podcast | Liberty Real Estate Fund | RaiseFest.com | Carswell.io Timestamped Shownotes:01:31 – Why is Adam more frequently releasing new episodes of the podcast?03:29 – What questions should you ask yourself every morning to frame your action and goals?04:54 – What is an example of co-creating content based on combining different talents and passions?07:23 – What is the #1 rule of maximum output?07:58 – What is Adam celebrating on the day he is recording this clip and what podcast did he just record for?09:26 – What have Adam and Michael Flight, CEO of Liberty Fund, recently been discussing?10:57 – What upcoming events and updates does Adam have for RaiseMasters?

Ralph Ellison wrote one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. He was also a gifted essayist and in this episode we discuss two essays in particular: “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” and “What America Would be Like Without Blacks.” The former was first published in The American Scholar in the Winter 1977/78 issue. In my view it's one of the finest meditations on American identity ever written. That latter first appeared in Time magazine in April of 1970. They both appeared in a collection called Going to the Territory in 1986 and can also be found in The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison published by Modern Library.   We discuss the problem of aesthetic communication in American democracy, why the American condition is a “state of unease,” and the centrality of writing and our founding documents to American identity. Ellison loved both the traditional and the vernacular and was deeply attuned to how the interaction of these elements produced a complex cultural pluralism. Although written over 40 years ago, these essays seem quite timely. Consider this (from the “Little Man” essay): “In many ways, then, the call for a new social order based upon the glorification of ancestral blood and ethnic background acts as a call to cultural and aesthetic chaos. Yet while this latest farcical phase in the drama of American social hierarchy unfolds, the irrepressible movement of American culture toward the integration of its diverse elements continues, confounding the circumlocutions of its staunchest opponents.”   Our guests are Marc C. Conner and Lucas Morel. Marc Conner is President of Skidmore College (and Professor of English). Prior to coming to Skidmore in summer 2020, Marc was Provost and the Ballengee Professor of English at Washington and Lee University. His primary area of scholarship and teaching is literary modernism, both narrative and poetry, including Irish modernism, the modern American novel and African-American literature. He has authored and edited eight books, primarily about the work of Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, and James Joyce, including The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, named one of the 100 notable books of the year by The New York Times. Lucas Morel is the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics and Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Lincoln and the American Founding and Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government. He's also edited two books on Ralph Ellison: Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to “Invisible Man” and more recently, The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century (which he co-edited with Marc Conner). Dr. Morel conducts high school teacher workshops for the Ashbrook Center, Jack Miller Center, Gilder-Lehrman Institute, Bill of Rights Institute, and Liberty Fund.

What if the Roman Empire had experienced an Industrial Revolution? That's the compelling hook of Helen Dale's two-part novel, Kingdom of the Wicked: Rules and Order. Drawing on economics and legal history, Helen's story follows the arrest and trial of charismatic holy man Yeshua Ben Yusuf in the first century — but one with television, flying machines, cars, and genetic modification.In this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I dive into the fascinating world-building of Kingdom of the Wicked with Helen. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.James Pethokoukis: Your Kingdom of the Wicked books raise such an interesting question: What would have happened if Jesus had emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution? What led you to ask this question and to pursue that answer through these books?Helen Dale: There is an essay in the back of book one, which is basically a set of notes about what I brought to the book when I was thinking. And that has been published elsewhere by the Cato Institute. I go into these questions. But the main one, the one that really occurred to me, was that I thought, what would happen if Jesus emerged in a modern society now, rather than the historic society he emerged in? I didn't think it would turn into something hippy-dippy like Jesus of Montreal. I thought it would turn into Waco or to the Peoples Temple.And that wasn't necessarily a function of the leader of the group being a bad person. Clearly Jim Jones was a very bad person, but the Waco story is actually much more complex and much messier and involves a militarized police force and tanks attacking the buildings and all of this kind of thing. But whatever happened with it, it was going to go badly and it was going to end in violence and there would be a showdown and a confrontation. And it would also take on, I thought — I didn't say this in the essay, but I thought at the time — it would take on a very American cast, because that is the way new religious movements tend to blow up or collapse in the United States.And so I was thinking this idea, through my head, “I would like to do a retelling of the Jesus story, but how do I do it? So it doesn't become naff and doesn't work?” And so what I decided to do was rather than bring Jesus forward and put him now, I would put us back to the time of Jesus — but take our technology and our knowledge, but always mediated by the fact that Roman civilization was different from modern civilization. Not in the sense of, you know, human beings have changed, all that kind of thing. We're all still the same primates that we have been for a couple of hundred thousand years or even longer. But in the sense that their underlying moral values and beliefs about the way the world should work were different, which I thought would have technological effects. The big technological effect in Kingdom of the Wicked is they're much better at the biosciences and the animal sciences. They're much weaker at communications. Our society has put all its effort into [communication]. Their society is much more likely to put it into medicine.To give you an idea: the use of opioids to relieve the pain of childbirth is Roman. And it was rediscovered by James Young Simpson at The University of Edinburgh. And he very famously used the formula of one of the Roman medical writers. So I made a very deliberate decision: This is a society that has not pursued technological advancement in the same way as us. It's also why their motor vehicles look like the Soviet-era ones with rotary engines. It's why their big aircraft are kind of like Antonovs, the big Ukrainian aircraft that we've all been reading about since the war has started in Ukraine. So, in some respects, there are bits of their culture that look more Soviet, or at least Britain in the 1950s. You know, sort of Clement Attlee's quite centralized, postwar settlement: health service, public good, kind of Soviet-style. Soft Soviet; it's not the nasty Stalinist sort, but like late-Soviet, so kind of Brezhnev and the last part of Khrushchev. A few people did say that. They were like, “Your military parades, they look like the Soviet Union.” Yes. That was deliberate. The effort has gone to medicine.It's an amazing bit of world-building. I was sort of astonished by the depth and the scale of it. Is this a genre that you had an interest in previously? Are there other works that you took inspiration from?There's a particular writer of speculative fiction I admire greatly. His name is S.M. Stirling, and he wrote a series of books. I haven't read every book he wrote, but he wrote a series of books called the Draka series. And it's speculative fiction. Once again, based on a point of departure where the colonists who finished up in South Africa finished up using the resources of South Africa, but for a range of reasons he sets out very carefully in his books, they avoid the resource curse, the classic economist's resource curse. And so certainly in terms of a popular writer, he was the one that I read and thought, “If I can do this as well as him, I will be very pleased.”I probably didn't read as much science fiction as most people would in high school, unless it was a literary author like Margaret Atwood or George Orwell. I just find bad writing rebarbative, and a lot of science fiction struggles with bad writing. So this is the problem, of course, that Douglas Adams famously identified. And one of the reasons why he wrote the Hitchhiker's books was to show that you could combine science fiction with good writing.In all good works of speculative fiction of the alt-history variant, there's an interesting jumping-off point. I would imagine you had a real “Eureka!” moment when you figured out what your jumping-off point would be to make this all plausible. Tell me about that.Well, yes. I did. Once I realized that points of departure hugely mattered, I then went and read people like Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle. The point of departure for him is the assassination of Roosevelt. I went and read SS-GB [by] Len Deighton, a great British spycraft writer but also a writer of speculative fiction. And in that case, Britain loses the Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion, the putative land invasion of the UK, is successful. And I really started to think about this and I'm going, "Okay, how are you going to do this point of departure? And how are you going to deal with certain economic issues?"I'm not an economist, but I used to practice in corporate finance so I've got the sort of numerical appreciation for economics. I can read an economics paper that's very math heavy because that's my skill based on working in corporate finance. And I knew, from corporate finance and from corporate law, that there are certain things that you just can't do, you can't achieve in terms of economic progress, unless you abolish slavery, basically. Very, very basic stuff like human labor power never loses its comparative advantage if you have just a market flooded with slaves. So you can have lots of good science technology, and an excellent legal system like the Romans did. And they reached that point economists talk about of takeoff, and it just never happens. Just, they miss. It doesn't quite happen.And in a number of civilizations, this has happened. It's happened with the Song dynasty in China. Steve Davies has written a lot about the Song dynasty, and they went through the same thing. They just get to that takeoff point and then just … fizzled out. And in China, it was to do with serfdom, basically. These are things that are very destructive to economic progress. So you have to come up with a society that decides that slavery is really shitty. And the only way to do that is for them to get hooked on the idea of using a substitute for human labor power. And that means I have to push technological innovation back to the middle republic.So what I've done for my point of departure is at the Siege of Syracuse [in 213-212 B.C.]. I have Archimedes surviving instead of being killed. He was actually doing mathematical doodles outside his classroom, according to the various records of Roman writers, and he was killed by some rampaging Roman soldier. And basically Marcellus, the general, had been told to capture Archimedes and all his students and all their kids. So you can see Operation Paperclip in the Roman mind. You can see the thinking: “Oh no, we want this fellow to be our DARPA guy.” That's just a brilliant leap. I love that.And that is the beginning of the point of departure. So you have the Romans hauling all these clever Greek scientists and their families off and taking them to Rome and basically doing a Roman version of DARPA. You know, Operation Paperclip, DARPA. You know, “Do all the science, and have complete freedom to do all the…” — because the Romans would've let them do it. I mean, this is the thing. The Romans are your classic “cashed up bogans,” as Australians call it. They had lots of money. They were willing to throw money at things like this and then really run with it.You really needed both. As you write at one point, you needed to create a kind of a “machine culture.” You sort of needed the science and innovation, but also the getting rid of slavery part of it. They really both work hand in hand.Yes. These two have to go together. I got commissioned to write a few articles in the British press, where I didn't get to mention the name of Kingdom of the Wicked or any of my novels or research for this, but where people were trying to argue that the British Empire made an enormous amount of money out of slavery. And then, as a subsidiary argument, trying to argue that that led to industrialization in the UK. … [So] I wrote a number of articles in the press just like going through why this was actually impossible. And I didn't use any fancy economic terminology or anything like that. There's just no point in it. But just explaining that, “No, no, no. This doesn't work like that. You might get individually wealthy people, like Crassus, who made a lot of his money from slavery.” (Although he also made a lot from insurance because he set up private fire brigades. That was one of the things that Crassus did: insurance premiums, because that's a Roman law invention, the concept of insurance.) And you get one of the Islamic leaders in Mali, King Musa. Same thing, slaves. And people try to argue that the entirety of their country's wealth depended on slavery. But what you get is you get individually very wealthy people, but you don't get any propagation of the wealth through the wider society, which is what industrialization produced in Britain and the Netherlands and then in Germany and then in America and elsewhere.So, yes, I had to work in the machine culture with the abolition of slavery. And the machines had to come first. If I did the abolition of slavery first, there was nothing there to feed it. One of the things that helped Britain was Somerset's case (and in Scotland, Knight and Wedderburn) saying, “The air of the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe.” You know, that kind of thinking. But that was what I realized: It was the slavery issue. I couldn't solve the slavery issue unless I took the technological development back earlier than the period when the Roman Republic was flooded with slaves.The George Mason University economist Mark Koyama said if you had taken Adam Smith and brought him back to Rome, a lot of it would've seemed very recognizable, like a commercial, trading society. So I would assume that element was also pretty important in that world-building. You had something to work with there.Yes. I'd read some Stoic stuff because I did a classics degree, so of course that means you have to be able to read in Latin. But I'd never really taken that much of an interest in it. My interest tended to be in the literature: Virgil and Apuleius and the people who wrote novels. And then the interest in law, I always had an advantage, particularly as a Scots lawyer because Scotland is a mixed system, that I could read all the Roman sources that they were drawing on in the original. It made me a better practitioner. But my first introduction to thinking seriously about stoicism and how it relates to commerce and thinking that commerce can actually be a good and honorable thing to do is actually in Adam Smith. Not in The Wealth of Nations, but in Moral Sentiments, where Adam Smith actually goes through and quotes a lot of the Roman Stoic writers — Musonius Rufus and Epictetus and people like that — where they talk about how it's possible to have something that's quite base, which is being greedy and wanting to have a lot of money, but realizing that in order to get your lot of money or to do really well for yourself, you actually have to be quite a decent person and not a s**t.And there were certain things that the Romans had applied this thinking to, like the samian with that beautiful red ceramic that you see, and it's uniform all through the Roman Empire because they were manufacturing it on a factory basis. And when you come across the factories, they look like these long, narrow buildings with high, well-lit windows. And you're just sort of sitting there going, “My goodness, somebody dumped Manchester in Italy.” This kind of thing. And so my introduction to that kind of Stoic thinking was actually via Adam Smith. And then I went back and read the material in the original and realized where Adam Smith was getting those arguments from. And that's when I thought, “Ah, right. Okay, now I've got my abolitionists.”This is, in large part, a book about law. So you had to create a believable legal system that did not exist, unlike, perhaps, the commercial nature of Rome. So how did you begin to work this from the ground up?All the substantive law used in the book is Roman, written by actual Roman jurists. But to be fair, this is not hard to do. This is a proper legal system. There are only two great law-giving civilizations in human history. The Romans were one of them; the English were the other. And so what I had to do was take substantive Roman law, use my knowledge of practicing in a mixed system that did resemble the ancient Roman system — so I used Scotland, where I'd lived and worked — and then [put] elements back into it that existed in antiquity that still exists in, say, France but are very foreign, particularly to common lawyers.I had lawyer friends who read both novels because obviously it appeals. “You have a courtroom drama?” A courtroom drama appeals to lawyers. These are the kind of books, particularly if it's written by another lawyer. So you do things like get the laws of evidence right and stuff like that. I know there are lawyers who cannot watch The Wire, for example, because it gets the laws of evidence (in the US, in this case) wrong. And they just finish up throwing shoes at the television because they get really annoyed about getting it wrong.What I did was I took great care to get the laws of evidence right, and to make sure that I didn't use common law rules of evidence. For example, the Romans didn't have a rule against hearsay. So you'll notice that there's all this hearsay in the trial. But you'll also notice a mechanism. Pilate's very good at sorting out what's just gossip and what is likely to have substantive truth to it. So that's a classic borrowing from Roman law, because they didn't have the rule against hearsay. That's a common law rule. I also use corroboration a lot. Corroboration is very important in Roman law, and it's also very important in Scots law. And it's basically a two-witness rule.And I did things, once again, to show the sort of cultural differences between the two great legal systems. Cornelius, the Roman equivalent of the principal crown prosecutor. Cornelius is that character, and he's obsessed with getting a confession. Obsessed. And that is deeply Roman. The Roman lawyers going back to antiquity called a confession the “Queen of Proofs.” And of course, if confessions are just the most wonderful thing, then it's just so tempting to beat the snot out of the accused and get your bloody confession. Job done. The topic of the Industrial Revolution has been a frequent one in my writings and podcasts. And one big difference between our Industrial Revolution and the one you posit in the book is that there was a lot of competition in Europe. You had a lot of countries, and there was an incentive to permit disruptive innovation — where in the past, the proponents of the status quo had the advantage. But at some point countries realized, “Oh, both for commerce and military reasons, we need to become more technologically advanced. So we're going to allow inventors and entrepreneurs to come up with new ideas, even if it does alter that status quo.” But that's not the case with Rome. It was a powerful empire that I don't think really had any competitors, both in the real world and in your book.That and the chattel slavery is probably why it didn't finish up having an industrial revolution. And it's one of the reasons why I had to locate the innovation, it had to be in the military first, because the military was so intensely respected in Roman society. If you'd have got the Roman military leadership coming up with, say, gunpowder or explosives or that kind of thing, the response from everybody else would've been, “Good. We win. This is a good thing.” It had to come from the military, which is why you get that slightly Soviet look to it. There is a reason for that. The society is more prosperous because it's a free-market society. The Romans were a free-market society. All their laws were all sort of trade oriented, like English law. So that's one of those things where the two societies were just really similar. But in terms of technological innovation, I had to locate it in the army. It had to be the armed forces first.In your world, are there entrepreneurs? What does the business world look like?Well, I do try to show you people who are very commercially minded and very economically oriented. You've got the character of Pilate, the real historical figure, who is a traditional Tory lawyer, who has come up through all the traditional Toryism and his family's on the land and so on and so forth. So he's a Tory. But Linnaeus, who he went to law school with, who is the defense counsel for the Jesus character, Yeshua Ben Yusuf, is a Whig. And his mother was a freed slave, and his family are in business in commerce. They haven't bought the land.A lot of these books finished up on the cutting room floor, the world-building. And there is a piece that was published in a book called Shapers of Worlds: Volume II, which is a science-fiction anthology edited by a Canadian science-fiction author called Ed Willett. And one of the pieces that finished up on the cutting room floor and went into Shapers of Worlds is a description of Linnaeus's family background, which unfortunately was removed. You get Pilate's, but you don't get Linnaeus's. And Linnaeus's family background, his dad's the factory owner. The factory making cloth. I was annoyed with my publisher when they said, “This piece has to go,” and I did one of those snotty, foot-stamping, awful things. And so I was delighted when this Canadian publisher came to me and said, “Oh, can we have a piece of your writing for a science-fiction anthology?” And I thought, “Oh good. I get to publish the Linnaeus's dad story in Shapers of Worlds.”And I actually based Linnaeus's dad — the angel as he's referred to, Angelus, in the Kingdom of the Wicked books, and his personality is brought out very strongly — I actually based him on John Rylands. Manchester's John Rylands, the man who gave his name to the Rylands Library in Manchester. He was meant to be the portrait of the entrepreneurial, Manchester industrialist. And to this day, authors always have regrets, you don't always get to win the argument with your publisher or your editor, I am sorry that that background, that world-building was taken out of Kingdom of the Wicked and finished up having to be published elsewhere in an anthology. Because it provided that entrepreneurial story that you're talking about: the factory owner who is the self-made man, who endows libraries and technical schools, and trains apprentices, and has that sort of innovative quality that is described so beautifully in Matt Ridley's book, How Innovation Works, which is full of people like that. And this book as well, I've just bought: I've just bought Arts and Minds, which is about the Royal Society of Arts. So this is one of those authorial regrets: that the entrepreneur character wasn't properly fleshed out in the two published books, Kingdom of the Wicked book one and book two. And you have to get Shapers of Worlds if you want to find out about Linnaeus's industrialist dad.Is this a world you'd want to live in?Not for me, no. I mean, I'm a classically trained lawyer. So classics first, then law. And I made it a society that works. You know, I don't write dystopias. I have a great deal of admiration for Margaret Atwood and George Orwell, who are the two greatest writers of dystopias, in my view, in contemporary, and not just contemporary fiction, probably going back over a couple of hundred years. Those two have really got it, when it comes to this vision of horror. You know, the boot stamping on the human face forever. I greatly admire their skill, but those are not the books I write. So the society I wrote about in Kingdom of the Wicked is a society that works.But one of the things I deliberately did with the Yeshua Ben Yusuf character and what were his early Christian followers, and the reason I've taken so much time to flesh them out as real characters and believable people [is] because the values that Christianity has given to the West were often absent in the Roman world. They just didn't think that way. They thought about things differently. Now some of those Christian values were pretty horrible. It's fairly clear that the Romans were right about homosexuality and abortion, and the Christians were wrong. That kind of thing. That's where they were more liberal. But, you will have noticed, I don't turn the book into Gattaca. I try to keep this in the background because obviously someone else has written Gattaca. It's an excellent film. It's very thought provoking. I didn't want to do that again. It's kept in the background, but it is obvious — you don't even really need to read between the lines — that this is a society that engages in eugenics. You notice that all the Roman families have three children or two children, and there's always a mix of sexes. You never have all boys or all girls. You know what they're doing. They're doing sex-selective abortions, like upper-class Indians and Chinese people do now. You've now dealt with the problem of not enough girls among those posh people, but they still want a mixture of the two. You notice that the Romans have got irritatingly perfect teeth and their health is all very good. And people mock Cyler, one of the characters, because his teeth haven't been fixed. He's got what in Britain get called NHS teeth. He hasn't got straightened teeth, because he genuinely comes from a really, really poor background. I have put that in there deliberately to foil those values off each other, to try to show what a world would look like where there are certain values that will just never come to the fore.And as you mentioned, industry: how those values also might influence which areas technology might focus on, which I think is a great point.I did that quite deliberately. There is a scene in the first book in Kingdom of the Wicked where Linnaeus — who's the Whig, the nice Whig, the lovely Whig who believes in civil rights and justice and starts sounding awfully Martin Luther King-ish at various points, and that kind of thing; he's the most likable form of progressive, Stoic Roman ideas — and when he encounters a child that the parents have kept alive, a disabled child, which in his society would just be put down at birth like Peter Singer, they have Peter Singer laws, he's horrified. And he doesn't even know if it's human.I actually wrote a piece about this couple of years ago for Law & Liberty, for Liberty Fund. I did find that people wanted to live in this sort of society. And I just sort of thought, “Hmm, there are a lot more people out there who clearly agree with things like eugenics, Peter Singer laws, a society that has absolutely no welfare state. None.” There are people who clearly find that kind of society attractive. And also the authoritarianism, the Soviet-style veneration of the military. A lot of people clearly quite like that. And clearly like that it's a very orderly society where there are lots of rules and everybody knows where they stand. But even when the state is really, really very powerful.I deliberately put a scene in there, for example, where Pilate's expectorating about compulsory vaccinations — because he's a Roman and he thinks compulsory vaccinations save lives and he doesn't give a s**t about your bodily integrity. I did try to leave lots of Easter eggs, to use a gaming expression, in there to make it clear that this is a society that's a bit Gattaca-ish. I did that for a reason.I don't know if there's a sequel in mind, but do you think that this world eventually sort of Christianizes? And if this is what the world looks like 2000 years ago, what would that world look like today?I haven't thought of the answer to the first one. I must admit. I don't really know the answer to that. But in the second one, I did discuss this in quite a bit of detail with my then partner. And she said, “I honestly think that with that sort of aggressiveness and militarism, they will finish up conquering the planet. And then it'll start looking like a not-nice version of Star Trek. It won't be the Federation. It will be much more likely to be Khan and the Klingons and they'll start looking really, really Klingon basically.” That was her comment at the time.Like a more militaristic version of Star Trek.Yeah. But sort of very militarized and not the Prime Directive or any of that. Obviously Star Trek is very much an American conception of Americans in space. My Romans in space would look much more like the Centauri out of Babylon 5 or the Klingons in Star Trek. They would be much more aggressive and they'd be a lot more ambiguous…I don't know how much of a Star Trek fan you are, but of course there's the mirror universe, which kind of looks like that. We have the evil Kirk and the evil Spock. There's still advance, but there's like a Praetorian Guard for the captain and…All of that. Yes. I hadn't really thought about the first question, but the second question I thought, “Yeah, if this persists into the future, imagining a hypothetical future, then I think you are going to be dealing with people who are really, really quite scary.”Apparently you're not working on a sequel to this book, but what are you working on? Another book?Yes. I'm actually being pursued at the moment by a British publisher, who I won't drop into it because otherwise, if I say the name, then I will never, never be forgiven. And then they will insist on me writing a book. I'm never going to be the world's most super productive novelist. I think that I may finish up in my life writing maybe another two. I look at Stephen King. That man writes a door stopper of a book every time he sits down to have a hot meal. Incredible. How does he do it? I'm not that person.Helen, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.Thank you very much for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

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In this month's episode, Alex McHugh interviews Sarah Skwire, Senior Fellow and Director of Communications at Liberty Fund about the importance of studying literature and language, and why social scientists should pay attention to works of fiction and literary history.  Sarah's work can be found most often in the following places: The "Reading Room" on OLL: oll.libertyfund.org/reading_room Adam Smith Works:  www.adamsmithworks.org EconLog: www.econlib.org/econlog 

Rum Radlers for all! Tyler makes an awful drink. The Morphy Boys are thrown off by Marco (@kaibacorp on Twitter and aztec_gainz on Instagram) being a good person with a noble calling. Thing may be getting better but not while Texas is around. Marco joins the Morphy Boys to talk about anxiety and book 35. Tyler tries to get Nate to do a fight club. It kind of works. We find some hidden David Mattingly treats on the inside cover of the book. Tyler gets trapped in a Duke Nukem hole. Nate proves again that he is a hater of love when Marcos dad gets cute with his new Math GF. Marco is having anxiety attacks that affect his morphing. It's funny looking. Marco in the book is a real jerk but real life Marco is a sweetie pie. Nate is terrified of birds. Tyler talks about his badass great grandma. Marco says never use a weapon when doing crimes. Marco teaches us about a weird cockatiel millionaire. Tyler tells Nate a secret about their friendship that changes things forever. Then the bros talk about healthy expressions of aggression. Cool shit. From Marco about donating to bail funds: “I personally trust Make the Road and the Brooklyn Bail Fund but have no professional or personal ties to them. Adding the Liberty Fund and Freedom for Immigrants for more bail and immigration relief options.” https://maketheroadny.org/other-ways-to-give-copy/ https://brooklynbailfund.org/donate/?utm_source=website https://www.classy.org/give/204448/#!/donation/checkout https://www.aplos.com/aws/give/CIVIC/GivingTuesday Sent from my iPhone

Greatest Of Episode 4 Meet Amber Vilhauer, an online digital marketing expert who supports authors, speakers, and coaches to establish a powerful, integrated online presence that gets results and empowers them to make a difference in their industry. Amber started her own company NGNG Enterprises Inc. (standing for No Guts No Glory) in 2007, she has spent her career impacting her community and building strong strategic alliances with industry leaders and game-changers across the web. Amber has worked with Justin Donald, John Lee Dumas, Mike Michalowicz, Daniel Amen, and all sorts of interesting people. Also meet Carolyn Colleen, a proud mom of three, an author, international speaker, business strategist, and founder of Fierce Network. She helps guide women to make bold moves and ignite their fierce evolution. Also meet Jac Cancel, a mortgage lender, real estate investor, and is very dedicated to health and fitness through running. He is also a partner at Big Block Realty North in Sacramento California where they're focused on offering the best solutions and services in the market. Also meet Adam Carswell, is a real estate entrepreneur, LinkedIn Power-Networker, host of Liberland Show, and the Director of Media and Marketing for Liberty Fund. Adam describes himself as a modern-day apprentice who combines real estate with blockchain technology. Also meet Dylan Slattery, a motivational speaker, and podcast host. Dylan is a 2 times cancer and depression survivor which all happened after he turned 22. What You Will Discover:  [00:37] Ambers Take On Paid Advertising And Mentions She Prefers Quality Over Numbers [06:17] Become A Light That Gives People A Roadmap From Where They Are To Where They're Going [12:54] Learning To Focus On Your Physical Health By Making It A Lifestyle Of Improvement [20:02] The Power And Value Of Webinars In Reaching The Audience In Real Time [24:31] Why Adversity Is A Universal Experience That Should Unite Us  Relevant Links:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambervilhauer/ Website: https://ambervilhauer.com/ Website: https://ngngenterprises.com/ Website: https://leveragetoscale.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/officialamberludwig Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ambervilhauer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ambervilhauer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmberVilhauer Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmberLudwig Website: https://www.carolyncolleen.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolyncolleen/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowjac/ Website: https://www.carswell.io/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ixcarswell/ Website: https://dylanslattery.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanslattery/ #podcast

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On this edition of The RealClearPolitics Takeaway: a panel sponsored by the RealClear Foundation and the Liberty Fund on America’s growing government debt and the risk of inflation that goes with it. The topic is on the minds of many, as we see what may be early signs of inflation resulting from the injection of so much stimulus money into the economy. Of course, government debt has been growing for some time, and the question is whether and when the bill comes due. We hear first from Richard M. Reinsch, editor of Law & Liberty’s online journal, and then from David DesRosiers, president of the RealClear Foundation and publisher of RealClearPolitics. The roundtable is moderated by Alex J. Pollock of the R Street Institute, and the panelists included Law & Liberty senior writer David P. Goldman of the Claremont Institute, Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center, and Christopher DeMuth of the Hudson Institute. A video version of the program can be seen on realclearpolitics.com, and on the RealClearPolitics youtube channel. The program runs about an hour and forty minutes.

The Federalist Papers Book Club ran weekly on Tuesday evenings for 10 one-hour sessions beginning January 26th 2021. This session covers Federalist numbers 62, 63, 65, and 66, which discuss the United States Senate.The recommended edition of The Federalist is edited by Carey and McClellan, published by Liberty Fund. It comes in paper and online versions.The Federalist by Publius (AKA Madison, Hamilton, and Jay) contains 85 essays. The recommended reading pace was 9 to 10 essays per week. The sessions focus only on selected essays, however.Slides are available at https://fedsoc.org/federalist-papers-book-club.Featuring:- Dr. John S. Baker, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University

The Federalist Papers Book Club ran weekly on Tuesday evenings for 10 one-hour sessions beginning January 26th 2021. This session covers Federalist numbers 52, 55, 56, and 57, which discuss the House of Representatives.The recommended edition of The Federalist is edited by Carey and McClellan, published by Liberty Fund. It comes in paper and online versions.The Federalist by Publius (AKA Madison, Hamilton, and Jay) contains 85 essays. The recommended reading pace was 9 to 10 essays per week. The sessions focus only on selected essays, however.Slides are available at https://fedsoc.org/federalist-papers-book-club.Featuring:- Dr. John S. Baker, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University

The Federalist Papers Book Club ran weekly on Tuesday evenings for 10 one-hour sessions beginning January 26th 2021. This session covers Federalist numbers 47, 48, and 51, which discuss the Constitution's separation of governmental powers.The recommended edition of The Federalist is edited by Carey and McClellan, published by Liberty Fund. It comes in paper and online versions.The Federalist by Publius (AKA Madison, Hamilton, and Jay) contains 85 essays. The recommended reading pace was 9 to 10 essays per week. The sessions focus only on selected essays, however.Slides are available at https://fedsoc.org/federalist-papers-book-club.Featuring:- Dr. John S. Baker, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University

This was the second installment in the series of me doing homework for class via this medium. Sources: Richardson, Heather C. How The South Won The Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2020. “Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, Vol. 3 .” Liberty Fund, https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/schleifer-democracy-in-america-historical-critical-edition-vol-3#Tocqueville_1532-03_EN_476. Cole, Nicki L. “The Definition of Whiteness in American Society.” THought Co., 8 Nov. 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/whiteness-definition-3026743. Crosley-Corcoran, Gina. “Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person.” The Good Men Project, 5 Sept. 2018, https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person-shesaid/. King, Stephen. “The History of the Zombie in Popular Culture.” Ohio State University, https://u.osu.edu/abel118eng4563/the-history-of-the-zombie-in-popular-culture/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whatthehellpod/message

This lecture was originally delivered by Dr. Amy Fahey in May of 2019. Amy Fahey holds a doctorate in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis where she was the recipient of the prestigious four-year Olin Fellowship. A Rhodes Scholar semi-finalist, Dr. Fahey received a B.A. in English from Hillsdale College and an M.Phil. in Mediaeval Literature from the University of St. Andrews. She was awarded a Richard M. Weaver Fellowship for graduate studies and an Earhart Fellowship for work on her dissertation, Heralds and Heraldry in English Literature, c. 1350 – 1600. Dr. Fahey has also studied Renaissance Literature and Paleography at the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D.C. In addition to editing several book manuscripts, Dr. Fahey has served as Managing Editor of the journal Faith & Reason and has directed numerous conferences for the non-profit foundation, Liberty Fund, Inc. Before coming to Thomas More College, she taught courses at Washington University and Christendom College; her teaching interests include the literature of the Middle Ages (particularly Anglo-Saxon and medieval spiritual literature), writing and rhetoric, and modern poetry. Dr. Fahey served as Director of Academic Development for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an educational foundation. A homeschooling mother of five children, Mrs. Fahey is the wife of Thomas More College President Dr. William Fahey. She is an enthusiastic flautist and pianist, and in addition to her academic pursuits, enjoys gardening, knitting, and sewing, when time permits.

Adam Carswell: How About Presenting A Webinar(S) In 2021? Meet Adam Carswell, is a real estate entrepreneur, LinkedIn Power-Networker, host of Liberland Show, and the Director of Media and Marketing for Liberty Fund. Adam describes himself as a modern-day apprentice who combines real estate with blockchain technology. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Adam shares the strategies he uses to produce successful webinars for his business and clients. He explains the benefits of webinars over other online productions in giving the audience live and real-time content. Listen in to learn why consistency is the secret marketing weapon you need to succeed in any business venture. “If you don’t have any type of call to action at the end of any production that you do, it’s an amateur mistake.”- Adam [20:19] What You Will Discover: [6:18] The advantage of picking and mastering only one social platform for your business. [14:05] The power and value of webinars in reaching the audience in real-time. [19:00] Don’t make the mistake of not having a call to action at the end of a webinar or any production. [22:53] How to utilize the strongest marketing tool, which is consistency. [34:50] How to show up dressed casually like a modern master salesman. [42:09] How to become self-aware and to let go of the judgment you inflict on others. Relevant Links: Website: https://www.carswell.io/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ixcarswell/ #podcast  

We have the “Voice of Liberty” with us today; Adam J. Carswell, a real estate entrepreneur, new media marketer, and host of the Dream Chasers Podcast. Adam is a LinkedIn Power-Networker and New Media Marketing Maverick with an expertise in social marketing and network management that set him apart from the crowd. Adam is also a co-founder of the Next Level Mastermind, an exclusive commercial real estate group of the industry’s top capital raisers. Let’s dive in so you can learn about how Adam mastered Super-Networking and what you can do to up your network game. [00:01 - 08:51] Opening SegmentLet’s get to know Adam J Carswell Adam gives us some background [08:52 - 16:13] The Value of Investing in Your EducationAdam talks about what his real estate education is likeThe benefits for passive investors going through the program Adam talks about the questions he gets from investors and his answers [16:14 - 20:45] Give Credit to TimingAdam talks about the other side of his apprenticeshipWhat Adam does at Concordia and Liberty Fund[20:46 - 26:15] Crypto with Cash Flow Adam talks about his investments in Cryptocurrency Crypto backed by real estate [26:16 - 37:04] Super-Networking How Adam mastered networking and put himself out thereGetting to the point of saying No more than you say YesTactical steps to getting social from Adam[37:05 - 45:12] Closing SegmentI summarize Adam’s adviceWhere can people reach out - links belowFinal words from Adam and MeTweetable Quotes:“You should always be looking for deals because if you’re not you can get obsolete pretty quickly…” - Adam J. Carswell “Once you get to a level where you start saying, ‘hey I’m actually saying no way more than I’m saying yes,’ to me that’s an early sign of success.” - Adam J. CarswellResources:Dream Chasers PodcastRaising Capital for Real Estate Free BookAnarchast PodcastCFC Mentorship ProgramLibertyfund.ioConcordia Realty CorporationZero to OneJoe ApfelbaumLiberland Show------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with Adam on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter. Visit https://www.carswell.io/ as the single best way to reach out to Adam. Guest Email: adam@carswell.io or VA - rena@carswell.ioConnect with me:https://www.5tcre.com/FacebookLinkedInInstagramWatch 5T CRE on YouTubeLeave us a review and receive your free ebookEmail us --> abel@5tcre.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/5Talents)

As Chairman of The Anker Consulting Group, Inc., Terry Anker has served as owner, advisor and catalyst for businesses in a variety of industries in the areas of executive management, matters of formation, acquisition of capital from public and private sources, efficient use of resources, automation and integration of community-mindedness in the planning process. Among many interests, Mr. Anker is a partner and the chair for CleanSlate Technology Group, a partner and board member for SWAN Software Solutions, and the managing director of companies that are in the help desk, real estate, and receivership management businesses. Also, Mr. Anker is the associate editor and partner of Current Publishing, LLC whose holdings include several local newspapers. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Liberty Fund, Inc. and the Goodrich Foundation. Mr. Anker is the current Chair of the Indiana State Board of Trustees of Ivy Tech Community College as well as immediate past Board President of its Foundation. He is a member of the Indiana University Alumni Association Executive Council, The Mont Pelerin Society and Philadelphia Society. Mr. Anker holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Speech Communication as well as a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Indiana University. Learn more about Terry here. 

To celebrate Constitution Day, the Rutgers Law School chapter of the Federalist Society hosted Dr. Colleen Sheehan, one of the nation's leading Madison scholars, to discuss the constitutional thought of James Madison and his role as the "Father of the Constitution."Dr. Sheehan is the Director of Graduate Studies at the Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership. She is author of the Cambridge Companion to The Federalist, co-edited with Jack Rakove (Cambridge, 2020), The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical Republicanism (Cambridge, 2015), James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (Cambridge, 2009), and Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the "Other" Federalists, 1787-88 (with Gary L. McDowell, Liberty Fund, 1998).Featuring:- Dr. Colleen Sheehan, Director of Graduate Studies, Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership.

To celebrate Constitution Day, the Rutgers Law School chapter of the Federalist Society hosted Dr. Colleen Sheehan, one of the nation's leading Madison scholars, to discuss the constitutional thought of James Madison and his role as the "Father of the Constitution."Dr. Sheehan is the Director of Graduate Studies at the Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership. She is author of the Cambridge Companion to The Federalist, co-edited with Jack Rakove (Cambridge, 2020), The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical Republicanism (Cambridge, 2015), James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (Cambridge, 2009), and Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the "Other" Federalists, 1787-88 (with Gary L. McDowell, Liberty Fund, 1998).Featuring:- Dr. Colleen Sheehan, Director of Graduate Studies, Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership.

Christian college professors Matt Parks and David Corbin explore the ideas behind today's headlines.Part 1 (1:01): Required Reading - We go straight to the required reading, discussing key passages from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and their intersection with contemporary political culture. Links: Mansfield & Winthrop’s Democracy in America; Liberty Fund’s Democracy in America.Part 2 (42:28): Open the Grade Book -We grade some popular ways to celebrate Labor Day, including a backyard barbecue, going to a ballgame, going to a movie, and writing class lectures. Links: Alissa Wilkinson’s review and explainer of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet at Vox.   Part 3 (49:56): Tocqueville's Crystal Ball - Last week we predicted (badly) how the Republican Convention would move the presidential poll numbers in the battleground states. This week, we check in on our predictions for the champions of the NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB, our fantasy baseball teams, and make our calls for the opening game of the NFL season.  Link: “Top Battleground States” polling at RealClearPolitics. Opening and closing music is from the beginning of "Happy Life" by Ryan Andersen from his 2018 album, Americana volume 1. Available here. Licensed by Creative Commons.Matt Parks is an Associate Professor of Politics at The King’s College in New York City. David Corbin is a Professor of Politics and the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California. All views expressed in this podcast are their own.

*Note*: Due to the style and age of recording for this particular event, some audio quality issues may persist. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. In this archived episode of the Hayek Program Podcast from 2010, we revisit an event where Professor Emeritus of Economics at George Mason University and Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. This event was co-hosted by the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Liberty Fund, the George Mason University Economics Department, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and took place at Mason’s Fairfax campus. The panel discussion of Buchanan’s work was led by the Dean Emeritus of the GMU Law School, Henry Manne, who was joined by: • Amartya K. Sen, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, 1998, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University • Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, 2009, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University • James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, 1986, Professor Emeritus of Economics, George Mason University • Alan G. Merten, Former President of George Mason University • Daniel Houser, Professor of Economics, George Mason University • Chris Talley, Former President & CEO of Liberty Fund (now the chairman of the board of trustees for the Winchester Foundation) CC Music: Twisterium

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Today, in reaction to the uprisings in Minneapolis and across the nation, to help us understand and to talk about what we can do, we speak first with Fox Hampton with Black Lives Matter Seattle King County, and then with John Miller with the Department of Human Resources with King County who is also a co-founder of a Black African affinity group for KC Employees. Then, as part of our coverage of the Congressional race in the 10th CD, with speak with former Tacoma mayor, and former Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO, Marilyn Strickland. Links: https://www.stricklandforwashington.com/ "Settlers": https://www.amazon.com/Settlers-Mythology-Proletariat-Mayflower-Kersplebedeb/dp/1629630373/ref=sr_1_1?crid=MRNV95OYHFFX&dchild=1&keywords=settlers+book&qid=1590789648&sprefix=settlers+book%2Caps%2C439&sr=8-1 SUGGESTED ACTIONS FROM BLACK LIVES MATTER SEATTLE - KING COUNTY: 1. We're giving $500 to Louisville Community Bail Fund. Help pay bail to demonstrators arrested in Louisville protests. Organized by Black Lives Matter Louisville. https://actionnetwork.org/f…/louisville-community-bail-fund/ http://blackliveslouisville.org/ 2. We're giving $500 to the North Star Health Collective We originally wanted to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which is directly helping individuals arrested in the recent protests. However, the MFF is urging people to donate to other groups, such as the North Star Health Collective, a group of medics who specialize in supporting protestors fighting for justice. https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/ 3. We're giving $500 to Black Visions Collective. Black Visions is a Black queer/trans led org who are in Minneapolis and have been on the frontlines of the protests. https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2 https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ 4. We're giving $500 to Reclaim The Block. RTB is a coalition that pushes the city of Minneapolis to divest from policing and instead fund community-centered health and safety programs. https://secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHBy0MKXTIcQ2 https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/ 5. We're giving $500 to the George Floyd Memorial Fund. Funds will help support the Floyd family as they grieve, arrange a funeral, prepare for legal proceedings, and care for George Floyd's children. https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd 6. We're giving $500 to the Columbus Freedom Fund. The CFF is bailing out protestors in Columbus, Ohio who were arrested when demonstrating in response to Breonna Taylor's and George Floyd's murders. https://www.paypal.me/columbusfreedomfund https://www.facebook.com/pg/CFFOhio/posts/ 7. We're giving $500 to the NYC Liberty Fund. The Liberty Fund is a charitable bail fund that servers all areas on New York City, including areas where https://www.classy.org/give/204448/#!/donation/checkout https://www.libertyfund.nyc/

Sarah Skwire, author and senior fellow at Liberty Fund, is the first woman to be interviewed on the podcast! She talks to us about how literature and its relation to markets and about feminism. She gives lots of good book recommendations!

This conversation with Professor Barry Shain, editor of Liberty Fund’s new volume, The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context, explores the vigorous debates between the colonists and the British Empire that shaped our country’s charter document of independence.

In this edition of Liberty Law Talk, we discuss with Russell Hittinger, the William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, Jacques Maritain’s Scholasticism and Politics, recently republished by Liberty Fund. The text is  a collection of nine lectures Maritain delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. While the lectures […]

Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined The Wall Street Journal in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis­-based Liberty Fund.In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies. In 2009 Ms. O'Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and the bad economic advice the U.S. often gives to Latin American countries. In 1997 Ms. O'Grady won the Inter American Press Association's Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary.Ms. O'Grady received a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and an M.B.A. in financial management from Pace University.Support the show (https://business.fau.edu/giving/)

On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Associate Director of Program Outreach at Acton, Dan Churchwell, and Missy Wallace, Executive Director of the Nashville Institute for Faith and Work, discuss how Missy became interested in the connection between faith and work, and why it is an important topic in business. Then, Caroline Roberts speaks with Brian A. Smith, Managing Editor of Liberty Fund’s Law and Liberty publication, on Walker Percy’s life and works, as well as his relevance today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No episódio número #02, Angélica Fontella, Eduardo Seabra, Rodrigo Elias, Thalyta Mitsue e nosso convidado especial Thiago Facina falam sobre o apelo da ordem. Puxando o gancho da intervenção militar no Rio de Janeiro (aprovada pelo DL 10/2018), tentamos historicizar o desejo por autoridade, principalmente do brasileiro, que flerta com um candidato fascista à Presidência em 2018. Pauta: Rodrigo Elias Edição: Eduardo Seabra Locução: L. C. Csekö Participações especiais: Thiago Facina (Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e autor da dissertação "Eles que se matem": notas sobre o varejo de drogas ilícitas nas favelas cariocas, 2013) Leticia Matheus (professora da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), coordenadora do Núcleo de Estudos Emergenciais em Ódio (UERJ) e coorganizadora de História da Comunicação: experiências e perspectivas, Mauad X, 2014) Nashla Dahás (doutora em História Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e autora de "O Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria do Chile e a construção de uma memória radical para a América Latina" In: Janaína Martins Cordeiro; Isabel Cristina Leite; Diego Omar da Silveira; Daniel Aarão Reis. (Org.). À sombra das ditaduras. Brasil e América Latina, Mauad, 2014). João Trajano Sento-Sé (professor da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), integrante do Laboratório de Análise da Violência (UERJ) e coautor de Polícia, segurança e ordem pública. Perspectivas portuguesas e brasileiras, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2012) Dicas: "A origem dos deuses", Coisas que você precisa saber #27 (Justificando, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLc4USDEwc) A revolução dos bichos (George Orwell, 1945 - Livro) Com Amor, Van Gogh (Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 2017 - Filme) Fruitvale Station: a última parada (Ryan Coogler, 2013 - Filme) For your own good (Alice Miller, 2002 - Livro) "Hated in the Nation", Black Mirror (2016 - Série) Indignos de vida: a forma jurídica da política de extermínio de inimigos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Orlando Zaccone, 2015 - Livro) O experimento de aprisionamento de Stanford (Kyle Patrick Alvarez, 2015 - Filme) O experimento Milgram (Paul Gibbs, 2009 - Filme) "Os pobres vão à praia", Documento Especial (Programa jornalístico de TV exibido em 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOzGFJZZVe8). Referências AGAMBEN, Giorgio. Estado de exceção. Trad. Iraci D. Poleti. São Paulo, Boitempo, 2004. ANDERSON, Perry. Linhagens do Estado Absolutista. Trad. Telma Costa. Porto, Afrontamento, 1984. ARISTÓTELES. Política. Edição bilíngue. Trad. e notas António Campelo Amaral e Carlos de Carvalho Gomes. Lisboa, Vega, 1998. BAKUNIN. Textos Anarquistas. Trad. Zilá Bernd. Porto Alegre, L&PM, 2014. BOBBIO, Norberto; MATTEUCCI, Nicola; PASQUINO, Giangranco. Dicionário de política. Tradução de Carmen C, Varriale et ai.; coord. trad. João Ferreira. Brasília: Editora Universidade de Brasília, 1998. CHAMAYOU, Gregoire. Teoria do Drone. Trad. Célia Euvaldo. São Paulo, Cosac Naify, 2015. CERQUEIRA, Daniel. et al. Atlas da violência 2017, Ipea e Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública, 2017. (http://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/images/170609_atlas_da_violencia_2017.pdf) FOUCAULT, Michel. Microfísica do poder. Org. e trad. Roberto Machado. Rio de Janeiro, Graal, 1979. GROTIUS, Hugo. The rights of war and peace. Book I. Ed. Richard Tuck. Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, 2005. HOBSBAWM, Eric. A Era das Revoluções (1789-1848). 10a Ed. Trad. Maria Tereza Lopes Teixeira e Marcos Penchel. São Paulo, Paz e Terra, 1997. HOBSBAWM, Eric. A Era do Capital (1848-1875). 10a Ed. Trad. Luciano Costa Neto. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra, 1996. LEBRUN, Gerard. O que é poder. São Paulo, Brasiliense, 1981. ... [Continua em passadorama.com]

David M. Hart is the Director of Liberty Fund’s Online Library of Liberty. His latest book, Social Class and State Power, is a reader in libertarian class theory including documents from Richard Overton in the English Civil Wars all the way down to Libertarianism.org contributor Roderick Long.Further Reading:Hart, Chartier, Kenyon, and Long (eds.), Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.David Hart, ed. Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics (1638-1660), 7 Vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. 2014. John Wade, The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Representation, Municipal and Corporate Bodies; with a Precis of the House of Commons, Past, Present, and to Come. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. 1832. Republished by Liberty Fund.Music by Kai Engel See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Defenders of the free market are often caricatured as calculating, utility maximizers, whose only concern is the efficient allocation of resources. Any attempt to analyze a “market for love” with intersecting supply and demand curves is bound to fall flat. However, that doesn't mean libertarian economic thought has no implications for how the institution of marriage could be improved. Before their wedding, one year ago, Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz had both independently written about the libertarian answer to the hot-button question of same-sex marriage. Horwitz, a libertarian economics at Ball State University, has applied an “Austrian perspective” to explain how the evolution of the market, and the relatively recent development of “marrying for love,” is changing the way people might want to structure the marriage contract. Skwire, a senior fellow at Liberty Fund, has studied “What Marriage Was Like before Bureaucracy,” and found – incredibly – that it worked just fine. They join Bob on their one-year anniversary to discuss a Reason article they co-authored last November (Getting the State Out of Marriage) in which they advocate replacing the one-size-fits-all contract with a private system adapted to changing norms around marriage and family life. They argue that the idea of a traditional marriage system is flawed, and make the case that government's intrusion into the institution – particularly the special benefits based on marriage status – has created unnecessary controversy.

Sarah Skwire is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, a non-profit educational foundation, and the co-author of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis, which is in its 12th edition. Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Sarah writes a regular column for the Freeman Online and blogs for the Fraser Institute and Bleeding Heart Libertarians. Sarah’s work on literature and economics has also appeared in Newsweek, The Freeman and in Cato Unbound, and she is an occasional lecturer for IHS, SFL, and other organizations. Her poetry has appeared, among other places, in Standpoint, The New Criterion, and The Vocabula Review. Sarah graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University, and earned a MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Show Notes: www.economicrockstar.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/economicrockstar  

Autor do livro "The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions", o brasileiro Leonidas Zelmanovitz conversou com o Podcast do Instituto Mises Brasil para uma conversa sobre teoria do capital. Mais especificamente, sobre a teoria representacional do capital, que Leonidas está estudando neste momento e pretende submeter à discussão em eventos acadêmicos. Nesta conversa, Leonidas, que é doutor em Economia Austríaca e senior fellow do Liberty Fund, explica como a compreensão adequada da teoria do capital ajuda uma sociedade a ser mais aberta e mais livre, qual a relação existente entre teoria do capital e eficiência econômica, se há dimensão moral na teoria do capital. Também conversamos sobre as limitações epistemológicas existentes hoje nas teorias do capital e de que maneira as moedas eletrônicas são desafiam um desafio teórico. *** A música da vinheta de abertura é a “Abertura Solene 1812”, do compositor russo Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky, executada pelo guitarrista Eric Calderone. *** Todos os Podcasts podem ser baixados e ouvidos pelo site, pela iTunes Store e pelo YouTube. E se você gostou deste e/ou dos podcasts anteriores, visite o nosso espaço na iTunes Store, faça a avaliação e deixe um comentário.

David Hart, editor and librarian at Liberty Fund, joined us in Auburn today to deliver a dynamite lecture on his favorite subject: Frédéric Bastiat the radical. We think we know Bastiat from The Law, but his work in economics and social theory actually spans thousands of pages. And he was a thoroughgoing radical in his personal and professional life, both in his Basque hometown of Bayonne and in the "Babylon" of Paris. Hart makes the case that Bastiat was not only a serious and under-appreciated thinker, but also a proto-Austrian to whom we owe a huge intellectual debt. This is a very entertaining and revealing look at one of the true founders of modern libertarian thought.]]>

David Hart, editor and librarian at Liberty Fund, joined us in Auburn today to deliver a dynamite lecture on his favorite subject: Frédéric Bastiat the radical. We think we know Bastiat from The Law, but his work in economics and social theory actually spans thousands of pages. And he was a thoroughgoing radical in his personal and professional life, both in his Basque hometown of Bayonne and in the "Babylon" of Paris. Hart makes the case that Bastiat was not only a serious and under-appreciated thinker, but also a proto-Austrian to whom we owe a huge intellectual debt. This is a very entertaining and revealing look at one of the true founders of modern libertarian thought.

David Hart, editor and librarian at Liberty Fund, joined us in Auburn today to deliver a dynamite lecture on his favorite subject: Frédéric Bastiat the radical. We think we know Bastiat from The Law, but his work in economics and social theory actually spans thousands of pages. And he was a thoroughgoing radical in his personal and professional life, both in his Basque hometown of Bayonne and in the "Babylon" of Paris. Hart makes the case that Bastiat was not only a serious and under-appreciated thinker, but also a proto-Austrian to whom we owe a huge intellectual debt. This is a very entertaining and revealing look at one of the true founders of modern libertarian thought.

Jason Kuznicki joins us to discuss his chapter on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant in our newest book, Arguments for Liberty.What’s Kant’s conception of the good, and what kind of government follows from that?Who was Immanuel Kant and what were his moral and political theories? What does Kant’s categorical imperative tell us about how to live a good life? How do we get from the categorical imperative to a form of government? And why are some libertarians seemingly anti-Kant?Show Notes and Further ReadingArguments for Liberty is available here as a free .pdf and in Kindle and e-Book formats. It’s also available in paperback on Amazon.For those interested in reading more of Kant’s work, Kuznicki recommends starting with Kant’s Idea of a Universal History from a Cosmopolitical Point of View, or Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason; both are in the public domain and are available for free download from Liberty Fund. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On April 10, 2013, Liberty Fund and Butler University sponsored a symposium, "Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society." The evening began with solo presentations by the three participants--Michael Munger of Duke University, Robert Skidelsky of the University of Warwick, and Richard Epstein of New York University. (Travel complications forced the fourth invited participant, James Galbraith of the University of Texas, to cancel.) Each speaker gave his own interpretation of the appropriate role for government in the economy and in our lives. This was followed by a lively conversation on the topic moderated by Russ Roberts of Stanford University, host of the weekly podcast, EconTalk. A video of the event along with other materials is available at http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/09/capitalism_gove.html .

On April 10, 2013, Liberty Fund and Butler University sponsored a symposium, "Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society." The evening began with solo presentations by the three participants--Michael Munger of Duke University, Robert Skidelsky of the University of Warwick, and Richard Epstein of New York University. (Travel complications forced the fourth invited participant, James Galbraith of the University of Texas, to cancel.) Each speaker gave his own interpretation of the appropriate role for government in the economy and in our lives. This was followed by a lively conversation on the topic moderated by Russ Roberts of Stanford University, host of the weekly podcast, EconTalk. A video of the event along with other materials is available at http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/09/capitalism_gove.html .

On April 10, 2013, Liberty Fund and Butler University sponsored a symposium, "Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society." The evening began with solo presentations by the three participants--Michael Munger of Duke University, Robert Skidelsky of the University of Warwick, and Richard Epstein of New York University. (Travel complications forced the fourth invited participant, James Galbraith of the University of Texas, to cancel.) Each speaker gave his own interpretation of the appropriate role for government in the economy and in our lives. This was followed by a lively conversation on the topic moderated by Russ Roberts of Stanford University, host of the weekly podcast, EconTalk. A video of the event along with other materials is available at http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/09/capitalism_gove.html .

Em sua tese de doutorado "Fundamentos filosóficos de las instituciones monetarias", defendida em 2011 na Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madri), o brasileiro Leonidas Zelmanovitz dedicou-se a um ambicioso e desafiador projeto: investigar a natureza da moeda e das instituições que se desenvolvem ao seu redor a partir de uma perspectiva metafísica, epistemológica, ética e política. Seu objetivo era, a partir da compreensão dos fenômenos monetários e mediante uma investigação sobre a sua natureza e princípios filosóficos, descobrir se era ou não possível fazer um juízo moral sobre a moeda. Nesta entrevista ao Podcast do Instituto Mises Brasil, Leonidas, que é Fellow do Liberty Fund, mestre em Economia Austríaca e doutor em Economia Aplicada pela Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, explica os pontos principais de sua pesquisa e a sua posição. "Sem um conhecimento adequado e uma posição correta sobre qual é a natureza e a função da moeda em sociedade, sobre quais são as limitações de conhecimento que se tem sobre fenômenos monetários não é possível fazer um julgamento sobre o que é certo e o que é errado em termos de política monetária. Não é possível, na minha opinião, e essa é a tese que eu defendi, fazer um juízo moral sobre a moeda. E, sem isso, as avaliações que se podem fazer da adequação de políticas monetárias ficam imensamente prejudicadas". Leonidas, que gentilmente ofereceu enviar o arquivo com a tese de doutorado para todos os ouvintes deste podcast interessados no assunto (basta enviar email para lzelmanovitz@libertyfund.org mencionando esta entrevista), também respondeu à pergunta formulada por Rothbard no livro "O que o governo fez com o nosso dinheiro?", que será lançado pelo IMB, ou seja, se a oferta de moeda deve ser regulada por algum tipo de critério ou se pode ser deixada totalmente para o livre mercado, e de que forma as intervenções do governo nos arranjos monetários e financeiros relativizam ou reduzem a proteção legal dos direitos de propriedade.

David Hart David Hart is the director of Liberty Fund, Inc.'s online Library of Economics and Liberty. Dr. Hart began teaching in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1986, received the university teaching prize in 1992, and was tenured in 1994. Subjects taught and areas of graduate research supervised include modern European history, nineteenth-century classical liberal thought, the Enlightenment, war and culture, film and history, history and the Internet - all of which went online from 1996 onwards. His philosophy of teaching can be summed up in two basic principles - the Maoist principle of "let a thousand flowers bloom" and the idea that teaching is fundamentally an intellectually subversive process.