Best Go Away A Libertarian Podcasts (2025)

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Death of the American Dream: Terrence McCauley on why the Mob was behind the JFK Assassination 38:20

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If the American dream died in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, then who killed it? According to the crime novelist Terrence McCauley, the JFK assassination was carried out by organized crime. That’s the heart of his new novel, Twilight Town, in which McCauley reexamines the JFK assassination in Dallas. But this wasn't Oliver Stone style CIA or sh…

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Why Everything is Propaganda: Connor Boyack's Libertarian Manifesto for July 4 53:15

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If everything is propaganda (even this show), then we are forever engaged in a war to control other people's minds. That, at least, is the view of the self-described “freedom fighter”, Connor Boyack, the libertarian author of the best-selling Tuttle Twins series of children books. In his latest piece of Tuttle Twins propaganda, A Guide to the World…

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The Deceptive Power of Maps (with Paulina Rowinska) 1:09:16

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How can the state of Colorado have nearly 700 sides? Why is a country's coastline as long as you want it to be? And how is it that your UPS driver has more routes to choose from than there are stars in the universe? Listen as mathematician Paulina Rowinska talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the mathematical tricks hiding in plain sight with e…

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From the Internet of Trolls to the Internet of Tolls: Has the Publishing Apocalypse Finally Arrived? 34:01

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As we transition from the social media age (the internet of trolls) to the AI epoch (the internet of tolls), has the publishing apocalypse finally arrived? That’s the question Keith Teare and I discuss in our That Was the Week summary of tech news. Two major court cases this week—Getty Images vs. Stability AI and the Anthropic lawsuit—have fundamen…

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From Ghana to Goldman Sachs: Rachel Laryea on a Blueprint for Black Capitalism 44:02

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Yesterday’s show was on the Great White Hoax of manufactured racism in America. Today’s is on Black Capitalists, the title of a provocative new book by Rachel Layrea. But is this a great black hoax? Or might her focus on race and class really be a blueprint for a more ethical 21st century capitalism? Laryea, who holds a PhD from Yale and works in w…

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The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Manufactured Racism in America 45:56

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There’s something fishy about what Philip Kadish calls The Great White Hoax. It’s his new book about America's long con - how racist scientific hoaxes have shaped two centuries of racist politics. From the 1840 Census Scandal to Henry Ford to George Wallace, Kadish exposes the conmen who have tried to sell racism to America. But here's the chilling…

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The Real Monkey Business: What the 1925 Scopes Trial was actually all about 43:53

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Next month, America will celebrate the centenary of the Scopes Trial, the so-called 1925 “Monkey Trial” on evolution that riveted a nation. Although perhaps celebrate is the wrong word to describe the Tennessee trial that not only riveted America but also divided it. According to the historian Brenda Wineapple, author of Keeping The Faith: God, Dem…

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The Michael Douglas Trap: What Is Wrong with Men 41:00

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Don’t blame women. Men are failing spectacularly and it’s totally their own fault. In What Is Wrong with Men, cultural critic Jessica Crispin borrows from Michael Douglas movies to dissect how masculinity devolved from Seventies style vulnerability into today's aggressive displays of insecurity. While billionaires like Musk compulsively impregnate …

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Why don’t we have a health care reform bill yet? 54:53

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In this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, AnneMarie Schieber and economist Devon Herrick break down the latest health care debates in Washington. They discuss how promised reforms like Medicaid work requirements and health savings account expansions are being stripped from President Trump’s health care package, and what that means for patient…

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The $200 billion dilemma: Is Bill Gates helping or harming Africa? 46:17

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So I get why Jeff Bezos isn’t popular in Venice this week. But why would Africans in general, and Kenyans in particular, not love Bill Gates after the philanthropist pledged to give away $200 billion of his fortune to Africa? According to Tablet staff writer, Armin Rosen, it’s because Gates’ top-down, metrics-driven approach often ignores what Afri…

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The Architecture of Terror: Rafia Zakaria on Trump, Miller, Israel, Iran and Gaza 43:58

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Are Donald Trump and Steven Miller terrorists? Pakistani-American lawyer and author Rafia Zakaria argues that their willfully cruel immigration policies reflect what she describes as an "architecture of terror." In her June Liberties Quarterly piece "Silencings", Zakaria argues that these policies represent a deliberate strategy to terrorize commun…

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How to Be a Super Ager (with Eric Topol) 1:01:24

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What if we could delay--or even prevent--Alzheimer's, cancer, and heart disease? What if much of what you know about aging is wrong? Listen as cardiologist and author Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute talks about his new book Super Agers with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. They discuss why your genes matter less than you think, how your immune…

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Why Elections Aren't Always Democratic: Challenging American Political Science's Founding Myth 48:26

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In today’s age of authoritarian plutocracy, the UCLA political theorist Natasha Piano argues that we need to rethink the supposed “elitist” school of Italian thinkers like Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca. In her intriguing new book, Democratic Elitism, Piano suggests Pareto, Mosca and even the Marxist Antonio Gramsci were actually "democratic the…

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The Virtuous Side Of Silicon Valley: How Jimmy Chen is Building Tech to Help the Poorest America 51:57

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Yes, there still are some well meaning folks in Silicon Valley. Take, for example, Jimmy Chen, founder and CEO of Propel, an app designed to simplify food assistance for 41 million of the poorest Americans. Growing up food insecure himself, the Stanford educated Chen left lucrative jobs at Facebook and LinkedIn to build technology that actually ser…

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The Tragic Paradox of Survival in Auschwitz: The Mystery of Primo Levi 30:53

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Can we ever really know Primo Levi? We know his books, of course, especially If This Is A Man, the astonishing account of his survival from Auschwitz. But what, then, of his apparent suicide in 1987? How can a man who miraculously survived Auschwitz take his own life forty years later? That’s one of the questions that Joseph Olshan asks in Milo’s R…

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Season 7 Episode 17: Another World is Possible (ft. Natasha Zapata) 2:18:10

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Natasha Hakimi Zapata joins us to chat w/Ben about her important new book "Another World is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe." From Britain's NHS to Singapore's publicly-leased housing system to New Zealand's egalitarian pensions to Norway's family policies, her book documents the way that countries around the world have proven t…

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A Known Unknown: Harry Freedman on Bob Dylan's Jewish Roots 37:28

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Yesterday, The Talking Heads, today, Dylan. The Great Man’s Jewish identity has long been overshadowed by his pantheistic status as American prophet. So when, for example, at the beginning of his biopic “A Complete Unknown”, Dylan arrives in Greenwich Village, he is presented as having no history, like a biblical prophet wandering out of the desert…

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Burning Down The House: Do The Talking Heads Still Matter? 57:26

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Do The Talking Heads, the quinessential art school band of the East Village scene of the 1970’s, still matter? Very much so. At least according to the band’s biographer, Jonathan Gould, who believes that The Talking Heads remain "the archetype of what we now think of as the alternative rock group" - a band prioritizing aesthetic evolution over comm…

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Why Being a 'Good Woman' Is Making Women (and Men) Miserable 44:34

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What does it really mean to be a “good woman”? For the controversial podcaster and writer Elise Loehnen, female goodness is a misery trap. And so reclaim their happiness, to make themselves whole, Loehnen says, women need to stop being good. The former goop executive and co-author of the upcoming Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness explains how the se…

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The Haves and The Have-Yachts: Evan Osnos Explores the Minds of the Ultrarich 46:11

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“Let me tell you about the very rich”, Scott Fitzgerald once said. “They are different from you and me”. One way they are different, the New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos reports, is that they own yachts - very very big, expensive yachts. In The Haves and The Have-Yachts, Osnos’ dispatches about today’s ultrarich, he takes us on board these boats …

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The Vampire Economy: How Private Equity is Sucking the Blood out of the American Dream 47:09

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It all began in 2019 at DeadSpin where Megan Greenwell was editor-in-chief. She had her dream job at the sports publication she'd always loved, leading a profitable digital media company with a devoted readership. Then the curse of private equity arrived. Within three months, everything collapsed. As Greenwell argues in her new book, Bad Company, s…

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Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau 1:17:07

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Does technology liberate us or enslave us? How do our social interactions affect our sense of self and our emotional health? Listen as author and master teacher Leon Kass and EconTalk's Russ Roberts do a close reading of a few paragraphs of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and explore some of the deepest aspects of our relationships with each other and with o…

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Season 7 Episode 16: Citizen Marx 2:05:30

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Bruno Leipold joins Ben Burgis to talk about his excellent book "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought." Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument responding to Jodi Dean on "neofeudalism." In the postgame for patrons, RM Brown joins Ben and the crew to break down some more of Jordan Peterson's bi…

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The Company That Ate the Web: Google's Quarter Century Journey from Bridge Builder to Web Destroyer 40:50

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25 years after serving as the bridge between the Web 1.0 and 2.0 revolutions, Google stands at the vortex of another technological revolution. The company's new AI mode threatens to destroy the "simple bargain" that has sustained the web since 2005 — Google’s deal with websites which sent them traffic in exchange for indexing their content. Unlike …

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Long Live the NO KING: An Anti-Fascist Handbook on How to Resist Trump 44:13

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Happy NO KINGS DAY! Today, as nationwide protests sweep America, historian and activist Mark Bray argues that Trump and his MAGA movement represent a type of American fascism rooted in the country's long history of racist backlash against the struggle for civil rights. As the author of the iconic Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, Bray connects tod…

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An Existential Threat to American Freedom: Spike Cohen on Donald Trump's Betrayal of Libertarianism 57:30

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So what, exactly, is libertarianism? Spike Cohen, the Libertarian Party's 2020 vice presidential nominee, boils it down to "the principle of human respect"—treating people as individuals, not as what he calls "tax cattle." Speaking from FreedomFest in Palm Springs, the founder of You Are The Power offers a scathing critique of both major parties wh…

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Death of the American Dream: Terrence McCauley on why the Mob was behind the JFK Assassination 38:20

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Why Everything is Propaganda: Connor Boyack's Libertarian Manifesto for July 4 53:15

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The Deceptive Power of Maps (with Paulina Rowinska) 1:09:16

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From the Internet of Trolls to the Internet of Tolls: Has the Publishing Apocalypse Finally Arrived? 34:01

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From Ghana to Goldman Sachs: Rachel Laryea on a Blueprint for Black Capitalism 44:02

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The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Manufactured Racism in America 45:56

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The Real Monkey Business: What the 1925 Scopes Trial was actually all about 43:53

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The Michael Douglas Trap: What Is Wrong with Men 41:00

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Why don’t we have a health care reform bill yet? 54:53

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The $200 billion dilemma: Is Bill Gates helping or harming Africa? 46:17

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The Architecture of Terror: Rafia Zakaria on Trump, Miller, Israel, Iran and Gaza 43:58

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How to Be a Super Ager (with Eric Topol) 1:01:24

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Why Elections Aren't Always Democratic: Challenging American Political Science's Founding Myth 48:26

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The Virtuous Side Of Silicon Valley: How Jimmy Chen is Building Tech to Help the Poorest America 51:57

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The Tragic Paradox of Survival in Auschwitz: The Mystery of Primo Levi 30:53

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Season 7 Episode 17: Another World is Possible (ft. Natasha Zapata) 2:18:10

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A Known Unknown: Harry Freedman on Bob Dylan's Jewish Roots 37:28

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Burning Down The House: Do The Talking Heads Still Matter? 57:26

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Why Being a 'Good Woman' Is Making Women (and Men) Miserable 44:34

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The Haves and The Have-Yachts: Evan Osnos Explores the Minds of the Ultrarich 46:11

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The Vampire Economy: How Private Equity is Sucking the Blood out of the American Dream 47:09

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Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau 1:17:07

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Season 7 Episode 16: Citizen Marx 2:05:30

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The Company That Ate the Web: Google's Quarter Century Journey from Bridge Builder to Web Destroyer 40:50

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Long Live the NO KING: An Anti-Fascist Handbook on How to Resist Trump 44:13

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An Existential Threat to American Freedom: Spike Cohen on Donald Trump's Betrayal of Libertarianism 57:30