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Why has medical care become so complicated—and expensive?

How has the collectivism outlined in this 2018 episode manifested in 2021?

How Federalism and Libertarianism can Thrive Together

How did a 20-year war crippled the American Empire?

How bad is inflation getting? What's in this new infrastructure bill? And Cuomo resigned for what?

Sit with your fear and name it.

How does government increase the cost home by over 25%?

What if The Federal Reserve had to abide by the basic rules of economics like the rest of us?

You can't sell to someone until you've ask (better) questions, show you care, and have actually listened to their problems.

Would the Democratic Party really run someone as inauthentic as Kamala Harris when voters are demanding authenticity?

Songs tell stories in ways few mediums can rival. Learn how we can leverage songwriting to help sell liberty to more people today.

When art meets defensive security measures, creativity wins the day.

The rewriting of history by revisionist academics has been an absolute assault on the significant impacts of noted figures in history who helped advance liberty. Here's how to fight back.

I've found that I learn best when I didn't even realize I was learning in the first place. The same thing is true when we're selling liberty! How? While the debate over bold/principled versus practical/pragmatic messaging has taken the greater liberty movement by storm, longtime Libertarian activist Carla Howell joins the program to show how both a bold AND practical message can sell liberty, so long as that message is helping solve people's problems.

What are the two emotions that drive buyers into action?Love and...?Fear.Knowing that, how is fear being using to sell us on massive government policies with price tags ranging from the billions and even trillions of dollars. Dr. Patrick Moore is one of the co-founders of Greenpeace and joins the program today to outline how easily fear can be used to motivate policy, actual science be damned, and how the contemporary environmental movement has focused less on saving the environment than it is being anti-humanity.

New York City is a shell of its former self. The COVID pandemic and ensuing government lockdowns absolutely decimated the "city that doesn't sleep". Having built her career a successful career in politics, NYC native Stacey Prussman is entering the world of politics to try and get New York back on track with liberty-based solutions that get government out of the way!Listen as Stacey outlines her vision for NYC residents & communities where they make their own choices, conduct business and do what’s in their best interests.

Cancel culture. Identity politics. Wokeism.However you feel about the push for "social justice", it's hard to deny the manner that wokeism has grown from being only on college campuses, as it now permeates our modern discourse.Kenny Cody returns to the program and makes his case on why we need to fight back against this progressive ideology and embrace an attitude of rebellion.

"The goal of the proposal is ...."Now, to judge how a proposal did, one would want to look at the actual outcomes of said proposal, versus just looking at the intentions of the proposal.And yet, when it comes to government programs and policies, it is the intentions that lawmakers seem to focus on.Nolan Gray is a housing researcher at UCLA, a former NYC city planner, host of the YouTube "Pop Culture Urbanism" (where he dissects housing & city questions from famous movies & TV shows), and joins the program to specifically address California's extreme environmental laws and where they ended up exacerbating the very problems they were seeking to address.

The Biden "Infrastructure Bill" is out, and guess what... EVERYTHING IS INFRASTRUCTURE!Roads and Bridges? Yup! Childcare!? YUP!Climate Change!? YUP!!!Sound a bit... much? Don't worry, you're not alone in that feeling, as Brad Polumbo from the Foundation For Economic Education (FEE) returns to the program to dig into all the dirty details about the new infrastructure bill.

Did you state lockdown in response to the COVID pandemic? And if it did end up locking down, did your state follow the science data and reopen once government lockdowns were shown to have no impact on the virus?Joining the program is Anna Zeigler (The Federalist) who joins the program to put the spotlight on one Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Listen as we did into DeSantis' skyrocketing to national prominence over the past year, how he was one of the first executives at a state level who actually followed "followed the science" and didn't hamstring his state's economy with unscientific lockdowns, and outlines now has a real shot a being the GOP nominee in 2024.

Free speech is one of the fundamental cornerstones in American society. However, in recent years, we've watched as free speech rights have been focused on and attacked by those saying speech can be dangerous. But do they have a point? After all, can't hate speech lead to hateful actions?Joining the program is Frederick M. Lawrence, 10th Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Distinguished Lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, and former President of Brandeis University, Dean of the George Washington University Law School, and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law.An accomplished scholar, teacher and attorney, Lawrence is one of the nation’s leading experts on civil rights, free expression and bias crimes, and joins the program outline why free speech is so important.

Donald Trump proved that there was an untapped market within the GOP that a persona like he could take advantage of - populism. Now, this isn't a new discovery, but rather something that hasn't been effectively utilized by GOP politicians in decades. Instead of learning from what Trump was able to do successfully in his use of Republican populism, many GOP leaders have rejected that approach, leaving many of those voters looking for a path forward. Jack Hunter joins the program to dig into this Republican populism, and with that, how advocates in the liberty movement can utilize that populist sentiments in the GOP to help promote pro-liberty policy.

Finding common ground is one of the most challenging aspects of political discourse in 2021. In a world where "the others" are looked at with skeptical eyes, it's more important for us to enter into good-faith dialogue whenever and wherever we can on issues of agreement. One such area the left and right (should) be finding common ground is that of the death penalty. Today we are joined by Professor David Dozier, professor emeritus in the School of Journalism & Media Studies at San Diego State University and author of "The California Killing Field". David joins the program to make the case as to why the death penalty is as anti-liberty as they come, how to have good-faith conversations with those we disagree with, and how to enact common policy goals into action.

Why school choice? Right now, many Americans are realizing first hand the value of being able to pick where their children go to school, as public schooling institutions still find their doors shut. With the impact of public teacher's unions being felt first-hand, many families are look for alternatives to the traditional government school monopolies.Corey DeAngelis is an expert on school choice and joins the program to help sell the value of funding students, not institutions. How does school choice impact the student, families, and teachers? Those questions (and more!) are answered on today's special 200th episode!