The Great Antidote

Send us Fan Mail Jason Brennan, professor of business ethics at Georgetown University and author of many, many books, talks to us today about the book he coauthored with Chris Surprenant,  Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System, and the distorting incentives in all areas of the criminal justice system.  Support the show Never miss another A...

Send us Fan Mail Josh Rauh, professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and senior fellow at Hoover Institution, talks to us today about his career journey, what public pensions are, the public pension crisis, and more.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Lauren Hall is professor and chair of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology and a prolific author. Her most recent book, The Medicalization of Birth and Death , was published in 2019. She joins host Juliette Selgren to talk about the medicalization of birth in recent history; the role of hospitals, regulation, and liability; and young people's lack of appreci...

Send us Fan Mail James Otteson is a business ethics professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of several books, including What Adam Smith Knew .  He talks to us about Adam Smith, his life, ideas, and notable works. Also, I recently moved to Liberty Fund's https://www.adamsmithworks.org/ , go check it out! Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Faceb...

Send us Fan Mail Abby Hall is an associate professor in economics at Bellarmine University and co-author of many books on defense in America with Chris Coyne. Their latest book is called Manufacturing Militarism: US Government Propaganda in the War on Terror. Today we talk about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, a.k.a military drones), including the history of their use and the many consequences tha...

Send us Fan Mail Gary Leff, the chief financial officer at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and writer of View From the Wing, talks to us about airlines, airline bailouts, and travel tips.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Jason Fichtner, the vice president and chief economist at the Bipartisan Policy Center, talks to us about social security, how it works, and the future of the program.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Today I talk with Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, contributing editor of National Journal and The Atlantic and author of many books including Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. We discuss his newest book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, and the lack of free speech culture on college campuses.  Support the show Never...

Send us Fan Mail Todd Zywicki is a professor of Law at George Mason University, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center. He has been on The Great Antidote previously to discuss the field of law and economics, and today we discuss the importance of federalism, the original structure of the legislative branch, and how the 17th amendment...

Send us Fan Mail Katherine Mangu-Ward , Editor in Chief of Reason Magazine , joins us in the first episode of season three to discuss libertarianism, Reason Magazine , and voting. Want to explore more? Bob Ewing on Communicating Well, a Great Antidote podcast. Kevin Corcoran, The Economics of Activism , at EconLog. Arnold Kling, Libertarian as Logician: The True Essence of Libertarianism , at Econ...

Send us Fan Mail The tables are turned for the Season 2 Finale of the Great antidote, and Juliette is the one being interviewed by her podcast producer Ian Nemelka. Thank you to everyone for listening. We will be back in 2022! Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Ike Brannon, former economic advisor to the U.S. Treasury and Senior Fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation, joins us this week to discuss disaster relief, FEMA, insurance, and the future of disaster policy in the United States. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Samuel Gregg, research director at the Acton Institute, joins us this week to discuss culture, the origins of morality, and the intersectionality between liberalism and christianity. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Tim Sandefur, vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute, joins us this week to discuss right-to-privacy, disclosure, and anonymity of donations. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Trevor Burrus, research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, returns once again to the show to discuss campaign finance, the first amendment, and what the Supreme Court has to say about it. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and...

Send us Fan Mail Scott Winship, resident scholar and the director of poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), joins us this week to discuss the United States' "War on Poverty", the welfare state, and the future of anti-poverty policy. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Nadine Strossen, civil liberties activist and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), joins us this week to discuss hate speech, its policy implications, and if we should be protecting it. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Randy E. Barnett , professor of constitutional law and Georgetown University and Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, joins us this week to discuss (what else?) The Constitution of the United States, the 14th Amendment, the controversial 'Privileges and Immunities" clause, and what constitutional law might look like in the future. Support the show Neve...

Send us Fan Mail Shikha Dalmia, columnist at the Week, and former senior analyst at Reason, joins us this week to discuss Nationalism, its history, and its rise in the modern world. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Megan McArdle, economic columnist at the Washington Post, joins us this week to discuss her ideas on personal failure, and why it is such an important and crucial part of development and growth. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Nick Gillespie, author, journalist, and former editor-in-chief at Reason joins us this week to discuss libertarianism, elections, voting, and his book Declaration of Independents.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Sally Satel, M.D., psychiatrist, lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, and  Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, joins us this week to discuss the misguided perception of addiction, policies aimed at fighting addiction, and the future of public health. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and I...

Send us Fan Mail Tim Carney, columnist at the Washington Examiner and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins us this week to discuss the Export-Import Bank (EXIM), corporate welfare, and all the forms of cronyism in the United States. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Matt Welch, author, blogger, and journalist, joins us this week to discuss libertarianism, teachers unions, and the future of education in the United States. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Michelle Minton, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins us this week to discuss vaping, tobacco use, sodium intake, and regulations for consumer products and practices viewed as "immoral." Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .