The Great Antidote

Send us Fan Mail Greg Lukianoff, the President and CEO of FIRE and co-author of the book "The Coddling of The American Mind", talks to us about free speech, the evolution of free speech over time, and the coddling of the minds of young people in the United States.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Chris Freiman, a philosophy professor at William & Mary University and author of "Why it's OK to Ignore Politics", talks to us about the economic and moral arguments of voting Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Scott Bullock, president and general counsel of the Institute for Justice and who represented Susette Kelo in the Supreme Court case Kelo v. The City of New London, talks to us about civil asset forfeiture and eminent domain.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Russ Roberts, host of EconTalk, author of several books, and research fellow at Hoover Institution, talks to us about his book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Terry Anderson, a founder of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and senior fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University, talks to us about something that sounds like an oxymoron but isn't: free market environmentalism Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Benjamin Powell, North American editor of the Review of Austrian Economics and director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, answers all the questions you could have about sweatshops.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Adam Thierer, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and author of multiple books about entrepreneurship, talks to us about permissionless innovation and evasive entrepreneurship. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Aaron Ross Powell, director and editor of Libertarianism.org and the cohost of the Free Thoughts podcast, talks to us about his new book with Paul Matzko called Visions of Liberty. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Ben Jones, assistant director of the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University, talks to us about the history of the death penalty, the evidence against the death penalty, and the philosophical case against the death penalty.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Dan McLaughlin, senior writer a the National Review and a former attorney, talks to us about DC statehood and the history of DC, and alternatives.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Brent Skorup, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at GMU, talks to us about the future of technology, specifically drones, flying cars, and self driving cars.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Peter Van Doren, editor of Regulation, talks to us about the value of life and other science-y things.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Matthew Feeney, director of Cato Institute's Project on Emerging Technologies, talks to us about section 230 of the communications decency act and many common misunderstandings about it from all sides of the political spectrum.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Thomas Hazlett, former economic director of the Federal Communications Commission and Hugh Macaulay endowed professor of economics at Clemson, talks to us about the FCC, section 230, and the ways the government intervenes in technology.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail George Will, columnist for the Washington Post, talks to us about conservatism, the current state of congress, the importance of a dynamic economy, and baseball.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Baylen Linnekin, food lawyer and author, talks to us about the different silly ways the government regulates food.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Deirdre McCloskey, author of many books, a professor of many topics, and columnist, talks to us about how we got rich, liberalism, and her sex change.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Andrea O'Sullivan, director of the Center for Technology and Innovation at the James Madison Institute, talks to us about bitcoin and other crypto currencies Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Clark Neily, vice president for criminal justice at Cato Institute, talks to us about recent police abuse  events, how we got here, and what to do about it. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Ed Glaeser, economics professor at Harvard University, talks to us about the housing crisis and the advantages brought on by urban life.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Randy Barnett , professor of legal theory at Georgetown University and the legal mind behind the legal challenge against Obamacare's individual mandate, talks to us about constitutional law, originalism, and his new book with Josh Blackman, An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.   Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks...

Send us Fan Mail David French, attorney, fellow at the National Review Institute, and senior editor of The Dispatch, talks to us about freedom of speech, especially on college campuses, and the freedom of religion.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the book The American Dream is not Dead (but Populism Could Kill it), talks to us about the American Dream today and everything about populism! Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail Matt Mitchell, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks to us about cronyism, Certificate Of Needs legislation, and occupational licensing. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail 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! Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .