Conjecture Institute Advisor, Lord Daniel Hannan is in conversation today about democracy, free trade and freedom broadly. Lord Hannan has a comprehensive website containing his work which is found at https://danielhannan.info/ while his Youtube channel is a catalogue of speeches, talks, interviews, lectures and more defending the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment and Western Civilization.
Chapters/Timestamps are below
00:00 Introduction
00:04 Preview
00:56 Introduction to Lord Hannan
01:29 Upper Houses and the functions of a Parliament.
09:21 Democracy and the EU Parliament
17:19 “The Will of the People” and referenda.
23:47 The English vs Spanish “Western” civilisations” and political stability. 29:00 The Invention of Freedom and Resource Extraction
37:31 Climate Change, Net Zero and Politics
39:53 Doomerism, Regulation and Social Control.
43:39: Lord Hannan on Nick Bostrom, Techno-Pessimism and AI
45:47 Existential Risk, Property Rights, Wealth
49:56 Common Law, Property Rights and Conservationism
52:12 Free speech and The First Amendment