

The Great Antidote
Juliette Sellgren
Adam Smith said, "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." So join us for interviews with the leading experts on today's biggest issues to learn more about economics, policy, and much more.
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Oct 8, 2020 • 48min
Jonathan Rauch on Cancel Culture and Free Speech
Send us a textJonathan 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, continues the conversation of free speech and talks to us about cancel culture. Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Oct 1, 2020 • 40min
Rachel Greszler on Paid Leave
Send us a textRachel Greszler, a senior research fellow in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget at the Heritage Foundation, talks to us about paid leave and whether it should be government-provided or mandated for employers to provide.Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sep 24, 2020 • 53min
David Boaz on Libertarianism
Send us a textDavid Boaz, executive vice president of Cato Institute and author of The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom, talks to us about the libertarian mind and philosophy. Support the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sep 17, 2020 • 54min
Greg Lukianoff on Free Speech
Send us a textGreg 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sep 10, 2020 • 50min
Chris Freiman on Voting
Send us a textChris 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 votingSupport the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sep 3, 2020 • 44min
Scott Bullock on Criminal Justice
Send us a textScott 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Aug 27, 2020 • 54min
Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Send us a textRuss 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Aug 20, 2020 • 46min
Terry Anderson on Free Market Environmentalism
Send us a textTerry 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 environmentalismSupport the showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Aug 13, 2020 • 29min
Benjamin Powell on Sweat Shops
Send us a textBenjamin 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Aug 6, 2020 • 44min
Adam Thierer on Permissionless Innovation
Send us a textAdam 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.