

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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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.

Jul 30, 2020 • 45min
Aaron Ross Powell on the Libertarian Vision
Send us a textAaron 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Jul 7, 2020 • 52min
Ben Jones on the death penalty
Send us a textBen 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Jul 5, 2020 • 37min
Dan McLaughlin on DC statehood and the alternatives
Send us a textDan 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 showNever miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.


