All episodes of Ideas Having Sex

Ideas Having Sex

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51. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley - Superabundance

Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance.

Published 04/29/24

Ideas Having Sex

Published 04/29/24

50. Michael Huemer – Can We Know Anything?

Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat.

Published 04/15/24

49. Chandran Kukathas - Immigration and Freedom

Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens.

Published 04/01/24

48. Jason Brennan – Democracy: A Guided Tour

Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy.

Published 03/18/24

47. David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom

David Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism.

Published 03/04/24

46. David Lawrence – Debunking Determinism

David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more.

Published 02/19/24

45. Bryan Caplan - You Will Not Stampede Me

Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity.

Published 02/05/24

44. Max Borders – Political Decentralization

Max Borders claims we don’t take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should.

Published 01/22/24

43. James Tooley – Really Good Schools

James Tooley shows how the world’s poorest people educate their children without government.

Published 11/07/23

42. Maarten Prak - Pioneers of Capitalism

Maarten Prak shows how capitalism developed from the bottom up.

Published 10/23/23

41. David Beito - The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights

David Beito exposes the many civil liberties abuses of FDR.

Published 09/26/23

40. Sean Mirski - We May Dominate the World

Sean Mirski reviews the causes and consequences of early US foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere.

Published 09/11/23

39. David Schmidtz - Living Together

David Schmidtz discusses the inseparability of successful communities and successful lives.

Published 08/28/23

38. Rachel Ferguson & Marcus Witcher - Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher explain how black Americans have been held down by the state and lifted up by the market.

Published 08/14/23

37. Michael Huemer - Understanding Knowledge

Michael Huemer talks about puzzles and insights in the study of knowledge.

Published 07/31/23

36. James Otteson - Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

James Otteson argues against wealth redistribution.

Published 07/17/23

35. Deirdre McCloskey - The Bourgeoise Era

Deirdre McCloskey explains how freedom and bourgeoise dignity enriched the world.

Published 07/03/23

34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Bryan Caplan discusses political irrationality, partisan loyalty, and more.

Published 06/19/23

33. Peter Boghossian - Wokeness and Impossible Conversations

Peter Boghossian talks about wokeness, scholarly corruption, and how to have impossible conversations.

Published 06/05/23

32. Matt Zwolinski - The Individualists

Matt Zwolinski reviews 200 years of libertarian intellectual history.

Published 05/22/23

31. Dan Moller - Governing Least

Dan Moller makes a novel case for libertarianism.

Published 05/08/23

30. William Nelson - E Pluribus Unum

William Nelson describes how the common law shaped early America.

Published 04/24/23

29. Fernanda Pirie - The Rule of Laws

Fernanda Pirie shares her encyclopedic knowledge of law throughout history and around the world.

Published 04/10/23

28. Robert Bryce - A Question of Power

Robert Bryce explains how important electricity is to modern life.

Published 03/27/23