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Can Democracy Fix Itself? Rousseau vs Tocqueville on Voting Rights (Part 2)

Is the Voting Rights Act Already Dead? Rousseau vs Tocqueville on the Supreme Court (Part 1)

Red Button or Blue Button? Thomas Hobbes vs John Locke on Who Gets the Power to End Everything

China Just Changed the Argument. Can Anyone Actually Govern AI? Smith vs Hobbes. (Part 2)

Big Tech Is Writing AI Law Now. Was Adam Smith Right All Along? Smith vs Hobbes. (Part 1)

Adam Smith vs Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on Microlooting: The Debate the Hasan Piker Moment Actually Deserves

Is the Blockade Brilliant or Reckless? Napoleon vs Wellington on the Iran War.

Walter Bagehot vs William Jennings Bryan: When the Money Argument Gets Loud

Did the Bankers Win Forever? Bagehot vs Bryan on Crypto and the Fed. (Part 1)

Edmund Burke vs. John Stuart Mill: Where the Agreement on Free Speech and the Therapy Room Breaks Down

Can a State Ban What Therapists Say? Mill vs. Burke on the Conversion Therapy Ruling. (Part 1)

Did America Win Anything? Napoleon vs Clausewitz on Whether the Iran Peace Can Hold.

Niccolo Machiavelli vs Woodrow Wilson: The Argument About NATO Gets Ugly

Niccolo Machiavelli vs Woodrow Wilson: Did Collective Security Turn Europe Into a Dependency?

Otto von Bismarck vs Edmund Burke on NATO: Why Neither Man Will Budge an Inch

Otto von Bismarck vs Edmund Burke on NATO: The Case for Divorce vs the Case for Staying Married

Born Here, Belong Here? Thomas Paine vs. Edmund Burke on Birthright Citizenship (Part 2)

Born Here, Belong Here? Thomas Paine vs. Edmund Burke on Birthright Citizenship (Part 1)

Hobbes vs. Locke Part 2: Gets Worse Before It Gets Louder

The Oldest Argument in Political Philosophy Just Got a Test Case - Two Philosophers Walk Into El Salvador - Part 1

Mill Says Sue Them. Tocqueville Says That Won't Be Enough - Part 2

Your Phone Is Doing Exactly What Tocqueville Predicted in 1840

The Man Who Did This to Europe Wants to Explain Why the Iran War Is Going Fine

Clausewitz vs. Jomini: Was Boyd's Legacy Overrated? Part 2 of 2

Clausewitz vs. Jomini: Was Boyd's Legacy Overrated? Part 1 of 2

Herbert Spencer vs Karl Marx: Will Artificial Intelligence Create Mass Unemployment? Part 2

Herbert Spencer vs Karl Marx: Will Artificial Intelligence Create Mass Unemployment? Part 1 of 2

Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte debate the Iran War - Part 2

Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte debate the Iran War - Part 1

Part 2 of 2 - Karl Marx vs Henry George on The Single Tax on Land and Poverty

Part 1 of 2 - Karl Marx vs Henry George on The Single Tax on Land and Poverty

Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine Debate British Decline - Part 3

Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine Debate British Decline - Part 2

Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine Debate British Decline - Part 1 of 3

Plato vs William James on Vibe Coding

Roosevelt vs Wilson Part 3- who gets to decide?

Roosevelt vs Wilson Part 2 - The Case of Iran - Revolution, Religion, and Regional Power

Roosevelt vs Wilson Part 1 - Should America Ever Topple Governments?

Part 2.5 of 2 - David Hume vs Jean-Paul Marat - JFK Conspiracy Theories - Now with Updated Audio

Otto von Bismarck vs Woodrow Wilson debate American Intervention in Iran

Part 2 of 2 - David Hume vs Jean-Paul Marat - JFK Conspiracy Theories

Part 1 - David Hume vs Jean-Paul Marat - JFK Conspiracy Theories

Part 3 - Thomas Jefferson vs. Niccolo Machiavelli: Should America Strike Iran Again?

Part 2 - Thomas Jefferson vs. Niccolo Machiavelli: Did the Iran Strikes Make the World More or Less Safe?

Part 1 - Thomas Jefferson vs. Niccolo Machiavelli: Was Operation Midnight Hammer Justified?

Frederick Douglass vs. John C Calhoun - Immigration and the American National Character

Mill vs. Burke: Should Borders Be Open or Closed?

MARK TWAIN VS. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: Should America Restrict Immigration to Protect American Workers?

Thomas Paine Vs Edmund Burke - Can Democracy Restrict Immigration or Does Natural Right Trump Popular Will? Part 2

Thomas Paine Vs Edmund Burke - Immigration as Natural Right vs. Community Preservation - Part 1

Alexis de Tocqueville vs. David Hume: Is American Democracy Dying?

Thomas Jefferson vs Woodrow Wilson on Ukraine Funding

David Hume vs Niccolo Machiavelli: Did COVID-19 Escape From a Wuhan Lab?

Machiavelli and Hobbes Debate Gun Control for Drug Users, AKA U.S. v. Hemani

Bismarck and Jefferson Debate American Seizing Greenland

Machiavelli vs Rousseau on Gun Control

Thomas Hobbes vs Thomas Jefferson on Tariffs

Adam Smith vs Williams Jennings Bryan