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Portraits of Liberty — 84 episodes

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The Making of Modern Japan: Fukuzawa Yukichi

2

Cato’s Letters: Against Tyranny and Corruption

3

A Son of the Forest: William Apess

4

The Forgotten Polish Republican: Wawrzyniec Goślicki and the Rights of a Free Commonwealth

5

A Quiet Rebel: José Castellanos

6

Japan's Ignored Anarchist: Andō Shōeki

7

Benjamin Franklin: A Versatile Genius, with Guest Mark Skousen

8

Joseph Hiam Levy: A Forgotten Radical for Liberty, with guest Matt Zwolinski

9

Liberty With an Asterisk: Black Americans In the Revolution Era

10

The Father of Abolitionism: John Rankin (With Caleb Franz)

11

How Self-Interest Built Societies: Bernard Mandeville

12

Shyamji Krishna Varma: A Spencerian Radical

13

Jeannette Rankin: The Peaceful Outlier

14

Olaudah Equiano: The Man Who Transformed the Abolitionist Movement

15

Revisiting Frédéric Bastiat

16

The Father of the School of Salamanca: Francisco de Vitoria

17

The Forgotten Austrian: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

18

The Law of Equal Freedom: Herbert Spencer

19

The German Economic “Miracle”: Ludwig Erhard

20

Redefining the Enlightenment: Namık Kemal (with Mustafa Akyol)

21

Liberty Further Extended: Lemuel Haynes

22

The Violent Genesis of the State: Franz Oppenheimer

23

The Medieval Case Against Taxes: William of Pagula

24

No Superior and Few Equals: Elizabeth Freeman

25

The Soldier Philosopher: Adam Ferguson

26

The Forgotten Abolitionist: The Black Revolutionary, Industrialist, and Abolitionist James Forten

27

Liberty's Forgotten Man: William Graham Sumner

28

Live like a Libertarian: Karl Hess

29

Citizen Jane: Jane Jacobs

30

A Monument to Freedom of Speech: Havel's Place

31

Coming Soon: The Liberty Exchange

32

Why Study History?

33

The Highly Visible Hand: Richard Cantillon

34

The Most Popular Economist: Henry George

35

A Feminist before Feminism: Marie De Gournay

36

An Enlightened Entrepreneur: Josiah Wedgwood

37

The Father of Indian Economics: Kautilya

38

The Liberal Hero of the Philippines: José Rizal

39

The First Japanese Classical Liberal: Itagaki Taisuke

40

Portraits Winter Break

41

The Founder of Many Disciplines: Ibn Khaldun

42

The Colossus of Independence: John Adams (with C. Bradley Thompson)

43

Names Change but Dictators Remain: Luis Cabrera Lobato(with Luis Felipe Barrón Córdova)

44

Poet Turned President: Václav Havel

45

A Martyr for Religious Freedom: Mary Dyer (with Paul Matzko)

46

Apostle of Cuban Independence: José Martí

47

(Re-Release): Cicero: An Ancestor of Liberalism

48

Early Arguments for Economic Liberty: The De La Court Brothers

49

Resisting the Nazis: Sophie Scholl

50

A Forgotten American Hero: Roger Williams

51

The Liberal Ideas of Ibn Rushd (with Mustafa Aykol)

52

When Ireland was Stateless (with Kevin Flanagan)

53

The First Chinese Constitutionalist: Huang Zongxi

54

A Champion of Civil Liberties: John Lilburne

55

The Enemy of Tyranny: Cato the Younger

56

Protector of the Native Americans: Bartolomé de las Casas

57

Locofocos, The Radical Classical Liberals

58

Saving Classical Liberalism: Isabel Paterson

59

Nuns Against the State: Arcangela Tarabotti

60

Where Buddhism & Libertarianism Intersect (with Aaron Ross Powell)

61

Keep Government Simple: Mozi

62

(Re-Release): Forgotten Libertarians

63

A Lover of Individualism: Zora Neale Hurston

64

The Mother of Libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane

65

Freedom in Ancient China: Mencius

66

Liberty, Free Speech, and Killing Tyrants: John of Salisbury

67

Cicero: An Ancestor of Liberalism

68

Anders Chydenius

69

The English Cato: Algernon Sidney

70

John Stuart Mill's Co-author Harriet Taylor Mill

71

The Apostle of Free Trade: Richard Cobden

72

Frédéric Bastiat

73

The African Enlightenment

74

Libertarianism at School: Maria Montessori

75

Dismantling the State with Étienne De La Boétie

76

The Founding Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft

77

Auberon Herbert and Voluntaryism

78

Taking the King to Court, John Cooke

79

Rehabilitating Democracy, George Grote

80

Separating the Church and State, Marsilius of Padua

81

Poullain and Equality

82

Beccaria Modernized Criminal Law

83

Cato's Letters

84

The First Western Feminist