All Episodes
The Bob Zadek Show — 352 episodes
Confronting the 'Cancelists' with Alan Dershowitz
Fixing the Broken Two-Party System
Ted Galen Carpenter on Unreliable Watchdog
Are Public Sector Unions Unconstitutional?
A Surprisingly Simple Solution to the Chaos at the Border
What's to Blame for California’s Housing Crisis?
'Jawboning against Speech' with Will Duffield
Civil Asset Forfeiture Revisited
The 'Broken Window Fallacy' is Back
What the IRS’s Hiring Spree Means for You
Life!Line - Guest hosting: Robert Mahoney on *The Infodemic*
Shining a Spotlight on the Stealth Airline Bailouts
Which Side Are You On?
The Weaponization of Consumer Finance
The Political Pollution of Capital Markets
Do you know your rights?
The FBI: Our Uninvited Federal Police Force
Punishment without trial? It's the new normal
The Presumption of Liberty & Occupational Licensing
Who's to Blame for the Opioid Crisis?
Midterm Elections Special: The Surprising History of Gerrymandering
*Gone Viral* Goes Viral
"I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help" - Cathy Reisenwitz
Patri Friedman on the Competitive Governance Universe
The Mass Surveillance nobody is talking about
Lies, Damned Lies & the Inflation Reduction Act
Student Loan Debt Forgiveness
Dick Morris on the 2022 and 2024 Elections
Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy
The Libertarian Dream Team - Ilya Somin
Arizona Chooses Students Over Systems - Matt Beienburg
Which State is the Most Free?
Progressive Conservatism with F.H. Buckley
Exploring the Borderlands of Legal Whiteness with David Bernstein
The Economist’s View of the World
Judicial Round-Up with Clark Neily
Disney versus DeSantis
Abusive Fines and Fees
Food (Waste) Freedom
Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth
FDA’s New Rules Against Smoking
Rethinking Industrial Policy
Evan Bernick on the Dobbs Draft
Art Carden on Price Theory & Its Discontents
California’s Food Fight
Free Speech & the Scientific Method
Checking in on Bail Reform
The United States of Anonymous
The Economic Consequences of Russian Sanctions
Who Decides?
Justin Logan on Ukraine
The Economics of Immigration
Fresh Approaches to the Overdose Crisis
China & the Stupidity of War
Chris Preble on Ukraine
Food Truck v. Farmville
Liz Warren’s Crusade against “Big Grocery
Troubleshooting the Constitution
Manufacturing Militarism: A Fresh Look at Propaganda
The Year in Review
The Conservative Constitution
Understanding the Victim Cult
Robert Glennon on Water Scarcity
Caroline Fredrickson on the Progressive Constitution
Ryan Bourne on the Economic Fallacies of the Pandemic Policymakers
Timothy Sandefur on The Libertarian Constitution
Debt & Taxes
Daniel Di Martino on Immigration
The New Civil Liberties Movement
Thomas Paine: Apostle of Liberty
Founding the Free Republic of Liberland
A Libertarian Legal Perspective on Vaccine Mandates
Scott Horton on the War in Afghanistan
Parents Voting With Their Kids' Feet
Vaccine Mandates, George Mason, and the Bill of Rights
Hard Questions About Asylum and Afghanistan
Carol Roth on the War on Small Business
Rebranding Liberty with 'Live and Let Live'
John R. Lott on Gun Control Myths
Cuba Libre & The July 11th Uprising
Damien Schiff on the Endangered Species Act
Trouble at the Bar
America's Second Founding
Philip Hamburger on Court Packing
New Tests for the Fourth Amendment
Finding Freedom in the Permission Society
Curiosity & American Capitalism
Auditing the Corporate Income Tax
The Foundations of Property
Is Socialism Still a Dirty Word?
Restoring Common Sense to California
The Immigration Crisis in Context
Steven B. Smith on Reclaiming Patriotism
The Truth About the Student Loan Crisis
Vaccines & the Totalitarian Principle
Escaping the Statrix: Trevor Burrus's Rent Control Red Pill
The Case for Recalling Gavin Newsom
Criminal Memes: The Ballad of Ricky Vaughn
Austrian Economics Triumphs
Why the Freakout About GameStop?
When More is Not Better
The Radio Right and The Fairness Doctrine
Stakeholder Value: A New Story About Business
Questioning Biden's Inequality Narrative
Emperor Newsom's New Clothes
Populism After Trump
The Capitol Riot in Context
Welfare for the Rich?
Of Sex Work and Censorship
Is it too late to step back from the edge of fiscal insanity?
Force as Farce: Unmasking the COVID Hypocrites
Towards a Libertarian Theory of Anti-Racism
The Flight of the Golden Geese
Dr. Jeff Singer on Prescription Drug Freedom
Students, Not Systems
Why Trustbusting Big Tech is a Bad Idea
What's Wrong with "Winner Takes All"? Another Look at the Electoral College
Mandatory PPE
Populism 201: Advanced Topics in American Democracy
Amy Coney Barrett on Trial
California's Ethnic Studies Curriculum vs. Trump's Patriotic Education
Eight-Dimensional Chess
Vote to Float
Will We Know Who the President Is on November 4?
What Kamala Harris Hopes We Will Forget
The Decline of American Independence
You're Hired! Chief Economic Adviser to Trump on What It's Really Like to Work in the White House
Back to School: A History Lesson from the 1918 Pandemic
Reversing the Ratchet
The Mini-Administrative State
The "Ratchet Effect" in Real Time
California's New Union Gag Order Violates 1st Amendment
Why Government Regulation of Tech Censorship is Undesirable
Terrible New Worker "Protection" Laws Threaten the Gig Economy
Conscription Gets a Face Lift
Here comes "the spike..."
The Future of Cities
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Revisit Unqualified Immunity
Immigration Myth-Busting - Redux
Commonsense COVID Response
Foot Voting > Ballot Voting
John Tamny on Experts vs. the Wisdom of Markets
The Future of Lending after COVID-19
Prime time for the PRIME Act
Never let a good crisis go to waste
Did California Just Declare Itself a Nation-State?
Unprepared: Government Failure at the CDC/FDA
The Single Most Common Economic Fallacy in COVID-19 Reporting
How to Stay Sane as a Libertarian on Lockdown
Homelessness & Housing Policy in the Golden State
The Dubious Morality of the Modern Administrative State
How to leverage resources within the liberty movement
Reviewing Judicial Review
Big government can't save us from coronavirus
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
Remember when kids were free to be kids?
Withholding Judgment on Impeachment with John Rothmann
What's Really to Blame for California and Australia Wildfires?
Secession: A How-to Guide
Rethinking Afghanistan with Jonathan Bydlak
Close Enough to Socialism: Amity Schlaes on The Great Society
Which Impeachment Movie Are You Watching?
Brian D. Kelly on the False Promise of Policing-for-Profit
Fergus Hodgson on the Fintech Revolution & Competitive Governance
C. Bradley Thompson on America’s Revolutionary Mind
Daniel Markovits on the (De)Merits of Meritocracy
Jonathan Rothwell on Market Egalitarianism
Mike Munger is Taking Public Choice Seriously
Rachel Barkow on Fixing the Fundamentals of Criminal Justice
Randall G. Holcombe on Liberty in Peril
Popping the Filter Bubble
Trump's War on Trade
Ivan Eland on the Rogue Presidency
Antitrust 101 with Ryan Young
Sally Pipes on the High Cost of Free Stuff
Theodore Dalrymple on Negligence and Unaccountability
Socialism… Still Not Cool
John Marini on *Unmasking the Administrative State*
The "Doctor for Liberty" on Opioid Abuse, Harm Reduction, and ObamaCare
Redefining the "Deep State"
Who Will Censure the Censors?
Veronique de Rugy on the Gender Pay Gap
The Rent Control Bomb
On Foreign Policy, will Trump heed the Restraining Constituency or John Bolton?
What Part of Illegal Immigration Are You Against? Alex Nowrasteh Returns
AMERICAN DEFAULT
Hugo Chavez: Failed Messiah
Social Media Censorship
How to Create a Legitimacy Crisis
Socialism Reincarnated
Demystifying the Supreme Court
David Henderson on Trumponomics, Deficits, and Immigration
Libertarian Anti-Poverty Policy
Elizabeth Nolan Brown on the War on Sex Workers
Here Comes the Storm
Not Enough Bricks
Founding Healer
Utopia Unmasked
On Crowds and Tribalism
Low Tweets and Misdemeanors: The Impeachment Debate Through the Lens of History and the Constitution
Liberalism vs. Nationalism
Revenge of the Pen and the Phone
Awaiting the Verdict in Timbs v. Indiana
Title IX's Transformation: R. Shep Melnick on the New Civil Rights Debate
Entrepreneurs, Outlaws, and the Right to Bear Arms – David Harsanyi on *First Freedom*
Stephen Moore on Trumponomics
Local Leviathan: Clint Bolick on Grassroots Tyranny
The One Book You Must Read to Understand American Politics in 2018
Jonathan Haidt on *The Coddling of the American Mind*
The Curious Case of the $32,000 Couch
Elizabeth Warren's Socialist Dogwhistle
How to Spot Tabloid Climate Science
How Bail Traps the Poor in Jail with Scott Shackford
California Discovers Federalism
Can California's Endangered Species Survive U.S. Fish & Wildlife Policy?
The Two Faces of Janus v. AFSCME
The End of Nation-States?
Non-Aggression in a Nuclear Era
Thaddeus Russell on Renegades vs. Conformists
Joel Engel on *Scorched Worth: A True Story of Destruction, Deceit, and Government Corruption*, 6/3
Bryan Caplan's Case Against Higher Education
“Breakfast is Good For You” and Other Dangerous Government-Sponsored Myths
David Boaz on the Libertarian Ethos
ICE in the Age of Trump
Cheap Hawks; Not Cheap Talk
An Intellectual Discussion of Sexual Harassment with Richard Epstein
Getting the Government (Back) Out of Marriage
A Sunday Morning Chat with The World's Worst Mom
Let’s Talk About California’s “High-Speed” Rail
The Basics of Bitcoin & Blockchain with Stan Larimer
F.H. Buckley on *The Republic of Virtue*
Capitalism and Morality: Twin Pillars of the West
Amy Wax Defends Bourgeois Norms
How to Stay Sane in a Statist World
Robert Alt of the Buckeye Institute: Power to the States
Luis Perez-Breva on Artificial Intelligence Myths
Anthony L. Fisher on Antifa Violence & Neo-Reaction
Rethinking Pax Americana with John Glaser
Federalism and the Flat Tax: The Austin Petersen Plan
Michael Strong on Creating a World in Which All Humanity Flourishes
Leviathan in Chains: Michael Munger on Public Choice Economics
Richard Epstein on Climate Change
The War on Chinese Restaurants with Gabriel Chin
Will Wilkinson: G.O.P. Should Embrace the Welfare State
Miron vs. Sessions on the Drug War
A Libertarian Infrastructure Plan
Trump Vs. Free Trade with Richard Epstein
A Teacher’s Brave Stand Against Her Union – Rebecca Friedrichs and Terry Pell
Is There a War on Cops?
How the EPA Violated the Clean Air Act
Venezuela on the Brink with Fergus Hodgson
Russia Today (Yesterday & Tomorrow)
Judge Gorsuch on the Hot Seat
Debunking Inequality Myths with Ed Conard
*Crossroads for Liberty* with William Watkins Jr.
The Return of Big Spending Republicans?
Dr. Tom Palmer on Self Control vs. State Control
A Lame Duck's Last Stand
Alex Nowrasteh: How Prop. 187 Turned California Blue
Anthony L. Fisher on Confidential Informants
Mark Lutter on Proprietary Cities
Dr. Rick Doblin on MAPS and the War on Drugs
F.H. Buckley on *The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America*
Matthew Feeney on Best Practices for Police Body Cameras
Ilya Somin on Democracy and Political Ignorance
Ilya Shapiro on the Supreme Court in the Balance
Sarah Stillman on Minors on the Sex-Offender List
Skip Young on The Wisdom of 76: Young America's Way to Wealth
Carol Berkin on The Bill of Rights No One Wanted
Gail Heriot on the Significance of Justice Scalia’s Passing
Randal O'Toole on Rising Rents
Seeing Through TSA's Security Theater With Jim Bovard
Immigration Nation: Nowrasteh Sets it Straight Again
Bill Frezza's History of Telecom Innovation (and Not)
John Chisholm's Advice for Unleashing Your Inner Company
Ronald Bailey on the End of Doom
Joe Quirk on Seasteading 3.0
Vít Jedlička on Founding Liberland
Baylen Linnekin on the Front lines of the Fight for Food Freedom
David Boaz on The Libertarian Mind
Lucy Steigerwald on The Drug War and Private Prisons
Inclusive Capitalism: Economic Savior or Socialism in Disguise?
“You’re Under Arrest!”: Overcriminalization with Brian Walsh
Jonathan Rauch on the New Attacks on Free Thought
John Allison on the Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure
Who Wants to Buy a Politician? With Mike Munger
Virginia Postrel on Stasis vs. Dynamism
Lenore Skenazy: World's Worst Mom
Overruling Government Overreach: Damon Root on the Libertarian Legal Movement
Has America Become an "Elective Monarchy"?
A Vital Issue: Sigrid Fry-Revere on Iranian Kidney Markets
The New Royal Prerogative: Philip Hamburger on Administrative Law
Derek Khanna - What's Stifling Innovation?
United Iraq Falls: Ivan Eland on Partitioning for Peace
Yeonmi Park – North Korean Defector: "Juche" Die, Markets Rise
Alice Goffman on Fugitive Life in an American City
Matt Zwolinski on Bleeding Heart Libertarianism
Worst Ten Economic Mistakes of the 20th Century
America, The Most Sexually Hypocritical Nation on Earth
Aren’t Men Entitled to Due Process on Campus?
How the Free Market Will Save the Planet
George Washington's Providence
How Washington Invented the Presidency
Posse Comitatus – Repealed but Not Gone
Is America Doomed by Voter Ignorance?
Will Americans Accept Second Class Medicine?
California Dreamin’ – About Sane Government
Immigrants – The Ultimate Entrepreneurs
War – A Rationale For Extra-Constitutional Power?
Let Them All In
We Are All Libertarians
Where is Everyone Going?
The Morality of Capitalism
Was The Ratification of the Constitution A Mistake?
America’s Student Loan Problem
Manny Klausner - A Libertarian Life
Repeal the 17th Amendment?
High Speed Bankruptcy – The California Way
Who’s Looking Out for Us?
Occupy Movement – What Does It Tell Us About America?
The Triumph of Principle Over Politics
Cops Are No Better Than Criminals
Economic Freedom is Poverty’s Only Remedy
Who Should Be President and Why?
Is Your Alma Mater a Soviet Gulag?
Fire All Government Workers
Hollywood: Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda
Is the US the Next Enron?
Obama Nationalizes General Electric
The Second American Revolution – NOW
Crime Down: Prison Costs Up
Nick Gillespie – The Voice of Reason
George Washington Was Our Guest
Immigration Reform Is Broken
Straight Talk with Gary Johnson
Farming Subsidies
A Better America
A Libertarian Plan
The Great Founding Fathers
Libertarians For Change
The Age of Unenlightment
The Credit Crunch
Best of: Changing the Face of History
Legalize Insider Trading
Seasteading
Legalization of Prostitution
End the Unconstitutional Federal Involvement in Education
Cash For Clunkers is a Dud
Hate Crimes Legislation
The Founding Fathers
Legalize drugs.
Legalizing Pot in California