The Story of The Great Antidote: A Conversation with Veronique de Rugy
Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of The Great Antidote, I sit down with my mom, Veronique de Rugy (does this feel like a Mr. Big name...
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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 abou...
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20 of 235 episodesHow Definitions Change Debates: Freedom, Rights, and Equality with Rebecca Lowe
Send us Fan Mail Philosopher Rebecca Lowe (Mercatus Center) joins me to do an ideas-only deep dive: what freedom really is, why it matters,...
Innovation on Trial: Jack Nicastro on Empower’s Fight to Exist
Send us Fan Mail Why is D.C. trying to shut down a rideshare app that pays drivers more and charges riders less? Jack Nicastro of Reason joi...
Tech Panic, Then and Now: Judge Glock on AI, Regulation, and Real Harms
Send us Fan Mail Is tech panic new—or just history on repeat? Judge Glock (Manhattan Institute) walks through what past tech scares (lead ga...
Why Markets Run on Trust: Tawni Ferrarini on Honesty, Reputation, and Decentralization in the Information Age
Send us Fan Mail Markets don’t work without trust. Tawni Ferrarini joins Juliette Sellgren to explore how honesty and reputation make exchan...
Is China Really a Threat? Derek Scissors on China’s Economic Reality
Send us Fan Mail AEI Economist Derek Scissors joins Juliette Sellgren to unpack the reality of China’s economy, U.S.–China relations, and wh...
Empowering the Next Generation: Economics Olympiad & Common Sense Economics
Send us Fan Mail This week, Juliette Sellgren sits down with Martina Bacik, the 21-year-old founder of the Economics Olympiad that has grown...
Why Freedom Matters: Tom Palmer on Authoritarianism and January 6th
Send us Fan Mail Why does freedom matter? How can we defend it in an age of rising authoritarianism? In this episode, I sit down with Tom Pa...
It’s Not Goodbye, It’s See You in September with Amy Willis
Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of The Great Antidote , Amy Willis of Liberty Fund takes the mic to interview Juliette Sellgren, th...
The Limits of Liberty: Buchanan’s Case for Constitutional Rules with Edward Lopez
Send us Fan Mail What happens when people stop trusting rules—and start rewriting them? In this episode, we are joined by economist Edward L...
Why Some States Succeed: Mobility, Markets, and the Freedom to Flourish with Justin Callais
Send us Fan Mail What makes some states thrive while others trap people in place? And what does it really mean to be free to move, grow, and...
Targeted Incentives: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Persists with Peter Calcagno
Send us Fan Mail Remember the Amazon HQ2 frenzy? When nearly every U.S. state competed to become Amazon’s next home, offering billions in ta...
What Monkeys Teach Us About Economics with Bart Wilson
Send us Fan Mail What if modern economics has overlooked what truly makes us human? In this episode, Bart Wilson joins us to explore humanom...
The Dissident Project: Firsthand Stories of Life Without Freedom with Grace Bydalek
Send us Fan Mail What is it like to grow up under a dictatorship? The speakers of The Dissident Project don’t have to wonder — they’ve lived...
Ryan Streeter on the Civitas Institute and Cultural Communities
Send us Fan Mail Ryan Streeter is the executive director of the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Today, he tells us a...
Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas Rasmussen on Ayn Rand: What She Gets Right and Where She Goes Too Far
Send us Fan Mail We’ve talked about objectivism before on the podcast , but that was fairly introductory. Today, for the first time ever, I...
Daniel Hannan on Executive and Legislative Power
Send us Fan Mail Join us today for a fun conversation about all things government, UK and US, with Lord Daniel Hannan of Kingsclere! Lord Ha...
Bob Ewing on Personal and Professional Success
Send us Fan Mail Bob Ewing is the founder of the Ewing School and hosts a Substack called Talking Big Ideas (go check it out). He has also g...
Rachel Ferguson on Neighborhood Stabilization and Civil Society
Send us Fan Mail We talk a lot about civil society and the importance of local, communal networks which hold us up when we’re down and inspi...
Jo Jensen on Anxiety, Audiences, and Action
Send us Fan Mail Jo Jensen is the founder of MovieGoer and she’s currently the SVP of Digital and Entertainment Strategy at Touchdown Strate...