Walker Haskins is a consultant with AIER’s visiting research fellowship program and was previously a program assistant at AIER. Walker is presently pursuing graduate coursework in social science ...

An episode interviewing Matt Zwolinski about the life and thought of Joseph Hiam Levy, a late nineteenth- century British philosopher and member of the Personal Rights Association.

Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.

Adam Smith was a philosopher and scholar whose most exciting adventure seems to have been getting kidnapped by gypsies when a child. One might be surprised to discover that he owned a copy of the tell ...

Brad Lips is the chief executive officer of Atlas Network, which increases opportunity and prosperity by strengthening a global network of independent civil society organizations that promote ...

A week- long focus on the values underpinning the holiday season, and the role they play in a free society. This week we are featuring content to highlight the best of the holiday period. For ...

It is not much of an exaggeration to say that modern prosperity was born in the marketplaces of Amsterdam, midwifed by that spirit of openness. Any long- run timeline of living standards resembles a ...

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Havel’s Place in Georgetown, an episode dedicated to the dissidents of Czechoslovakia responsible for the Velvet Revolution in 1989, overthrowing the brutal ...

During Jim Crow segregation, black motorists turned to the “Green Book” to guide them to safe accomodations and restaurants.

Christopher Nolan’s Batman operates within the state in a very strange way. Nolan believes that his trilogy of movies are actually each in their own genre. Batman Begins is a classic origin story ...

The US Social Security system can’t fulfill its promises, but Australia’s system gives its people a better shot at a comfortable retirement.

Contrary to the fears of cultural critics, the rise of digitization has transformed film, music, books, & television for the better. People certainly have strong opinions about what has happened to ...