Scott Horton is director of The Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio for Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the…
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Chatter #253 – Professor Gary Gerstle: The Rise and Fall of The Neoliberal Order
Professor Gary Gerstle is the author of the brand new book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. Gary Gerstle FBA (born 1954) is an American historian and academic. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. In this…
Chatter #245 – Adam B. Coleman on Tribalism, Censorship and Critical Theory In Schools
Adam Coleman is an author and the founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Adam was born in Detroit but raised in a variety of states throughout America. In this discussion, we talked about free speech, the problems of tribalism and censorship, as well as the difficult issue of critical theory in schools. He writes…
Chatter #204 – Professor Daron Acemoglu – Why Nations Fail Part 2: Building A Better System
Why Nations Fail is one of the best books I have read all year. Authors Acemoglu and Robinson insist that “development differences across countries are exclusively due to differences in political and economic institutions, and reject other theories that attribute some of the differences to culture, weather, geography or lack of knowledge about…
Chatter #203 – Professor James Robinson – Why Nations Fail Part 1: Does Freedom Lead To Prosperity?
Why Nations Fail may be the best book I have read this year, so I was absolutely delighted when both of the authors agreed to speak to me on my podcast! This is the first of these interviews, with Professor James A. Robinson. The main idea that I took from the book was…
Progress: The View From Outer Space
This article was originally posted on 99-percent.org We have all had the experience of being so deeply immersed in something that we could not see the wood for the trees. And there is nothing we are so deeply immersed in as our own lives. So it is worth a little thought experiment: imagine that…
