Bob Murphy Show

JP Cortez is Executive Director of the Sound Money Defense League. He joins Bob to discuss the League's strategy and their various successes.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• The website of the Sound Money Defense League.
• Robert Murphy's Understanding Money Mechanics.
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Sheldon Richman is an OG of the libertarian cause. Among other positions, he is currently Executive Editor at the Libertarian Institute. He joins Bob to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and reflects on his decades in the movement.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• Sheldon's archives at the Libertarian Institute.
• Sheldon's books Coming to Palestine, and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.
• John Hasnas' paper, "Toward a Theory of Empirical Natural Rights."
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Domenic Scarcella discusses his new book, which makes the case that Jesus' teachings and actions show Christians they should be good neighbors, but (in a sense) bad citizens. Bob pushes back at points to clarify what Domenic's position truly is.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• The Amazon link to the book.
• Domenic's substack dedicated to the book.
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Gene Callahan teaches computer science at NYU and is the author of Economics for Real People. He joins Bob to discuss the inner contradictions of liberal neutrality. They also discuss AI and whether computers can really learn.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• The crazy fact about colliding blocks and pi.
• Gene Callahan's author page at Amazon.
• Gene's blog post on Euler's identity.
• Previous BMS episodes featuring Keith Knight on progressives' domestic imperialism, the Logos, the Satanic monument, and Bob's rediscovery of Molinism.
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Professional comedian Owen Benjamin joins Bob to discuss the attempt to de-platform him, the shape of the earth, and whether we need a strong State to protect financial integrity and children.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• Owen Benjamin's website and Twitter account.
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Bob gives a dense commentary on the 1986 animated classic, explaining how the initially reckless Hot Rod rises from the ranks to become the successor to Optimus Prime.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The full Transformers movie (1986).
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In his new book published by the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight explains why he left progressivism. They could see the problems of foreign imperialism, but they cheered it domestically. A fast-paced discussion.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• Keith Knight's new book.
• Keith's archive at the Libertarian Institute.
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Bob continues his miniseries, focusing on John 1: 1-5. Bob makes the case that we should be marveling at the unreasonable effectiveness of semantics in the social sciences. There is meaning packed into every field of human inquiry, and this sheds light on the prologue to the gospel of John.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The previous episode in this series, i.e. BMS ep 304, installment 1, introduction.
• Dawkins talking to Steve Pinker on language acquisition.
• Bob's conversation with GPT-4.
• "Why Math Works."
• A video on imaginary interest rates (relevant to Euler's identity). A video from the same series on Euler's formula.
• BMS ep 138, "Why the Left Hates Christianity." BMS ep 303, "Jonathan Bartlett on Random Mutations Not Being So Random." BMS ep 257 on Hans Hoppe and synthetic a priori.
• An excellent introduction to how Large Language Models work. How neural networks work (example of reading handwritten numerals).
• A good example of a cool YouTube video on the Mandelbrot set.
• Study notes for Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained.
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Bob launches a new miniseries, and starts by summarizing his chapter for a Festschrift in honor of Walter Block.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• [As of release, no information was available on the actual collection in honor of Walter. RPM will update when available.]
• Callahan and Murphy's critique of Hans Hoppe's argumentation ethics.
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Jonathan Bartlett is a prolific software engineer and textbook author who has published peer-reviewed articles on the information embedded in biological organisms. He joins Bob to discuss two of his recent papers, highlighting a distinction in the term "random mutation" that has great relevance for the Intelligent Design debate.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• Jonathan Bartlett's archives at the Discovery Institute.
• The first journal article from the interview, then the second.
• The MindMatters site.
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