This is a conversation with New Jersey based video contributor, author and professor of logic and philosophy at Rutgers University Ben Burgis. We discuss why the Left should be willing to debate, the errors in libertarian political philosophy, how logic should be used to assist human thought and much more.

Show Notes

Ben Burgis (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis)

Ben's work: Zero Books Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyoQK-mZXr2ws4C0nXGCH1w)

Ben's new book Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left (https://www.amazon.com/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100)

Bernie Sanders Fox News town hall: Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ozAACcc8I&t=26s) Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnxuzDm7C0

Jane Mayer Fox News New Yorker article (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house)

Nathan J. Robinson Editor in Chief of Current Affairs Magazine (https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson)

Should Leftists Go On FOX News Current Affairs article (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/should-leftists-go-on-fox)

Phrenology pseudoscience (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology)

Why Is Charles Murray Odious Current Affairs article (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/why-is-charles-murray-odious)

Marx Deserves Better Critics Quillette article (https://quillette.com/2019/04/24/marx-deserves-better-critics/)

Why Everyone Values Freedom Quilette article (https://quillette.com/2019/04/17/why-everyone-values-freedom/)

Libertarianism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-libertarianism)

Lockean Theory of Property Rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_property#Criticism)

Labor Theory of Value (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value)

Ben Burgis and Comedian Dave Smith debate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbglf3KRlo)

Michael Dell Davos conference video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR_lictGa5g)

Michael Brooks video about his upcoming book Renegades (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzD7yO0JUsU&t=557s)

Ezra Klein and Sam Harris debate (https://www.vox.com/2018/4/9/17210248/sam-harris-ezra-klein-charles-murray-transcript-podcast)

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt (https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777)

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3KT30ND53Z6CS&keywords=thinking+fast+and+slow&qid=1556411242&s=books&sprefix=thinking%2Cstripbooks%2C187&sr=1-2)

How To Think by Alan Jacobs (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551280/how-to-think-by-alan-jacobs/9780451499608/)

Karl Marx's Theory of History by G. A. Cohen (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189634.Karl_Marx_s_Theory_of_History)

Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank (https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/dp/1250118131/ref=sr_1_1?crid=290TLTJQEYITG&keywords=listen+liberal&qid=1556412153&s=books&sprefix=listen+li%2Cstripbooks%2C215&sr=1-1)

Democracy At Work by Richard Wolff (https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-at-Work-Cure-Capitalism/dp/1608462471/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2U5SJGLQIC3UC&keywords=richard+wolff&qid=1556412366&s=books&sprefix=richard+wol%2Cstripbooks%2C186&sr=1-3)