Michael Huemer makes the case that governments have no legitimate authority.

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Today’s book: Is Political Authority an Illusion? (Little Debates about Big Questions)

Michael Huemer’s recommendation: The Problem of Political Authority

Other books by Huemer

Mike’s web presence: Fake Noûs Blog, Personal Website, University Website

Other discussed books: The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind by Bart J. Wilson, and The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

Paul Sherman explains how occupational licensing often violates the First Amendment.

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Today’s article: Occupational Speech and the First Amendment by Paul Sherman, as well as Paul’s recommendation: Professional Speech and the First Amendment by Rodney Smolla

The Institute for Justice

Liberty and Law articles

Short Circuit Newsletter

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Topics: First Amendment, freedom of speech, free expression, law, supreme court, Edward Snowden, Fourth Amendment, privacy, civil asset forfeiture, qualified immunity, police brutality, constitution, civil rights

Chris Coyne lays out a powerful critique of American foreign policy.

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Today’s book: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace

Chris Coyne’s twitter and website.

Chris Coyne’s recommendations: Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained, by Randall G. Holcombe; Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, by Robert Higgs; books by Andrew J. Bacevich, as well as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.

Matt Ridley describes the processes and preconditions of innovation.

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Today’s book: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.

More books by Matt.

Matt’s twitter and website.

Matt’s recommendations: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Matt’s Ted Talk: When Ideas Have Sex.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita presents a novel explanation for western exceptionalism.

Today's book: The Invention of Power: Popes Kings, and the Birth of the West

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Other works by Bruce

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Bruce’s recommended reading: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber, and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, by Joseph Henrich

Economic growth, Catholicism, religion, church and state, democracy, revolution, politics, Trump

Lauren Hall explains how governments cause birth and death to become over medicalized.

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Today’s book: The Medicalization of Birth and Death

Also by Lauren Hall: Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism

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Lauren’s recommendations: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry, And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life, Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America

How Doctors Die

Medicine, healthcare, regulation, certificate of need law, American Medical Association, c-section, hospice, palliative care, over treatment

Bryan Caplan discusses feminism, social justice, colonialism, and more.

Today’s book: Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice

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Bryan's twitter

Bryan's blog

Other books by Bryan

Bryan’s recommendation: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say

Elizabeth Nolan Brown claims sex trafficking numbers are wildly inflated.

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Today’s articles: The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs, Massage Parlor Panic

Feminists for Liberty

Reason Magazine’s "Reason Roundup"

The Feminist War on Crime

Individualist Feminism: The Lost Tradition

Stephen Kinzer describes the CIA’s morally dubious search for mind control.

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Today’s book: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Other books by Stephen Kinzer

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Stephen’s website

Topics: CIA, MKUltra, mind control, Nazis, science, Cold War, torture, assassination, medical experiments, Imperial Japan, Soviet Union

Michael Huemer tells us why justice should be the central value of the justice system.

Today’s book: Justice Before the Law

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Mike’s blog Fake Nous

Mike’s website

Other books by Mike

Topics: justice system, prison, plea bargaining, jury nullification, punishment, war on drugs, immigration, courts, torture