This week we dive into some classical liberal scholarship that isn’t jammed full of allusions to Adam Smith or F.A. Hayek. Instead we sit down with Professor Richard Bell and discuss his latest book, “Stolen: Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.”

Throughout the year IHS hosts graduate student research workshops. These events feature our students and their work, we also fill out the weekends with faculty presentations on their current work. As part of our show's efforts to track all of these ideas and progress, we caught up with our November research workshop faculty, professors Claudia Williamson, Randy Simmons and Richard Bell. This week we take a look at Prof. Williamson’s and Prof. Simmons’ current offerings.

Last week, professor Tawni Hunt Ferrarini joined us to talk about our recent education compulsion in the state colloquium and this week she's back. We'll get a little techie, a little visionary and then we'll bring it back to the ground and try to come to some real solutions.

Virtually everyone seems to think, and perhaps it's because government schools have shaped us to think this way, that without the state forcing everyone into it, none of us would ever teach our kids to read, or basic numeracy, let alone things like astrophysics or Latin. But despite all that wide political agreement, maybe, just maybe kids don't even need to learn Latin. How would we ever know, though? Joining us to talk about education compulsion in this state is Professor Tawni Hunt Ferrarini.

We continue our conversation with Dr David Beito pivoting the discussion to T.R.M. Howard, an enigmatic and larger than life figure from the civil rights era, who was both fascinating and challenging. Dr. Beito takes us through some of the highlights and behind the scenes tales from his book "T.R.M. Howard

Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer"

Host, and historian, Anthony Comegna has a conversation with Professor David Beito regarding FDR’s completely ridiculous boondoggle, “The New Deal.”

This week is the conclusion to our showcase of new faculty research from the three scholars who recently helped us moderate a graduate research workshop.

These conference style programs feature grad student projects, but our faculty also get the chance to tell us all what they're up to, where they're going, and why it matters.

Today, we pick up with our political scientist, Gary Uzonyi and economist, Kathleen Sheehan.

This week and next we will be spending time with three scholars who recently helped us moderate a graduate research workshop. These conference style programs feature grad student projects, but our faculty also get the chance to tell us all what they're up to, where they're going, and why it matters. First up, it's philosopher, Brian Kogelmann and political scientist, Gary Uzonyi.

Last week, Georgetown philosopher Jason Brennan joined us to talk about classical liberalism and contemporary political philosophy and we covered a wide range of contributions and themes that dominate the landscape, but what about the things we are best at? The things we do the worst, what work should we be doing but we don't? Let's get down to it with part two from Jason Brennan.

This week we prepare for another discussion colloquium on classical liberalism in contemporary political philosophy. We take you now to our discussion leader and political philosopher at Georgetown University, Jason Brennan to get his thoughts on the subject.