In Episode 88 of Liberty Lens, Mike ter Maat and Big John take on one of the most difficult questions in criminal law: what should happen when there is little dispute about what someone did, but enormous disagreement over whether that person was legally responsible for doing it? The discussion examines the Lindsay Clancy case, […]

In Episode 87 of Liberty Lens, Big John and Mike ter Maat debate parental responsibility, corporate liability, social media addiction, tort law, and whether Meta should ever have faced this case in the first place. Then Mike makes the deeper argument: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act may have helped create the very Big […]

President Trump’s Canada tariffs and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Iran sanctions campaign may look like two separate stories. In Episode 86 of Liberty Lens, Mike ter Maat and Big John ask whether they’re really the same strategy: using access to the American market—and the dollar-based financial system—as weapons of foreign policy. Chapters:00:00 Canada, Iran and […]

What are Flock cameras, and how far should police be allowed to track drivers without a warrant? In Episode 85 of Liberty Lens, Big John and former police officer Mike ter Maat examine Flock Safety, automated license plate readers, privacy, the Fourth Amendment, and the growing fight over mass surveillance. Chapters:00:00 Flock Cameras and the […]

OpenAI’s AI escaped its sandbox, reached the open internet, and hacked Hugging Face while trying to solve a cybersecurity benchmark. Now Congress is considering an AI “kill switch” that could give the federal government extraordinary power over advanced AI systems. So what actually happened? Does it justify more government control of artificial intelligence? In Episode […]

In Liberty Lens Episode 83, Big John and Mike ter Maat examine the questions left unanswered after Fauci’s testimony. They discuss the legal meaning of invoking the Fifth Amendment, President Biden’s pardon, the case for granting congressional immunity, and whether a serious investigation can still separate truth-seeking from partisan theater. CHAPTERS:00:00 Fauci hearing: evidence versus […]

In Episode 82 of Liberty Lens, Mike ter Maat and Big John examine President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, which calls on AI companies, data center developers, and utilities to cover the cost of the new power plants, transmission infrastructure, and electrical-grid upgrades their projects require. The stated goal sounds simple: data centers should pay their […]

Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act is back at the center of the debate over voter ID, proof of citizenship, election integrity, and the 2020 election. In Liberty Lens Episode 81, Big John and Mike ter Maat ask whether the bill improves election security—or serves as political insurance before the 2026 midterms. Chapters:00:00 SAVE America Act: […]

President Trump has resumed U.S. strikes on Iran after the ceasefire collapsed. Can he reset the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock without Congress? The Strait of Hormuz, gas prices, oil markets, and the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham now collide in one story about presidential power. CHAPTERS:00:00 Gas Prices, Hormuz and a War Powers […]

In Liberty Lens Episode 79, Big John talks with Mike ter Maat at FreedomFest about his new Republican vice-presidential campaign, delegate empowerment, the case for a VP floor vote, and why liberty-minded voters may need to fight inside the Republican Party instead of from the sidelines. Mike explains why the current VP selection process concentrates […]