The Great Antidote

By Juliette SellgrenSociety & Culture Science Social Sciences Government Philosophy

The Great Antidote episodes

June 17, 2022 Walter Olson on Election Fraud
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Walter Olson is the author of several books and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies. Today, we talk about the 2020 election and the increasing fears of election fraud. He talks to us about the different types of election fraud, the actual reality of election fraud, and voter suppression.
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48 min
June 10, 2022 Thomas Hoenig on Inflation and the Federal Reserve
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Inflation is always around, but it has been particularly worrisome recently. A startling departure from the United States' usual average of about 2% inflation, we faced 8.5% in the month of April. Where does inflation come from? What regulatory bodies aim to deal with inflation? How do they do it? Does it work?

Today, Thomas Hoenig talks to us and answers all these questions and more, including his personal experience as President of the Kansas City Federal Reserve and on the Federal Open Market Committee. He is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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43 min
June 03, 2022 Arnold Kling on The Three Languages of Politics
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Arnold Kling is an economist and the author of the book The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across Political Divides. His substack, In My Tribe, explores many areas of economics and policy. Today, he talks to us about the divide in politics, explaining the need for his book and giving current examples. We explore affective polarization and the rise of polarization generally.
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46 min
May 27, 2022 Randy Simmons on Public Choice
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Randy Simmons is the author of Beyond Politics and the director of the Institute of Political Economy at Utah State University. Today, we talk about the field of public choice economics or, as economist James Buchanan calls it, "politics without romance". What exactly is Beyond Politics? What is a market failure? What is a government failure? Tune in for the answers to these questions and more.
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45 min
May 20, 2022 Brian Knight on Woke Capitalism
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Brian Knight, director of Innovation and Governance and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks to us today about woke capitalism. What is woke capitalism? Is this debate new? Will it benefit companies or backfire? Listen for all that and more.
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50 min
May 13, 2022 Jay Bhattacharya on the US Response to COVID-19
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Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. Today we talk about the United States's response to COVID-19 and the silencing of dissenting voices in the scientific community in the time of this national emergency.
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41 min
May 06, 2022 Philip Klein on Fight Club Conservatives vs. Disney
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Philip Klein, author of two books and editor of National Review Online, talks to us today about the unprecedented move by Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the legislature to revoke Disney's special district status. We explore what special district status is, why this happened, what this means for conservatives (and the birth of fight club conservatives), and whether this is a threat to free speech.
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46 min
April 29, 2022 Henry Clark on The Enlightenments
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Henry Clark, professor and program director of the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College, talks to us today about the French and Scottish enlightenments. We talk about intellectuals who influenced Adam Smith and their influence on him, and discuss Smith's originality.
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46 min
April 22, 2022 Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics
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Kenneth Elzinga, Robert C Taylor Professor of Economics at UVA , author, and antitrust
expert, talks to us today about teaching economics, the importance of Christianity to his life and profession, and his work with antitrust.
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40 min
April 15, 2022 Chris Coyne on Manufacturing Militarism
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Chris Coyne is an economics professor at George Mason University and the author of several books, including Manufacturing Militarism: US Government Propaganda in the War on Terror, coauthored with Abigail Hall. Today we talk about the US war on terror, propaganda, and its implications for free society.
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51 min

About The Great Antidote

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Adam Smith said, "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." So join us for interviews with the leading experts on today's biggest issues to learn more about…