The Great Antidote

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  • Lisa Snell on School Choice

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    Lisa Snell, the director of K-12 education policy partnerships at the Charles Koch Institute,  joins us this week to discuss funding for schools, the current state of education, and school choice.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Adam Michel on Taxes

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    Happy tax season! Adam Michel, Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation,  joins us this week to discuss the federal tax system, expenditures, and potential tax policy improvements. 

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    57 min
  • Shoshana Weissmann on Positivity in Politics

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    Shoshana Weissmann, Senior Manager of Digital Communications and Policy Fellow at R-Street,  joins us this week to discuss occupational licensing reform, quiet research, Section 230, and how to Twitter. 

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    57 min
  • Lenore Skenazy on Free Range Kids

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    Lenore Skenazy, co-founder and President of Let Grow and author of "Free-Range Kids", joins us this week to discuss modern parenting, the nanny state, and the revolutionary free-range kids movement.

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    1 hr 9 min
  • Todd Zywicki on Law and Economics

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    Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center, joins us this week to discuss the national debt, financial regulation, minimum wage, and Law & Economics. 

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    53 min
  • Brian Riedl on the Federal Budget

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    Brian Riedl, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and former staff director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth, joins us this week to discuss the federal budget, tax reform, the national debt, and the future of U.S. economic policy.

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    1 hr
  • Radley Balko on Criminal Justice

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    Radley Balko, journalist, author, and criminal justice blogger, joins us this week to discuss the U.S. criminal justice system as a whole, the problems with crime labs, the militarization of the police, and the future of enforcement.

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    1 hr 3 min
  • Ronald Bailey on Human Progress and the "End of Doom"

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    Welcome to Season 2 of the Great Antidote! Ron Bailey, the science correspondent for Reason Magazine, joins us this week to discuss human progress, the supposed impending apocalypse, COVID-19 innovations, and his new book "The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century." 

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    47 min
  • Season One Recap

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    The Great Antidote is wrapping up its first season with this very special episode. Juliette reflects back on some of her favorite responses to the now well-known question "What is the most important thing people my age (17) or in my generation should know but don't?"

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    23 min
  • Trevor Burrus on Guns

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    Trevor Burrus, research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor‐​in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, joins us this week to discuss guns, gun owners, and gun laws.

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    59 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…

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