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Gene Epstein joins us to refute a Dean Baker article claiming that another reason to raise the minimum wage is that it has not kept pace with increases in productivity. Gene has the numbers, as usual.

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Show notes for Ep. 1864

Patrick Reasonover joins me to discuss They Say It Can't Be Done, a documentary about four extraordinary innovations -- for example, a 3D printing technology with the potential to eliminate the organ waitlist -- that have run into a common roadblock: regulation.

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The brilliant and heroic Ivor Cummins, whose COVID work has been outstanding and thorough, returns to deliver more truth.

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Marc Morano returns to the show to discuss the craziness of the Green New Deal, which turns out to be even worse than you thought.

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Kathryn Huwig has been providing excellent COVID analytics pretty much from the beginning, and her work has laid bare the science-free hysteria of Ohio COVID policy. Her recent remarks before the Ohio state house, where she challenged the Ohio public health establishment to identify where on her graph of ICU occupancy the various mitigations were introduced, crushed them.

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Gary Chartier, who has written on the subject of friendship from a philosophical and theological perspective, joins me to delve into what friendship means, and whether we can or should be friends with people whose opinions we strongly oppose.

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We're familiar with the arguments regarding why Christians should view the state in a positive light. Are there countervailing arguments? (You know the answer!) Gary Chartier joins me to discuss.

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Gary Chartier and I discuss why it's incorrect to claim that the market economy is opposed to Christian ethics.

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The term "left-libertarian" is sometimes used colloquially to refer to libertarians who favor cultural trends that are generally described as left wing, but it has a more precise and interesting meaning. Gary Chartier, my favorite left-libertarian, joins us to discuss it.

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Show notes for Ep. 1856

Gary Chartier is a polymath who has made contributions to theology, philosophy, business ethics, and legal theory. He joins me this week to delve into some of these topics. This first episode deals with Gary's own ideological journey (which included an appearance on Wally George's Hot Seat, the outrageous right wing commentary program from the 1980's).

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