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In this conversation we delve into the evolution of money and why government(s) finds themselves at a crossroads with how to react to crypto and their potential threat to FIAT currencies.

In this episode we will explore a specific slice of the legislative and judicial history of American Imperialism, namely the evolution of the policies under which the US governs it's overseas territories. My guests in this episode are Joseph Blocker, professor of constitutional law at Duke University and Mitu Gulati, professor of law at the University of Virginia.

When one inquires on what is and is not misinformation, the indirect but fundamental question that is being asked is what is truth? A question so hard to answer that it spawned its very own branch of philosophical study, known as Epistemology. Furthermore, it has been the root cause for potentially the greatest intellectual rivalry in western history, between the rationalist and the empiricist. Today's guest, John Wihbey, who is an associate professor at Northeastern University, an affiliate with Northeastern’s Ethics Institute and the co-author of the paper : “The Bipartisan Case for Labeling as a Content Moderation Method: Findings from a National Survey” attempts to tackle the management of misinformation not by proposing a single unified solution, but instead asks a narrower but still important question about what strategies for mitigating fake news are politically popular and thus in theory democratically possible.

In this interview we will explore the work and life of the writer Jose Luis Borges. You may have never heard of this Argentinian writer but many critics consider him to be one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century. In this conversation we will try to answer the questions why does Jose Luis Borges matter and what does it mean for something to be Borgesian. Furthermore we will explore the implications of the potentially unlawful publication restrictions that were placed on some of his most beloved translations. If you are anything like me, you will be surprised by just how Borgesian your every day existence feels, you just never knew the right word to describe it.

In this episode we dive deep into the way SPACs work, how they differ from a more traditional IPO and the larger market forces that boosted it from being a capital raising tool of last resort to a mainstream financing model. We also discuss in detail the economic realities of SPACs and why it might not be living up to the original expectation of investors.

In this conversation with Rizzo we explore the First Amendment implications of Trump’s EO “Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture”, the limits on the public’s ability to use the First Amendment to contest offensive government speech, and the ways in which existing law fails to reckon with the unique limitations and possibilities of architecture.

In this episode we explore the history and future of legal punishment. My guest today will give us an introduction to the debate around judicial sanctions and to the two dialectical forces that have historically driven it ‘retributivism’ and ‘consequentialism’. My guest Thom Brooks also lays out a vision for judicial punishment that may be able to resolve these conflicting views and explains how this new hybrid model may help us address some of the current moral short fallings in the American legal system

The paper we will be discussing in this episode is entitled ‘Fame as an Illusion of Creativity : Evidence from the Pioneers of Abstract Art’, in which today’s guest, Banerjee Mitali, strives to answer the following question : what are the main factors that determine an artist's likeness to become famous.

This episode is about wallpaper. It is an examination of why interior decoration is such a fundamental human drive and what it is evolutions says about societies throughout the ages. My very first guest is Robert M. Kelly who has been working with wallpaper as a paperhanger, researcher, consultant, and writer since 1976. In this conversation Robert walks me through the fundamentals of wallpaper scholarship, what it means for wallpaper to be meaningful and how wallpaper often acts as a material representation of our values and beliefs.

My guest this episode is Phil Lord, professor or law at McGill. Together we are going to examine two different types of story telling formats, known as the didactic and non didactic, and how these differing methods may affect how child assimilates meaning.