The Republicans held their first primary debate. What they said wasn’t interesting. What they didn’t say was.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/urban-doom-loop-could-pose-105045782.html

Foolishness of the Week https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-advisers-bristle-newsoms-plan-debate-desantis-rcna101799

Topic of the Week

GOP Primary Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccPDCzJuLgI

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Economist Art Carden joins us this week to talk about his popular book, Strangers With Candy.

Foolishness of the week: 04:27 Main episode: 18:01

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https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/wealthy-leaving-china-education-school-sisb-stock-surge-singapore-thailand/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/372900/number-of-chinese-students-that-study-in-the-us/

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone=world&page=map&year=2020&countries=THA,CHN,USA

https://reason.com/2023/08/21/chinas-industrial-policy-is-failing-will-american-politicians-take-notice/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/american-workers-are-demanding-almost-80000-a-year-to-take-a-new-job.html

Foolishness of the Week https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1693274613541671350

Topic of the Week

Strangers With Candy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733658459?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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Michael Semanchik, Director of the Innocence Center, joins us to talk about freeing the wrongfully imprisoned, and reforming the criminal justice system to reduce the likelihood of wrongful convictions.

Foolishness of the week: 06:13 Main episode: 07:09

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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/07/hawaii-news/emergency-declaration-prohibits-price-gouging-lawyer-says/

https://www.outkick.com/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-song-lyrics-viral-video/

Foolishness of the Week

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cruise-debauchery/

Topic of the Week

Mike Semanchik https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-semanchik/

California Innocence Project Podcast https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/cipp/

Innocence Center www.innocencecenter.org

National exoneration registry https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx

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The point of communicating is to transfer thoughts from one person’s brain to another. In most forms of human communication, words are the tools we use. But if the two people don’t share common definitions of words, then communication becomes clouded. The most extreme case is when two people speak very different languages. But miscommunication often happens when both people speak the same language. If we hope to resolve, or at least come to peaceful disagreement, over topics from gun control to gender, we have to make a concerted effort to agree on definitions before debating the topics. Main episode: 12:34

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The Constitution sets lower age limits for members of Congress and the President, but sets no upper limits. Before modern medicine, this wasn’t as much of a problem as people’s bodies tended not to outlive their minds. Today, it’s becoming a problem. Foolishness of the week: 05:30 Main episode: 09:35

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Topic of the Week

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_who_did_not_win_reelection

https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Political_Science_and_Civics/Attenuated_Democracy_(Hubert)/08%3A_Electoral_Politics_and_Public_Opinion/8.07%3A_Chapter_55-_The_Advantages_of_Incumbency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2012/lr5a4.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-confused-dianne-feinstein-tried-to-give-a-speech-in-the-middle-of-a-senate-hearing-vote-and-was-told-to-just-say-aye-instead/ar-AA1ernV5

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-fell-recently-dc-airport-prior-wednesdays-freeze-rcna96568

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/26/mcconnell-abruptly-leaves-press-conference-after-feeling-light-headed-00108318

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/26/mcconnell-press-conference-freezing-lightheaded

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1994/93-1456

Quick Hits

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/mosquitoes-carry-west-nile-are-becoming-resistant-insecticides-cdc-say-rcna96867

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.cornelwest24.org/press_release_073123

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James and I both went to see the recent box office hit, The Sound of Freedom. I liked it. James didn’t. But we both were appalled at what appear to be seriously distorted claims made in the film about human trafficking.

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Topic of the Week Human trafficking defined https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/

World data on human trafficking (p. 78)

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Trafficking-in-Persons-Report-2023.pdf

US data on human trafficking

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2022

Fraction of children in human trafficking (p. 48)

https://www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf

Drug trafficking statistics

https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/drug-trafficking

Critique of Sound of Freedom

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sound-of-freedom-child-trafficking-experts-1234786352/

The claimed stats at the end of Sound of Freedom

https://www.looper.com/1343442/sound-of-freedom-ending-explained/

Quick Hits

AI and telemarketers

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Howie Baetjer, Rob McDonald, James Stacey Taylor, and Clark Neily join us to talk about gun rights, canceling the Founders, and animal rights. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com

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This encore performance is of our most popular episode. This episode, in which we explore unintended consequences, first aired in September of 2019. Foolishness of the week: 06:19 Main episode: 10:54

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https://www.blackbusiness.com/2019/05/roy-allela-black-engineer-invents-gloves-turn-sign-language-audible-speech.html

Foolishness of the Week https://reason.com/2019/08/28/de-blasio-advisory-group-wants-to-abolish-gifted-classes-in-nyc-public-schools/

https://reason.com/2019/08/28/de-blasio-advisory-group-wants-to-abolish-gifted-classes-in-nyc-public-schools/

Episode Topic https://www.wired.com/2008/12/a380-is-so-quie/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-political-assault-on-paydays-1464909417 https://www.nber.org/papers/w6670 https://berniesanders.com/issues/the-green-new-deal/

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James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and how we’ve broken the separation of powers,  Foolishness of the week: 06:41 Main episode: 03:53

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James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and how we’ve broken the separation of powers,  Foolishness of the week: 06:41 Main episode: 08:18

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