The Logic Consortium

Professor Noah Feldman

2012-02-24T12:50:00.001-08:00

Scholar and Law Professor Noah Feldman talking to us about his book The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State.

Raghuram Rajan

2011-11-22T22:05:00.000-08:00

Speaking to the Logic Consortium, thank you so much.

Lessig & Epstein (Repeat)

2011-11-09T07:46:00.000-08:00

Lessig and Epstein debating public financing of elections on the Consortium. Still more relevant than ever, Lessig just came out with a new book on the subject.

Red Plenty (Repeat)

2011-10-11T23:26:00.001-07:00

Tea Party's Constitution (Repeat)

2011-09-27T22:17:00.000-07:00

Jared Goldstein speaks with us last year about the Tea Party's ideological origins and their vision of the Constitution . . .

Efraim Karsh

2011-09-14T13:46:00.000-07:00

Professor Eraim Karsh discusses different issues mentioned in his book Palestine Betrayed (2010) and comments on the debate amongst historians.

(Repeat) Becker on Illegal Goods

2011-08-23T22:41:00.000-07:00

One of our favorite interviews, Economist Gary Becker arguing the economic fundamentals of illegalization of certain goods.

Speaking with Economists Hernando de Soto and El Java

2011-08-09T22:38:00.000-07:00

Our in-house economist El Java giving us his opinion on the debt debate, deficits and inflation. And then El Java helps us in our second conversation with legendary economist Hernando de Soto.

Finley talking Tax

2011-07-26T23:35:00.000-07:00

In-house tax guru Finley talking about tax policy

Clips from Interviews Relating to Middle Eastern Modern History

2011-07-12T23:56:00.000-07:00

Exploring how environment affects decisionmaking

2011-05-24T21:38:00.000-07:00

Replays of excerpts with Clemente Vega & Tom Farmer, Olivier Roy and Richard Thaler, all talking about different aspects of how our surroundings affect our decisionmaking.

Philip Bobbitt

2011-05-10T22:14:00.000-07:00

About his book Terror and Consent, and related issues

Noam Chomsky

2011-04-26T22:22:00.001-07:00

Professor Chomsky returns to speak with us about the topics of the day.

Spufford on Red Plenty

2011-03-08T21:07:00.000-08:00

Economics and Political Philosophy Compilation

2011-02-08T19:20:00.000-08:00

Compilation of interviews talking about virtues and problems with capitalism, constraints of big government planning, role of markets and whether globalization is antithetical to the left

Russ Roberts Revisited

2011-01-11T22:20:00.001-08:00

Economist (author/podcaster/rap video producer extraordinaire) speaking with us about central planning and the idea of markets

Paul Collier

2010-12-17T13:39:00.000-08:00

Talking to the Logic Consortium about some ideas in his 2010 book, The Plundered Planet, and a few other issues

Ilan Pappe

2010-12-07T22:38:00.000-08:00

Professor Ilan Pappe on the making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the 1948 War . . .

Gary Becker on the market for illegal drugs (Edited Version)

2010-11-23T23:36:00.000-08:00

Lessig & Epstein Revisited

2010-09-21T21:56:00.001-07:00

The Lessig and Epstein (now infamous) exchange (see http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/lawrence-lessig-libertarian/) last year; obviously still extremely pertinent

Oren Rigbi

2010-08-24T21:03:00.000-07:00

Economist, discussing his research on usury laws and other topics

Hiroshi Motomura

2010-06-23T21:37:00.000-07:00

Talking about the history of immigration laws and some reforms which may be sustainable

Judith Clifton

2010-05-18T23:59:00.000-07:00

Trying to ask Professor Judith Clifton about privatis(z)ation: some of the arguments and results

Kaushal Aras

2010-05-03T21:58:00.000-07:00

Writer and speaker Kaushal Aras speaks about his book The Seven Symphonies of Extraordinary Love (2010) and other related matters

Tom Farmer & Clemente Vega

2010-04-14T21:18:00.000-07:00

Psychologists talk about culture and its role in brain development and behavior (among other th

Adam Hosein

2010-03-09T22:18:00.000-08:00

Philosopher Adam Hosein speaking to the consortium about corporations and free speech, the ideas of redistributive justice and egalitarianism

Raul Hinojosa Ojeda

2010-02-16T23:32:00.001-08:00

Talking about the need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Dean Baker

2010-02-02T19:11:00.000-08:00

challenging the idea that conservatives are only for small government, commenting on markets and market based solutions

Gary Becker on Illegal Goods

2010-01-19T21:15:00.000-08:00

Economist Gary Becker talking about markets for illegal goods

Omar

2009-12-08T23:29:00.000-08:00

Regular Logic Consortium contributor Omar

Olivier Roy

2009-11-19T21:51:00.000-08:00

Trying to get Professor Roy to elaborate on some arguments he has made in the past-- including in his renown book, The Failure of Political Islam (1995)

Andrew Morriss

2009-10-20T21:59:00.001-07:00

Professor Andy Morriss speaking on his views on greening the economy and other issues.

Paul Cuadros

2009-10-06T23:11:00.000-07:00

Paul Cuadros on his book A Home on the Field and other issues related to immigration.

Noam Chomsky

2009-09-17T15:14:00.000-07:00

Professor Noam Chomsky in an interview conducted in September of 2009, talks about globalization, capitalism, antisemitism and the US public opinion about the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Ned Reubens on Capitalism

2009-09-02T21:29:00.000-07:00

Economist and Prof. Emeritus Ned Reubens discussing some virtues and problems he sees with capitalism

Epstein & Lessig

2009-08-18T21:47:00.000-07:00

Profs. Richard Epstein and Lawrence Lessig discuss the issue of public finance of congressional elections.

Dr Raju KD

2009-07-28T20:54:00.000-07:00

Raju KD, Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, talking about ideas in a paper he did on education and giving his opinion on whether trade and outsourcing hurts the American Economy

Interview with Physicist Matt Pasienski

2009-07-14T21:30:00.000-07:00

Talking about a few transformational technologies and some related issues

Conversation about Cuba, Russia, Civil Resistance and Other Topics

2009-06-30T22:09:00.000-07:00

Regular Consortium contributors Speak about Different Areas of Foreign and Domestic Policy

Inteviews about the Earn Academy model and a book, the Modern Middle East

2009-06-16T23:29:00.000-07:00

Interviews with Lucy Dalglish & Richard Kaplan

2009-06-02T21:23:00.001-07:00

Attorney Dalglish speaking about the Freedom of Information Laws in the US and Professor Kaplan talking a little about the tax laws

Interview with Roberto Mangabeira Unger

2009-05-19T19:06:00.000-07:00

Professor Unger talking about his book, 'What Should the Left Propose?' Reviewing how he thinks the 'left' has become disoriented, the major proposals of his book, and how government spending should be financed.

Duel between Omar & Mike

2009-05-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Mike & Omar tango over issues such as the 'war on terror', radicalization as a process, Guantanamo bay . . .

Interview with Lawyer, Doctor & Professor David Hyman

2009-04-28T22:05:00.000-07:00

Talking about his book Medicare Meets Mephistopheles (2006), including some of the inefficiencies of Medicare and some ways to think about reform.

Interview with behavioral economist Richard Thaler

2009-04-14T23:03:00.000-07:00

Professor Thaler talks about his recent book Nudge; among other things, describing some of the biases we have as humans when making decisions, and the benefits of disseminating information in a more easily understandable form.

Interview with Middle East Historian James Gelvin

2009-03-31T17:55:00.000-07:00

In this interview with Professor Gelvin we explore his book The Modern Middle East and his thesis that the different movements in the Middle East and around the world are modern movements in the sense that they are dependent on and responses to recent events in the region and around the world.

Lessig, Hartnett & Cuno Interviews

2009-03-17T23:14:00.000-07:00

This show is comprised of clips from 3 different interviews conducted in 2008. With Lawrence Lessig (Law Professor/Activist) talking about his plans to reform congress with the Change Congress movement; Prof. Lessig changed the way we think about copyrights when he helped found the Creative Commons. We also speak with Prof. Stephen Hartnett about the nation's prison systems and we finish with Kenneth Cuno (Professor/Historian) talking about some aspects of US involvement in the Middle East that aren't talked about everyday.

Interview with Peruvian Economist Hernando de Soto

2009-03-02T20:33:00.000-08:00

In an interview with Hernando de Soto, we talk about his book, The Mystery of Capital (2000), we also talk about political labels in the United States, how alienation leads to extremism and potential common ground between Adam Smith and Karl Marx.

Debate between Joe Kreeger, esq. & Professor Richard Epstein

2009-02-17T00:16:00.000-08:00

Richard Epstein and Joe Kreeger debate the role of government.

Professor Epstein worries that redistributive ("transitional justice") policies will not be able to work as imagined but points out that government money is needed for pure research infrastructure.

Joe talks about how a good minimum government baseline is needed for the public to accept market principles on top of the baseline.

Interview with historian Zachary Lockman

2009-02-03T16:33:00.000-08:00

Talking with the history professor from New York University about his book Contending Visions of the Middle East (2004), going over the different ways that people look and study the Middle East.

Addressing clash of civilizations questions, explaining roots of Islamism and predicting that Islamaphobia in the United States will decline in the decades to come.

Interview Date: January 18, 2009

2009-01-20T19:23:00.001-08:00

Interviews with Prof. Noam Chomsky

2008-12-30T23:59:00.000-08:00

This podcast is a compilation of two interviews we conducted with Prof. Noam Chomsky. The most recent interview (the first 14 minutes of the podcast) was conducted on December 3, 2008 and the last ~14 minutes was conducted in April of 2008.

In these interviews, Professor Chomsky talks about problems he sees with our democracy, his fears of where mainstream rhetoric on a Palestinian-Israeli two-state proposal has gone, global capital markets and some features of economic growth.

Interview with Prof. Paul Collier

2008-12-15T22:27:00.000-08:00

Talking about Global Poverty and the Global Food Crisis, Prof. Collier talks about his book The Bottom Billion and his recent article The Politics of Hunger. Paul Collier is a Professor of Economics at Oxford University. (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Collier )

In the comments section of this post, I publish an open letter to Professor William Easterly who wrote a recent review of The Bottom Billion, which can be found at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22126.

Interview with Prof. Russell Roberts

2008-12-01T21:37:00.000-08:00

In this interview Prof. Roberts talks about, among other things, the ideas in his brand new book The Price of Everything: A Parable of Prosperity and Possibility. It is not mentioned in the podcast that the book is written as a fictional story to make the economic lessons easier to digest. In the interview, Prof. Roberts talks about some of the inherent problems of central planning by governments and how he would like to see markets studied more.

http://economics.gmu.edu/faculty/rroberts.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Roberts_(economist)

Interview with Prof. Eric Freyfogle

2008-11-16T21:24:00.000-08:00

Professor Freyfogle discusses his book Why Conservation is Failing and How it can Regain Ground: talking about the problems of the Conservation movement from within, rebutting arguments that Conversation doesn't care about the economy, answering critics who say Conservation laws infringe on people's liberty and suggesting that the best way for citizens to address this problem isn't always through individual action.

Interview with Prof. Robert McChesney

2008-11-11T18:09:00.000-08:00

Professor Robert W. McChesney talking about his book The Problem of the Media (2004); focusing on our Professional system of journalism and some of its limitations.

The Logic Consortium

2008-09-27T22:25:00.000-07:00

Show will start 11/12/08 at 10.30 am on 88.7 WLUW , following November 12 will air 1st, 3d, and 5th Wednesdays of the month at 10.30am.