Duel between Omar & Mike

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

Interview with Lawyer, Doctor & Professor David Hyman

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

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

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

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

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

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.