The Great Antidote
Adam Smith said, "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." So join us for interviews with the leading experts on today's biggest issues to learn more about economics, policy, and much more.
Podcasting since 2020 • 218 episodes
The Great Antidote
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Bob Ewing on Personal and Professional Success
Bob Ewing is the founder of the Ewing School and hosts a Substack called Talking Big Ideas (go check it out). He has also gifted me most of the great books that I’ve read. Today, we talk about how he got started and how many of the ...
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Rachel Ferguson on Neighborhood Stabilization and Civil Society
We talk a lot about civil society and the importance of local, communal networks which hold us up when we’re down and inspire us to be good, striving members of society. But what does that actually look like? How do civil institutions get built...
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Jo Jensen on Anxiety, Audiences, and Action
Jo Jensen is the founder of MovieGoer and she’s currently the SVP of Digital and Entertainment Strategy at Touchdown Strategies, a PR firm. and is an Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow. Since all fellows have ventures over there, she’s curren...
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Peter Van Doren on Universal Basic Income
What is Universal Basic Income (UBI) and why is it so popular among economists and freedom lovers relative to other types of poverty policy solutions? What does it even mean to “solve a problem” or to “learn” in the social sciences? <...
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Charlotte Thomas on Learning and the Liberal Arts
Welcome back. Continuing our ongoing exploration of what it means to be an individual living in a liberal society, today I am happy to host Charlotte Thomas to talk to us about what it means to learn and the importance of the liberal arts. ...
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Poverty is about what's between your ears, not what's missing from your bank account. I know numerous immigrants, from cultures not similar to ours, who became successful in this country. Too little education on what causes wealth/success.
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