Otaviano Canuto was a vice president of the World Bank Group. He previously served as Executive Director at the Board of the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, and he’s held other roles at the World Bank and, as well as the position of State

CO146 Rashawn Ray on the Numbers of Policing

May 11th, 2020 36m 28s

Dr. Rashawn Ray is Associate Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He’s a coauthor of the book How Families Matter: Simply Complicated I

CO145 Steven Koltai on the Business of Peace

May 4th, 2020 28m 37s

Steven Koltai is an entrepreneur, long time business executive, and foreign policy expert with a focus on entrepreneurship. He’ s also the author of ‘Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development‘ p

CO144 Tom Rosenstiel on Political Fact and Fiction

Apr 20th, 2020 29m 11s

Tom Rosenstiel founded and for 16 years directed the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He was also a reporter and editor, and he recently published his third novel, Oppo. ***** If you are looking for reading suggestions to fill up the lock

CO143 William Burke-White on Electoral Interference

Apr 13th, 2020 34m 16s

William Burke-White is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He’s got a long string of other academic distinctions, and he has written extensively on international criminal law, international economic law, and hum

Bill St Clair talks about Anarchy and Liberty

Apr 6th, 2020 35m 5s

Bill St. Clair is a blogger, programmer and libertarian. ***** You might not have heard of Benford’s law. It’s not so much a law, it’s really just an observation that when you get a large enough set of natural numbers, let’s say a list of all t

CO141 Fletcher Armstrong on the Underpinnings of the Case Against Abortion

Mar 30th, 2020 40m 48s

Fletcher Armstrong is the south east director of the Center for Bioethical Reform. ***** Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to strike through the breath and sight. And so they died. And none could

CO140 Amanda Starbuck on Protecting Necessities

Mar 23rd, 2020 29m 23s

Amanda Starbuck is a senior food researcher and policy analyst at Food & Water Watch. ***** I’ve talked about the other thing a couple of times already, but I’m sure you’ve heard enough about it by now, and there’s nothing extra that I can say

Demetrius Minor talks about Being a Black Conservative

Mar 16th, 2020 38m 6s

Demetrius Minor is a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 Black Leadership Network. He is also the associate producer of the nationally-syndicated “Stacy on the Right” talk radio show. In addition to writing that has been f

Randy Sutton talks about the Life of a Cop

Mar 2nd, 2020 42m 38s

Randy Sutton is a retired police lieutenant Las Vegas Police Department and founder of the Wounded Blue national assistance and support organisation for injured and disabled law enforcement officers. He’s also the author of a number of books in

CO137 Roy Speckhardt on Freedom from Religion

Feb 24th, 2020 31m 54s

Roy Speckhardt is the executive director of the American Humanist Association, and the author of Creating Change Through Humanism published by Humanist Press . ***** As of this podcast, something over 2,000 people have died from Corona virus in

CO136 Rosanna Weaver on Targeting Shareholders

Feb 3rd, 2020 27m 15s

Rosanna Weaver is programme manager for executive compensation As You Sow. ***** Her face looks at the camera in a way that is totally different to how teenagers take selfies now. There’s no elaborate expression, but there is, for some reason,

CO135 Chris Bostic on the End of Smoking

Jan 20th, 2020 25m 42s

Chris Bostic is Deputy Director for Policy of ASH, Action on Smoking and Health. Which, since 1967 has been campaigning against Big Tobacco to reduce the death toll from smoking. ***** So this is a famous clip of Ellen Degeneres on her TV show

CO134 Steve Garner on Whiteness

Dec 30th, 2019 43m 39s

Steve Garner is a researcher at the department of Social Science at Cardiff University. The BBC Analysis programme that he appeared in is available here. ***** Back in August I talked here about the pro-democracy protests, anti-Putin protests i

CO133 Ivan Eland on Presidential Overreach

Dec 23rd, 2019 36m 30s

Ivan Eland is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute. He has a PhD in Public Policy from George Washington University and has been director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent 15 years working for Congress on nat

CO132 Joan Esposito on Democratic Strategies

Dec 16th, 2019 26m 46s

Joan Esposito is the afternoon host for WCPT AM 820, Chicago’s progressive talk radio. We talked about, among other things, Barack Obama’s call for progressive unity and condemnation of excessive expectations of purity. ***** You’re used to me

CO131 Ira Mehlman on Debating Immigration

Nov 25th, 2019 42m 59s

Ira Mehlman is the media director of Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). In our discussion we talked about the prominent stories on FAIR’s home page which suggest that undocumented immigrants in the US are responsible for a dispr

CO130 Thom Hartmann on the Purpose of SCOTUS

Nov 18th, 2019 40m 28s

Thom Hartmann is one of America’s most prominent progressive talk show hosts. His latest book, The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America was publisher by Berrett-Koehler recently. ***** I know that some listeners are i

CO129 Randall Holcombe on Protecting Liberty

Nov 11th, 2019 29m 51s

Randall Holcombe is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. In the past He has also served as President of the Public Choice Society, President of the Society for the D

CO128 Michael Tauberg on Questioning Biden

Nov 4th, 2019 24m 22s

Michael Tauberg is a senior Columnist with ProgressiveBrief.com. We discussed his article Trump Administration Corruption Doesn’t Excuse the Bidens. ***** Air pollution in India is off the scale. That sounds like a rhetorical flourish, but it i

CO127 Scot Faulkner on the 1994 Contract with America

Oct 28th, 2019 36m 55s

Scot Faulkner was the National Director of Personnel for the Reagan-Bush presidential Campaign of 1980. He went on to serve the Reagan Administration in executive positions at the Federal Aviation Administration, the General Services Administra

CO126 Richard Vedder on America’s Short-changed Students

Oct 21st, 2019 33m 15s

Richard Vedder is an economist, historian, author, and columnist. He is a professor emeritus of economics at Ohio University and senior fellow at The Independent Institute. Who have just published his latest book called Restoring the Promise: H

CO125 Wen Fa on Litigating Liberty

Oct 7th, 2019 35m 11s

Wen Fa is an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a national, nonprofit legal organization that represents clients free of charge. We talked about his work on cases including Rentberry v. City of Seattle about rent-bidding laws, and anot

Getting Off Podcast Special for Challenging Opinions

Oct 4th, 2019 48m 10s

Challenging Opinions brings you a special showcase edition of the Getting Off podcast, presented by Jessa and Nick. It’s dark-humored criminal defense attorneys discussing famous crimes, trials, and all things criminal justice. Go to GettingOff

CO124 Steven Taylor on The Electoral College, again

Sep 30th, 2019 32m 12s

Steven Taylor is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Troy University, Alabama. He specialises in political parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the