Bureaucratic appeal to measurement as a check on personal judgment rules the medical field but also permeates our entire culture. Guest Jerry Z. Muller brings a valuable historical perspective to the subject.
Jeff Deist on the importance of alternative sources for news, economics, history, and politics.
Bob tackles Tucker Carlson's claim that Jeff Bezos is unloading his labor costs onto taxpayers.
In this 42-minute talk, Canadian historian and political scientist Ronald Hamowy discusses the basics of how Canadian healthcare works, plus the many rarely-mentioned true costs of the system.
Could pushing policy levers on a grand scale conceivably have negative unintended consequences?
One of the most foundational assumptions behind modern democracy is that the elected officials somehow represent the interests of those who elected them.
Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.
After months of growing tension between the United States and Britain, a single event almost plunges the two countries into war.
Voting "no" on a tax increase doesn't mean you really consented to it.
What’s the professional life of Canadian doctors really like? Guset Dr. Shawn Whatley informs us about the realities of healthcare in Canada.
In this 56-minute talk, Jeffrey Herbener dissects and dismantles two central myths behind Keynesian doctrine: the Phillips Curve, a the Keynesian Multiplier.
Yoram Hazony joins Jeff Deist for a compelling interview on prosperity, peace, and human flourishing.
William Seward's repeated diplomatic blunders cause Britain to send troops to Canada in preparation for a possible war with the United States.
In this 33-minute talk Joseph Salerno discusses the right way to define inflation, and how it impacts both economic prosperity and culture.
A recent US Supreme Court decision has struck down the “professional speech doctrine”. This decision may have far reaching implications across a number of human activities, including health care.
Ryan McMaken explains how capitalism propagated the conditions under which we can afford to focus on the important things in life.
Support for a single-payer healthcare system in the United States seems to be growing inexorably. Before we resign ourselves to the inevitable fate of “Medicare-4-All,” it may be prudent to remind ourselves or understand better the arguments against a single-payer system.
