Thomas Sowell might well be our greatest living Intellectual. His accomplishments span 6 decades and include over 40 books and thousands of columns and articles written on a wide range of topics, from economics to sociology to history to race and culture. It is hard to name another intellectual who has studied and written on as wide a range of topics in such a profound way. This podcast will discuss his ideas and is intended to provide a place for admirers of his work to discuss his contribu ...
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Thomas Sowell Podcasts
For more than two decades the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their views with the world.
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We are discussing Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics
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The American Monetary Association is a non-profit venture funded by The Jason Hartman Foundation that is dedicated to educating people about the practical effects of monetary policy and government actions on inflation, deflation and freedom. Our goal is to help people prosper in the midst of uncertain economic times. The American Monetary Association believes that a new and innovative understanding of wealth, value, business and investment is necessary to thrive in the new reality of big gov ...
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Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
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Two primary source loving pop culture outliers examine history and current events.
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The Creating Wealth Show Blogcast
Jason Hartman with Ben Carson, Noam Chomsky, Robert Kiyosaki, John McAfee, Brian Tracy, John Sculley, Thomas Sowell, Pat Buchanan, Jim Rogers, John Gray, Harry Dent, Bill Ayers, Steve Forbes, Daniel Pink, Todd Akin, Meredith Whitney, Denis Waitley
This is a short professional reading, audio blog or blogcast from the JasonHartman.com blog. You'll learn how to survive and thrive in today’s economy as business and real estate investment guru, Jason Hartman shows you innovative ways to "game the system" relating to the American economic mess, Wall Street scams, mortgage meltdown, inflation induced debt destruction, deflation and monetary policy. Jason shares his no-hype investment strategies for REO's / foreclosures, auctions, lease optio ...
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In an effort to accomplish one of the main goals of this publication since its founding in 2013, and in attempt to highlight the relevance, brilliance, and rich tradition of conservative intellectualism, THE ARCH CONSERVATIVE has begun releasing weekly podcasts. These podcasts will use the worldview of conservatism as a lens to assess, analyze, and explain a variety of issues that face the United States and the world today. Rather than simply dismissing our opponents' arguments, however, and ...
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A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?
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The Supply Side Podcast is for everyone who believes economies flourish when people produce goods and services that other people actually want. We talk low taxes, stable money, entrepreneurship and business development with the best thinkers on banking, investment and markets in the world. We prepare you for what happens when the bubbles finally pop.
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The ArtiFact Podcast is a long-form show on books, culture, painting, and music hosted by Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish, and a revolving door of co-hosts and guests. Each subject is covered in depth and at length, with past shows featuring the Epic of Gilgamesh, Charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale", Leonard Shlain’s "Art & Physics", John Williams's "Stoner", and more. Opinionated, controversial, and prone to making enemies and friends of friends and enemies, ArtiFact delivers new perspectives on ...
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Johnathan's Bookshelf presents Black Kings Read. A literary weekly podcast show with book discussions, author interviews, book reviews, and issues in literacy with an African American male point of view. The mission of Black Kings Read is to change the paradigm of illiteracy with the African American male community: no longer accepting the status quo "if you want to hide money from a Black man, put it in a book." We encourage all Black men to join our book discussions. We appreciate the lite ...
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In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.By Quillette
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How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?
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13:29A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.By Quillette
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Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology
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20:54Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.By Quillette
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Tank and Tracy take a trip in the old time machine and head back to 1967 to discuss the attack on the USS Liberty. Link to Essay at loc.gov Check out the T&T Liberty Factory Store Freedom Munitions for all of your ammo needs. The best nation is a donation. Every little bit helps out a great deal. Thank you for your support! Patreon.com/tandtliberty…
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology.By Quillette
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The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.By Quillette
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The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge
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55:15Is humanity running out of people? Demographer and American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt joins Peter Robinson to explain why birthrates are collapsing across the globe—from China and Japan to Europe and the United States—and what this means for the future of prosperity, freedom, and global power. Can immigration save America? Wil…
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The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel.By Quillette
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Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face
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11:14Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously? By Andrew GloverBy Quillette
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By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.By Quillette
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Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
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11:55Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.By Quillette
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In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition.By Quillette
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‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’
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25:02In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile.By Quillette
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The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.By Quillette
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Charlotte Allen examines how Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey's sexual misconduct allegations led to both men being cancelled and explores the broader cultural shift from the sexual liberation of the 1960s to #MeToo's scrutiny of male literary figures and their treatment of women.By Quillette
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Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.By Quillette
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495: Strong Rental Market Demand, The Age of Bitcoin and the Coming Ai Disruptions with Mark Moss
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37:41Jason welcomes Mark Moss, an expert in monetary policy, cryptocurrency, and investments. They primarily center on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology on the economy and society. Moss argues that while AI offers immense potential for increased efficiency and wealth creation, it also exacerbates the wealth gap due…
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Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
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26:20This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.By Quillette
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Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov. Robert HuddlestonBy Quillette
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Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.By Quillette
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The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid OmerBy Quillette
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Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.By Quillette
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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: Two Historians on How America Fought and Won The Pacific in WWII | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge
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1:25:45August 15th, 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the surrender of the Japanese to Allied Forces in the Pacific, ending World War II . To mark the occasion, Peter Robinson sits down with Jonathan Horn and Ian Toll to examine the most contested decision of World War II: the use of atomic weapons against Japan. Building from the brutal endgame—Iwo Jima, O…
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In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.By Quillette
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Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies.By Quillette
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Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had
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22:29Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.By Quillette
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The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox On How Woodrow Wilson Shaped—And Undermined—American Democracy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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55:16Was Woodrow Wilson a visionary statesman—or a reactionary bigot? Peter Robinson sits down with historian and former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox to discuss his latest book, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Cox’s meticulously researched biography of the 28th president of the United States. Together, they explore Wilson’s complicated legacy: his …
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A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV.By Quillette
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Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual.By Quillette
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As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this. By Armin Navabi.By Quillette
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The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose.By Quillette
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494: The US Economic Ponzi Scheme: Avoiding Collapse and the Path to Stability with Les Rubin
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17:56Jason and Les Rubin discuss the critical issues of entitlements, government size, and the tax code in relation to US economic stability. They explore the potential of converting Social Security to private accounts and the challenges of reforming the current entitlement programs, acknowledging the need for public education and a shift in attitude. L…
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The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.By Quillette
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Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds.By Quillette
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Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers. By Amy Eileen HammBy Quillette
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Like a 2nd helping of Christmas dinner, Tracy and Tank are back to rehash just a bit more of Rand Paul's Festivus report for those who need an affinity group for freedom themed podcasts. Tracy's Favorite Mug Check out the T&T Liberty Factory Store Freedom Munitions for all of your ammo needs. The best nation is a donation. Every little bit helps ou…
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Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.By Quillette
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As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.By Quillette
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The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.By Quillette
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Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population. Benny MorrisBy Quillette
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Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.By Quillette
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Inflation Is A Choice: Kevin Warsh on Fixing the Federal Reserve | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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1:01:47Has the Fed lost its way? Hoover Visiting Fellow Kevin Warsh thinks it has and offers solutions on how to fix it. Kevin Warsh is the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, a partner at Duquesne Family Office LLC, the investment firm of Stanley Druckenmiller, a former governor at the Federal Reserve, and…
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How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.By Quillette
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'Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello' by Helen Pluckrose
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32:11Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.By Quillette
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back.By Quillette
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Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted.By Quillette
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The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain. By Benny Morris.By Quillette
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493: Halal Investing Unlocked: Smart Strategies for Ethical Wealth Growth
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23:43Jason welcomes Dilshod Jumaniyazov as they discuss the concept of halal investing, which aligns with Islamic rules and laws, and its potential appeal to non-Muslims interested in social, responsible, and ethical investing. They also explore the rules and principles of Islamic finance, including the concept of ‘halal’ or permissible sources of reven…
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The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself.By Quillette
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When Westerners hate the West.By Quillette
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