Best Will Madaus Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 8: Censorship on Campus 23:55

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We examine free speech and censorship on college campuses in this edition of Lit Nerves Radio. Our guest, Susan Kruth of FIRE, takes us through the legality of campus speech codes—more strict in recent years—and reviews the case of our own Georgetown University’s as well.By Will Madaus & Matt Ellison

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Episode 7: Implementing Innovation 40:57

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This week we delve into how invention becomes innovation, innovation’s causes, consequences, and characteristics. James Bessen, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a lecturer at Boston University’s School of Law, is the author of Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth and is the perf…

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Episode 6: Mental Health 16:47

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We speak with Dr. Steven Hyman, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health and former provost of Harvard University, who now directs the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Hyman co-authored “Darkness Invisible: The Hidden Global Costs of Mental Illness” in the January/February issu…

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Episode 5: Civil Liberties 40:31

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Civil liberties are at the center of any liberal democracy and this week’s show. We talk with Samuel Walker, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who has served on the Board of Directors of the ACLU about civil liberties from World War I to present day.By Will Madaus & Matt Ellison

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Episode 4: The Military of Tomorrow 48:00

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Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.) joins host Will Madaus to discuss the military of tomorrow, informed by lessons learned from the recent past. It’s not technology or tactics which hamper the latter day force, Zinni says, but strategy, mission and direction—or rather their perennial absence in U.S. foreign policy.…

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Episode 3: Oil 57:56

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Fracking has brought an oil boom to America, setting her to overtake Saudi Arabia in the not too distant future. Oil prices have crashed, to the joy of drivers and consternation of certain regimes. What does the the oil market spell for the future at home and abroad? We take on different angles, talking with Steven Pruett, President and C.E.O. of E…

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Episode 2: Infrastructure 38:33

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We’ll be taking planes, trains, and automobiles, on our way to the heart of transportation with our guide, Robert Puentes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Find how people and goods move across the country, and how they should.By Will Madaus & Matt Ellison

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Episode 1: Nukes 38:57

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This episode, the first of Lit Nerves Radio, covers nuclear weapons: their risks, benefits, and future. Host Will Madaus talks with Allie Van Dine of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Harry Halem who writes for Arms Control Wonk.By Will Madaus & Matt Ellison