Ep 21: Do we care about poverty? | Usha Ramanathan on the law, the state, and people in poverty

Prashant Narang believes that street vendors are not encroachers. He argues that the state has wrongly cast honest vendors as illegal, and that a vendor who sells on a footpath is simply free enterpri...

13 Sep 2h 28min

Lant Pritchett believes that the post-1990 promise—that every country could converge on becoming democratic, capable, and liberal—was always more fragile than its champions admitted.But what does the ...

12 Jun 1h 51min

Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah believes animals are sentient, and that sentience, not species, is what determines who counts morally.But why not limit moral consideration to the human species? What about pets a...

24 Mai 1h 41min

Rahul Matthan believes intellectual property is not like real property. It's a legal fiction the state grants to protect publishers and incentivize innovation. But if you spent years writing a novel o...

12 Apr 3h 3min

Abhishek believes that federalism is a good idea. Power should devolve across political levels, and there should be multiple tiers of elected government.But doesn't federalism make politics more dysfu...

18 Mar 1h 59min

Pranay believes that nationalism is not only unavoidable, but unfairly criticised by liberals and libertarians.But what exactly is a nation? Isn't nationalism often linked with violence and exclusion?...

9 Feb 1h 57min

Ajay Shah believes that global free trade is good, and that state autarky is a bad idea. Borders, he says, should be relatively open, and there should be low levels of control on people, goods, servic...

21 Des 20252h 18min