#114 - Can Central Banks Print Prosperity?
Central banks all around the world have been printing money. This policy, known as quantitative easing in banker jargon, has driven up the price of stocks and bonds. But will it lead to real and susta...
25 Nov 201555min
#113 - Do U.S. Prosecutors Have Too Much Power?
Autonomy and secrecy, complex criminal code and mandatory minimums -- in combination, these factors have given prosecutors enormous leverage, and the opportunity to wield it relentlessly and selective...
17 Nov 201552min
#112 - Should College Students Be Allowed To Take Smart Drugs?
If you could take a pill that would help you study and get better grades, would you? Off-label use of “smart drugs” – pharmaceuticals meant to treat disorders like ADHD, narcolepsy, and Alzheimer’s – ...
9 Nov 201552min
#111 - Should We Raise The Federal Gas Tax To Fund Infrastructure?
The Highway Trust Fund provides funding for road, bridge, and mass transit projects across the country – and it’s running out of money. Its revenue source, the federal gas tax, has not been raised in ...
4 Nov 201552min
Bonus Podcast: Is Death Final?
If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body ...
29 Okt 201548min
#110 - Are China And The U.S. Long-Term Enemies?
Is China’s ascendancy a threat to the U.S.? China’s rise as an economic and military power, coupled with its aggression in the South China Sea, have led some to call for a major re-balancing of U.S. p...
21 Okt 201557min
#109 - Should Courts Or Campuses Decide Sexual Assault Cases?
High-profile cases have recently put campus sexual assault in the spotlight. One question that has repeatedly come up: why are these cases being handled by campuses at all? Campus investigations may s...
23 Sep 201554min
Bonus Podcast: Should We Abolish the Minimum Wage?
This is a special podcast for Labor Day. The first attempt at establishing a national minimum wage, a part of 1933’s sweeping National Industrial Recovery Act, was struck down by the Supreme Court in ...
4 Sep 201550min
