Ep 22: Street vendors are not encroachers! | Prashant Narang on public spaces, property rights, and who decides
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
Ep 21: Do we care about poverty? | Usha Ramanathan on the law, the state, and people in poverty
Usha Ramanathan believes that we have failed people in poverty. The state has systematically constructed them as illegal: encroachers, beggars, vagrants and defaulters, and we, the citizens, have look...
12 Aug 3h 1min
Ep 20: Has history un-ended? | Lant Pritchett on the end of history, and what follows the liberal idea
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 Juni 1h 51min
Ep 19: Why should animals matter? | Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah on animal ethics, sentience, and what we owe other species
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 Maj 1h 41min
Ep 18: Do you own what you create? | Rahul Matthan on intellectual property, ownership, and AI
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
Ep 17: In federalism we trust! | Abishek Choutagunta on political power, devolution, and why federalism works
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 Mars 1h 59min
Ep 16: Nationalism ain't so bad! | Pranay Kotasthane on what liberals get wrong about nationalism
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
Ep 15: Open borders, free trade! | Ajay Shah on autarky, globalisation, and pragmatism
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 Dec 20252h 18min
