Deepak Disagrees

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 Mars 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 Dec 20252h 18min

Kumar Anand believes that more liberty is always better than less liberty. As a libertarian, he argues that many problems can be traced back to too much state power and too little individual freedom.B...

2 Dec 20252h 28min

Shephali Bhatt argues that we cannot, and should not, separate art from the artist. To her, art is not created in a vacuum. It is an extension of the artist.But should art always be judged by its crea...

1 Nov 20251h 44min

Murali Neelakantan says we simply cannot allow people to suffer because they are unable afford a drug that already exists. He argues that India must make healthcare free, universal, and funded by the ...

30 Sep 20252h 20min

Parth Shah argues that part of the unraveling of globalized, liberal democracies is the way political parties themselves are designed. If parties are the central lever of democratic life, should they ...

30 Aug 20251h 52min