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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: The Sony Controversy

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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On this week’s installment of The Libertarian Podcast, Professor Epstein discusses the legal issues surrounding the Sony hacking and the subsequent dissemination of the purloined materials in the press. What does Supreme Court precedent have to say about the distribution of such information? (Spoiler alert: Richard thinks the Court got it wrong). Is there a coherent standard of “newsworthiness” that constrains such publications? The professor answers those questions and, in a Libertarian first, engages in a duel of wits with Aaron Sorkin. Listen in below:

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: Epstein on Net Neutrality

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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This week on the Libertarian podcast, I lead Professor Epstein through a consideration of President Obama’s call for the FCC to impose net neutrality requirements on the Internet. Richard talks about the drawbacks of such a proposal, what a proper regulatory approach to the internet would look like, what exactly all this “common carrier” talk means, and what powers a classical liberal should be comfortable with the FCC having. Take a listen:

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Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. About Libertarianism

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[Y]ou betray your whole life if you don't say what you think and if you don't say it honestly and bluntly." — Charles Krauthammer
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We’ve seen recently here on Ricochet lots of threads trying to parse libertarianism, or qualify libertarianism, or trying to understand libertarianism. How about, rather do all that, let’s just say that libertarianism means one thing:

People should be free to do as they please so long as they don’t aggress against other people.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: Voting Rights and the Midterms

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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On this week’s installment of the Libertarian podcast from the Hoover Institution, I talked to Professor Epstein about the always-contentious issue of voting rights, a topic back in the news since the Supreme Court allowed Texas to go forward with its new voter identification laws. We discuss the ongoing fight over voting rights, President Obama’s criticisms of how the Supreme Court has handled the issue, and what it might all mean for this year’s midterm elections. Listen in below:

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Now, there are few things that are less traditional in Catholic doctrine on Church, State, Society and the Economy than Libertarianism. The Church was always adamantly against what was classically defined as “Liberalism” (confusingly often defined as a kind of “Conservatism” in much of American thought, precisely because there is much to “conserve”, or preserve, […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: The Implications of the Halbig Case

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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On this week’s installment of The Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution, Professor Epstein guides us through the implications of the Halbig case regarding Obamacare subsides. Is the president’s signature piece of legislation headed for defeat at the Supreme Court? And is this the right way to do undo the law. Richard delivers his tour de force analysis below:

 

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Meet David Leyonhjelm. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party here in Australia (don’t worry, those words mean different things here), he is a new Senator in Australia’s parliament, and he is a full-blown, principle-driven libertarian. I never thought I’d see the day. The day came, in fact, through fluke. On a very long ballot […]

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Henry Olsen uses the NY Times’ piece this weekend on David Koch’s 1980 run as the Libertarian Party’s VP candidate as the starting point for this post on The Corner examining the current conflict within the GOP. It is a subject we have hashed about here at length. An excerpt: Reagan’s victory started the process […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: Cell Phones, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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On this week’s installment of The Libertarian podcast for the Hoover Institution, Richard leads us through a conversation about the two cases heard by the Supreme Court yesterday on whether police can search a cell phone without a warrant in the course of an arrest. Just how far should the Fourth Amendment’s protections extend? What’s the right balance between law enforcement’s interest in providing security and the individual right to privacy? Professor Epstein is characteristically insightful in answering these and other questions.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: “Is The ObamaCare Debate Over?”

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By Troy Senik
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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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After the recent announcement of ObamaCare’s enrollment numbers, President Obama crowed that the debate about repealing ObamaCare was over. The president clearly didn’t pay very close attention during his time at the University of Chicago, or he would’ve known that no debate is over when Richard Epstein is on the other side of it.

This week, Richard walks us through how to think about the enrollment numbers, explains what defects are likely to emerge as the program gets more fully implemented, and lays out his predictions for how ObamaCare could eventually come undone.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: Equal Pay, Discrimination, and Free Markets — Troy Senik

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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Our topic on this week’s installment of the Hoover Institution’s Libertarian podcast is wage discrimination and Professor Epstein is ready for battle.

He explains how free markets destroy the ability for systemic discrimination, why certain media memes persist despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and why President Obama’s pay equity executive order — slight though it might be — has the potential to yield destructive consequences.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: The Supreme Court and Campaign Finance — Troy Senik

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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In this week’s installment of the Libertarian podcast from the Hoover Institution, Richard discusses the Supreme Court’s decision last week in McCutcheon v. FEC; what level of campaign finance restrictions — if any — the government should impose; and why the recent Brendan Eich controversy should lead us to rethink transparency requirements for political donors.

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Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. Thoughts on a Libertarian Solution to the Crisis in the Crimea — Fred Cole

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 I have to take issue with Ron Paul’s extolling the virtues of the recent independence vote in the Crimea. While independence may be the mood of the citizens of the Crimea, a vote to join the country that has just invaded and occupied you, while the troops are still there, is illegitimate. The Crimea vote a scam. Self-determination is great thing. More places should declare their independence from far-away capitals, as Venice has recently done. But such a vote should never be done at barrel of a gun.

Russian actions during the current crisis are unacceptable.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Libertarian Podcast: Is Unionization the Future of College Football?

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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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In this week’s installment of The Libertarian podcast from the Hoover Institution, Professor Epstein and I discussed the recent NLRB decision allowing unionization for college football players at Northwestern University.

Is it legitimate for college athletes to claim “employee” status? Can college sports survive the implications of this ruling? Is it an injustice for these students not to be paid? And would higher education be better off being decoupled from athletics, especially those that are functionally semi-pro? Those are some of the questions we explore in this episode:

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