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A Radical Experiment in Liberty: A conversation with Brad Birzer

July 03, 2026 5:00am 43 min

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brad Birzer about his recent book, “The Declaration of Independence: A Radical Experiment in Liberty”.About the author:Bradley J. Birzer holds the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies a...

Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: A conversation with Mark Pennington

April 23, 2026 5:00am 57 min

Jonathan Fortier and Mark Pennington discuss whether Michel Foucault’s work shares commonalities with the liberal tradition. In a conversation that covers theories of knowledge, human identity, and social and political t...

Free Speech is for Losers: A Conversation with Bruce Pardy

March 18, 2026 11:00pm 42 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Bruce Pardy about the assaults on free speech in Canada, the UK and Europe. These moves to censor and control speech, especially online content, are ominous indicators of mult...

David Beito on his book FDR: A New Political Life

February 19, 2026 5:00am 51 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with David Beito about FDR's rise to the American presidency, and the negative consequences for civil, political and economic liberty. The conversation explores the ways in which R...

You Don’t Own Me: Individualism and the Culture of Liberty with guest Tim Sandefur

January 15, 2026 5:00am 57 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Tim Sandefur about his recent book, You Don’t Own Me, published by Libertarianism.org in 2025. The conversation explores themes of liberty, individualism and personal autonomy...

Peak Human: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages with Johan Norberg

December 18, 2025 5:00am 46 min

In this episode Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg about his new book Peak Human, which explores seven golden ages to reveal the common thread that makes societies thrive. Their conversation explores not only what...

I, Smartphone: The Power of the Free Market with Lawrence W. Reed

November 19, 2025 11:00pm 39 min

In this episode Jonathan Fortier talks with Lawrence Reed about his essay, "I, Smartphone", which revisits the themes of Leonard Read's famous essay, "I, Pencil" for contemporary audiences. Their conversation explores th...

Talking Liberty and Milton Friedman: A Conversation with Brad Lips, CEO of Atlas Network

July 10, 2025 5:00am 42 min

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brad Lips, CEO of Atlas Network, about a network of over 500 liberty-advancing think tanks around the world. Their conversation explores the necessity of decentralized knowledge and local effo...

The Capitalist Manifesto: A Conversation with Johan Norberg

June 06, 2025 4:26pm 49 min

Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World. The conversation explores how a simple coffee shop can illustrate the complexity of internati...

Modern Libertarianism: A Conversation with Brian Doherty

February 24, 2025 6:55am 38 min

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brian Doherty, author of Modern Libertarianism: A Brief History of Classical Liberalism in the United States. The conversation explores some of the main themes in Doherty’s book, including fig...

Open Borders: A Conversation about Immigration with Bryan Caplan

February 06, 2025 6:50am 48 min

Jonathan Fortier and Bryan Caplan discuss the reissue of Open Borders a graphic non-fiction novel published by Libertarianism.org. Caplan argues for the tremendous power of open migration to unleash economic potential an...

The Freedom Convoy: The Case of the Canadian Truckers with Bruce Pardy

January 23, 2025 6:40am 47 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier and Bruce Pardy discuss some of the ways that the government response to COVID (both in Canada and abroad) revealed the fragility of individual freedom in the face of political power and...

Creative Destruction: A Conversation with John Dalton

November 28, 2024 7:00am 51 min

Jonathan talks with John Dalton, Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, about his book, Creative Destruction, published by Libertarianism.org in 2024. Jonathan and John discuss the work of Jo...

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hayek’s Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Don Boudreaux

October 09, 2024 9:09am 46 min

Jonathan Fortier talks with Don Boudreaux, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, about the legacy of F.A. Hayek. Don provides a quick overview of the background and context of Hayek’s Nobel Prize, the intell...

The Individualists: A Conversation with Matt Zwolinski about the history of Libertarianism

September 26, 2024 6:59am 55 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Matt Zwolinski about his recent book, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (co-authored with John Tomasi, Princeton, 20...

Sustaining and Revitalizing Democracies: A Conversation with Brook Manville and Josiah Ober

July 25, 2024 11:44am 1:01

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Brook Manville and Josiah Ober about their recent book, The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (Princeton, 2023). Manville and Ober identify essential qualities for robust ...

FDR’s War on the Bill of Rights

May 24, 2024 11:31am 55 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier speaks with David T. Beito, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Alabama. Together they discuss his new boo...

Liberty in our Lifetime: A Conversation with Jason Sorens

April 25, 2024 9:14am 44 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Jason Sorens, Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute of Economic Research and Founder of the Free State Project. They discuss the origins and purposes of the Free St...

Adventures in Hayek: A Conversation with Bruce Caldwell

March 21, 2024 2:44pm 47 min

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Professor Bruce Caldwell, the general editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press) and Director of the Center for the Study of the History of Pol...

Executive Power: The Cult of the Presidency with Gene Healy

February 22, 2024 2:24pm 38 min

In this episode Jonathan Fortier talks with Gene Healy about the growth in the scope and power of the office of the American President, and some of the ways that this has negative consequences for political accountabilit...

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