Edifice of Trust
The Edifice of Trust is a podcast that provides discussion and analysis of today’s current events from the perspective of America’s Founding Principles. Based on Enlightenment philosophy as espoused by John Locke and economic freedom as described by Adam Smith, the host, Victor Bolles, provides listeners a path toward understanding current events from these timeless principles. Many Americans believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction, the podcast tries to point out a new course that everyone can support.Podcasts
An Age of Agency
Published: Jan. 22, 2024, 5:46 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 28 seconds
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Urgent Priorities 2024
Published: Jan. 9, 2024, 5:46 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
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The Attraction of Victimhood
Published: Dec. 7, 2023, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds
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Dr. - not Mr. - Spock
Published: Dec. 1, 2023, 4:58 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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War in the Levant
Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 6:24 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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The Slippery Slope of Fairness
Published: Nov. 6, 2023, 2 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 29 seconds
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Making Sense of Irrational War
Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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Shared Values and Common Goals Part One
Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 5:31 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds
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BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST
Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 4:25 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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Our Precarious Liberty
Published: Sept. 1, 2023, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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Surviving in a Multipolar World
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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This Is How They Think
Published: July 27, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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The Wrong Way to Make Law
Published: July 10, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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The Difference between Lying and Delusion
Published: June 29, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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Postmodern Prehistory
Published: June 12, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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A Postmodern Future
Published: April 27, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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Ideological Justice
Published: April 13, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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Explaining John Wayne
Published: March 31, 2023, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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The Fed that Should Be
Published: March 8, 2023, 4 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds
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Democracy is not a Verb
Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 4:21 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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A Color Blurred Society
Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
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Can Artificial Intelligence Cure Healthcare?
Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 3:51 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 28 seconds
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Non-Trivial Pursuits
Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds
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Urgent Priorities 2023
Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 4:57 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 50 seconds
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The Real Message of Welfare
Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 5:27 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 39 seconds
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Conservatism is not Enough
Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 2 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 13 seconds
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Don't Twerk on My Parade
Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 4:13 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds
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Toxic Magic and the Red Ripple
Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds
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Social Justrice is Incompatible with Democracy
Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 6:06 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 43 seconds
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The Difference between Democracy and Liberty
Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 3:40 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds
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Reward Work Not Wealth
Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
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Energy Policy! What's That?
Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 5:14 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
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The Duty of Citizens
Published: Aug. 22, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 50 seconds
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How to Destroy the Republican Party
Published: Aug. 9, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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The Deficit Reduction Dance
Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 3:09 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds
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When Face Value is Two Faced
Published: July 12, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds
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Chaos in the Culture Wars
Published: June 24, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds
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Capitulation (or not)
Published: June 20, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds
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The Pin Factory and Social Justice
Published: June 10, 2022, 3:23 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes
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Open Letter to Sen. John Cornyn
Published: June 2, 2022, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds
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Our Politicians Are Driving Us Crazy
Published: May 25, 2022, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds
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More on the High Cost of Free Speech
Published: May 20, 2022, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 36 seconds
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The Continual High Cost of Free Speech
Published: May 17, 2022, 4:39 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds
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Abortion - A 23rd Century Perspective
Published: May 10, 2022, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds
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Joe Biden Didn't Cause Our Inflation
Published: April 25, 2022, 3:34 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds
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What Happened to the Party of JFK?
Published: April 5, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 13 seconds
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The New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Published: March 18, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 37 seconds
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Putin Has Done Us a Favor
Published: March 7, 2022, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 5 seconds
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My Primary Predicament
Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 1:30 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 5 seconds
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The Algorithm of Decline
Published: Feb. 2, 2022, 2 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 32 seconds
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Plessy v. Progressives
Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 2 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 6 seconds
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Urgent Priorities
Published: Dec. 30, 2021, 5:55 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 9 seconds
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Thanks for Nothing, Joe
Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 1 second
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Political Petroleum Reserve
Published: Nov. 26, 2021, 1:42 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds
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The 0.1% Solution
Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds
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The End of Wokeism
Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 3:06 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
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Corporate Taxes in the Real World
Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes
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Modern Monetary Nonsense
Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 3:11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds
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Is a Better Life Worth Slower Growth?
Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds
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Cautiously Optimistic
Published: Sept. 29, 2021, noonDuration: 21 minutes 33 seconds
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The Future of Tennis (and the World)
Published: Sept. 16, 2021, 1:16 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds
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Closing the Real Achievement Gap
Published: Sept. 10, 2021, 3:33 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 46 seconds
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Systemic Enlightenment
Published: Aug. 27, 2021, 4:33 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds
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It's Not Just Chicago
Published: July 14, 2021, 5:39 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
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The Purpose of Sports
Published: July 5, 2021, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds
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The Limits of Diplomacy
Published: June 22, 2021, 3:54 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
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Between Scylla & Charybdis
Published: June 9, 2021, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds
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Lifestyle or Liberty
Published: June 1, 2021, 1:56 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds
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I Don't Want to be an Antiracist
Published: May 18, 2021, noonDuration: 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Harry, Sally and Jeff
Published: May 5, 2021, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds
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Who Built This Country, Joe?
Published: April 30, 2021, 3:22 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds
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The Economic Cure
Published: April 27, 2021, 7:11 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds
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Critical Race Conundrum
Published: April 15, 2021, noonDuration: 13 minutes 13 seconds
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Duopoly of Division
Published: March 26, 2021, 5:47 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
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Joe Said the N-word
Published: March 8, 2021, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds
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Stalking Systemic Racism
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 16 seconds
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The Necessity of Integrity
Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds
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Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 5:06 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds
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Incompetent Democracy
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 8:21 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds
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Pandemic Messaging
Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 6:43 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds
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The Lesson of Juan Peron
Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 17 seconds
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Progressive Blackmail
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 2 seconds
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Xi Jinping is not Louis XVI
Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 6:12 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
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The People Have Spoken
Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 4:12 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 56 seconds
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A Piece of the Puzzle
Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds
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Snake Oil Remedy
Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 7:46 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 8 seconds
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The November Dilemma
Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 6:55 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds
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Broken Windows Broken Lives
Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds
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Progressive Myopia
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 41 seconds
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Socialism has no Future
Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
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Thinking about Unalienable Rights
Published: July 28, 2020, 4:17 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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86 What's so Great about Equality?
Published: July 20, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds
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Karen and the Cancel Culture
Published: July 11, 2020, 6:52 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
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84 The False Promise of Political Power
Published: July 6, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 2 seconds
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Facts Don't Matter
Published: June 19, 2020, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds
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Defund or Dismantle
Published: June 11, 2020, 6:37 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds
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80 Defining Moment?
Published: June 5, 2020, 5:42 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 16 seconds
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79 Righteous Mind Redux
Published: May 31, 2020, 5:51 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds
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Sublimation of the Evolutionary Trap
Published: May 25, 2020, 3:12 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
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77 Robust Redundancies
Published: May 7, 2020, 5:07 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds
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Comorbidity Conundrum
Published: April 30, 2020, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds
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Seeking Relevance
Published: April 13, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds
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It's Not the Economy, Stupid!
Published: April 2, 2020, 6:25 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
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73 The Cost of the Cure
Published: March 22, 2020, 9:45 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds
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Coronavirus Hurricane
Published: March 19, 2020, 5:25 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 24 seconds
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71 The Baneful Foe
Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 3:26 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds
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70 Socialism Suckers
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 3:19 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 16 seconds
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69 Nature over Nurture
Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 6:41 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 30 seconds
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Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Snowflakes
Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds
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67 Golf and Governance
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 7:45 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds
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66 Unions Should Love Capitalism
Published: Dec. 22, 2019, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
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65 The Merry-Go-Round of Victimhood
Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 10:08 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 36 seconds
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64 My Take on Giving Tuesday
Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 8:42 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
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63 Excessive Democracy
Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds
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62 Actors and Reactors
Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 8:24 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 37 seconds
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61 From the Heart
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 5:22 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds
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60 Invisible Hand versus Iron Fist
Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 8:05 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
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59 The Exasperating Exercise of Folly
Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 7 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds
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58 Commander's Intent
Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 5:40 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
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57 Xi's Dilemma
Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 6:03 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds
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54 Social Justice Basketball
Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 6:22 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds
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53 The Trump Supremacy
Published: Aug. 16, 2019, 7:01 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 1 second
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52 The Hallmarks of Mercantilism
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 4:50 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds
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51 What is the American Dream?
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 3:32 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds
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50 Examining the Affluence Gap
Published: July 23, 2019, 8:14 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 1 second
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49 Sapolsky et al vs Locke et al
Published: July 17, 2019, 8:23 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds
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48 The Dopamine of Justice
Published: July 5, 2019, 7:58 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 8 seconds
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Two Men Walk Down a Dark Street
Published: June 26, 2019, 4:31 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds
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The Politics of Glucocorticoids
Published: June 19, 2019, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds
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43 Weaponizing Trade
Published: June 6, 2019, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 8 seconds
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42 Science is just Science
Published: May 30, 2019, 9:05 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds
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41 Saving Chickpeas
Published: May 24, 2019, 8:31 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds
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Henry's Silver Coins
Published: May 16, 2019, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 17 seconds
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39 The Missing Element
Published: May 2, 2019, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 9 seconds
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38 How Not to Improve Democracy
Published: April 22, 2019, 8:29 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds
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There Are Reasons
Published: April 16, 2019, 4:45 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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Desocialisting El Salvador
Published: April 10, 2019, 9:18 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 3 seconds
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Known Associates
Published: March 29, 2019, 12:46 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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31 The Civilized Things
Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds
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30 Is Howard Schultz the Answer to Our Prayers?
Published: Jan. 29, 2019, 9:21 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds
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29 Battle of Hearts (not Minds)
Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds
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28 Breaking the Entitlement Addiction
Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds
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26 From Behind to Nothing
Published: Dec. 28, 2018, 7:25 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds
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24 Gilets Jaunes
Published: Dec. 14, 2018, 8:23 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 17 seconds
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23 Well I Guess he IS Our Son of a Bitch
Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 4:56 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds
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22 Circle the Wagons
Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds
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21 The Natural Right to Vote
Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 8:45 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
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20 Lesson Unlearned
Published: Nov. 9, 2018, 4:42 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds
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18 Uncompromising Fairness
Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 5:40 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds
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17 Our Son of a Bitch
Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds
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