Mutual Exchange Radio: Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall on 'How to Run Wars'
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This episode is hosted by C4SS’s Elinor Ostrom Chair in the Study of Self Governance, Nathan Goodman. Nathan is joined by Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall for a deep dive into the authors’ new book, How to Run Wars, A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, available from June 18th on Amazon, or through the Independent Institute. E-book versions are available for Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barnes and Noble Nook and links are available in the show notes below. Buy on Amazon: Apple iBooks: Barnes & Noble: Christopher Coyne is a Professor of Economics at...
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John Cavanaugh on Data Privacy & The Digital Divide
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This episode of MER features Alex McHugh interviewing John Cavanaugh of the digital-privacy organization, The Plunk Foundation. The Plunk Foundation promotes digital data privacy through education, advocacy, and policy recommendations, and by developing privacy tools and tech. Our conversation ranges from the deeper discussion on consent and privacy as related to self-ownership, to the more practical question of how to ethically navigate today's digital landscape and the potential for privacy-focused tech. John Cavanaugh on LinkedIn: Email: Support C4SS podcasts on Patreon:
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Mikayla Novak & Akiva Malamet on Gender as a Discovery Process
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This episode brings Austrian economics into the gender identity discussion. We get into a lot of messy and fascinating questions about gender, identity, and social structures. Read the paper here: Mikayla Novak is senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is the author of Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective (2018) and Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy (2021). Her research work has been published in a range of...
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Jason Lee Byas about Public Choice Theory, Reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and War
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Cory Massimino chats with Jason Lee Byas about public choice theory, reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and war. Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and justice beyond the state.
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Dennis Danvers on Writing, Sci-Fi, and the Weirdness of Time
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Alex McHugh interviews sci-fi author Dennis Danvers on anarchist ideas in fiction, his books The Watch and Leaving the Dead, and the life of a writer. Mr. Danvers has written a variety of well-received sci-fi novels, including Circuit of Heaven, Time and Time Again, and End of Days, as well as the Locus and Bram Stoker nominee Wilderness. His short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Space and Time, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, F & SF, Realms of Fantasy, Electric Velocipede, Lightspeed, Tor.com, See the Elephant, Apex Magazine; and in...
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scott crow on Music, Media, and Community Defense
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A wide-ranging interview with acclaimed anarchist activist and musician, scott crow (). Alex McHugh hosts, with the first half focusing on scott's music and media project, eMERGENCY heARTS, and the latter on his previous work on theories of liberatory community armed self-defense. * Content note: scott and I talk about the murder of Garrett Foster in the second half of this episode. It comes up in a discussion about the strategic value (or lack thereof) of open carry at protests.
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Tux Pacific on Cryptocurrency and Anarchism
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In this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, Tux discusses their unique take on cryptocurrency, the connection between markets and anarchism, and being anti-capitalist in a capitalist world. Tux Pacific (they/she) is a cryptographer, anarchist, and the founder of Entropy, a decentralized custodian for crypto. Their crypto-inclusive perspective has been shaped by their non-traditional background as a trans person and a market post-left-ish anarchist. You can reach Tux on Twitter @__tux or via email
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Ash P. Morgans on Egoism, Anarchism, & Religion
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In our final episode for the season, talks to host Alex McHugh about egoism, anarchism, and religion. This conversation was an excellent cap-off to our and continues some of the discussions that came up throughout the symposium. Particularly, we explore the intersections of ethics, morality, anarchism, and religion from the egoist or Stirnerite perspective.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown on Feminism and Libertarianism
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason magazine, a co-founder of Feminists for Liberty, and a journalism lecturer at the University of Cincinnati. In this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, Elizabeth discusses abortion, sex work, moral panics, conspiracies, feminism, libertarianism, and more.
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Eric Fleischmann on Laurance Labadie & Historical Materialism
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This month on Mutual Exchange Radio, we are joined by Eric Fleischmann, leading an informative and inspiring conversation about their comprehensive Laurance Labadie archival project, Labadie's special relevance for the market anarchist tradition, their study on Historical Materialism and more. Eric Fleischmann (he/they) is an undergrad student working in the solidarity economy and pursuing a double major in anthropology and philosophy. He is an anarchist indebted to communistic and continental thought but engaged primarily in the traditions of mutualism, North American individualist anarchism,...
info_outlineJoining us today is Akiva Malamet. Akiva is completing his BA in Government at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) in Israel. He is an incoming MA student in Philosophy and a member of the interdisciplinary program in Political and Legal Thought (PLT) at Queen’s University, Kingston, and Frédéric Bastiat Fellow in political economy and public policy with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has written for Liberal Currents, Libertarianism.org, and other publications. He was a winner of the 2018 ‘Carl Menger Undergraduate Essay Contest’ for his paper “Spontaneous Order as Social Construction”, from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE). This episode is hosted by producer Alex McHugh.
Akiva's essays:
- Fearing Ourselves: Dignity and Disgust in a Pandemic
- Vice in The Virtue of Nationalism
- Akiva Malamet on Israeli Politics and Jewish Culture (podcast)
- The Zen of Chaos
- If Not Now, When? Contextualizing the White Supremacist Threat to Muslims and Jews
- Postmodernism: A Libertarian Introduction
- Reconciling Libertarian and Leftist Views of Power and Equality
Black anarchist/radical resources:
- Burn Down the American Plantation
- #8toAbolition
- Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
- As Black as Resistance
Meet the podcast team:
- Zachary Woodman - Host
- Tony Dreher - Audio Editor
- Can Standke - Editing Assistant
- Logan Marie Glitterbomb - Audio Contributor
- Cory Massimino - Treasurer
- Alex McHugh - Producer