Show overview
Ideas Having Sex has been publishing since 2022, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 62 episodes. That works out to roughly 70 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 3m and 1h 16m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.1 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2023, with 22 episodes published. Published by Chris Kaufman.
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Conversations on social science, philosophy, and politics.
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Ep 6262. Bryan Cheang - Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State
Bryan Cheang argues that industrial policy is authoritarian.Today’s book: Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State: Hong Kong and Singapore’s Post-war DevelopmentToday’s essay: “Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia”Bryan Cheang’s email: [email protected]
Ep 6161. Bart Wilson - Meaningful Economics
Bart Wilson on how to make economics more human.
Ep 6060. Walker Hanlon - The Laissez-Faire Experiment
Walker Hanlon explains the rise and fall of small government in Britain.Today’s Book: The Laissez-Faire Experiment: Why Britain Embraced and Then Abandoned Small Government, 1800–1914
Ep 5959. Michael Huemer - Progressive Myths
Michael Huemer explains and challenges progressive claims.Today’s book: Progressive Myths
Ep 5858. Bryan Caplan - Self Help is Like a Vaccine
Bryan Caplan extols the virtues of self help.Today’s book: Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better
Ep 5757. Sheldon Richman - What Social Animals Owe to Each Other
Sheldon Richman makes the case for human freedom.Today's Book: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other
Ep 5656. John Hasnas - Common Law Liberalism
John Hasnas describes the virtue and the beauty of the common law.Today's Book: Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society
Ep 5555. Johan Norberg - The Capitalist Manifesto
Johan Norberg advocates radical economic freedom.Today's Book: The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg
Ep 5454. James Otteson - Honorable Business
James Otteson claims that businesses behave honorably by creating mutually beneficial, and mutually voluntary deals.Today's book: Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society
Ep 5353. Bryan Caplan - Build, Baby, Build
Bryan Caplan explains why housing costs are so high.Today's book: Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Ep 5252. Chris Coyne - How to Run Wars
Chris Coyne gives a master class in how to energize a population for war.Today's book: How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite by Christopher Coyne & Abigail Hall
Ep 5151. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley - Superabundance
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance.Today’s book: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
Ep 5050. Michael Huemer – Can We Know Anything?
Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat.Today’s book: Can We Know Anything? A Debateby Bryan Frances & Michael Huemer
Ep 4949. Chandran Kukathas - Immigration and Freedom
Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens.Today’s Book: Immigration and Freedom
Ep 4848. Jason Brennan – Democracy: A Guided Tour
Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy.Today’s Book: Democracy: A Guided Tour, by Jason Brennan
Ep 4747. David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom
EDavid Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism. Today’s book: The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
Ep 4646. David Lawrence – Debunking Determinism
David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more. Today’s book: Debunking Determinism: Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, and the Crusade Against Free Will
Ep 4545. Bryan Caplan - You Will Not Stampede Me
Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity.Today’s book: You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism
Ep 4444. Max Borders – Political Decentralization
Max Borders claims we don’t take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should. Books by Max Borders
Ep 4343. James Tooley – Really Good Schools
James Tooley shows how the world’s poorest people educate their children without government.Today’s Book: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education, by James Tooley