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The Libertarian podcast features a weekly conversation with Hoover senior fellow Richard Epstein on the issues of the day.
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014
15 min
Richard Epstein critiques President Obama’s call for net neutrality regulations and explains how to preserve online innovation. (Playing time: 15:38)

Nov 11, 2014
Nov 11, 2014
15 min
Richard Epstein decries the current lack of market forces in the field of organ donations and explains why more freedom would lead to better outcomes. (Playing time: 15:17)

Nov 5, 2014
Nov 5, 2014
18 min
Richard Epstein examines the outcomes of the 2014 midterm elections and makes his predictions for what’s to come from President Obama and a Republican-dominated Congress. (Playing time: 18:42)

Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014
14 min
Richard Epstein considers the fight over voting rights in the context of the 2014 midterm elections. (Playing time: 14:11)

Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014
16 min
Richard Epstein looks at efforts in New York to tighten regulation on Airbnb, a service that allows individuals to rent out living space to travelers. (Playing time: 16:53)

Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014
18 min
Richard Epstein explains the process by which the government’s bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became a Treasury department money grab. (Playing time: 18:24)

Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
18 min
Richard Epstein analyses the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear any gay marriage cases this session and ventures a prediction as to what it means for the issue’s future. (Playing time: 18:07)

Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014
15 min
Richard Epstein reacts to the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder, renders his verdict on Holder’s time in office, and speculates about a successor. (Playing time: 15:24)

Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 2014
17 min
In part two of a two-part series on the major political parties, Richard Epstein examines the Democratic Party’s drift from classical liberalism to modern progressivism—and whether the trend can be reversed. (Playing time: 17:06)

Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014
16 min
As part two of a two-part series on the major political parties, Richard Epstein looks at when the Republican Party has embraced classical liberal principles—and when it has abandoned them—during the last hundred years and at how effective the modern GOP is at advancing the cause of limited government. (Playing time: 16:09)
