"Nations move by unalterable rules."

Born this day in 1735, John Adams helped frame the American republic and shaped early ideas on rights and government. Explore his life and works: 🔗 buff.ly/ez7fhrv

Even Hamilton admitted the Federal Farmer landed the "most plausible" Anti-Federalist punches. Join us to read the original five letters plus two from the follow-up series, covering consolidated power, the Bill of Rights, and the federal republic. libertyfund.circle.so/c/events-annou…

Host Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) and guest Mike Munger (@mungowitz) explore the roles of humility and tolerance in liberal thought. At its core, liberalism requires more than defending our own convictions.

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Adam Kirsch explores the relationship between belief, evidence, and personal experience, asking what authority extraordinary claims should hold when they cannot be independently verified.

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Mike Munger (@mungowitz) explores the philosophical traditions behind these competing understandings of liberalism, from the Scottish Enlightenment to contemporary political thought.

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Mike Munger (@mungowitz ) explores the distinction between what the law permits and what individuals ought to do, examining how unwritten norms can preserve the openness, judgment, and restraint that rigid rules cannot.

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Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) and guest Adam Mastroianni (@a_m_mastroianni) explore the relationship between individual character and political institutions. While better systems can encourage better behavior, lasting change also depends on the choices of the people within them.

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Birth rates are plunging around the world, including in countries once known for large families. What's driving the decline?

University of Pennsylvania Professor of Economics @JesusFerna7026 joins @EconTalker to examine the mystery of falling fertility and its economic new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib: plus.hoover.org/plus/research/…

As global birth rates decline, economist @JesusFerna7026 examines how longer educational pathways, delayed careers, and rising housing costs are making it harder for young adults to start families.

He explains how economic policies, particularly restrictive zoning laws, can nthood by putting homeownership further out of reach.

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Samuel Johnson said "all other greatness shrinks away" before the greatness of Milton's Paradise Lost. Join Sarah Skwire of Liberty Fund for a twelve-part Virtual Reading Group on this epic of love, sin, and republican politics.
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How did the world get so much richer, longer-lived, and more connected? @artcarden returns to two of Adam Smith’s triads for an answer, and for a few ideas about where we go next. buff.ly/WKP0gTy

Can satire tell us truths about liberty that straight argument cannot? Join Carl Richard for a Virtual Reading Group on classic works of humor as expressions of free speech. Mondays Oct 19, 26 & Nov 2, 9, 2-3pm EDT. Pre-register: buff.ly/ZAGP1la

Public Choice is more than “economics applied to politics.” @mungowitz walks through James Buchanan’s four essentials. Remove any one, and you no longer have Public Choice. buff.ly/RlMIIKn

Gibbon asked why Rome fell. 250 years later, we're still asking why civilizations decline. Join Peter Mentzel of Liberty Fund Oct 19, 10-11:30am ET for part three of our year-long Gibbon reading group. buff.ly/lPSp6ZH

We have representation. But do we have consent? Bobbi Herzberg on why the Declaration’s grievance still has teeth, from the Stamp Act to payroll withholding to the national debt. buff.ly/44dtf6I

Host Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) and guest James Marriott (@j_amesmarriott) explore one of fiction’s most remarkable powers: its ability to give us access to another human consciousness.

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