Ep. 306 Keith Knight on Progressives’ Domestic Imperialism
In his new book published by the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight explains why he left progressivism. They could see the problems of foreign imperialism, but they cheered it domestically. A fast-paced discussion. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this interview. Keith Knight’s new book. Keith’s archive at the Libertarian…
Ep. 305 An Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Gospel Accounts of Jesus Christ: Installment 2, Jesus as Logos
Bob continues his miniseries, focusing on John 1: 1-5. Bob makes the case that we should be marveling at the unreasonable effectiveness of semantics in the social sciences. There is meaning packed into every field of human inquiry, and this sheds light on the prologue to the gospel of John. Mentioned in the Episode and…
Ep. 304 An Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Gospel Accounts of Jesus Christ: Installment 1, Introduction
Bob launches a new miniseries, and starts by summarizing his chapter for a Festschrift in honor of Walter Block. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: [As of release, no information was available on the actual collection in honor of Walter. RPM will update when available.] Callahan and Murphy’s critique of Hans Hoppe’s argumentation ethics.…
Ep. 303 Jonathan Bartlett Explains How Random Mutations Aren’t Always So Random
Jonathan Bartlett is a prolific software engineer and textbook author who has published peer-reviewed articles on the information embedded in biological organisms. He joins Bob to discuss two of his recent papers, highlighting a distinction in the term “random mutation” that has great relevance for the Intelligent Design debate. Mentioned in the Episode and Other…
Ep. 302 Satan Has Perverted the Classical Liberal Project
Bob goes solo to argue that our current institutional framework in the US isn’t arbitrary; it was hijacked by the evil one. He illustrates with the recent examples of the Satanic Temple in Iowa and the three university presidents who seemed to excuse calls for genocide. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:…