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Using Reason to Cultivate Passion: A Moral and Psychological How-To Guide by Gena Gorlin

Posted April 13, 2022 • 00:59:07

Despite all the graduation speeches enjoining us to "be passionate" about something, the experience of deep, passionate emotion is not an easy one to...

Wealth Creators: The Forgotten Victims of Cronyism by Steve Simpson

Posted April 6, 2022 • 01:28:53

Critics of cronyism typically describe the problem as politicians and businesses conspiring to win government favors at the expense of taxpayers, or...

Montessori and the Independent Mind with Matt Bateman, Catherine Dickerson, Allison Kunze, and Anne Locke Bussey

Posted March 30, 2022 • 01:05:07

Ayn Rand, champion of the independent mind, championed Montessori education. Drawing on their experience with hundreds of individual young minds in...

Rising in Love: Monna Vanna as Magnificent Drama by Shoshana Milgram

Posted March 23, 2022 • 01:27:58

Maeterlinck’s Monna Vanna, set in Italy during the Renaissance, has a timeless theme: Romantic love ennobles the human soul. One rises in love. But...

The Regulatory State: Causes and Casualties with Harry Binswanger, Peter Schwartz, and Adam Mossoff

Posted March 18, 2022 • 01:28:10

Government regulations have grown inexorably over decades and now impact all aspects of our lives. Just in the last year, we’ve seen regulatory measures...