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EP 246 A.M. Hickman on Hitchhiking in America

Posted July 5, 202401:12:39

Jim and A.M. Hickman trade stories about the pleasures and tribulations of hitchhiking. They discuss Andy & his wife's recent hitchhiking honeymoon,...

EP 245 Bob Levy on the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court

Posted July 2, 202401:16:20

Jim talks with Bob Levy about the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, in the Supreme Court. They discuss Bob's late-career move to law,...

EP 244 Samo Burja on Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War

Posted June 27, 202401:27:03

Jim talks with Samo Burja about lessons military strategists should take from the Russo-Ukrainian War so far. They discuss why military stockpiles are...

EP 243 Yaroslav Trofimov on Ukraine’s War of Independence

Posted June 25, 202401:13:28

Jim talks with Yaroslav Trofimov about his new book Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence. They discuss the...

EP 242 Magatte Wade on a Vision for African Economic Development

Posted June 6, 202401:10:11

Jim talks with Magatte Wade about the ideas in her book The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means...