Week of JANUARY 20, 2025

THE FUTURE OF LIBERTY WITH GOV. MITCH DANIELS

In case you missed it, check out our latest episode of The Future of Liberty with Governor Mitch Daniels podcast, where historian Amity Shlaes shares some insights about "the tendency of the government to play God" coined by Benjamin Anderson. She and Mitch Daniels also explore misconceptions about the Great Depression, talk about the New Deal era, and more.

  • The government playing God (2:21)
  • Hoover, the laissez-faire champion (8:01)
  • Crafty politicians versus committed ideologues (18:57)
  • The forgotten man (31:33)
  • Why not socialism and youth (40:01)

Tune in to The Future of Liberty with Gov. Mitch Daniels podcast today!
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LATEST FROM OUR PODCASTS

How can opera, with words we rarely understand, make us cry? Why does opera, filled with melodrama, move us? Dive into our newest episode of EconTalk where host Russ Roberts is joined by poet and librettist Dana Gioia and they discuss why words matter more than we think.
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In the era of cancel culture, one tweet became a career-altering moment for Ilya Shapiro. However, it prompted him to take a hard look at the state of legal education. Tune in to the Law & Liberty podcast as he and host James Patterson discuss his recent book titled Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elite.
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Check out The Great Antidote podcast with a guest feature from George Mason University PhD student Anna Claire Flowers. In this episode, Flowers and host Juliette Sellgren discuss Hayek, the mesocosmos, and how this missing piece can resolve issues better.
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SUGGESTED READING

Featured Liberty Fund Conference Readings | We invite you to explore the carefully selected readings of past Liberty Fund Socratic-style conferences. 

In our recent conference titled "Antitrust's Interventionist Allure," attendees discussed law and economics literature on antitrust, alternative antitrust standards, and the implications they have on competition, consumers, and the economy. Selected readings included work from a range of authors including Competition and Entrepreneurship by Israel Kirzner.

TOP PICKS FROM THE LIBERTY FUND NETWORK
America's Free Press Tradition by Miles Smith IV
ESG and the Purpose of Corporations: Back to Basics by Carlos Fernando Souto
Government Junk Fees by Pierre Lemieux

A CALL TO LIBERTY

"How strong should our feeling of attachment to a nation and its government be? How does that affection or lack thereof affect public policy?"

Consider these questions in our new pamphlet commentary essay from A Call to Liberty written by Ball State students Owen Holzbach and Daniel Rivera-Mills and Ball State professor Nathanael Snow. You can also check out our lead essay by authors Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, M. Scott Niederjohn, Mark C. Schug, and William C. Wood.

 A Call to Liberty is a two-year, 24-part series that strives to reawaken interest in and respect for the Declaration of Independence as we approach its 250th anniversary in July of 2026. Every month, Liberty Fund brings you a slate of fresh content that explores questions related to important themes from the Declaration and considers them in relation to our past, our present, and our future.
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