NEW EPISODE
"Perverse Incentives: How The Government Worsened The Opioid Crisis & More"
This interview with Former White House CEA Chief Economist Casey Mulligan explores a number of problems created by poorly designed government policy, ranging from publicly-subsidized prescription opioids worsening narcotic addictions and death, to regulation that helps powerful special interests squeeze out competition.
The conversation touches on perverse incentives affecting our trade, energy, immigration, and welfare policy, leading to dysfunctional outcomes for the American people.
This is the second in a series of interviews that Paige will conduct with policy experts who break from the traditional Washington orthodoxy and who offer a variety of solutions that we can consider to revive our country's prosperity and promise.
NEW EPISODE!
"What Conservatives Should Want - Part 2"
Whatever else "wokeness" gives its adherents, it provides a concrete- if perverse- moral vision that makes demands on its believers and defines standards to strive towards. Matthew briefly outlines the many flaws of the woke social-credit worldview and offers an alternative approach to commerce and culture that goes past simple political neutrality. Before discussing the structural problems with Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, Matthew offers concrete steps toward orienting America's political economy back towards true excellence, virtue, and family formation.
NEW VIDEO!
"Our Democracy"
When the ruling class says "our democracy," what do they mean?
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