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In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with George Washington University professor Samuel Goldman about different historical narratives about American identity, definitions of nationalism and why consensus should not be our goal.
Resources:
John L. Loeb, Jr. Institute for Religious Freedom
Politics & Values Program
Samuel Goldman, God's Country: Christian Zionism in America
Samuel Goldman,After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division
Frederick Douglas,Our Composite Nationality
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In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Roland Merullo about taking liberal democracy, and each other, for granted as well as what people can do in our own lives to be more mindful about the decisions we make and how we treat others. Merullo is an award-winning author of 24 books including 17 works of fiction. His book Breakfast with Buddha was a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and his latest book Once Night Falls was selected as a November 2019 pick by Amazon First Reads editors.
Resources:
Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
Roland Merullo, Once Night Falls
Roland Merullo, âWe canât Keep Taking Liberal Democracy for Granted,â Persuasion
Roland Merullo, âWhat Liberal Academics Donât Get,â The Chronicle of Higher Education
Roland Merullo, On the Plus Side
Martin Buber, I and Thou
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In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Ian Marcus Corbin about the difference between solitude and loneliness, how the internet is affecting peopleâs sense of self, the virtues of ska punk music and much more. Corbin is a writer, researcher and teacher in Cambridge, Mass., where he is currently writing a book on solitude and human solidarity.
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In this eighth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with David Goldhill about how to fix the incentives in healthcare, why the insurance system is outdated, why the government is a poor regulator in this industry, and much more. Goldhill is an American business executive and writer on healthcare policy. He co-founded and runs the independent healthcare marketplace organization Sesame.
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In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the Director of Academic Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Keith Whittington about his latest book, âSpeak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech,â his work with the Academic Freedom Alliance, free speech on college campuses, self-censorship and much more. Whittington is the Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. In addition to âSpeak Freely,â he has written several books on constitutional law and the judiciary, and he hosts the Academic Freedom Podcast.
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In this seventh installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Jason Hwang about healthcare innovations such as the MinuteClinic and telemedicine, the history of disruption in healthcare and other industries, the need for change in medical education and much more. Hwang is the co-founder and former healthcare executive director of Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. He also co-authored âThe Innovatorâs Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care.â He is an internal medicine physician who obtained his M.D. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and he also received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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In this fourteenth installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Tara Isabella Burton about religion in America today, encompassing everything from yoga to witchcraft to wellness culture. They discuss the decline of trust in religious institutions, contemporary spiritualityâs focus on self-determination, the role of the internet in creating new religious affinities and much more. Burton is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction works, including the novels âSocial Creatureâ and âThe World Cannot Giveâ and the nonfiction book âStrange Rites.â She has a doctorate in theology from Trinity College, Oxford.
This series also includes interviews with Alan Charles Kors, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Ilana Redstone, Richard Ebeling, Robert Talisse, Danielle Allen, Roger Berkowitz, Virgil Storr, Kevin Vallier, Juliana Schroeder, John Inazu, Jonathan Rauch and Peter Boettke.
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In this episode of the Discourse Magazine Podcast, Mercatus senior research fellow Alden Abbott speaks with Rob Atkinson about the Biden administrationâs recent executive order on competition, privacy and free speech issues in Big Tech, two competing philosophies of antitrust law and much more. Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank focused on science and technology policy. He has served on various presidential commissions throughout the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations, and he has also authored several books, most recently âBig Is Beautiful: Debunking the Mythology of Small Business.â
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In this sixth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Keith Smith about his innovative pricing strategy at the Surgical Center of Oklahoma and the economic theory behind those pricing decisions. Smith founded the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, where he works as an anesthesiologist. He is also co-founder of the Free Market Medical Association, whose mission is to promote transparency in healthcare and accelerate the speed and growth of the free market healthcare revolution.
Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data. The fourth is a discussion with Devi Shetty on Indiaâs Narayana hospital system and innovations in healthcare. The fifth talk with Eric Topol is about medicineâs slow progress and machine learning in healthcare.
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In this thirteenth installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the Director of Academic Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Peter Boettke about the promise held by the idea of liberal cosmopolitanism and the importance of considering the political economy of institutional arrangements in reaching our potential. Boettke is a University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mercatus. Boettkeâs analytical framework is grounded especially in Austrian economics, the Bloomington School of institutional analysis and the Virginia school of political economy. He has authored and co-authored numerous book, including âThe Struggle for a Better Worldâ (2021), âF. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophyâ (2018), and âLiving Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrowâ (2012).
This series also includes interviews with Alan Charles Kors, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Ilana Redstone, Richard Ebeling, Robert Talisse, Danielle Allen, Roger Berkowitz, Virgil Storr, Kevin Vallier, Juliana Schroeder, John Inazu and Jonathan Rauch.
For more helpful links and resources from this conversation, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.
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In this fifth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Eric Topol about the slow progress of medicine, how machine learning will improve healthcare, the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, the triumph of the mRNA vaccines and much more. Topol is a cardiologist, scientist and author of several books, including âThe Patient Will See You Nowâ and âDeep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.â He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of molecular medicine at the Scripps Research Institute and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Scripps Clinic.
Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data. The fourth is a discussion with Devi Shetty on Indiaâs Narayana hospital system and innovations in healthcare.
For more helpful links and resources from this conversation, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.
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In this episode of Discourse Magazine Podcast, Alden Abbott, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, interviews antitrust scholar-practitioners James Rill and William Kovacic about the development of global antitrust law, the International Competition Network, Americaâs role in the future of antitrust and much more. James Rill is one of Americaâs foremost antitrust lawyers, and he has served as assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justiceâs Antitrust Division. William Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy and the director of the Competition Law Center at the George Washington University School of Law. He was formerly a member of the Federal Trade Commission and chaired the agency in 2008-2009.
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In this twelfth installment of our series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the Director of Academic Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Jonathan Rauch about fallibilism, groupthink, cancelers and trolls, and why the constitution of knowledge is better than the marketplace of ideas. Rauch is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. His latest book is âThe Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truthâ (2021). Previous works include âThe Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50â (2018), âPolitical Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracyâ (2015) and âGay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Americaâ (2004).
This series also includes interviews with Alan Charles Kors, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Ilana Redstone, Richard Ebeling, Robert Talisse, Danielle Allen, Roger Berkowitz, Virgil Storr, Kevin Vallier, Juliana Schroeder and John Inazu.
Resources:
Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
S.E. Asch, Studies in the Principles of Judgments and Attitudes: II. Determination of Judgments by Group and by Ego Standards
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abrams et al. vs United States
Saturday Night Live, Jane, you Ignorant Slut
Martin Gurri, Revolt of the Public
Polanyi, Republic of Science
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In this episode, economists Don Boudreaux, Steve Davies, Douglas Irwin, and Arvind Panagariya reflect on the legacy of Britainâs Corn Laws 175 years after their repeal on June 25, 1846. They discuss the effects of the Corn Laws, the circumstances leading to the lawsâ repeal, the ensuing rise of free trade both in Britain and globally, and much more. Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Davies is the head of education at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Douglas is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Panagariya is a professor of economics and the Jagdish N. Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.
Resources:
The Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity by Steve Davies
Clashing Over Commerce by Doug Irwin
Free Trade and Prosperity by Arvind Panagariya
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In this fourth installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Devi Shetty about the innovations of the Narayana hospital system, the ways in which technology can improve healthcare, how to fix medical education and much more. Shetty is the founder, chairman and executive director of Narayana Health, as well as a cardiac surgeon with more than 30 yearsâ experience. He is a professor at Rajiv Gandhi Univesrity of Medical Sciences in Bengaluru, India, and at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has received several awards and honors, including the Padma Shri Award in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan Award in 2012, both conferred by the government of India for his contribution to the field of affordable healthcare.
Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series include two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here. The third installment is a conversation with Pradheep Shanker on COVID-19 data.
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In this eleventh installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with John Inazu to discuss what changes in constitutional rules and inter-personal norms can be more effective at better fostering environments of patient, tolerant, and intellectually humble conversations.
Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He specializes in First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion, and related questions of legal and political theory. His books include Libertyâs Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Heâs also the executive director of The Carver Project, an organization that empowers Christian faculty and students to serve and connect university, church, and society.
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Resources:
John Inazu, Liberty's Refuge, the Forgotten Freedom of Assembly, https://www.jinazu.com/libertys-refuge
John Inazu, Confident Pluralism, Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, https://www.jinazu.com/confident-pluralism
John Inazu and Tim Keller, Uncommon Ground, Living Faithfully in a World of Difference, https://www.jinazu.com/uncommon-ground
Carver Project, https://www.carverstl.org/
Ben Klutsey and Danielle Allen, A Matter of Trust, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2020/12/04/a-matter-of-trust/
Danielle Allen, Talking to Strangers, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo3636037.html
James Boyd White, Living Speech, https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138374/living-speech
John Inazu, The Purpose (and Limits) of the University, https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2018/iss5/1/
Alasdair Macintyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry, https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268018771/three-rival-versions-of-moral-enquiry/
James Davison Hunter, Faithful Presence, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730803.001.0001/acprof-9780199730803-chapter-18
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Editorsâ note: This podcast was recorded on March 11, 2021, and the situation in India has changed significantly since then. On April 29, we asked Dr. Shanker if he wanted to omit these comments, and he said unabashedly, âIt was my opinion at the time!â Dr. Graboyes commented, âOne of the things Iâve enjoyed most about Pradheepâs pandemic posts has been his intellectual honesty and willingness to highlight where his predictions have not been borne out.â
In this second installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on the Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow here at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Pradheep Shanker, a radiologist who focuses on health policy. They discuss the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the different policies implemented by various national and state governments, and the outcomes of those policies. They also talk about pandemic politics and speculate on COVID-19âs long-term effects.
Previous installments of the Fortress and Frontier series are two conversations between Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin. The first can be found here, and the second can be found here.
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In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with Juliana Schroeder to discuss the psychology underlying how trust and distrust are generated as well as practical ways to better facilitate productive interactions, even across severe cultural, ideological, or other divides. Dr. Schroeder is a professor in the Management of Organizations group at the Haas School of Business and a faculty affiliate in the Social Psychology Department, the Cognition Department, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley. She also co-founded and directs the Psychology of Technology Institute, which supports and advances scientific research studying the psychological consequences and antecedents of technological advancements. Her research examines the psychological processes underlying how people think about the minds of those around them, and how their judgments then influence their social judgments, decisions, and interactions. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and awards from the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.
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Resources
Shannon White, Juliana Schroeder, and Jane L. Risen, When Enemies become Close, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5f6a300a0c80ed485d74a75b/1600794637679/White%2C+Schroeder%2C+%26+Risen+2020+JPSP.pdf
Juliana Schroeder and Jane L. Risen, Befriending the enemy: Outgroup friendship longitudinally predicts intergroup attitudes in a coexistence program for Israelis and Palestinians, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7b0015b208fcd4071df492/1551564822844/befriending-the-enemy.pdf
Seeds of Peace, https://www.seedsofpeace.org/
Braver Angels, https://braverangels.org/
Living Room Conversations, https://livingroomconversations.org/
Psychology of Technology Institute, https://www.psychoftech.org/
Juliana Schroeder, Michael Kardas, and Nicholas Epley, The Humanizing Voice: Speech Reveals, and Text Conceals, a More Thoughtful Mind in the Midst of Disagreement, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7aff6ae4966b9aba01f4d6/1551564652086/the-humanizing-voice.pdf
Alicea Lieberman and Juliana Schroeder, Two social lives: How differences between online and offline interaction influence social outcomes, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5d5acd294a8ef600016e778a/1566231850150/TwoSocialLives_LiebermanSchroeder.pdf
Jamie E. Guillory PhD Jeffrey T. Hancock PhD Christopher Woodruff MD, FRCPC, and Jeffrey Keilman MD, Text Messaging Reduces Analgesic Requirements During Surgery, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pme.12610
The Flipside, https://www.theflipside.io/
The Factual, https://www.thefactual.com/
All Sides, https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
Daniel H. Stein, Juliana Schroeder, Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton, When Alterations Are Violations: Moral Outrage and Punishment in Response to (Even Minor) Alterations to Rituals, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5fda6b470917ce2aa86a82d8/1608149834372/When+alterations+are+violations+-+proofs.pdf
Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton, Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7aff16e2c4834c1a2bee7c/1551564567399/handshaking-promotes-deal-making-by-signaling-cooperative-intent.pdf
James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, Richard J. Davidson, Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01832.x
Robert Talisse, Too Much of a Good Thing, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2020/11/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/
Danielle Allen, A Matter of Trust, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2020/12/04/a-matter-of-trust/
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In this second installment of the Fortress and Frontier series on the Discourse Magazine Podcast, Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow here at Mercatus, continues his conversation with Temple Grandin, a pioneer in the humane treatment of livestock and a well-known spokesperson on autism.
Their discussion encompasses the need for many different types of thinkers, the importance of observing real-world things, not just mathematical models, the role of small businesses in innovation, deficiencies in modern educational systems, and much more.
The first Fortress and Frontier podcast episode and transcript can be found here.
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In this 9th episode on our series on liberalism, Ben Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Kevin Vallier about the connections between declining social and political trust as well as possible solutions for rebuilding faith in our neighbors and establishing a broad-based civic friendship. Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. His interests lie primarily in philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation, Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society, and Trust in a Polarized Age.
Resources mentioned
Kevin Vallier, Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation, https://www.kevinvallier.com/books/liberal-politics-and-public-faith/
Kevin Vallier, Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society, https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/must-politics-be-war-redux-500-words/
Kevin Vallier, Trust in a Polarized Age, https://www.kevinvallier.com/books/trust-in-a-polarized-age/
Kevin Vallier, Reconciled Blog Post, https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/new-finding-us-social-trust-has-fallen-23-points-since-1964/
Robert Talisse, Discourse Interview, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2020/11/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/
Robert Talisse, Overdoing Democracy, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overdoing-democracy-9780190924195?cc=us&lang=en&m
Martin Gurri, Revolt of the Public, https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143
Philip Tetlock Superforcasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-Philip-Tetlock/dp/0804136718
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