AIER Senior Fellow and Historian Robert E. Wright sat down with Kate Wand to discuss the current state of the Overton Window. - Did Covid and the policy responses to it, the George Floyd demonstrations/riots, the 2020 election and the events of 6 January, CRT in the K-12 classroom, and the new Texas abortion law shatter the Overton window, shift it upward or downward, or open it wider at both ends? https://www.aier.org/article/whats-become-of-the-overton-window/ aier.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDCtfZi7A0

Where did Bitcoin come from? Since the mysterious conception of Bitcoin following the 2008 financial crisis, people have been trying to figure out who created it, and why. Joining Kate Wand on Liberty Curious is independent thinker & writer Emile Phaneuf, to discuss the origins of Bitcoin, and its philosophical influences including the writings of Hayek, Ayn Rand and David Friedman. Emile writes on matters of money and cryptocurrency and has spent well over a decade working in international business development around the world. Emile explains that Hayek imagined how private enterprise could compete with the long withstanding government monopoly on money to create better choices for the people. He draws parallels as to how Bitcoin is an example of decentralization in the Information Age, and how this kind of technology has the potential to disrupt the status quo. To begin, we delve into the potential motives of the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. Emile Phaneuf's articles discussed in this podcast: https://www.aier.org/article/hayek-and-bitcoin/ https://www.aier.org/article/cypherpunks-galts-gulch-and-bitcoin/ https://www.aier.org/article/anarchy-and-bitcoin/ Emile Phaneuf on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EconEmile emilephaneuf.com *** Please note that the opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the host and her guests. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Institute for Economic Research. The content presented in this show is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered as financial advice. *** 0:00 - Introduction 0:23 - Origins of Bitcoin and philosophical influences 2:15 - Influence of Hayek, Rand, and Friedman 5:06 - Decentralization and disruptive potential of Bitcoin 6:43 - Concealment of Satoshi Nakamoto's identity 8:28 - Hayek's argument for denationalization of currency 10:02 - Government monopolization and the public's lack of choice 11:56 - Algorithmic monetary policy of Bitcoin 19:14 - The Machinery of Freedom 25:03 - Parallel Financial System 29:26 - CBDC 32:31 - The Revolt of the Public 44:20 - Absolute Control 47:05 - Final Thoughts aier.org/podcasts ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrau-1gRcmw

Ramon P. DeGennaro, PhD CBA Professor of Banking and Finance The University of Tennessee ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OclNyFi2bH4

On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand invites Bruce Pardy to discuss the origins of the Woke virus of the mind: critical theory, social justice, postmodernism and critical race theory. Bruce explains identity politics, power relationships, victimhood, and all the pillars of Critical Theory, a school of thought that has infiltrated our culture, institutions and society. We explore how this has all developed, touch on topics like the 'death of God', trans-humanism, morality, intersectionality, and how woke culture is, at its core, an attack on Western civilization. Bruce Pardy is a professor of law and executive director of Rights Probe, a law and liberty think tank. He is a classically liberal legal academic who believes in equal treatment under the law, negative rights, private property, limited government, and the separation of powers, which are foundational to the Western legal tradition. He is a critic of legal progressivism, social justice, and the discretionary managerial state, and has written extensively on a range of pressing legal subjects that are at the forefront of the culture war inside the law. "Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in human affairs produced the scientific method and later the Industrial Revolution. Add in the rule of law, individual liberty, private property, and capitalism, and you have the basic recipe that has raised much of humanity out of poverty and oppression over two centuries. Four academic doctrines—Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Social Justice, and Critical Race Theory—are moving the world, or at least the West, from this triumph to decline. These doctrines reject Enlightenment values such as open inquiry, individual autonomy, free speech, scientific skepticism, and even reason itself. They claim to champion equality, peace, and social cooperation, but instead promote identity politics, elitism, and centralized control. They are the four doctrines of the apocalypse." - Bruce Pardy Bruce’s Law & Liberty think tank: Rightsprobe.org https://www.theepochtimes.com/bruce-pardy-the-four-doctrines-of-the-apocalypse-critical-theory-and-our-compromised-institutions_5355971.html aier.org/podcasts *** Please note that the opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the host and her guests. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Institute for Economic Research. The content presented in this show is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered as financial advice. *** 0:00 - intro 1:30 - four doctrines of the apocalypse 8:47 - Woke sums it up 9:22 - The core of the proposition 14:30 - Deconstructing Western Civ 16:00 - Postmodernism 19:00 - Morality and Consensus 25:55 - What is the Western ideal? 29:25 - Is the West committing suicide? 36:12 - 'becoming God' 38:30 - where the threads come apart 40:00 - is Woke a religion? 45:00 - How did Critical Theory escape academia? 46:33 - Other factors 51:44 - Privilege 56:26 - Critical Theory seeks to deconstruct Western Civ 58:00 - What is the Utopia? 1:03:15 - Lines in the Sand 1:10:10 - Individual Solutions 1:13:45 - Last Thoughts ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8h6LzZtv7M