The Debt Dialogues

In this weekly podcast series, Don Watkins, fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, talks to a diverse range of guests about the welfare state crisis and what to do about it.

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Episode 53: Jared Meyer on Uber

20-10-2015

In this episode, I interview Manhattan Institute fellow Jared Meyer on the ride-sharing company Uber.

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Episode 47: R.J. Renza, Jr. on Social Security

01-09-2015

I interview R.J. Renza Jr., author of How Are You Not Angry Yet? How Social Security is Destroying the Futures, Finances and Hopes of Generations X, Y and Z and How We Can Put an End To It, on the vital need to end Social Security.

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Episode 46: Lawrence W. Reed on Myths of Progressivism

25-08-2015

In this episode, I interview Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education, on his new book Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism.

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Episode 45: Walter Williams on Race and Education

18-08-2015

In this episode, I interview Walter Williams, George Mason University economist and nationally syndicated columnist, on his new book American Contempt for Liberty.

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Episode 44: Peter Schwartz on Paternalism

11-08-2015

In this episode, I interview ARI distinguished fellow Peter Schwartz on paternalism, altruism, and the welfare state.

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Episode 41: Jared Meyer on Washington's War on the Young

21-07-2015

In this episode, I interview Jared Meyer, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and co-author of Dishinhereted: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young on how the regulatory-welfare state is harming younger Americans.

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Episode 40: William Voegeli on “Liberal Compassion”

28-04-2015

In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I interview Claremont Review of Books senior editor William Voegeli on his recent book The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion.

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Episode 39: Steven Horwitz on Inequality, Mobility and Being Poor in America

17-02-2015

In this episode, I interview Steven Horwitz, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics and department chair at St. Lawrence University, on his new paper “Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America.”

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Episode 38: Phillip Magness on Thomas Piketty's Empirical Claims

10-02-2015

In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I interview Phillip Magness, a policy historian and Academic Program Director at the Institute for Humane Studies, on the empirical problems with Thomas Piketty's book on inequality, Capital.

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Episode 37: Daniel Mitchell on the OECD Inequality Study

06-01-2015

In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I interview Cato senior fellow Daniel J. Mitchell on the OECD's study claiming that inequality harms economic growth, and that redistributive policies to fight inequality don't.

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