Words & Numbers

Fans are applauding Taylor Swift for contributing billions to the country’s GDP. Yet Taylor Swift (three-quarters of a billionaire) is doing less for the economy than what many billionaires, who we vilify, do. Why do we applaud one business person and vilify the other?

Foolishness of the week: 09:33
Main episode: 14:24

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1826637/uss-gerald-r-ford-steak-lobster-dinner-israel-hamas-middle-east

Foolishness of the Week

https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2023/oct/11/culdesac-car-free-neighborhood-tempe-arizona

Topic of the Week

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2023/10/18/taylor-swifts-movie-outsold-the-next-50-top-grossing-movies-combined/?sh=6e90fc774e67

https://www.statista.com/chart/31033/key-figures-from-swifts-the-eras-tour/#:~:text=Throughout%20the%20U.S.%20leg%20of,146%20dates%20on%20five%20continents

https://time.com/6307420/taylor-swift-eras-tour-money-economy/

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More than a decade ago, experts decided to change how students are taught to read. Without testing whether the new method worked or, apparently, even checking in with actual teachers, the experts forced the change. What resulted was a generation of children with reduced reading abilities. The experts have now reversed course. People make mistakes like this all the time. When the people who are making the decisions are the same people who live with the consequences of the decisions, errors get detected and fixed relatively quickly. There's nothing wrong with experts weighing in on the best way to do things. But when those experts are allowed to impose their wills on others, the people who live with the consequences are no longer the people making the decisions. What often results is decades of living with "solutions" that do more harm than good.

Main episode: 06:47

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https://genderdata.worldbank.org/indicators/vc-ihr-psrc-p5

Topic of the Week

https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/repairing-the-damage-columbias-teachers-college-did-to-american-kids-will-take-years/

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From time to time, listeners write to tell us what we’ve gotten wrong. This week, we go back through predictions and analyses we’ve made that have turned out to be wrong.

Main episode: 12:09

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Attorney Vince White joins us this week. Vince’s law firm does more workplace harassment and sexual discrimination cases than any other US law firm. His firm also handled some of the Harvey Weinstein cases. Interestingly, Vince is James’ former student.

Foolishness of the week: 05:30
Main episode: 08:39

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https://www.axios.com/2023/10/01/student-loan-payments-october-2023

Foolishness of the Week

https://nbcmontana.com/news/connect-to-congress/meghan-markle-considering-run-for-sen-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat-sources-say-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-house-of-windsor-royal-family-prince-harry-gavin-newsom-california-los-angeles-family-leave-gun-safety-politics

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Robert Reich (not an economist) recorded a video recently in which he claims that the rich are not paying their fair share of Social Security. But the calculations he uses to prove his point are fundamentally flawed.

Foolishness of the week: 09:54
Main episode: 12:57

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/politics/fact-check-biden-every-mass-shooting/index.html

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Economist Bryan McCannon gives us two things to think about this week: his research into whether covid mask mandates saved lives, and that journal editors were afraid to publish his results.

Foolishness of the week: 08:04
Main episode: 11:49

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https://apnews.com/article/climate-oil-gas-california-lawsuit-newsom-212d6d9873352f28094173a1974e3d90

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.wbez.org/stories/how-a-city-run-grocery-store-in-chicago-could-work/91365f98-25de-4cd5-80e9-eae3fa627610

Topic of the Week

Mask mandates

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Burning Man, a modern day Woodstock, occurs each year in the desert. This year brought 87,000 people together to live, if only for a few days, in a cooperative nirvana. We take some time to look at the Burning Man principles for living and ask whether they make any sense.

Foolishness of the week: 05:21
Main episode: 11:44

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https://www.iflscience.com/linguists-speak-of-a-new-language-dialect-evolving-in-the-us-70586

Foolishness of the Week

https://sourcenm.com/briefs/n-m-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-gun-violence/

https://ibis.doh.nm.gov/indicator/view/DthRateLdgCause.Year.Cause.html

https://everystat.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Gun-Violence-in-New-Mexico-2.9.2021.pdf

Topic of the Week

https://survival.burningman.org/culture/the-10-principles/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/06/burning-man-2023-photos-nevada-desert/70774615007/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/business/burning-man-billionaires/index.html

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Union membership in the private sector has been declining for decades, while union membership in the public sector has been increasing. This is consistent with workers voluntarily choosing not to unionize to the point that unions must turn to government jobs where it is easier to force workers to unionize.

Foolishness of the week: 04:20
Main episode: 10:03

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/climate-change-activists-blockaded-burning-man-accuse-police-excessive-rcna102370

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/pope-francis-conservatives-united-states-rcna102452

Topic of the Week

Declining union membership

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195339/number-of-union-members-in-the-us-since-2000/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195349/union-membership-rate-of-employees-in-the-us-since-2000/

Union workers earn around 20% more than non-union workers

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374865/earnings-union-membership-race-us/

33% of public sector jobs are unionized vs 6% of private sector jobs

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf

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The Republicans held their first primary debate. What they said wasn’t interesting. What they didn’t say was.

Foolishness of the week: 07:00
Main episode: 09:10

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/urban-doom-loop-could-pose-105045782.html

Foolishness of the Week
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-advisers-bristle-newsoms-plan-debate-desantis-rcna101799

Topic of the Week

GOP Primary Debate
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Economist Art Carden joins us this week to talk about his popular book, Strangers With Candy.

Foolishness of the week: 04:27
Main episode: 18:01

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/372900/number-of-chinese-students-that-study-in-the-us/

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone=world&page=map&year=2020&countries=THA,CHN,USA

https://reason.com/2023/08/21/chinas-industrial-policy-is-failing-will-american-politicians-take-notice/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/american-workers-are-demanding-almost-80000-a-year-to-take-a-new-job.html

Foolishness of the Week
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1693274613541671350

Topic of the Week

Strangers With Candy
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733658459?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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Michael Semanchik, Director of the Innocence Center, joins us to talk about freeing the wrongfully imprisoned, and reforming the criminal justice system to reduce the likelihood of wrongful convictions.

Foolishness of the week: 06:13
Main episode: 07:09

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https://www.outkick.com/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-song-lyrics-viral-video/

Foolishness of the Week

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cruise-debauchery/

Topic of the Week

Mike Semanchik
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-semanchik/

California Innocence Project Podcast
https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/cipp/

Innocence Center
www.innocencecenter.org

National exoneration registry
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The point of communicating is to transfer thoughts from one person’s brain to another. In most forms of human communication, words are the tools we use. But if the two people don’t share common definitions of words, then communication becomes clouded. The most extreme case is when two people speak very different languages. But miscommunication often happens when both people speak the same language. If we hope to resolve, or at least come to peaceful disagreement, over topics from gun control to gender, we have to make a concerted effort to agree on definitions before debating the topics.

Main episode: 12:34

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The Constitution sets lower age limits for members of Congress and the President, but sets no upper limits. Before modern medicine, this wasn’t as much of a problem as people’s bodies tended not to outlive their minds. Today, it’s becoming a problem.

Foolishness of the week: 05:30
Main episode: 09:35

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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/mosquitoes-carry-west-nile-are-becoming-resistant-insecticides-cdc-say-rcna96867

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.cornelwest24.org/press_release_073123

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James and I both went to see the recent box office hit, The Sound of Freedom. I liked it. James didn’t. But we both were appalled at what appear to be seriously distorted claims made in the film about human trafficking.

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Topic of the Week

Human trafficking defined
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/

World data on human trafficking (p. 78)

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Trafficking-in-Persons-Report-2023.pdf

US data on human trafficking

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2022

Fraction of children in human trafficking (p. 48)

https://www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf

Drug trafficking statistics

https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/drug-trafficking

Critique of Sound of Freedom

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sound-of-freedom-child-trafficking-experts-1234786352/

The claimed stats at the end of Sound of Freedom

https://www.looper.com/1343442/sound-of-freedom-ending-explained/

Quick Hits

AI and telemarketers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-hire-phone-bots-to-torture-telemarketers-2dbb8457

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Howie Baetjer, Rob McDonald, James Stacey Taylor, and Clark Neily join us to talk about gun rights, canceling the Founders, and animal rights.

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This encore performance is of our most popular episode. This episode, in which we explore unintended consequences, first aired in September of 2019.

Foolishness of the week: 06:19
Main episode: 10:54

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Quick Hits
https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/maryland-sk-court-case-teen-sexting-child-pornography.html

https://www.blackbusiness.com/2019/05/roy-allela-black-engineer-invents-gloves-turn-sign-language-audible-speech.html

Foolishness of the Week
https://reason.com/2019/08/28/de-blasio-advisory-group-wants-to-abolish-gifted-classes-in-nyc-public-schools/

https://reason.com/2019/08/28/de-blasio-advisory-group-wants-to-abolish-gifted-classes-in-nyc-public-schools/

Episode Topic
https://www.wired.com/2008/12/a380-is-so-quie/
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-political-assault-on-paydays-1464909417
https://www.nber.org/papers/w6670
https://berniesanders.com/issues/the-green-new-deal/

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James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and how we’ve broken the separation of powers, 

Foolishness of the week: 06:41
Main episode: 03:53

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James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and how we’ve broken the separation of powers, 

Foolishness of the week: 06:41
Main episode: 08:18

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This week’s episode is a live recording of a panel discussion on free speech at the University of Washington.

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This week, historian Rob McDonald, Constitutional scholar and lawyer Clark Neily, philosophy James Stacey Taylor, and economist Howard Baetjer join James and Ant around a fire to discuss the indictments against former President Donald Trump.

To accommodate the extended conversation, this week we forego our usual quick hits and foolishness of the week. We think you'll agree that, regardless of on which side you fall on the topic, the whole business with Donald Trump qualifies as foolishness.