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Challenging Opinions, Episode Zero
Challenging Opinions podcast This is Episode Zero of the podcast. It's a test to get the podcast feed going. There will be a full episode with lots of interviews shortly.
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Challenging Opinions Episode One - Education, Religion and Liberty
This is the Huffington Post article that derides Donald Trump for saying that he will hire 'great people' to advise him on immigration, and this is the poll that puts him above 40 per cent in the...
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Challenging Opinions Episode Six >> Leslie Loftis
This is a catalogue of the 994 mass shootings in the United States in the last 1,004 days, and this is the sole example of an armed civilian intervening, in Florida in 1982. Ben Carson claimed that an...
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Challenging Opinions Episode Two >> Dr Mark Thornton
Dr Mark Thornton is a PhD economist at the Mises Institute. This institute is named after the Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, who was one of the inspirations for the Austrian school of...
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Challenging Opinions Episode Three >> Dr Robert Waldmann
Dr Robert Waldmann is the editor of the Angry Bear blog and a professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Dr Robert Waldmann Among other things, we discussed the cost of healthcare and the...
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Challenging Opinions Episode Four >> Ben Orlin
Ben Orlin is a math teacher and the writer of the author of the Math With Bad Drawings blog. Math with Bad Drawings
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Challenging Opinions Episode Five >> Dr Jerome Huyler
These are the reports that first uncovered the software designed to cheat on EPA emissions tests when VW cars were tested. This is the report that shows that air quality doesn't match the...
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Challenging Opinions Episode Seven >> Rob Morse
Rob Morse is the author of Slow Facts and co-host of the Polite Society podcast. Rob Morse I referred to this Swiss study which concluded "The restriction of firearm availability in Switzerland...
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Challenging Opinions Episode Eight >> Jon Green
Jon Green is the editor of America Blog. Jon Greene Some of his articles on Ben Carson are listed here.
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Challenging Opinions Episode Nine >> Fred Litwin
Fred Litwin is the author of the Gay and Right blog, and the book Conservative Confidential (Amazon). Fred Litwin
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Challenging Opinions Episode 10 >> Rob Lyons
Rob Lyons is the author of the Panic on a Plate blog, and he's the author of a book of the same name (Amazon). Rob Lyons This is an article from the Daily Telegraph that discussed the removal of 'Best...
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Challenging Opinions Episode 14 >> Julie Davis
Julie Davis is a presenter of the podcast A Good Story is Hard to Find and the author of the Happy Catholic blog. Julie Davis This is the source for the quote from Sam Harris that I mentioned, and the...
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Challenging Opinions Episode 16 >> Paul MacRae
Paul MacRae is a lecturer at the University of Victoria, British Colombia, and the author of False Alarm and his blog. Paul MacRae In the discussion I referred to the scientific consensus on climate...
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Challenging Opinions Episode 17 >> Gary Butts
Gary Butts is the founder and director or Moderate Voters.org. Gary Butts
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Challenging Opinions Episode 20 >> Richard Fernandez
Richard Fernandez is a writer for PJ Media and a founder of the Belmont Club. Richard Fernandez I use these two articles as the starting point of our discussion.
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Challenging Opinions Episode 21 >> Virginia Postrel
Virginia Postrel is an author and columnist. Virginia Postrel She writes for Bloomberg View and we talked about this column of hers. Virginia mentioned this book by Michele Goodwin, and I referenced...
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Challenging Opinions Episode 23 >> Claire Berlinski
Claire Berlinski is a journalist, academic and author. She has lived and worked in Thailand, Laos, Turkey and France, an an academic for the American Foreign Policy Council and the Manhattan Institute....
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Challenging Opinions Episode 11 >> Eric Schansberg
Eric Schansberg writes the SchansBlog. He is a former Libertarian candidate for the US Congress, and is the author of Turn Neither to the Right Nor to the Left, Poor Policy: How Government Harms the...
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Challenging Opinions Episode 12 >> Scott Wyatt
Scott Wyatt is the writer of Almost Classical, and is also the former visiting assistant professor at Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. CS Wyatt
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Challenging Opinions Episode 13 >> Chris Kelly
Chris Kelly is the coauthor of Italy Invades and America Invades. He's also the author of the American Conservative in London blog. Chris Kelly My references for the Columbus debate come from...
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