Freedom Center Today

Bob Chitester is the founder, and executive chairman of the board of Free To Choose Network, a 501(c)(3) public foundation housing Free To Choose Media, an award-winning global entertainment company which produces and distributes thought-provoking public television programs and series; izzit.org, an educational initiative that produces video-centric teaching units for a large network of K-College educators; and Free To Choose Press publishing company. You can read his full bio here: https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/about/team/b_chitester.php

James Stacey Taylor is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He received his M.LITT from St. Andrews University, and his MA and PhD from Bowling Green State University. You can read his full biography here: https://philos.tcnj.edu/faculty/james-stacey-taylor/

Bob Chitester is the founder, and executive chairman of the board of Free To Choose Network, a 501(c)(3) public foundation housing Free To Choose Media, an award-winning global entertainment company which produces and distributes thought-provoking public television programs and series; izzit.org, an educational initiative that produces video-centric teaching units for a large network of K-College educators; and Free To Choose Press publishing company. You can read his full bio here: https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/about/team/b_chitester.php

Bob Chitester is the founder, and executive chairman of the board of Free To Choose Network, a 501(c)(3) public foundation housing Free To Choose Media, an award-winning global entertainment company which produces and distributes thought-provoking public television programs and series; izzit.org, an educational initiative that produces video-centric teaching units for a large network of K-College educators; and Free To Choose Press publishing company. You can read his full bio here: https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/about/team/b_chitester.php

Dave Schmidtz is the Director of the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. You can find one of his many online bios here: https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/person/david-schmidtz

Christopher Robertson is Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. He is affiliated faculty with the Petrie Flom Center for Health Care Policy, Bioethics and Biotechnology at Harvard, and a reporter for the Health Law Monitoring Committee of the Uniform Law Commission. Robertson also founded the Regulatory Science Program, with support from the University’s four health science colleges. You can read Dr. Robertson’s full bio here: https://law.arizona.edu/christopher-robertson Books by Christopher Robertson Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It https://www.amazon.com/Exposed-Health-Insurance-Incomplete-about/dp/0674972163/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Christopher+Robertson%2C+Exposed%3A+Why+Our+Health+Insurance+Is+Incomplete+and+What+Can+Be+Done+about+It&qid=1585515418&sr=8-1 Nudging Health:  Behavioral Economics and Health Law https://www.amazon.com/Nudging-Health-Law-Behavioral-Economics/dp/1421421011/ref=sr_1_2?keyw

Dr. Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics. Dr. Smith has joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business & Economics and the Fowler School of Law, and he is part of a team that will create and run the new Economic Science Institute at Chapman. Here is a link to Dr. Smith’s full bio: https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vernon-smith You can learn more about the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University here: https://www.chapman.edu/research/institutes-and-centers/economic-science-institute/index.aspx And you can learn more about Vernon Smith’s coauthor, Sabiou M. Inoua, here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d4XLUPYAAAAJ&hl=en Here is a link to the video of the presentation Dr. Smith made for the Voices of Culture lecture series at the University of Arizona: https://vimeo.com/397787102 And finally, here is a link to the USA Today article that he wrote on the coronavirus: https://www.usatoday

Robert Gordon is an art historian at the University of Arizona. In this episode, Robert explains talks about poverty as it has been expressed in art throughout the ages, and what it all might mean. You can find out more about Robert Gordon here: https://music.arizona.edu/people/directory/regordo1/ And he is a link to a lecture he gave for the National Association of Scholars in answer to the question “How Does Western Civilization Contrast with Other Civilizations?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFKf2JJGRSQ

On today's episode we have Robert Gordon. Today Gordon and I will discuss his role at the Freedom Center, and discover how someone with a PhD in Art can end up teaching at the School of Music.  Show Notes: Robert Gordon https://music.arizona.edu/people/directory/regordo1/

Show Notes: You can visit Otto’s homepage here:  http://www.ottolehto.com/ More from Otto on Universal Basic Income: https://www.adamsmith.org/research/basic-income-experiments https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/schrdingers-basic-income-what-does-the-finnish-ubi-experiment-really-show  

Dr. Phil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. He joined us to discuss inequality in the United States. Show Notes: Dr. Phillip Magness https://www.aier.org/staff/phillip-w-magness/ http://philmagness.com/ Published research by Dr. Magness on Inequality: Dr. Magness on Inequality-01 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecin.12865 Dr. Magness on Inequality-02 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ssqu.12672 Dr. Magness on Inequality-03 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08853908.2018.1517063?journalCode=uitj20 Dr. Magness on Inequality-04 https://appii.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Magness-and-Murphy-Challenging-the-Empirical-Contributions-of-Piketty.pdf

In this, the second of a two part conversation, Professor Asia recounts the origins of the American Culture and Ideas Initiative. https://acii.arizona.edu/

Meet Dan Asia, Professor of Music at the University of Arizona, and Director of the American Culture and Ideas Initiative. In this, the first of a two part conversation, Professor Asia explains how he came to be a professor of music, and how he came to the University of Arizona in Tucson. Daniel Asia https://music.arizona.edu/people/directory/asia/

Dave Schmidtz https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/david-schmidtz The Equality Conundrum:  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/the-equality-conundrum David Schmidtz, The Elements of Justice:  https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Justice-David-Schmidtz/dp/0521539366

James Harrigan talks to Kerry Montano of the Freedom Center about the Ethics, Economy, & Entrepreneurship project.

Dave Schmidtz and James Harrigan talk about the Freedom Center's dual enrollment course offering, Ethics, Economy, and Entrepreneurship.

This week, Dave Schmidtz and James Harrigan talk about moral science for a bit, then move on to G. K. Chesterton, equality, and the United States.

James Harrigan and Dave Schmidtz continue their discussion of the birth of the Freedom Center, this week talking about How Dave came to be a philosopher in the first place, and how he got to Tucson.

In episode one, James Harrigan talks to Dave Schmidtz, Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, about the Freedom Center’s origins.