Freedom: Ideas that Matter

Today’s episode features Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and works in the Department of Health Policy Studies. He is President Emeritus and founder of Valley Surgical Clinics Ltd., the largest and oldest group private surgical practice in Arizona, and has been in private practice as a general surgeon for more than 35 years.

Today we discuss public health and the drug war. In some ways the drug war is a massive public health program, but that only raises the question of what public health is and what it should be.

The January 6th insurrection was the most conspicuous recent example of homegrown extremist violence, but America has a sad history of this stuff.

To discuss the emergence and evolution of America's contemporary wave of politically motivated violence, we're joined by Patrick Eddington, former CIA analyst and now Cato Institute senior fellow.

Here's the article of Pat's we discussed on the episode.

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Political philosophy is applied ethical philosophy. All political questions have their foundations in matter of right and wrong, of how we ought to live—and how we can live together.

On today’s episode, Trevor and Aaron discuss their differing approaches to thinking about ethical theories and the role moral philosophy plays in how we approach thinking about thorny political issues. We begin, however, with the question of human reason and its limits. What we can know, and how we can know it, and whether our arguments hook on to objective facts about reality turns out to matter quite a lot for how we then think about morality and politics.

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Trevor and Aaron discuss their views of religion and religious faith, as well what role, if any, religious beliefs should play in political decision making.

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After wrapping our episode with Peter Van Doren, Trevor and Aaron continued the conversation a bit longer.