Ep. #13 - Crisis and Leviathan: COVID-19

Historian Robert Higgs’ book Crisis and Leviathan takes center stage in this pandemic-centric exchange between Mary Theroux and Graham Walker of The Independent Institute. Originally published in 1987, the work is seeing a resurgence in popularity with the emergence of COVID-19 and its subsequent implications for the growing influence of government in society’s fight against the virus. Theroux and Walker make a case for the book’s relevance as a prescient forewarning against state overreach.