Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss common ground found in a free website providing the service of identifying where you align and disagree with ideologies, parties, and candidates. The discussion evolves into touching on fairness, rights, and the purpose of law.
Chapters:
- - The podcast now has a name (but you already knew that)
- - The Politely, Up Yours! book club
- - Can groups be actors or only individuals?
- - Democracy as a restaurant
- - Encountering and experiencing isidewith.com and insights regarding common ground
- - Governments forcing businesses to do things they don't want to do
- - Finding those ideals we share
- - Extremism
- - Embracing imperfection and striving for improvement
- - Fairness
- - The suboptimal nature of a two-party system
- - Yes and no questions in law - is there a third possibility?
- - The nature of rights and guarantees, the purpose of law
- - Freedom to be a jerk and freedom of association
- - Discrimination in employment
Resources:
- Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
- "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
- Keynesian economics
- Austrian economics
- Austrian eh?
- isidewith.com
- The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
- FBI–Apple encryption dispute
- Best of the Left Podcast
- Oregon Wedding Cake Controversy
- Ian Malcolm explains Chaos theory (Jurassic Park)
- Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution