This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, July 1st, 2014.

I'm Caleb Brown.

In his new book, Unstoppable, the emerging left-right alliance to dismantle the corporate state,

Ralph Nader tries to identify opportunities

where libertarians, conservatives, and progressives

can work together to end and prevent wars,

protect civil liberties, and stop corporate welfare.

We spoke following an event for the book last week.

Part of your aim here is to have this broad discussion that you hope then translates into action that everybody agrees on,

people that are broadly agreed on certain aspects of essentially three things that are all the same thing, corporate welfare, crony capitalism,

and corporatism. So broadly, what are those things?

Well, they all reflect excessive power by

concentrated corporate institutions increasingly multinational over

our government and they reflect the strategic planning of

corporations representing commercial interests into area after

area of our life. Some of them should never be invaded by commercialism.

Corporations of commercialized childhood, they undermine parental authority, direct marketing to

three, four, five, eight five eight nine ten year olds food

and drink that's not good for them violent programming we know all about that

but we say why are they doing that it's just it's against our morals. It's against a parental

Control over children. Well, what does that have to do with the government issuing privileges to corporations and more directly.

Yeah, what it does is that these messages are over the public airways where the licenses are given by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcasters and we own the public

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