MADD 58: Prof. Andrew Koppelman - A Discussion on Size of Government vs. Freedom of Citizens

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Northwestern Professor and author of "Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed," Andrew Koppelman joins Brian for a discussion on his view that decreasing the size of government doesn't mean more freedom. Andrew Koppelman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewKoppelman Burning Down the House: https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Down-House-Libertarian-Philosophy/dp/1250280133 Stop paying health insurance companies your hard-earned dollars. Go to Join Crowd Health now and experience freedom from health insurance. Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That’s almost 50% off the normal price, and a lot less than a high-deductible healthcare plan. Go to https://joincrowdhealth.com and use promo code LIONS at sign-up. Help support what we do and grow our show! https://www.patreon.com/Lionsofliberty OR support us on Locals! https://lionsofliberty.locals.com/ Subscribe to the BOHRing podcast! https://redcircle.com/shows/bohring Check out the Lions of Liberty Store, including our hot-off-the-press Big Pharma shirts. https://www.lionsofliberty.store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
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0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
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0:29.8	Conditions apply.
0:33.7	It's a mean age.
0:40.6	But it is going to be a beautiful future as long as we don't get up.
0:48.3	I'm Brian McWilliams and this is Mean Age Daydream where I bring you unfiltered comedy, criticism, philosophy, and politics with a mean age daydream.
1:01.0	Welcome back, my delightful buttercups to Mean Age Daydream.
1:08.5	I am Brian McWilliams, and I am joined today for what I think will be a very interesting conversation by Andrew Coppulman. Now, Andrew is a John Paul Stevens professor of law and a professor of political science
1:13.2	at Northwestern University and the author of multiple books, including the most recent,
1:19.8	which is called Burning Down the House, How Libertarian Philosophy was corrupted by delusion
1:24.5	and greed.
1:26.1	Andrew, welcome to me in age day, Adrian.
1:29.0	Happy to be here.
1:30.5	Yeah, as I said, I was talking to earlier.
1:32.3	I've not read the book, and I'm sure, you know, the majority of my audience heard the title of that book.
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