Recently one of the country’s most famous idiots, Sarah Palin, made some some off-colored remarks about the NRA. Around the same time a man few had ever heard of before named Donald Sterling (incidentally the […]
Last June an interesting story broke regarding unpaid internships. The short is that two people who interned on the set of Black Swan (a major Hollywood production staring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis) sued Fox […]
In this first episode of a three part series, our friend and local Austin author, Tom de Lorenzo, takes Jad and Kevin on a journey into the word justice. The three of us consider differences […]
And a happy 2014 to everyone out there in JKPodcast-land! In this final episode of a three part series, we are once again joined by our friend Tom de Lorenzo to discuss the topics of […]
What is objective morality? What is subjective morality? This week we’re joined by our old friend Tom de Lorenzo for the first of three parts discussing morality and ethics. It always seems at first glance […]
In the first of a two-part series, Jad and I Discuss the many ways in which terrorism like that of the Boston Marathon Bombings could prevail if only people were really inclined to kill indiscriminately. […]
This week Kevin and Jad discuss the age old idea of civil disobedience. Think Gandhi; think Martin Luther King. If you’re into religion (which we’re definitely not), you might even think of Jesus. We consider […]
On June 25th of 2013, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis led what was, depending on your point of view, either a very famous or very notorious eleven-hour filibuster against a Republican bill restricting abortion access […]
This week Jad and I consider the idea of how a government forms – essentially out of thin air. Once a government gets up and running, we go on to consider how people are convinced […]
This week we conclude our previous week’s episode with a larger discussion on the Freedom of Conscience. If you didn’t get an opportunity to hear the build-up to the topics within this episode, please have […]
In the second part of our very first two-part episode, Jad and Kevin continue their discussion of whether or not people prefer being slaves. As we noted in the previous episode, the idea is pretty […]
In our very first two-part episode, Jad and Kevin discuss the idea of whether or not people prefer being slaves. The idea is pretty simple: there’s an almost endless supply of examples illustrating how people […]
This week’s episode marks the longest recording we’ve released to date in our reasonably short catalog. We tried trimming it down it bit, but there was just too much juicy discussion to ignore. Hopefully everyone […]
In this episode we explore how human beings respond to authority. Since the philosophical ideals of libertarianism sit exactly opposite those of authoritarianism, Jad and I are essentially always focused on this topic. I think […]
