The Law & Liberty Podcast

Updated: 16 Dec 2025 • 142 episodes
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Law & Liberty's James Patterson interviews prominent authors and thinkers. A production of Liberty Fund.

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When environmental policies were first enacted, they were often supported by staunch conservatives like Richard Nixon and then-governor Ronald Reagan. Why do so many today now view environmental conservation as belonging outside the scope of conservatism? In his recent October forum lead, "A New Environmentalism?" Stev

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What is Christian Zionism? Is it, as figures like Tucker Carlson claim, a relatively recent development in America's cultural history, or does a general support for the Jewish state have a longer history in America? The answer partly depends on how "Christian Zionism" is defined, but in this conversation, Sam Goldman e

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The English-speaking world has long enjoyed free speech rights unheard of in other parts of the world. But where did this legal regime come from? And as partisan strife becomes more heated on both sides of the Atlantic, what does free speech's future hold? In his new book, Law & Liberty contributing editor Adam Tomkins

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04 Nov 2025 • EN

Decline and Fall?

For most of the twentieth century, conservatives argued for a strong Congress whose closer connection to voters could check the grand delusions of presidential administrations. Now, however, everyone seems to have opted for Wilsonian, top-down executive leadership. Philip Wallach explains how we got here, why Congress

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The Unfree Press

Especially since the controversies of 2020, the commanding heights of American culture have been dominated by left-wing moral panic. In his new book, Adam Szetela analyzes this toxic mentality's influence on the publishing industry specifically. Many writers are either drafted into ideological crusades–or else become t

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