Latest Liberties Podcast Episodes
The Specter of Nationalism
Edifice of Trust - April 25, 2024 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNationalism is on the rise across the globe – and Yoram Hazony thinks that’s a good thing. Mr. Hazony, Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation is a promoter of national conservatism and rejects the universal values such as the unalienable rights described in the Declaration of Independence. In th...
News Views - Friday, April 12, 2024
WPFW - News Views - April 12, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
Woke Pathology
Edifice of Trust - April 08, 2024 14:41 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmerican youth are in a mental health crisis. Rates of anxiety, depression and suicide are soaring ever since the introduction of the smart phone as documented by Jonathan Haidt in his new book, The Anxious Generation. Even worse, the pathologies of smart phone addiction mirror the pathologies of...
News Views - Friday, April 5, 2024
WPFW - News Views - April 05, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
News Views - Friday, March 29, 2024
WPFW - News Views - March 29, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
Why Slavery?
Edifice of Trust - March 27, 2024 15:52 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSlavery has existed throughout human history and prehistory. But why? It all comes down to energy. Ancient humans only had the energy of their own body. The energy of slaves gave the slaveholder more power to do things for the benefit of him and his family. But slavery in America was different. I...
News Views - Friday, March 22, 2024
WPFW - News Views - March 22, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
News Views - Friday, March 15, 2024
WPFW - News Views - March 15, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
They Just Don't Get It
Edifice of Trust - March 15, 2024 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPresident Biden’s State of the Union address was an angry, divisive campaign. He went on to propose massive increases in taxes along with massive increases in spending that combine for a massive deficit of $1.8 trillion. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, looks at how bot...
Episode 37: Supreme court briefing
Modern Law - Droit Moderne - March 14, 2024 13:00 - 46 minutesNadia Effendi joins us again to review the output of the Supreme Court last year, shares her thoughts regarding Chief Justice Richard Wagner’s recent comments about the high number of judicial vacancies as well as comments about restricting interveners to virtual appearance. We discuss some rece...
News Views - Friday, March 1, 2024
WPFW - News Views - March 01, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
Our Only Hope
Edifice of Trust - February 29, 2024 16:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Founders of America thought that democracy was the best tool to secure the blessings of liberty to its citizens. And, although not perfect, our democracy did a pretty good job of doing that while also providing prosperity. But right now America appears to be heading in the wrong direction and...
News Views - Friday, February 23, 2024
WPFW - News Views - February 23, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
Episode 36: Dr. Anton Korynevych on the effort to create a Special Tribunal on Crimes of Aggression Against Ukraine.
Modern Law - Droit Moderne - February 22, 2024 14:00 - 51 minutesAs Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hits the two-year mark – 10 years since the invasion of the Crimean Peninsula – the situation is dire. The ground battle had become mostly deadlocked until Ukrainians retreated earlier this month from the town of Avdiivka. Support from Western democraci...
NO LABELS' Fatal Flaw
Edifice of Trust - February 22, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe No Labels organization is trying to get on the ballot in all 50 states for a presidential candidate yet to be named. Such a candidate might be able to save us from another Biden or Trump presidency but will do nothing to save us from the increasing divisiveness and extremism of our mainstream...
News Views - Friday, February 16, 2024
WPFW - News Views - February 16, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
Episode 35: Justice Minister Arif Virani on criminal law reform, expanding MAiD and the state of our courts
Modern Law - Droit Moderne - February 15, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutesOur guest today is Arif Virani, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada who has kindly agreed to share with our listeners the status of several pressing issues. We discuss criminal justice reform, the recent pause on the expansion of medical assistance in dying and plans to introd...
Ameriphobia
Edifice of Trust - February 13, 2024 15:31 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal called the Michigan city of Dearborn a center of jihad and antisemitism. The mayor of Dearborn xed (tweeted) that the article was Islamophobic. The progressive left has changed the meaning of the word phobia and now uses it as a means to deflect criticism...
News Views - Friday, February 9, 2024
WPFW - News Views - February 09, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
Understanding Diversity
Edifice of Trust - February 02, 2024 15:39 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA lot of people think that diversity is a good thing. But is it? People have to go out of their way to be diverse. Left to their own, people will self-segregate into groups with other people similar to themselves. Blue collar workers don’t want to hobnob with a bunch of chardonnay sipping, hors ...
News Views - Friday, January 26, 2024
WPFW - News Views - January 26, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsGarland Nixon
Can DEI Be Saved?
Edifice of Trust - January 26, 2024 16:43 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRecent commentaries in the Wall Street Journal set forth competing visions on whether Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs can be saved or should be eliminated. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, compares the two viewpoints and draws conclusions on which viewpoin...
Episode 34: Amanda Chaboryk and Alex Hawley on how to use AI in a legal practice
Modern Law - Droit Moderne - January 25, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutesIn the field of law, there are several crucial areas where generative AI demonstrates considerable promise – namely in the efficiencies it can create in contract generation, document review, legal research, and predictive analytics. So it’s expected to become an indispensable productivity tool a...
An Age of Agency
Edifice of Trust - January 22, 2024 17:46 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIan Rowe, an educator in the Bronx, writes that developing a sense of agency is essential in liberating poor and minority kids from a dreary future of poverty. More than that, he has been on the streets providing kids with liberating education and teaching them American values for more than a dec...
Urgent Priorities 2024
Edifice of Trust - January 09, 2024 17:46 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOnce again, while our so-called political leaders are completely absorbed by their campaigns for reelection, they ignore the urgent national priorities that need to be addressed, or worse, use those issues as political levers to galvanize their base at the expense of the American people. In this ...
Mislabeled
Edifice of Trust - December 15, 2023 15:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratinghow mislabeling political beliefs and governmental policies creates confusion and contributes to the divisiveness wracking our country.
Episode 33: Woodrow Hartzog on the dangers of regulating AI with half measures
Modern Law - Droit Moderne - December 14, 2023 14:00 - 56 minutesWe've been talking a lot about AI on the podcast and on CBA National, and one of the issues that keeps coming up is the challenge for a country like Canada in selecting the right approach to regulating AI risk. It's not as if there's a single model out there. The EU is trying to set the gold s...
The Attraction of Victimhood
Edifice of Trust - December 07, 2023 15:49 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy do so many people in America identify as victims, the victims of an oppressive system? What is the source of this feeling? Why do so many people believe that they have no ability to live their lives as they see fit but look to the power of government to solve their problems? In this podcast, ...
Episode 32: Dr. Carys Craig on generative AI and the dangers of the copyright trap
Modern Law - Droit Moderne - December 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourOne of the significant controversies about AI is the impact of generative software on the use and production of cultural works. The fast-growing popularity of these tools raises big questions about the ethics of AI-generated works and whether they amount to a technologically advanced form of pla...
Dr. - not Mr. - Spock
Edifice of Trust - December 01, 2023 16:58 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingScientific inquiry is the process where we learn more and more about our universe through experimentation to support or disprove our theories. But increasingly, we are asked to make drastic, expensive and irreversible decisions based on a consensus of scientists as if there were no more need for...
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