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Freedom First explores the dramatic assault on basic rights and liberties that are guaranteed by the Constitution but which are daily under fire today. I look at this subject through the lens of economics, culture, and civil liberties generally with an eye to exposing the threats and showing how they degrade life experience, threaten prosperity, and make life less wonderful. Each episode takes on specifics that affect all of us, with an eye to the restoration of rights and liberties we once took for granted but which are being gradually stripped away. We can do something about it. My hope is that this show helps.

Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages including, most recently, “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

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America made the train awesome in the 19th century. After WWII, however, the emphasis shifted toward interstate highways and the car. Now we are shifting again—away from a good technology to something mostly viable for 15-minute cites. How about instead, we leave transportation to the free market?

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