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Edifice of Trust Podcast
The Edifice of Trust is a podcast that provides discussion and analysis of today's current events from the perspective of America's Founding Principles. Based on Enlightenment philosophy as espoused by John Locke and economic freedom as described by Adam Smith, the host, Victor Bolles, provides listeners a path toward understanding current events from these timeless principles. Many Americans believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction, the podcast tries to point out a new course…
Episodes
Edifice of Trust PodcastProgressive Blackmail
Progressive left notables are staking their claim to the administration of the Biden presidency, but do they have a valid claim to that stake? Joe Biden won…
Edifice of Trust PodcastXi Jinping is not Louis XVI
Wang Qishan, Vice President of the People's Republic of China as well as the friend and mentor of Xi Jinping, has recommended the communist party cadres read…
Edifice of Trust PodcastThe People Have Spoken
At this moment, there is still no clear winner of the 2020 presidential election. And the court battles and accusations will continue for some time. The people…
Edifice of Trust Podcast99 Outlier Politics
New political parties on the fringes of the left and right have been growing around the globe and forcing traditional political parties out of power. In the…
Edifice of Trust PodcastConstitutional Jenga
The confirmation process for President's Trump nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, begins this week and the Democrats are on the warpath. They…
Edifice of Trust PodcastWar Footing
Negotiations between Donald Trump's White House and Nancy Pelosi's House of Representatives for another COVID-19 relief package have broken down and with them…
Edifice of Trust PodcastWhat Happened?
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture asserts that self-reliance, hard work, deferred gratification, rational thought and a…
Edifice of Trust PodcastA Piece of the Puzzle
Covid-19 has thrown education into array. And the New York Times '1619 Project, that portrays America as an inherently racist country, is being promoted as a…
Edifice of Trust PodcastTribal Warfare
Identity politics plays to a powerful primal human instinct, tribalism. But the progress of civilization has been built by an expanding circle of trust that…
Edifice of Trust PodcastSnake Oil Remedy
As the long hot summer of 2020 winds its way into autumn, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests seem unending. Crime and violence are spiking as police…
Edifice of Trust PodcastThe November Dilemma
The Nexstar Media Group believes that there is a thirst for fair, unbiased, non-partisan news across this country and is launching later this month a new cable…
Edifice of Trust PodcastBroken Windows Broken Lives
Sheltering in place for fear of the COVID-19 pandemic, city workers have traded the deli around the corner from their office for the Chick-fil-A near their…
Edifice of Trust PodcastGenerational Change
The saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same" is a truism that is not true. Things have been changing in America and mostly for the better…
Edifice of Trust PodcastProgressive Myopia
Left-wing economists have hailed French economist Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital and Ideology, as "the economics book…of the decade", stating that its…
Edifice of Trust PodcastSocialism has no Future
Between the pandemic, Black Lives matter protests, antifa rioting and the most divisive election in US history (except perhaps the 1800 election), I have been…
Edifice of Trust PodcastThinking about Unalienable Rights
The State Department's draft Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights draws a clear distinction between unalienable rights and other so-called positive…
Edifice of Trust Podcast86 What's so Great about Equality?
French economist Thomas Piketty has recently published a new book, Capital and Ideology, to follow up on his previous best seller, Capital in the Twenty-first…
Edifice of Trust PodcastKaren and the Cancel Culture
For all you clueless ones out there, a Karen is a snooty white woman going off on innocent black folks for some minor transgression of the woman's "safe…
Edifice of Trust Podcast84 The False Promise of Political Power
In a recent video, Hoover Institute fellow Peter Robinson spoke with Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley about his recent book, False Black Power. Mr. Riley…
Edifice of Trust PodcastDo Not Go Gently
Republicans must begin to prepare for the post-Trump era, which polls indicate is coming faster than many anticipated. Between real crises like the COVID-19…
Edifice of Trust PodcastFacts Don't Matter
There has been a lot of progress in reforming the police and lowering the levels of police violence. Rafael Mangual of the Manhattan Institute has plenty of…
Edifice of Trust PodcastDefund or Dismantle
When I saw protestors at the recent marches in reaction to the murder of George Floyd carrying signs that read, "Defund the police," I just thought they were…
Edifice of Trust Podcast80 Defining Moment?
The protests in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder by a Minneapolis cop have continued for many days and have often descended into looting, arson and…
Edifice of Trust Podcast79 Righteous Mind Redux
Increasingly, I am gaining more insight to our economic and political problems from science books than I do from books on economics or political theory. I was…
Edifice of Trust PodcastSublimation of the Evolutionary Trap
Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham theorizes in his new book, the Goodness Paradox, that Homo sapiens (us) is a domesticated species and, lacking ancient…
Edifice of Trust Podcast77 Robust Redundancies
The author of a book about how the physical brain creates consciousness was explaining how brain architecture strives to make the brain robust rather than…
Edifice of Trust PodcastComorbidity Conundrum
Our unthinking enemy acts on only one principle, replicate its DNA as much as possible. Its relentless culling of the human race focuses on those that are most…
Edifice of Trust PodcastSeeking Relevance
Congress will soon begin discussions about another round of legislative stimulus in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. And Senator Elizabeth Warren has some…
Edifice of Trust PodcastIt's Not the Economy, Stupid!
The economy is being horribly damaged by the steps the federal and state governments are taking to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But it is not…
Edifice of Trust Podcast73 The Cost of the Cure
This week Congress will be passing legislation to deal with the economic devastation our struggle with the Coronavirus has caused. Some of the proposals are…
Edifice of Trust PodcastCoronavirus Hurricane
The coronavirus is coming and coming fast. Thanks to jet airplanes and giant cruise ships, the virus could not be contained in China and has spread rapidly to…
Edifice of Trust Podcast71 The Baneful Foe
Russian election meddling has tarnished President Trump's 2016 elections and the resulting investigations have dogged his administration for most of his term…
Edifice of Trust Podcast70 Socialism Suckers
After several boozy trips to socialist and formerly socialist countries, two irreverent (and beer loving) economists wondered about the rise of socialism in…
Edifice of Trust Podcast69 Nature over Nurture
The most recent book of the infamous Dr. Charles Murray (Human Diversity, The Biology of Gender, Race and Class) paints a picture of genetic determinism that…
Edifice of Trust PodcastMammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Snowflakes
The first students of the generation raised since the invention of the smart phone began entering the university in 2013. Soon after, students began requesting…
Edifice of Trust Podcast67 Golf and Governance
Golf is simple – until you take into account all the Newtonian physics that can affect the flight of the golf ball. And you have to add in the physical…
Edifice of Trust Podcast66 Unions Should Love Capitalism
Many unions such as the National Nurses United are endorsing socialist and progressive presidential candidates despite the fact that independent trade unions…
Edifice of Trust Podcast65 The Merry-Go-Round of Victimhood
Identity politics is a potent weapon because it paints people within certain identity groups (mostly minorities) as victims of the dominant group. It is potent…
Edifice of Trust Podcast64 My Take on Giving Tuesday
Have you received any email messages recently requesting that you make a donation on Giving Tuesday to a college, charity, symphony, think tank or other…
Edifice of Trust Podcast63 Excessive Democracy
Is is possible to have too much democracy? The Founders thought so. They feared that too much democracy could destroy liberty. They realized that people needed…
Edifice of Trust Podcast62 Actors and Reactors
In this world there are actors and reactors. There are political actors that run for office and there are political reactors that vote for them. There are…
Edifice of Trust Podcast61 From the Heart
Recently, presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren said, "I'm running a campaign from the heart." And if you have seen her on the campaign trail, you know that…
Edifice of Trust Podcast60 Invisible Hand versus Iron Fist
On August 19, 2019 the CEOs making up the Business Roundtable issued a statement redefining the purpose of a corporation to add new stakeholders such as…
Edifice of Trust Podcast59 The Exasperating Exercise of Folly
The impeachment inquiry and subsequent votes are more than just about removing Donald Trump from office (which it is unlikely to accomplish anyway). The…
Edifice of Trust Podcast58 Commander's Intent
In his recent book (co-authored with Bing West), former Secretary of Defense and Marine Corps General Jim Mattis writes about his military career and the key…
Edifice of Trust Podcast57 Xi's Dilemma
After forty plus years of economic expansion and growing prosperity, Chinese Present Xi Jinping finds himself in a dilemma. Economic growth has allowed China…
Edifice of Trust Podcast56 Kennan's Cable
America's decades long policy of engagement with China has been a failure. China has used our engagement and that of other developed countries to become, not…
Edifice of Trust Podcast55 Not Woke
Thomas Sowell's 1999 book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, addresses many of the issues we face today including identity politics, social justice and…
Edifice of Trust Podcast54 Social Justice Basketball
Thomas Sowell points out in his book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice that constitutional rights and cosmic social justice are mutually exclusive and like matter…
Edifice of Trust Podcast53 The Trump Supremacy
The Democratic presidential candidates are calling President Trump a racist and a white supremacist. But is he? I think he is a Trump supremacist. But others…
Edifice of Trust Podcast52 The Hallmarks of Mercantilism
In a recent tweet, President Trump not only accused China of currency manipulation but also pressured the Federal Reserve to lower interest rate in order to…
Edifice of Trust Podcast51 What is the American Dream?
What is the American Dream? Americans want the opportunity to achieve it. Foreigners clamber over our borders to get it. Politicians promise to give it. But…
Edifice of Trust Podcast50 Examining the Affluence Gap
Two black economic professors are advising several of the Democratic presidential aspirants about how to close the affluence gap between black and white…
Edifice of Trust Podcast49 Sapolsky et al vs Locke et al
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses Stanford Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky who in his 2017 book, Behave, writes that human…
Edifice of Trust Podcast48 The Dopamine of Justice
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, asks Is crime due to evil? Or is it the result of stunted neural development, an enlarged amygdala…
Edifice of Trust PodcastNot JFK
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, observes that the debates of the presidential candidates have already begun 494 days before the 2020…
Edifice of Trust PodcastTwo Men Walk Down a Dark Street
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, delves further into Behave, the book written by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, in order to investigate the…
Edifice of Trust PodcastThe Politics of Glucocorticoids
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how low socio-economic status and poverty affects the brain development in children and…
Edifice of Trust PodcastA Nordic Fantasy
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses if social democracy is the right political system for America. An analysis of why social…
Edifice of Trust Podcast43 Weaponizing Trade
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how President Trump believes that the threat of tariffs is a powerful tool that can force…