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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 Podcast42 Science is just Science
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses the recent book by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Behave, The Biology of Humans at our Best and…
Edifice of Trust Podcast41 Saving Chickpeas
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how the current debate on abortion has been captured by the extreme wings of the left and…
Edifice of Trust PodcastHenry's Silver Coins
At the request of a listener, in this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, explores more deeply the proposals presented by Ray Dalio to improve…
Edifice of Trust Podcast39 The Missing Element
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how Ray Dalio and Jamie Dimon have both written recently about our fraying society and how…
Edifice of Trust Podcast38 How Not to Improve Democracy
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses about how many Democratic presidential candidates are proposing changes the US…
Edifice of Trust PodcastThere Are Reasons
In this episode the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses that there are reasons that human activities result in undesirable outcomes but no one…
Edifice of Trust PodcastDesocialisting El Salvador
A news article from El Salvador that points out how the political party of the leftist government is blocking the smooth transition of power after recent…
Edifice of Trust PodcastKnown Associates
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, reflects that the Mueller Report is out but the Democrats remain outraged because it is a…
Edifice of Trust PodcastRun Joe Run
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, reflects on the possible candidacy of former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential…
Edifice of Trust Podcast33 Cacophony
The various Democratic candidates for president are coming up with often outrageous proposals on how to tax the rich. Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote in the New York…
Edifice of Trust Podcast32 LG vs. T
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how the progressive left attempts to isolate and alienate minorities through identity…
Edifice of Trust Podcast31 The Civilized Things
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how an interview with Liam Neeson caused him to ruminate about Western Civilization and…
Edifice of Trust Podcast30 Is Howard Schultz the Answer to Our Prayers?
On Sunday, January 27, 2019, billionaire Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks, announced that he was running for president of the United States as an…
Edifice of Trust Podcast29 Battle of Hearts (not Minds)
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how it takes a combination of heart and mind to run a country and why that is not…
Edifice of Trust Podcast28 Breaking the Entitlement Addiction
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how America's addiction to entitlements not only makes people financially dependent on…
Edifice of Trust Podcast27 Silly Season
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses why the many television spectaculars presenting awards to already wealthy and acclaimed…
Edifice of Trust Podcast26 From Behind to Nothing
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how the foreign policy of President Trump is undermining the global order developed by the…
Edifice of Trust Podcast25 Chinese Eyes
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses why China clings to its communist ideology despite the fact they it has grown strong and…
Edifice of Trust Podcast24 Gilets Jaunes
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses the disillusion and despair behind the Paris riots, how more welfare benefits cannot fill…
Edifice of Trust Podcast23 Well I Guess he IS Our Son of a Bitch
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how thinking about President Trump's pass on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi transmutes into…
Edifice of Trust Podcast22 Circle the Wagons
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how a Russian attempt to gain the presidency of Interpol reflects how the inclusion of…
Edifice of Trust Podcast21 The Natural Right to Vote
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses about how the Democratic Socialists of America are democratic in name only and how their…
Edifice of Trust Podcast20 Lesson Unlearned
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses the lesson learned from the flawed peace after the First World War and how the United…
Edifice of Trust Podcast19 Wingnuts
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses the likely outcome of the 2018 election and its implications.
Edifice of Trust Podcast18 Uncompromising Fairness
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses why the pursuit of "fair" public policy is actually the primary cause of the toxic…
Edifice of Trust Podcast17 Our Son of a Bitch
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, examines the ripples surrounding the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and its botched cover up by our…
Edifice of Trust Podcast10 Diversify or Else
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses a recent law passed in the California legislature that mandates women be on the boards of…
Edifice of Trust Podcast9 Pension Prisoners
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses how gold-plated public employee pensions are bankrupting state and local governments and…
Edifice of Trust Podcast16 California's Revenge
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles talks about money in politics and how money from California and New York is flowing into flyover…
Edifice of Trust Podcast8 Free Our Captive Public Schools
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses how teachers' unions have captured the public school system and why our students are doing…
Edifice of Trust Podcast7 The Unfairness of Fairness
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses how fairness is the basis for President Trump's policy proposals as it is also the reason…
Edifice of Trust Podcast6 Capture and Human Nature
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles continues the discussion of the capture of government and investigates one of its warning signs -…
Edifice of Trust Podcast5 Freedom's Angel
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses whether the media is the people's guardian angel or their enemy.
Edifice of Trust Podcast4 On the Nature of Capture
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses how special interests try to capture government for their own benefit over that of the…
Edifice of Trust Podcast15 Safety Net or Spider Web?
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses why socialist panaceas not only cause economic misery but also debase the human spirit.
Edifice of Trust Podcast14 The rule of the Arbitrary
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses the new US, Mexico and Canada Agreement and how it represents a retreat from America's…
Edifice of Trust Podcast1 Building Blocks
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust podcast host, Victor Bolles, discusses how the creation of surplus an essential building block of civilization.
Edifice of Trust Podcast13 Wonky on Civil Rights
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles discusses sad state of civil rights around the world and the recently published book, The Debasement…
Edifice of Trust Podcast12 The Reason for Reason
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles reflects on how reason based on Enlightenment philosophy was the strength of American democracy and…
Edifice of Trust Podcast11 The Difference between Disloyalty and Treason
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles reflects on how the president's use of the word TREASON? to describe an anonymous op-ed in the New…
Edifice of Trust Podcast3 Building blocks - Part 3
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust podcast host, Victor Bolles, discusses how the creation of surplus is an essential building block of civilization and how…
Edifice of Trust Podcast2 Building Blocks Part 2
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust podcast host, Victor Bolles, continues to discuss how the creation of surplus an essential building block of civilization…
Edifice of Trust Podcast0 Introduction to the Edifice of Trust
This is an introduction to the Edifice of Trust podcast which is hosted by Victor Bolles, author of Principled Policy and edifice of Trust.