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Stay current with Liberty Lens, hosted by Big John and Mike ter Maat. Each week they dive into the issues that shape freedom, governance, and everyday life — from constitutional guardrails to the latest headlines.
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Who Decides When AI Is Too Dangerous? (opens the original)
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In Liberty Lens #90, Mike ter Maat and Big John debate AI safety, agentic AI, containment failures, private oversight, government regulation, defensive AI, and recursive self-improvement. Mike argues that a purely market-based answer may not be enough, but conventional government regulation may also be too slow and lack the expertise to manage rapidly developing AI […]
Trump’s $5000 Promise vs. Fiscal Reality | Liberty Lens 89 (opens the original)
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Big John and Mike ter Maat examine Trump’s proposed dividend, its economic trade-offs, and the political credibility behind the promise. In Liberty Lens #89, Mike returns from the Republican midterm convention to discuss what it would take to deliver the proposed payment and why he believes it conflicts with fiscal conservatism. The conversation moves from […]
Lindsay Clancy Trial: Can Postpartum Psychosis Erase Criminal Responsibility? | Ep. 88 (opens the original)
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In Episode 88 of Liberty Lens, Mike ter Maat and Big John take on one of the most difficult questions in criminal law: what should happen when there is little dispute about what someone did, but enormous disagreement over whether that person was legally responsible for doing it? The discussion examines the Lindsay Clancy case, […]
Meta’s $18B Settlement Addiction, Age Verification & Section 230 (opens the original)
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In Episode 87 of Liberty Lens, Big John and Mike ter Maat debate parental responsibility, corporate liability, social media addiction, tort law, and whether Meta should ever have faced this case in the first place. Then Mike makes the deeper argument: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act may have helped create the very Big […]
The Dollar as a Weapon: Trump’s Canada Tariffs & Iran Sanctions | Ep. 86 (opens the original)
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President Trump’s Canada tariffs and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Iran sanctions campaign may look like two separate stories. In Episode 86 of Liberty Lens, Mike ter Maat and Big John ask whether they’re really the same strategy: using access to the American market—and the dollar-based financial system—as weapons of foreign policy. Chapters:00:00 Canada, Iran and […]
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