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Qualified Opinions is an intellectual salon that illuminates the challenges facing free markets, liberalism, and the political climate of today. Join host Veronique de Rugy, a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center, and her guests for enlightening discourse.
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Roundtable: Tariffs, Populist Handouts, and the AI Safety Panic (opens the original)
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In a special edition of Qualified Opinions , host Veronique de Rugy hosts an insider roundtable discussion featuring three AIER scholars: David Hebert (Director of Economics and Economic Freedom), Julia Cartwright (Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics), and Thomas Savidge (Research Fellow) . Together, the panel tackles three pressing geopolitical and economic developments : Canada's European Pivot: How tariff threats, trade tension, and rhetoric from Washington are driving Canada to explo
Why the Right Forgot Its Own Best Arguments (opens the original)
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Stephanie Slade, senior editor at Reason, joins Veronique de Rugy to discuss her new book Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right . Fusionism isn't a coalition strategy. It's the argument that liberty and virtue need each other — that coerced virtue isn't virtue at all, and that a free society depends on people who can govern themselves. Slade traces the idea from the founding through Hayek, Russell Kirk, and Frank Meyer, and explains how a movement that once took it for
The House Always Wins: Roger Bate on Sports Betting, Addiction, and the Fauci Reckoning (opens the original)
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Roger Bate joins Veronique de Rugy to discuss his new book, The House Always Wins , sharing his personal brush with sports betting addiction and what it reveals about the industry's explosive growth, corruption risks, and need for smart regulation. They close with a candid look at Fauci and COVID policy accountability.
Rethinking Unions, Bipartisanship, and Opportunity for the Bottom 50% (opens the original)
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In this episode of Qualified Opinions, host Veronique de Rugy welcomes Akash Chougule, President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP), to explore how classical liberal ideas can drive real economic mobility for lower-income Americans. Akash breaks down FREOPP's unique mission—applying free-market principles specifically to uplift the bottom half of the socioeconomic ladder—and explains why lasting policy reform requires genuine bipartisan coalition building. They examine
Why Postliberalism Failed: What History Reveals About the Movement's Risks (opens the original)
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Veronique de Rugy speaks with Thomas Howes and James Patterson about their book, Why Postliberalism Failed . The authors examine the growing post-liberal movement, particularly Catholic integralism, which rejects representative government and religious neutrality in favor of a powerful executive guided by a state-supported conception of the common good. Drawing on examples from interwar Europe and Latin America—including Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Vichy France, Slovakia, Croatia, Brazil
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