Choosing Better
by Enoch Hill and Tim Taylor
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Your Vote Doesn’t Matter... And Why That’s Freeing
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Conversations about wacky ideas, economics, and the art of living well.
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- Your Vote Doesn’t Matter... And Why That’s Freeing · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 68What are we doing when we cast a ballot? Enoch and Tim start with an uncomfortable fact: statistically, a single vote almost never decides an election. So why vote? They explore…
- What Do We Owe the Guilty? Capital Punishment and the Demands of Justice · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 67Enoch and Tim examine capital punishment in the United States, not only whether the death penalty can be morally justified, but whether the modern state can carry it out justly…
- Can We Still Go to Church Together? Polarization and Identity (With Donovan Gleeson) · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 66Longtime behind-the-scenes listener and former student Donovan Gleeson joins Enoch and Tim to ask why political disagreement now feels more personal than religious disagreement…
- "It's Just Wrong": Making Moral Arguments in Public Spaces · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 65Is freedom doing whatever you want, or becoming what you were made to be? Enoch and Tim trace the shift from classical to modern freedom, from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill's…
- The Age of AI Surveillance: Flock Cameras and the Future of Privacy · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 64Enoch and Tim discuss privacy in an age of data, AI, and mass surveillance. Using Flock cameras as a central example, they explore the benefits and drawbacks of the new…
- Marriage and America Coming Apart: How We Sort in Who We Marry and Where We Live · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 63America is coming apart. The most likely place for a college educated adult to meet their spouse is at university. This is not just true for some college and universities; it is…
- The Marriage and Fertility Gap Reshaping America · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 60Update: I (Enoch) accidentally had my recordings mis-labeled and posted the wrong episode this week (Which means the old show-notes didn't match). We're keeping the episode…
- The Selection Effect: Prenatal Screening and the Quiet Disappearance of Down Syndrome · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 59When does prenatal screening determine whether a child will be born at all? In this episode of Choosing Better, Enoch and Tim explore Down syndrome, abortion, eugenics, and the…
- Deterrence in the Desert: General Joe Rank on the Future of Middle East Security · 1 h 2 minBrigadier General Joe Rank, U.S. Army (Ret.), joins Choosing Better to discuss what recent events in the Middle East reveal about deterrence, resilience, and the future of…
- Your Grocery Store is Watching: How AI Prices You Personally · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 57Are we entering a dystopian future of grocery shopping if your personal data is being used to set hyper-specific prices just for you? And what if that price changes based upon…
- Why Gaza Grips the West: The Enduring Civilization Legacy of Abrahamic Faith Traditions · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 56Why does a war in Gaza dominate global headlines while equally devastating conflicts like Sudan barely register in public consciousness? Enoch and Tim explore this striking…
- Behind the Pump: Geopolitics in Your Tank · 1 h 8 min · Season 3 Episode 55What are you really paying for when you fill up your tank? Enoch and Tim unpack the true cost of a gallon of gasoline, and it is far beyond crude oil, refining, and taxes. Using…
- Sports and Economics Part 2: Salary Caps and the Stadium Game · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 54In this second episode, Enoch and Tim go deeper into the machinery of professional sports economics. How do salary caps really work, and who do they really help? What is a player…
- Sports and Economics Part 1: It’s All Rigged (On Purpose) · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 53Economics isn't just for the classroom or the boardroom; it's baked into every corner of professional sports. In this first installment of their Sports and Economics series…
- Children in an Age of AI · 41 minShould we change how we raise our kids, preparing them for the future, knowing they will enter college and begin their careers with AI? Enoch and Tim reflect on how the rise of…
- Testing What Matters: How Assessment Shapes Education · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 51How we test students reveals what we truly value in education and simultaneously shapes the incentives of everyone in the classroom. Enoch and Tim discuss the economics of…
- Economics and Life Hacks Part 2: How to Make Better Decisions about Time and Money · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 50In the second part of this series, Enoch and Tim talk about more ways economics can help us make better decisions and live more joyful lives. They discuss the endowment effect…
- Life is Less Spicy Without the Secret Sauce! Property Rights and Concerns for the Future (with Jason Long) · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 49Jason Long returns to Choosing Better to discuss why some nations are rich and others are poor. We take another journey through time to understand how simple laws and norms shape…
- [Bonus Episode] America Goes to War: Making Sense of the Sudden Conflict with Iran (with Tim Buch) · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 48In the first days of a rapidly escalating U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran, strikes rippled across the region and global tensions spiked. In this bonus episode, former CIA senior…
- Missionary Economics: The Art of Going, Giving, and Getting It Right · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 47Many Christians feel the pull toward missionary work, but how do you know if you should go, when to go, or where? Enoch and Tim apply economic thinking to one of the church's…
