Bryan Caplan interviews Chris Rufo on his best-selling *America’s Cultural Revolution*. In this wide-ranging interview, Rufo tackles some tough questions, including: How bad were the founders of critical theory, really? How fake is Continental philosophy? What would Rufo had done if he’d had Freire’s job in Guinea-Bissau? Are fanatics evil? And, does he really hate libertarians? And many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Caplan interviews Chris Rufo on his best-selling *America’s Cultural Revolution*. In this wide-ranging interview, Rufo tackles some tough questions, including: How bad were the founders of critical theory, really? How fake is Continental philosophy? What would Rufo had done if he’d had Freire’s job in Guinea-Bissau? Are fanatics evil? And, does he really hate […]","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2023\/08\/Bryan-Caplans-Interview-with-Chris-Rufo.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"1:06:28","filesize":"91.28M","filesize_raw":"95711792","date_recorded":"2023-08-04 14:37:58","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-1231","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"series-policymccombs","6":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":572,"post_author":"42","post_date":"2020-07-03 19:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-03 19:47:46","post_content":"\n
Bryan Caplan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, public opinion, economics of the family and education, genoeconomics, and Austrian economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caplan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies<\/em>, named \u201cthe best political book of the year\u201d by the New York Times<\/em>, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. <\/em>He is currently writing a new book: The Case Against Education: <\/em>A Professional Student Explains Why Our Education System Is a Big Waste of Time and Money<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caplan has appeared on ABC\u2019s 20\/20<\/em>, Fox News, and C-SPAN, and his articles appear in the New York Times<\/em>,the Washington Post<\/em>,the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, American Economic Review<\/em>, Economic Journal<\/em>, the Journal of Law and Economics<\/em>,and Intelligence<\/em>. He writes EconLog<\/em><\/a>, named by the Wall Street Journal<\/em> as a top economics blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Caplan received his PhD in economics from Princeton University and his BA in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Bryan Caplan","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bryan-caplan","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-07-03 19:47:47","post_modified_gmt":"2020-07-03 19:47:47","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/?post_type=speaker&p=572","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":"","transcript":""},"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/05\/SC_PolicyMcCombs_Art-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/podcast-download\/1231\/bryan-caplans-interview-with-chris-rufo.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/podcast-player\/1231\/bryan-caplans-interview-with-chris-rufo.mp3","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_play":{"key":"google_play","url":"","label":"Google Play","class":"google_play","icon":"google-play.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/feed\/podcast\/policymccombs","embedCode":"Bryan Caplan Interviews Chris Rufo<\/a><\/blockquote>