Philosopher Jerry Green joins us to talk about how hard it is to define conspiracy theories, what attracts people to conspiracy theories, and whether James and Guy should start producing children's programming.

Dylan Pahman is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality and a research fellow at the Acton Institute. He joins us to discuss the the work of the Acton Institute in exploring and promoting the relationship between religion and liberty. Along the way we learn why he thinks St. John of Damascus is the greatest theologian and why Adam Smith gets misunderstood. He and Guy also have a discussion about what ethical lessons we can learn from the television series Parks & Recreation.

To learn more about Dylan Pahman, go here: https://www.acton.org/about/staff/dylan-pahman

To learn more about the Acton Institute, go here: https://www.acton.org/about/mission

To review the Journal of Markets & Morality, go here: https://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm

To learn more about Dr. Guy Crain, go here: https://www.rose.edu/staff/humanities-department/crain-guy/

To learn more about Prof. James Davenport, go here: https://www.rose.edu/staff/social-sciences-department/davenport-james/

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Part 2 of our discussion with Jerry Muller. Dr. Muller tells us a variety of ways that obsessing over measuring things leads to very bad outcomes - for schools, for healthcare, for policing, and more! Dr. Muller also tells us how metrics ruined Jordan Peterson (kind of).