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Michael Soyfer: Flock Safety, Mass Surveillance, & the Right to Privacy – #38
Michael Soyfer of the Institute for Justice joined me to discuss municipalities’ use of surveillance tools like Flock Safety and their alleged infringements of our fourth amendment rights to privacy. We discuss the history of how the courts view of our right to privacy has evolved over time as new…
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Brad Wilcox: Marriage – #37
Brad Wilcox, University of Virginia sociologist, author of Get Married, senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and director of the National Marriage Project, joins me to talk about marriage, fertility, and why family formation is getting harder even as the data still favors getting married. Brad’s scholarship on…
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Nassim Taleb – #36
Nassim Nicholas Taleb hosted me in his library for a casual conversation over Turkish coffee. We discuss reading actual books, olive farming, scale transformation, cities versus villages, finding truth, entrepreneurship and capitalism in Europe versus the United States versus China, lobbyists, fairness, techno-feudalism, reversing the law of large numbers, AI’s…
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Jason Cox: Rural urbanism and firetrucks – #35
Jason Cox of the Monroe Companies joins Geoff to discuss his work revitalizing downtown Graham, NC through historic rehabs and infill projects. They explore the outsized influence of fire departments and oversized apparatus on street design, zoning, and urban form—contrasting U.S. practices with more human-scaled European cities—along with Jason’s self-described identity as a…
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Willy Denner: Intro to Georgism – #34
Willy Denner of Little Seed Gardens introduces Geoff to Georgism, the concept of the Land Value Tax, how it differs from conventional property taxes, the moral argument in favor of it, and the ameliorative impact it could have on our agricultural lands, rural areas, and urban environments. Little Seed Gardens…
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Joel Hollingsworth: Restoring Agriculture via Commissioned Stewardship – #33
Joel Hollingsworth (@untappedgrowth) and I discuss how Smoke River Ranch got started, their herdshare program, and the economics of farming and ranching. A few of the documents written by Joel that we referenced in our discussion: American Restoration, Soil & Money, and (work-in-progress) “What came up from thinking about farm…
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Grant Broggi: Strength & Service – #32
Grant Broggi, founder of The Strength Co., joins Geoff to talk about strength, entrepreneurship, and the Marines. I love Grant’s story: from a homeschooled teenage window cleaner in the South Carolina Lowcountry, to the Citadel then Marines, to a strength coach, to the (pandemic inspired) manufacturer of gym equipment, to…
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Russ Greene: Total Boomer Luxury Communism – #31
Russ Greene discusses Total Boomer Luxury Communism, the burden it shoulders on young people and future generations, the existential threat it poses to America, and prospects for reform. During our conversation, I pushed him off on a great many rich tangents, but we never found our way to energy, ESG…
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Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine – #30
Justin Owings and Ty Abernathy joined Geoff to discuss Paul Kingsnorth’s latest book, Against the Machine. Our two-hour, fire-side, dog-accompanied conversation covers a lot of territory—raising children in the age of the Machine, entrepreneurship, globalism and financialization, corporate bureaucracy, technocracy, rootedness, homelessness, skin-in-the-game, limits, GenZ—and we hardly scratched the surface.…
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Chuck Marohn: Strong Towns’ Bottom-up Revolution – #29
Charles “Chuck” Marohn is the president of Strong Towns, a national organization he started in 2008 as a blog and grew into a widespread movement advocating for financially resilient, prosperous cities and towns through bottom-up, incremental development. Chuck is the author of countless articles and three books: Strong Towns: A…
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Zak Slayback: Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII, Capital, Labor, and Morality – #28
Zak Slayback joins Geoff to discuss Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, the context in which it was written, and its relevance to today. Topics include the emergence of nationalism and industrial-scale capitalism, the subsequent fracturing of cottage industries, the rise of socialist reactionary movements, the obligations employers have…
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Vince & Geoff Graham – #27
Vince Graham joins Geoff to talk about the early days of developing I’On in Mount Pleasant, SC. Vince and Geoff commonly hear people wrongly assume the neighborhood’s success resulted from strict controls and prescriptions, and they felt that misconception is so widespread that it merited a conversation. They discuss setting…
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Clay Routledge – #26
Dr. Clay Routledge is an existential psychologist who specializes in nostalgia. He is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Clay is the author of Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World (published…
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Steve Mouzon – #25
Steve Mouzon and Geoff discuss the evolution of Steve’s practice, the role of a town architect, vernacular construction, sustainability, beauty, lovable buildings, and the “Original Green”. You can find Yeoman on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, and elsewhere.
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Orthodox Masonry – #24
Seth Haris and Patrick Lemmon of Orthodox Masonry share their stories of how they each got their start, their meeting while helping to build a monastery in Pennsylvania, Patrick’s apprenticeship with Clay Chapman (Insta), their work philosophy, hiring young people, and time preference. Check out their work on Instagram and…
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Matt Simmons: Culture, History, and Identity of the American South – #23
W. Matthew J. Simmons, Sr. is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina and a self-described old-school humanist academic. He teaches courses on Southern culture and literature, as well as an immensely popular new course on barbecue. In this episode, Geoff and…
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Lenny Wells: Pecan History, Trees, and Growing – #22
Lenny Wells is a pecan grower, writer, and Professor of Horticulture and Extension Pecan Specialist at the University of Georgia. His work focuses on strategies to enhance the economic and environmental sustainability of pecan production around the world. In addition to publishing scientific papers, Lenny has written a book on…
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Ari Bargil (with Vince Graham): The Legal Context of Zoning – #21
Ari Bargil is a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice and a co-lead of the Zoning Justice Project, a campaign to protect and promote the freedom to peacefully and productively use property. Ari frequently represents property owners battling aggressive zoning regulations and excessive fines in state and federal court…
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