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Episode 342

Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean?

He was once the most lionized athlete on the planet, with seven straight Tour de France wins and a victory over cancer too. Then the doping charges caught up with…

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Episode 12

Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)

Most people don’t enjoy the simple, boring act of putting money in a savings account. But we do love to play the lottery. So what if you combine the two,…

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Episode 558

The Facts Are In: Two Parents Are Better Than One

In her new book The Two-Parent Privilege, the economist Melissa Kearney says it’s time for liberals to face the facts: U.S. marriage rates have plummeted but the babies keep coming,…

The Gang Tax

…(or any other so-called “criminal”) to live inside the housing unit. These laws rarely lead to reductions in gang membership, gang violence, or gang crime. In fact, police officers I…




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Episode 48

Do Good Deeds Invite More Bad Ones?

Also: what is the most significant choice you will ever make?…

The Hitmen

…Wilson, the university’s professor of criminology. He said: “Far from the media portrayal of hits being conducted inside smoky rooms, frequented by members of an organized crime gang, British hits…



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Episode 56

Claudia Goldin: What’s “Greedy Work” and Why Is It a Problem?

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin and Steve talk about how inflexible jobs and family responsibilities make it harder for women to earn wages equal to their male counterparts. But could Covid…

Teenage Virgins II

…a crime prevention strategy; it was a crime promotion strategy. (Yes!, p. 22) I’m not calling for the writers of Friday Night Lights to change the story arc. But Cialdini’s…



Newt Gingrich Answers Your Questions

…with, and apply them to government. In Real Change, I cite New York City’s dramatic turnaround in fighting crime as an example of government that works. They did this through…



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Episode 61

Was Austan Goolsbee’s First Visit to the Oval Office Almost His Last?

The former chairman of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisors tells Steve how improv comedy was a better training ground for teaching than a Ph.D. from M.I.T., and why…

An Economic Analysis of "Stop and Frisk"

…unfortunate, but should not be surprising if we believe that crime and therefore policing are disproportionally concentrated in minority-rich neighborhoods. However, mere disparate impact is not the same as impermissible…



Bank Robbers' Hours

According to the FBI’s recently released second quarter Bank Crime statistics, bank robbers are most likely to rob a bank between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Friday; more robbers…



FREAK-est Links

The end of an era – Friendly’s files for bankruptcy. French nobility is still alive, but not exactly well. Is New York really safer, adjusted for crime inflation? Engineering a…



De-Incentivizing Virtual Rape

…abusers, while noting that most U.S. states have enacted statutes calling for real-life punishment of extreme online harassement. Crime in Second Life isn’t a new phenomenon, and users have criticized…



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Episode 454

Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished?

Americans are so accustomed to the standard intersection that we rarely consider how dangerous it can be — as well as costly, time-wasting, and polluting. Is it time to embrace…

Interesting Article on Los Angeles Gangs

…of the piece, however. Landesman argues that the gang problem is worse than it has ever been, and that gang violence hasn’t dropped the way other crimes have. A quick…



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Episode 19

The Facts Are In: Two Parents Are Better Than One

In her new book The Two-Parent Privilege, the economist Melissa Kearney says it’s time for liberals to face the facts: U.S. marriage rates have plummeted but the babies keep coming,…


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Episode 104

The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart

Steve is on a mission to reform math education, and Sarah Hart is ready to join the cause. In her return visit to the show, Sarah explains how patterns are…

Aggression and Accidents

…each crash had a criminal record. They found that drivers who contributed to accidents were much more likely than the general public to have been guilty of violent crime, vandalism,…



The Truth About Salvadoran Gangs: A Guest Post

…them away from crime. As such, gangs were part of a coalition of left-leaning social service agencies and political activists struggling to cope with the effects of migration and globalization…



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Episode 26

Is Professional Licensing a Racket?

Licensing began with medicine and law; now it extends to 20 percent of the U.S. workforce, including hair stylists and auctioneers. In a new book, the legal scholar Rebecca Allensworth…

Does Freakonomics Suck?

…review of the book is quite substantial; Steve Sailer, who has vigorously argued against the link between Roe v. Wade and falling crime (a Google search of “Sailer” and “Freakonomics”…



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Highway Signs and Prison Labor

Incarcerated people grow crops, fight wildfires, and manufacture everything from prescription glasses to highway signs — often for pennies an hour. Zachary Crockett takes the next exit, in this special…

Child Trafficking and the Internet

…is much easier to engage in transactions — nothing needs to be done face-to-face, thus reducing the risk to traffickers. Also, organized crime is getting involved since the trade is…



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Episode 24

Amaryllis Fox: “What Does This New Version of Mutually Assured Destruction Look Like?”

She spent nearly a decade as an undercover C.I.A. operative working to prevent terrorism. More recently, she hosted The Business of Drugs on Netflix. Amaryllis Fox — now Kennedy —…

Who Pays for Lead Poisoning?

…in the crime rate — and the removal of lead from house paint has been linked to the crime drop of the 1990’s (as Levitt blogged about here). Now the…




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Episode 36

How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World

In this interview, first heard on Freakonomics Radio last year, Steve talks with the former top adviser to presidents Clinton and Obama, about his record — and his reputation. And…