Organizations

280 articles — entities the show returned to in three or more episodes. Everything seen once or twice is listed in brief mentions.

ACLU — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the ACLU appears less as a subject in its own right than as a recurring reference point — an organization whose posit
Administrative State — The administrative state — the agencies that carry out government programs — is treated across these episodes as both an unavoidable feature of modern governmen
Al-Qaeda — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests Gary Johnson, Nick Gillespie, Ivan Eland and John Mueller treat Al-Qaeda less as an organization to be descri
Amazon — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Amazon appears less as a company than as a recurring test case for libertarian arguments about regulation, antitrust,
American Bar Association — The American Bar Association appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as an obstacle: Robert Alt cites an ABA task force’s count of federal crimes t
American Enterprise Institute — The American Enterprise Institute appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through the affiliations of three guests: physician and organ-transplant scholar Sally Sate
American Institute for Economic Research — The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as an institutional anchor of the
American Medical Association — The American Medical Association appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as an organization whose influence extends well beyond representing physici
Amtrak — Amtrak and passenger rail appear in these excerpts mainly as a foil for arguments about federal subsidy, security theater, and incremental reform. Jim Bovard de
Anti-Federalists — The Anti-Federalists were the faction that opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing that it concentrated power in a national government at the exp
Antonin Scalia Law School — Antonin Scalia Law School is mentioned in a single episode of The Bob Zadek Show, where Todd Zywicki describes it as a unique place whose faculty and students l
Apple — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Apple appears less as a company than as a business model — the direct-to-consumer retailer that Bob Zadek invokes a
Archer Daniels Midland — Archer Daniels Midland appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the recurring named beneficiary of federal farm subsidies and ethanol promotion, ci
Arizona State University — Arizona State University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only at its edges: as the administrator of the Zócalo Public Square blog whose writer Joe Mathews propose
Arizona Supreme Court — The Arizona Supreme Court appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts as the court on which Justice Clint Bolick sits and as the body that has upheld the state’s e
AT&T — Across three episodes, Bob Zadek’s guests treat AT&T as the archetype of a government-backed monopoly rather than a market winner. Derek Khanna describes AT&T a
Atlas Network — Atlas Network appears on The Bob Zadek Show as a service organization for a global network of locally led, government-independent think tanks promoting classica
Attorney General — The Attorney General appears across these episodes less as a defined office than as a recurring point of friction — an executive officer who can announce enforc
Biden administration — The Biden administration appears in these episodes as a prospective and then sitting government whose fiscal, tax and regulatory ambitions libertarian guests tr
Black Lives Matter — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Black Lives Matter appears less as an organization than as a contested narrative about policing, rioting, and race-c
Bloomberg — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, ‘Bloomberg’ appears not as an institution but as a recurring symbol of the nanny state — first as Mayor Michael Bloo
Boston College — Boston College appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the institutional home of three scholars whose work anchors the show’s recurring arguments
Brandeis University — Brandeis University appears in The Bob Zadek Show as Bob Zadek’s example of a private institution free to restrict speech because it is not bound by the First A
Brigham Young University — Brigham Young University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing example in a 2018 discussion of Title IX with R. Shep Melnick. Melnick cites BYU’s rule
Brookings Institution — The Brookings Institution appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as the institutional affiliation of three guests: Jonathan Rauch, Jonathan Rothwell, and Clifford W
C-SPAN — C-SPAN appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing, as a benchmark for neutral, gavel-to-gavel political coverage rather than as a subject in its own right. B
Cafe Hayek — Cafe Hayek is a daily economics blog written by George Mason University economics professor Don Boudreaux, named after Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. Bob Z
California High-Speed Rail Authority — The California High-Speed Rail Authority was created by legislation introduced in 1996 by then-State Senator Quentin Kopp, following a 1994 feasibility committe
California Legislature — The California Legislature appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the body that made — and then unmade — several of the state’s most contested po
California State Assembly — Kevin Kiley, a member of the California State Assembly, used the institution as the platform from which he joined the grassroots movement to recall Governor Gav
California State Senate — The California State Senate appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the chamber where Quentin Kopp and Ray Haynes served, and from which Kopp launched the legi
California Supreme Court — The California Supreme Court appears in The Bob Zadek Show as an institution whose rulings can trigger legislation and whose internal appointments can become en
California Teachers Association — The California Teachers Association appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the defendant in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the un
Caltrain — Caltrain, the commuter rail line between San Jose and San Francisco, appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a test case for incremental transit improvement and for th
Cambridge University Press — Cambridge University Press appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject but as a recurring reference point: Mike Munger invokes it as the hypothetical publish
Cato Institute — The Cato Institute appears across seven episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the institutional home of guests who argue libertarian positions on capitalism, povert
CDC — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the CDC appears less as a subject of direct examination than as a recurring example of institutional failure and erod
Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity — The Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity is a program of the Cato Institute identified across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as the institutional home of scho
Centers for Disease Control — The Centers for Disease Control appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s coronavirus coverage as the federal agency whose published quarantine plans, in the account of g
Central Intelligence Agency — The Central Intelligence Agency appears in these episodes chiefly as a creation of the National Security Act of 1947 that helped redefine American defense and m
Chapman University — Chapman University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as the academic affiliation of three guests: legal scholar John Eastman, law professor Tom W. Bell, and ec
Child Protective Services — Child Protective Services appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as an agency to be abolished but as the enforcement arm of a broader culture of overprotection, invo
Chinese Communist Party — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Chinese Communist Party appears not as a subject of direct analysis but as a background actor invoked in argume
CIA — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host treat ‘socialism’ as a word whose meaning shifted over two centuries — from failed voluntary commun
Club for Growth — The Club for Growth appears in three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, but only as a background fact about the careers of two guests and as an example of institut
CNN — CNN appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, but never as a subject in its own right — it surfaces as a recurring example of mainstream media behavio
Coca-Cola — Coca-Cola appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a recurring illustration rather than a subject in its own right. Bob Zadek cites the secret, un
Columbia Law School — Columbia Law School appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the institutional home of two very different guests: the historian Thaddeus Russell, who cites it a
Columbia University — Columbia University appears in three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, each time in a different role: as the academic home of SEC chairman William Cary, whose Cad
Competitive Enterprise Institute — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a free-market think tank founded in 1984 by Fred Smith, described on The Bob Zadek Show as focusing almost exclusi
Congress — Across four episodes, Bob Zadek’s guests describe Congress as a body that delegates, defers, and defers again — writing broad statutes, leaving agencies to fill
Congressional Budget Office — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests cite the Congressional Budget Office as the authoritative scorekeeper of federal fiscal projections — the age
Constitution — The Bob Zadek Show treats ‘the Constitution’ less as a single document than as a contested set of interpretive commitments — originalism versus living constitut
Constitutional Convention — The Constitutional Convention appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a single event than as a set of scenes and arguments — Washington’s silent interventions, Ma
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau appears in The Bob Zadek Show as an example of the unelected administrative state, invoked twice across a decade for op
Continental Army — The Continental Army appears across four episodes of the show less as a single institution than as a recurring test case for how money, morale and persuasion de
Continental Congress — Across four episodes, guests describe the Continental Congress as the government of the American Revolution and the Articles of Confederation era — a body Georg
Court of Appeals — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the U.S. Courts of Appeals appear as the intermediate federal appellate tier that decides cases the Supreme Court le
Criminal justice system — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host treat the American criminal justice system as an expensive, self-perpetuating apparatus that outlive
Daily Beast — The Daily Beast appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the outlet where guest Anthony L. Fisher published two pieces on Antifa—one arguing that ‘Nazi punching’ aids t
DEA — The Drug Enforcement Administration appears in The Bob Zadek Show only at the margins of episodes devoted to other subjects, and the excerpts gathered here do n
Democratic Party — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host describe the Democratic Party as one half of an entrenched two-party establishment, as a ‘monopoly p
Democratic-Republicans — The Democratic-Republicans appear in these excerpts only as the party that benefited from Elbridge Gerry’s 1812 Massachusetts redistricting, which gave the prac
Democrats — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host describe the Democratic Party as one of two American political parties that, in their account, lack
Department of Agriculture — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Department of Agriculture appears as the libertarian case study in government overreach: a 100,000-employee agen
Department of Commerce — The Department of Commerce appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a policy agency than as a case study in cronyism and agency capture. In 2
Department of Defense — The Department of Defense, as discussed across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, was renamed from the Department of War in 1947 but has retained what guests a
Department of Education — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host argue that the federal Department of Education should be abolished or is constitutionally illegitima
Department of Energy — The Department of Energy appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as an agency profile than as a recurring example of federal overreach, ineffici
Department of Homeland Security — The Department of Homeland Security appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as an object of libertarian criticism rather than a subject of neutral descripti
Department of Justice — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Department of Justice appears chiefly as an agency whose power is questioned: for its concentration of lawyers i
Department of Motor Vehicles — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Department of Motor Vehicles appears not as a subject in its own right but as a standing analogy for government-
Department of the Treasury — The Department of the Treasury appears in The Bob Zadek Show only obliquely, through discussions of airline bailouts and the tax code rather than as an institut
Department of Transportation — The Department of Transportation appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in its own right but as a recurring example of federal and state administration
Department of War — The ‘Department of War’ is the name Bob Zadek and his guests use for the Pentagon, arguing that the 1947 renaming to ‘Department of Defense’ changed only the la
Disney — Disney appears in The Bob Zadek Show in two distinct contexts: as a purveyor of pirated Hollywood entertainment that helped open North Koreans’ eyes to the outs
Drug Enforcement Administration — The Drug Enforcement Administration appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the agency that created drug scheduling and production quotas, and as one node in a wider c
Duke University — Duke University appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the academic home of economist and political scientist Michael Munger, who is described across four epi
Electoral College — The Electoral College was created in 1787 to let electors, chosen by the states, identify a president in a country of roughly three million people with horse-sp
Environmental Protection Agency — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Environmental Protection Agency appears less as a single policy subject than as the recurring example of delegat
EPA — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the EPA appears mainly as a foil in broader libertarian arguments rather than as a subject in its own right. A calle
European Union — The European Union appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject in its own right than as a foil for arguments about central planning, democracy and American
Executive Branch — The executive branch appears across four episodes as the institution the Constitution was designed to leave weak, and as the institution that has since absorbed
Exxon — Exxon appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a case study in how activist and institutional investors can reshape a major oil company’s board and strategy. In the 202
Facebook — Facebook appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as the standing example of a social media platform whose content moderation, business model, and governanc
Fannie Mae — Fannie Mae appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the centerpiece of a libertarian indictment of federal housing policy: Bob Zadek calls it a go
FBI — The Bob Zadek Show treats the FBI as an institution whose culture, not its personnel, is the problem. Harvey Silverglate argues the Bureau cannot be reformed an
FCC — The Federal Communications Commission appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as an agency whose original justification — allocating scarce broadcast spectr
FDA — The FDA is portrayed across two episodes as an agency whose ‘safe and effective’ mandate and permitting power impose delays and destroy drugs that never reach p
FDIC — The FDIC appears across two Bob Zadek Show episodes as the federal deposit-insurance backstop whose limits and interventions shape how bank runs are contained.
Federal government — The federal government appears across these episodes as an entity whose enumerated powers, debt-collection practices, and relationship to the states are contest
Federal Reserve — Across seven episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host treat the Federal Reserve as a state creation rather than a market institution — blamed for currenc
Federal Trade Commission — The Federal Trade Commission appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as an antitrust enforcer than as a licensing gatekeeper and a way station in guests’ careers. Mi
Federalist Party — The Federalist Party appears in these excerpts chiefly through John Adams’s lame-duck judicial appointments after the election of 1800, which Bob Zadek and Josh
Federalist Society — The Federalist Society appears across four episodes of the show not as an institution with a documented history but as a marker of the conservative legal moveme
Federalists — The Federalists were the supporters of the newly drafted Constitution during ratification, who took a name that their opponents—the true federalists of the Conf
FedEx — FedEx appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in its own right but as a recurring example of private-sector competition disciplining a government monopol
Feminists for Liberty — Feminists for Liberty is a libertarian feminist group co-founded by Reason associate editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown, who described it on The Bob Zadek Show as a g
FIRE — FIRE appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a word for institutions and events, never as an organization: the federal firefighting agency, the 2007 Moonlight Fir
Food and Drug Administration — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Food and Drug Administration appears less as a single agency than as a recurring example of the regulatory presu
Forbes — Forbes appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — a magazine where Ronald Bailey worked when he noticed environmental
Ford — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, rent control is treated as a government-imposed transfer of property rights from landlords to tenants, defended by
Fox News — Fox News appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a marker of media fragmentation. Bob Zadek’s own program aired on a Fox News Radio affiliate, a
Fraser Institute — The Fraser Institute appears in three Bob Zadek Show episodes as an authority on economic freedom, cited by Fergus Hodgson for Venezuela’s last-place ranking, b
Freddie Mac — Freddie Mac appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a case study in crony capitalism and government distortion of housing finance. Guests Matt Welch, Lui
Gallup — Gallup appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a pollster and research organization whose data guests cite on topics from gay marriage and marijua
General Electric — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, General Electric appears as the recurring example of a corporation whose profitability depends on government rather
General Motors — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, General Motors appears not as a car company but as the recurring emblem of government intervention in capitalism — t
George Mason University School of Law — George Mason University School of Law appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the academic home of Professor Ilya Somin, whom Bob Zadek interviewed about voter ignoran
George Mason University — George Mason University appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the academic home of guests who argue libertarian and contrarian positions on insi
Georgetown University — Georgetown University appears in three Bob Zadek Show episodes as an institutional reference point rather than a subject in its own right: as the academic home
Goldman Sachs — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Goldman Sachs appears less as a subject in its own right than as a recurring example in arguments about regulation
Goldwater Institute — The Goldwater Institute appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a libertarian think tank whose staff litigate and design policy: Timothy Sandefur helped
Google — The Bob Zadek Show treated the Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google as a case study in the difference between opposing concentrated power and o
GOP — Across nine years of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host treat the Republican Party less as a fixed institution than as a coalition whose electoral fortunes tur
government — Across three episodes, Bob Zadek and his guests treat government as a distinctive threat because it alone carries guns and can jail or kill, yet they show it ac
Green Party — The Green Party appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing example in a 2022 discussion of electoral structure. Guest Ned Foley cites it, alongside the Lib
Harvard Law School — Harvard Law School appears across The Bob Zadek Show mainly as a credential and a culture, not as an institution examined on its own terms. Guests identified as
Harvard University — Harvard University appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the institutional home of economists whose research guests cite on student loans, welfare, and immig
Harvard — Harvard appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as an institution with a history than as a recurring reference point — the alma mater of guests and of national p
Heritage Foundation — The Heritage Foundation appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a Washington think tank that guests worked for or with, and that joined coalitions on cri
Hollywood (organizations) — The Bob Zadek Show’s 2011 treatment of Hollywood, built on Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda, argues that the industry is a left-wing political operation: a
Hoover Institution — The Hoover Institution appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the institutional home of legal scholar Richard Epstein, who is introduced by that affiliation a
house-judiciary-committee
House of Representatives — The House of Representatives is treated across these episodes as the one directly elected part of the federal government — the ‘People’s House’ — and therefore
IBM — IBM appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, but never as a subject in its own right. It figures as a byword for transitory corporate dominance, as a
ICE — ICE appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing example in a 2019 discussion of price gouging and rent control, where Charlie Deist uses a bag of ice as an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement — Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a single subject than as the agency at the center of recurring fights over federal
Independent Institute — The Independent Institute, an Oakland-based public policy think tank, supplied guests to The Bob Zadek Show across more than a decade of episodes, from economis
Instagram — Instagram appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as one name in lists of large social media platforms, never as a subject in its own right. Guests and host treat it
Institute for Justice — The Institute for Justice appears across six Bob Zadek Show episodes as a public interest law firm litigating economic liberty, property rights, and free speech
Institute for Spending Reform — The Institute for Spending Reform is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to finding solutions to the escalating national debt, founded and headed by
Intel — Across two episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests take up two very different institutions: artificial intelligence as a field of narrow tools, and the United St
Internal Revenue Service — The Internal Revenue Service appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a tax-collection agency than as a case study in government growth and its political beneficia
Interstate Commerce Commission — The Interstate Commerce Commission appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the first federal agency to fix prices and routes in a private industry, created by the Inte
IRS — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Internal Revenue Service appears mainly as an object of libertarian indictment rather than as an institution exa
ISIS — ISIS is not the subject of any of these excerpts; the episodes discuss the 2008 financial crisis, California housing policy, and the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Journal of the American Medical Association — The Journal of the American Medical Association appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a mainstream medical authority whose early-20th-century editorializing on cocai
JPMorgan Chase — JPMorgan Chase appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as one of three major banks operating in Manhattan, cited by guest Brent Orrell as an instance of the office-s
Judiciary — Across three episodes, Bob Zadek’s guests examine the judiciary as an institution: Brian Walsh describes Congress’s federal criminalization spree and a House ru
K Street — K Street is the shorthand used across several episodes of The Bob Zadek Show for the Washington lobbying industry and the revolving door between Congress and lo
LA Times — The LA Times appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a recurring reference point — a mainstream newspaper whose reporting guests cite for facts about housing markets a
Labor unions — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, labor unions appear not as a subject in their own right but as a recurring antagonist in arguments about wages, immig
Legislative Branch — This article collects what The Bob Zadek Show’s guests and host said about the legislative branch — Congress — across three episodes. Ilya Shapiro traces the ri
Legislature — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the legislature appears chiefly as the branch that taxes by stealth, delegates its power to executives, and declines
Libertarian Party — The Libertarian Party appears in The Bob Zadek Show mainly as a vehicle for libertarian ideas rather than as an electoral machine. Bob Zadek and his guests repe
Libertarianism.org — Libertarianism.org is the Cato Institute’s online project for libertarian history, philosophy and theory, described across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as a pu
Local government — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, local government appears as both a shield and a threat: the level of government closest to the citizen, yet capable o
Lyft — Lyft appears in The Bob Zadek Show as one of the two ridesharing companies at the center of California’s AB 5 fight over independent contracting. Bob Zadek and
Mainstream media — Across eight episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, ‘mainstream media’ names the large newspapers, networks and columnists that guests and host treat as a single, like
Manhattan Institute — The Manhattan Institute appears in The Bob Zadek Show as publisher of The Beholden State, a book on California’s governance and pension troubles discussed wit
Medicare — Medicare, as discussed across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, is treated by guests and the host as a system of price controls, coding mandates, and hidden
Mercatus Center — The Mercatus Center at George Mason University appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as the institutional home of three guests: Veronique de Rugy, Don Bou
Microsoft — Across seven episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Microsoft appears less as a subject in its own right than as a recurring example in arguments about antitrust, corp
Mises Institute — The Mises Institute appears across three Bob Zadek Show episodes as an Austrian-economics institution in Auburn, Alabama, led by Jeff Deist and counting Thomas
MIT — MIT appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing, as the alma mater of a congressional chief of staff described during a 2020 interview with Rep. Thomas Massie
MSNBC — MSNBC appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in its own right but as a recurring example of a media outlet whose political leanings are assumed rath
NAACP — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the NAACP appears not as a subject in its own right but as a recurring example of an organization that aligns with li
NASA — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, NASA appears mainly as a foil in arguments about government science funding, monopoly inefficiency, and the suppress
National Assembly — The National Assembly appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s Venezuela coverage as the elected legislature whose authority the Chavista regime repeatedly neutralized —
National Constitution Center — The National Constitution Center appears across five Bob Zadek Show episodes as a Philadelphia institution chartered by Congress to educate the public about the
National Education Association — The National Education Association appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the central institutional obstacle to school choice and the clearest ex
National Guard — The National Guard appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as an institution studied in its own right but as a recurring example in arguments about immigration enforc
National Institute on Drug Abuse — The National Institute on Drug Abuse appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the federal agency at the center of disputes over marijuana research
National Institutes of Health — The National Institutes of Health appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a funding body whose grant decisions shape what research gets pursued. Dr. Jeffrey Singe
National Review — National Review appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as a touchstone of conservative opinion rather than as a subject in its own right. Guests and host cite it
NATO — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests Jacob Sullum, Chris Preble and Justin Logan examine NATO from different angles — Sullum on the statistical f
NBC — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, NBC appears only as one node in a recurring argument about media bias, audience segmentation, and the collapse of sha
New Civil Liberties Alliance — The New Civil Liberties Alliance is a public-interest law firm founded by Columbia law professor Philip Hamburger as an alternative to the ACLU, dedicated to de
New York Post — The New York Post appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — a tabloid whose crime coverage Bob Zadek reads daily
New York Times — Across seven episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the New York Times appears less as a subject than as a recurring evidentiary prop: a mainstream outlet whose report
New York University School of Law — New York University School of Law appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the institutional home of guests Richard Epstein and Rachel Barkow, and as Bob Zadek’
NFL — The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts touching the NFL are limited to a single passing reference in a 2019 episode on Venezuela, where Bob Zadek used the league as an e
NIH — The National Institutes of Health appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the institutional backdrop to COVID-19 policy disputes. Justin Hart argues that NIH o
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appears in the sources only as a procedural waypoint in a First Amendment challenge to compulsory union dues. In the account
Ninth Circuit — The Ninth Circuit, the federal appellate court for the Western states, appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a court that litigants must sometim
Northwestern University — Northwestern University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through the people affiliated with it — law professors Jim Lindgren and Steven Calabresi, economist L
NPR — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, NPR surfaces only glancingly — as a foil in David Bernstein’s account of how the ‘Asian American’ category homogeniz
NSA — The excerpts gathered here do not actually concern the National Security Agency; the closest recurring subject is federal power and its costs, argued through a
NYU School of Law — NYU School of Law appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the academic home of two recurring guests: Professor Richard Epstein, who teaches law there and founded and h
NYU — NYU appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the academic home of guests rather than as a subject in its own right. Richard Epstein is identified as a professor
Obama administration — The Obama administration appears across The Bob Zadek Show as a case study in executive power, administrative overreach, and the gap between official justificat
Occupy movement — The Occupy movement appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as a reference point rather than a subject: Bob Zadek cites its bank-bailout origins to charge student
Occupy Wall Street — Occupy Wall Street appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing reference in two episodes, never as the subject of an interview. Gary Johnson invoked the mov
Office for Civil Rights — The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of Education is the agency that enforces Title IX, and across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show guests an
Ohio State University — Ohio State University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through the credentials of four guests: economist Burton Abrams, who took his PhD there; terrorism scho
Our America Initiative — The Our America Initiative was the political vehicle through which former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and his 2012 running mate, Judge Jim Gray, promoted l
Pacific Legal Foundation — The Pacific Legal Foundation appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes as a public interest law firm litigating for individual liberty, property rights, separ
PBS — Across The Bob Zadek Show, PBS appears only in passing — as a punchline for programming that fails commercially, as the broadcast home of Milton Friedman’s Free
Pentagon — The Pentagon, as discussed across two episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, is portrayed as an institution whose budget is driven less by strategic need than by congr
PG&E — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, PG&E appears only at the edges of larger arguments — as the entity whose bill conceals taxes the legislature impose
President of the United States — The presidency, as discussed across these episodes, was created by a Constitutional Convention that intended a figurehead executive and was then remade by Georg
Princeton University — Princeton University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a point of contrast and as a speaker’s affiliation, never as a subject in its own right. In the 2014
Public Choice Society — The Public Choice Society appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through the biographies of two past presidents, economists Randall Holcombe and Michael Munger, who
public schools — Public schools, which guests on The Bob Zadek Show call ‘government schools,’ are the central institution in a long-running debate over school choice. Corey DeA
Public sector unions — Public sector unions, as discussed across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, are portrayed by critics as an ‘unholy alliance’ between unions and the elected o
Public service unions — Public service unions are treated across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as categorically different from private-sector unions, because government employer
Purdue University — Purdue University appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the site of a 2008 student disciplinary case and as the institution led by Mitch Daniels, a figure both guest
Reason.com — Reason.com is the website of Reason magazine, a libertarian publication whose staff appeared repeatedly on The Bob Zadek Show across a decade. Guests including
Reason Foundation — The Reason Foundation appears across seven episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the publisher of Reason magazine and as an institutional home for libertarian polic
Reason Magazine — Reason Magazine appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as both a subject of the host’s praise and the employer of guests Matt Welch, Damon Root and,
Reason — Reason is a libertarian publication and media outlet repeatedly invoked on The Bob Zadek Show as the institutional voice of ‘free minds and free markets.’ Acros
Reddit — Reddit appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a pseudonymous discussion platform whose forums hosted both the GameStop short squeeze and lightly moderated communities
Republican Party — The Republican Party appears in these excerpts mainly as a backdrop against which guests argue about realignment and third-party alternatives. Austin Petersen d
Sacramento — Sacramento appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the seat of California state government and of the courts where litigation over the state’s high-speed rail project
Scalia School of Law — The Scalia School of Law enters The Bob Zadek Show only as a credential in Bob Zadek’s introduction of Frank Buckley, a professor there and a frequent guest. In
Sears and Roebuck — Sears and Roebuck appears in two episodes of The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing illustration of how unregulated cocaine once was in America: Bob Zadek twice r
Seasteading Institute — The Seasteading Institute, co-founded by Patri Friedman, promotes building autonomous communities on the high seas outside any nation’s territorial limits as a
SEC — The Securities and Exchange Commission appears in these excerpts only obliquely, through adjacent discussions of federal economic policy and constitutional righ
Securities and Exchange Commission — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host treat the Securities and Exchange Commission as an agency whose insider-trading prohibition was inve
SEIU — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, SEIU appears not as the subject of an extended treatment but as a recurring reference point in arguments about publ
Senate — The Senate appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a single institution than as four distinct constitutional problems: the confirmation power
Sierra Club — The Sierra Club appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as an organization with a history than as a recurring example of the environmental movement’s institutional p
Solyndra — Solyndra appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a byword for government subsidy gone wrong — a solar manufacturer that took hundreds of millions
Southwest Airlines — Southwest Airlines appears across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as a recurring example of market discipline and business effectiveness, invoked by both t
Soviet Union — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the Soviet Union appears less as a subject in its own right than as a reference point — the fallen superpower whose
Standard Oil — Standard Oil appears across The Bob Zadek Show not as a case study in corporate wrongdoing but as the recurring test case for a libertarian argument about antit
Stanford University — Stanford University appears in The Bob Zadek Show only through a single reference by guest Nick Gillespie to political scientist Morris Fiorina, who is describe
State Department — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host describe the State Department as an agency shaped by fear-driven politics, fiscal perversity, narrat
state government — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, state government appears less as a single institution than as a contested layer in American federalism. Gary Johnson
state legislatures — State legislatures appear across The Bob Zadek Show as the structural hinge of American federalism — the body the Founders used to insulate the Senate and the E
Supreme Court — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests Ilya Shapiro and Ilan Wurman examine the Supreme Court as an institution — its role in checking the other br
Taliban — The Taliban appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject in its own right than as a fixed reference point in arguments about American fo
Target — Target appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing example in economic arguments, never as a subject in its own right. In one episode Bob Zadek offers Targe
Tea Party movement — The Tea Party movement, as discussed across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, is treated by host Bob Zadek and his guests as a spontaneous, bottom-up America
Tea Party — The Tea Party appears across The Bob Zadek Show as a decentralized, spontaneous movement against federal growth rather than a party or a top-down organization.
Teachers’ unions — Across two episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, teachers’ unions appear as the central institutional opponent of school choice and as carriers of radical ideology in
Tennessee Valley Authority — The Tennessee Valley Authority appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject in its own right than as a recurring reference point — the owner-operator of the
Tesla — Tesla Motors, the Northern California electric-car startup, became the test case for whether a manufacturer may sell directly to consumers rather than through s
Texas Tech University — Texas Tech University appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the academic home of economist Benjamin Powell, identified across four episodes as an economist,
The Atlantic — The Atlantic appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring marker of mainstream media credibility and its limits. Guests and host cite
The Daily Beast — The Daily Beast appears in The Bob Zadek Show as the outlet where guests published arguments that Bob Zadek then discussed on air. Anthony L. Fisher wrote a Dai
The New Republic — The New Republic appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing — as the magazine where guest John Judis worked for twenty years, as a publication where guest Se
The New York Times — Across six episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, The New York Times appears less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — cited for a book review on hate cr
The New Yorker — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, The New Yorker appears less as a subject than as a recurring point of reference: a magazine whose writers supply gue
The Wall Street Journal — The Wall Street Journal appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — a paper Bob Zadek reads and t
The Washington Post — The Washington Post appears in The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a benchmark for media bias, invoked by guests to distinguish openly partisan newspap
Time Magazine — Time Magazine appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a passing reference point, never as a subject in its own right. Bob Zadek cites its 2015-era cover treatment
TSA — The Transportation Security Administration, discussed on The Bob Zadek Show with investigative journalist Jim Bovard, is presented as a post-9/11 agency of roug
Twitter — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, Twitter appears less as a monopoly to be trustbusted than as a private platform whose content decisions became entan
U.S. Congress — The excerpts present Congress as the institution at the center of two distinct problems: immigration and the FBI. In the immigration episode, Alex Nowrasteh arg
U.S. Constitution — The U.S. Constitution appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a fixed text than as a contested inheritance: guests debate whether ratifying it was a mistake,
U.S. Senate — The U.S. Senate appears in these excerpts less as a legislative body than as a prize and a firewall: Larry Klayman ran for a Florida Senate seat in 2004 and los
Uber — Uber appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show as the recurring test case for regulatory capture and creative destruction. Bob Zadek frames the company
UC Berkeley — UC Berkeley appears in The Bob Zadek Show only at the edges: two Berkeley researchers produced the emissions estimate at the center of a high-speed rail critiqu
UCLA — UCLA appears across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as an institution with a single story than as a recurring reference point: the campus where an undo
Unions — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host examine public sector unions as a distinct kind of organization, arguing that collective bargaining
United Nations — Across seven episodes of the show, the United Nations appears mainly as a background institution — the body that admits new countries, hosts treaties on speech,
United States Congress — The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts treat the United States Congress chiefly as the prospective national instrument of gig-economy reclassification and as the body in
United States Government — Across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests and host examine the United States government as a structure of separated powers — one that the founders desi
United States Postal Service — The United States Postal Service appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as a case study in automation failure, offered by Luis Perez-Breva to argue that replacing h
United States Senate — The Senate appears in these episodes less as a legislative body than as the forum where impeachment is decided, and both guests argue that what the Constitution
United States Supreme Court — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, guests describe the United States Supreme Court as the forum where challenges to the administrative state, state ref
United States — The Bob Zadek Show treats ‘the United States’ less as a country than as a contested idea — a constitutional order the Founders designed to keep war rare, an obj
University of Chicago — The University of Chicago appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as an academic home for guests who apply free-market and legal scholarship to public problems. E
University of Pennsylvania Law School — The University of Pennsylvania Law School appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly through two guests: Amy Wax, identified as a tenured professor of law there, and
University of Pennsylvania — The University of Pennsylvania appears across four Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a subject than as a vantage point: the campus where Alice Goffman’s parents t
University of Virginia — The University of Virginia appears in The Bob Zadek Show only in passing — as the institution where guests teach, as Thomas Jefferson’s tombstone-worthy foundin
UPS — The federal racial and ethnic classifications used in American law and administration were not designed as a coherent system but emerged piecemeal from executiv
US Congress — The Bob Zadek Show treats the US Congress as an institution that inflates sugar prices, wrote the first immigration law and the first nationality quota, and is
US Supreme Court — The US Supreme Court appears across these episodes as the forum where unsettled constitutional questions are finally resolved, whether the reach of the Eighth A
USDA — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the USDA appears less as a food-safety guardian than as an enforcer of rules that punish innocent conduct, protect i
USSR — Across three episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, the USSR appears less as a subject in its own right than as a reference point in arguments about artificial stateho
Vanderbilt University — Vanderbilt University appears in two episodes of The Bob Zadek Show only as the institutional home of researchers whose quantitative findings guests cite in pol
Verizon — Verizon appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a subject in its own right but as an example of a large incumbent firm shaping law and regulation. In the 2014 epis
Vox — Vox appears in The Bob Zadek Show only as an outlet cited by guests and the host, never as a subject in its own right. Alex Nowrasteh cites a Sanders interview
Wall Street Journal — The Wall Street Journal appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — a paper Bob Zadek reads, a venue guests write
Wall Street — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, ‘Wall Street’ appears less as a defined organization than as a rhetorical target — a label Bob Zadek says is used to
Walmart — Walmart appears across The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring test case for the libertarian claim that businesses seek government help to tilt
Washington Post — The Washington Post appears across five episodes of The Bob Zadek Show less as a subject than as a recurring reference point — a newspaper whose reporting is ci
Washington — Across four episodes of The Bob Zadek Show, ‘Washington’ names two distinct things: the federal government as a locus of concentrated power, and George Washingt
Wells Fargo — Wells Fargo appears in The Bob Zadek Show as a recurring example of how large financial institutions cooperate with government regulation to entrench their own
White House — The White House appears across five Bob Zadek Show episodes less as a single institution than as a set of pressure points — a report-shop and petition portal, a
Whole Foods — Whole Foods appears in The Bob Zadek Show’s excerpts chiefly as the company John Mackey built and as the example of ‘conscious capitalism’ — a business model it
World Bank — The World Bank appears in The Bob Zadek Show chiefly as the author of the Doing Business index, a ranking of how easy it is to do business around the world, whi
World Health Organization — Across three episodes, Bob Zadek’s guests treat the World Health Organization as one actor among several that suppressed or distorted information — the origin o
Yale University — Yale University appears in The Bob Zadek Show in two unrelated contexts: as the source of a campus sexual-conduct document that Cathy Young cites as an example
Yelp — Yelp appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a company profile but as a data source and a legal example. In a 2020 episode on COVID-19 lockdowns, Bob Zadek cites Y
YouTube — YouTube appears across The Bob Zadek Show as one of the large social media platforms whose content moderation and government pressure the show examines. Guests
Zoom — Zoom appears in The Bob Zadek Show not as a company profile but as a passing example in a single episode, where Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Ryan Yo

Explorer

Organizations