2026

May 27, 2026: Laura Field, “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right”

May 26, 2026: Jay Shambaugh, “International Economic Policy in the 2020s”

May 19, 2026: Kevin Erdmann, “Housing Affordability and the Abundance Agenda”

May 13, 2026: Lindsay MacMillan, “Life After Dartmouth: Career Pivots and Entrepreneurship”

April 28, 2026: Rebecca Allensworth, “The Licensing Racket”

Feb. 25, 2026: Lizzie Lee, “The China Model’s Fatal Flaw”

Jan. 27, 2026: Frank Dikötter, “Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity”

Jan. 14, 2026: Jennifer Lind, “Autocracy 2.0: China’s Smart Despotism”

2025

Nov. 3, 2025: Harvey Mansfield, “America’s Two Liberalisms”

Oct. 22, 2025: Dan Goor, “The Correct Answer to Absolutely Everything”

Oct. 16, 2025: Benjamin Friedman, “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth”; YouTube here

Oct. 8, 2025: Steve Teles, “The Abundance Agenda,” YouTube here

Oct. 1, 2025: Dominic Burbidge, “Who Needs Public Virtue?”; YouTube here

Sept. 24, 2025: Udi Greenberg, “The End of the Schism,” YouTube here

Sept. 22, 2025: Kevin Evers, “The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift”

Sept. 19, 2025: James Read, “A Constitution Day Discussion,” YouTube here

Sept. 18, 2025: Antoine Lilti, “The Legacy of the Enlightenment and the Paradox of Emancipation”

July 7, 2025: Ishaan Jajodia (’20) “Reclaiming Middlebrow Culture”

May 19, 2025: Doug Irwin, “Trump’s Tariff Obsession: Good or Bad for America?”, YouTube here

May 14, 2025: Tony Banout, “Free Inquiry and Free Expression on Campus,” YouTube here

May 12, 2025: Daniel Di Martino, “How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela,” YouTube here

May 7, 2025: Joshua Tait, “Conservative Thought From Buckley to Trump,” YouTube here

May 6, 2025: Brooke Harrington, “Trump’s Broligarchy,” YouTube here

May 1, 2025: Meir Kohn, “Managers and Entrepreneurs”

April 28, 2025: Colin Calloway, “Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America,” YouTube here

April 22, 2025: Clark Neily, “Overturning Chevron: Revolutionizing the Administrative State,” YouTube here

April 17, 2025: Meir Kohn, “The Myth of Economic Man”

April 14, 2025: Jeff Tulis, “Normalizing Trump,” YouTube here

April 4, 2025: Ben Vagle (’22) and Stephen Brooks, “America’s Edge Over China,” YouTube here

Feb. 18, 2025: Joseph Fewsmith, “What Do We Know About China Today?”

Feb. 13, 2025: Meir Kohn, “There is No Such Thing as Market Failure”

Jan. 30, 2025: Zongyuan Liu, “China’s Real Economic Crisis”

Jan. 29, 2025: Joshua Rubenstein, “The Last Days of Stalin”

Jan. 24, 2025: Jake Monaghan, “Crime and Punishment: The American Policing System”

Jan. 23, 2025: Meir Kohn, “Capitalism and Communism: What is the Important Difference?”

Jan. 14, 2025: William Wohlforth, “Great Power Subversion”

2024

Nov. 11, 2024: Russ Muirhead, “Ungoverning and the Politics of Chaos”

Nov. 7, 2024: Matt Yglesias, “The Strange Death of Neoliberal America”

Nov. 4, 2024: Melissa Kearney, “Marriage and the Economy,” YouTube here

Oct. 29, 2024: Peter DeShazo, “Latin Democracy Security, Democracy and Economy”

Oct. 22, 2024: Greg Reichberg, “Should Autonomous Weapons Systems Be Making Life and Death Decisions in War?”

Oct. 21, 2024: “A Conversation With Lawrence Summers”

Oct. 17, 2024: Meir Kohn, “There is No Malthusian Trap (the Trap is Predation)”

Oct. 14, 2024: David Leonhardt and Michael Strain, “Is the American Dream Still Alive? A Debate,” YouTube here

Sept. 26, 2024: Meir Kohn, “Is Finance Theft?”

July 15, 2024: Leonidas Zelmanovitz, “The Political Economy of Digital Currencies”

July 9, 2024: Rainer Zitelmann, “Socialism, Capitalism, National Socialism: Lessons From Germany”

May 1, 2024: Leslie Butler, “Women and American Democracy”

April 23, 2024: Ian Vasquez, “Argentina: Populism, Corporatism, and Crisis”

April 16, 2024: John Welborn, “A Short History of Short Selling”

April 9, 2024: David Schleicher (’00), “In A Bad State: Fiscal Crises Today” 

April 3, 2024: Daniel Di Martino, “The High Price of Free Things: How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela”

March 27, 2024: Michael Clemens, “Immigration and the Economy: How Leading Economists Missed the Mark”

Feb. 29, 2024: Joseph Heath, “Capitalism: Critique or Kvetch?”

Feb. 21, 2024: Alexsandar Mihailovic, “Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia”

Feb. 8, 2024: Hank Clark, “Is Activism Harmful to Progress?”

Jan. 31, 2024: Nien Lin Xie, “Sent-Down Girls in China’s Cultural Revolution”

Jan. 16, 2024: David Li, “China’s World View”

Jan. 10, 2024: Darrin McMahon, “Equality: History of An Elusive Idea”

2023

Nov. 14, 2023: Jennifer Burns, “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative”

Nov. 13, 2023: Doug Irwin, “Milton Friedman and Dartmouth College”

Nov. 8, 2023: Ania Bugajska, “Multiple Absence in Digital City”

Nov. 2, 2023: Phil Gramm, “Is Growing Economic Inequality a Myth?”

Oct. 31, 2023: Andrew Young, “The Political Economy of the American Constitution”

Oct. 25, 2023: Chandran Kukathas, “Immigration and Freedom”

Oct. 16, 2023: Petra McGillen, “Fake News in Context: Nineteenth-Century German Journalism”

Oct. 9, 2023: Meir Kohn, “Capitalism and Communism: How They Differ”

Oct. 3, 2023: Nassim Taleb, “Will Artificial Intelligence Worsen Global Fragility?”

Oct. 2, 2023: Anthony O’Hear, “Plato on Education in Goodness”

Sept. 29, 2023: Eric Hendriks, “Why Chinese Communists Love Western Conservatives”

Sept. 25, 2023: David Blanchflower, “COVID-19 and Mental Health in America”

Sept. 18, 2023: Doug Irwin, “Are Economists Bad For Society?”

Aug. 15, 2023: Yascha Mounk, “The Identity Trap”

Aug. 10, 2023: Alan Kahan, “Freedom From Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism”

May 18, 2023: Kevin Erdmann, “Housing and the Real Story Behind the 2008 Collapse”

May 10, 2023: Jennifer Lind, “The Evolving U.S.-China Competition”

May 3, 2023: Michael Cox, “Property Rights and Environmental Policy”

May 2, 2023: Doug Irwin and Scott Lincicome, “Trade Policy Today: A Debate”

May 1, 2023: James Bessen, “Regulation, Innovation, and the New Economy”

May 1, 2023: Golfo Alexopoulos, “Russian Authoritarianism and Disinformation: Continuities and Discontinuities”

April 28, 2023: Alessio Terzi, “Growth is Good: An Economist’s Perspective”

April 27, 2023: Shannon Stimson, “Adam Smith on Economics and the Natural Order”

April 19, 2023: David Blanchflower, “Why Central Banks Should Be Cutting Rates”

April 13, 2023: Helena Rosenblatt, “Liberalism Past and Present”

April 12, 2023: Catherine Mann, “Thoughts on Monetary Policy Today”

April 10, 2023: Emma Rothschild, “Adam Smith and 300 Years of Economic History”

April 6, 2023: Pratap Mehta, “Democracy in India, Democracy in the World”

April 3, 2023: Polina Beliakova, “Putin and Zelensky—and Their Armies”

March 6, 2023: Danielle Gilbert, “No Concessions? Brittney Griner and U.S. Hostage Policy”

Feb. 7, 2023: Frank Dikötter, “China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower”

*Jan. 25, 2023: Student Reports, “Econ 70 Immersion in Peru”

Jan. 18, 2023: Lada Kolomiyets, “The Dark Side of Translation: Russian Censorship in Ukraine”

2022

Nov. 9, 2022: Matthew Delmont, “Black Americans During World War II”

Nov. 7, 2022: Ferenc Horcher, “Conservative Prudence”

Nov. 1, 2022: Graeme Garrard, “The Return of the State”

Oct. 20, 2022: Mark Krikorian and Bryan Caplan, “Open Borders? A Debate”

Oct. 13, 2022: Lindsay MacMillan, “The Heart of the Deal”

Oct. 10, 2022: David Miller, “Resurgent Nationalism”

Oct. 4, 2022: Hank Clark, “Workers as Traders: What Every Student Should Know About Labor History”

Sept. 30, 2022: Maria Pia Paganelli, “Why Read Adam Smith Today?”

Aug. 8, 2022: Yascha Mounk, “Origins of Identity Politics”

May 23, 2022: Samuel Goldman, “After Nationalism”

May 17, 2022: Colleen Boggs, “Civil War Conscription: Battleground of Citizenship?”

May 13, 2022: Hank Clark, “French Election Aftermath”

May 9, 2022: Meir Kohn, “Commerce, Predation, and Development”

April 25, 2022: Lucas Pinheiro, “Are Factories Obsolete?”

April 18, 2022: Jacob McNulty, “What Every Student Should Know About Hegel’s Political Economy”

April 15, 2022: Walter Stahr, “Dartmouth, Slavery, and the American Civil War”

April 12, 2022: Kevin Erdmann, “Our Housing Crisis: Sources and Solutions”

April 7, 2022: Sergei Kan, “Reflections on Growing Up in the Soviet Union”

Feb. 28, 2022: Ian Cruise, “What Every Student Should Know About Hume on Justice”

Feb. 21, 2022: “Coach Buddy Teevens (’78) on Leadership”

Feb. 16, 2022: Emily Estelle (’16), “After Afghanistan: Prospects for Middle East and African Terrorism”

Feb. 15, 2022: Xiaoyu Zhang, “Chinese Environmental Law in Comparative Perspective”

Feb. 7, 2022: John Welborn, “The Political Economy of Crypto-Currency”

Jan. 31, 2022: Elisabeth Curtis, “Ukraine Since the Soviet Collapse”

Jan. 24, 2022: Jason Barabas, “Rocky and Rockefeller Republicans”

2021

Nov. 8, 2021: Bernie Avishai, “The Clintonian Origins of Israeli Health Care”

Oct. 25, 2021: David Miller, “The Looming Threat of Climate-Induced Migration”

Oct. 18, 2021: John Campbell, “What Capitalism Needs”

Oct. 11, 2021: Ezzedine Fishere, “The Fall of Afghanistan: Views from the Middle East”

Oct. 5, 2021: Joe Henrich, “The WEIRDest People in the World”

Oct. 4, 2021: Hank Clark, “Women and Capitalism: Fourteen Hundred Years in Fourteen Minutes (Okay, Fifteen)”

Sept. 27, 2021: Nien Lin Xie, “Down to the Countryside: Chinese Youth in the Cultural Revolution”

Sept. 20, 2021: Doug Irwin, “How Economic Ideas Led to Globalization”

May 18, 2021: Or Rosenboim, “The Emergence of Globalism”

May 11, 2021: Frank Dikötter, “China Past and Future”

April 29, 2021: Alan Macfarlane, “Tocqueville on China and America,” Zoom YouTube here

April 21, 2021: Benjamin Friedman, “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism,” Zoom YouTube here

April 13, 2021: Hans Werner Müller, “Democracy Rules: Liberty, Equality and Uncertainty”

April 6, 2021: Virginia Postrel, “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World,” Zoom YouTube here

March 2, 2021: Cory Smith, “Land Inequality and the Development of the West,” Zoom YouTube here

Feb. 22, 2021: Meir Kohn, “Why There is No Such Thing as Market Failure,” Zoom YouTube here

Feb. 15, 2021: Colleen Sheehan, “Capitol Crimes: Madisonian Reflections on Jan. 6”

Feb. 10, 2021: Stefan Link, “Technology Transfers and Competitive Development”

Jan. 26, 2021: Julia Lovell, “Maoist China: A Global History”

Jan. 21, 2021: Harsh Gupta (’09), “A New Idea of India”

2020

Oct. 27, 2020: “Financing Vaccines: The Search for a Better Way”

Oct. 22, 2020: Elisabeth Curtis, “From Socialism to Capitalism: The Case of Poland”

Oct. 6, 2020: David Schmidtz, “Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand”

Sept. 11, 2020: Student Reports, “Democracy Erosion Project”

July 27, 2020: Yascha Mounk, “Democracy and Diversity”

Feb. 10, 2020: Peter Deshazo, “How Chile Passed Argentina on the Development Path”

Jan. 27, 2020: Stuart Finkel, “Political Philanthropy Under Lenin and Stalin”

Jan. 21, 2020: Student Reports, “Immersion Experience in Chile and Argentina”

Jan. 14, 2020: Shruti Rajagopalan, “Eminent Domain in India and the United States”

Jan. 13, 2020: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, “Religious Freedom in a Populist Age”

Jan. 9, 2020: Emma Hart, “Space in the Early American Marketplace”

Jan. 7, 2020: David Hart, “Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies: An Overlooked Libertarian Classic?”

2019

*Nov. 11, 2019: Meir Kohn, “How I Became a Libertarian”

Nov. 4, 2019: Paul Christesen, “Leisure as a Luxury Good in Ancient Sparta” 

Oct. 30, 2019: Oren Cass and Karl Widerquist on Universal Basic Income: A Debate 

Oct. 28, 2019: Lynn Patyk, “Provocation as a Mode of Information Warfare”

Oct. 22, 2019: Darrin McMahon, “Happiness Through History”

Oct. 21, 2019: Tamar Jacoby, “The Future of Work for Those Who Don’t Attend College”

Oct. 15, 2019: Robert Kuttner, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism”

Oct. 7, 2019: Adam Gopnik, “Liberal Morals and Liberal Minds”

Sept. 30, 2019: Ben Powell, “My Adventures in ‘Socialist Country’”

Sept. 27-28, 2019: “Dartmouth and the World: A Conference on Religion and Political Economy @1769”

Sept. 24, 2019: Ben Powell, “Immigration: Economic Plus or Minus?”

Sept. 24, 2019: Lord Dartmouth on Brexit—a Sestercentennial Event

Sept. 23, 2019: Arthur Brooks, “Abundance Without Attachment”

Sept. 19, 2019: Ryan Hanley, “Adam Smith on Living a Better Life”

Aug. 6, 2019: Steven Marks, “Why the West? Information as Key to the Modern World”

July 29, 2019: Yascha Mounk, “Populism and the Future of Democracy”

June 11, 2019: Student Sestercentennial Presentations: An Alumni Reunion Event

May 23, 2019: George Nash, “American Conservatism and the Challenge of Populism”

*May 20, 2019: David Blanchflower, “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?”

*May 13, 2019: Na’ama Shenhav, “DACA and the Education Decisions of Undocumented Youth”

May 8, 2019: Kevin Erdmann, “How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession”

*May 6, 2019: Paul Novosad, “Organized Crime and the Origins of the State”

May 1, 2019: Dennis Rasmussen, “Adam Smith and David Hume: A Philosophic Friendship”

*Apr. 29, 2019: Meir Kohn, “Why There is No Such Thing as Capitalism (or Communism)”

Apr. 26, 2019: Glory Liu, “The Popularity of Adam Smith in America”

Apr. 23, 2019: Patrick Dineen and Aurelian Craiutu, “Has Liberalism Failed?”

Apr. 16, 2019: Deirdre McCloskey, “Is Capitalism Rigged?”

Apr. 9, 2019: Nicholas Lardy, “The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?”

*Apr. 8, 2019: Sunmin Kim, “Race, Immigration, and Identity”

Feb. 26, 2019: Mike Munger, “The Sharing Economy and its Future”

*Feb. 25, 2019: Peter Deshazo, “Crisis in Venezuela: Why? What to Do?”

Feb. 18, 2019: Meir Kohn, “Why There is No Such Thing as Market Failure”

Feb. 7, 2019: Gregory Collins, “Edmund Burke on Commercial Society"

Feb. 4, 2019: Chiara Cordelli, “Failed Promises in the Privatization of War”

2018

*Oct. 1, 2018: Erika Monahan (’96), “Business and the State in Russia”

Sept. 27, 2018: Mark Harrison, “The Soviet Union as a Military Economy”

May 15, 2018: Jonathan Sigwurth (’12), “Pricing Cancer Drugs in Europe”

Apr. 25, 2018: Richard Langlois, “Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-First Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective”

Apr. 23, 2018: Robert Doar, “Who Won the War on Poverty? A Fifty-Year Reflection on the Great Society”

Apr. 18, 2018: Glen Weyl, “Radical Markets”

Apr. 9, 2018: Francesco Passarelli, “Italy’s Crazy Populist Politics: Lessons for America”

Feb. 22, 2018: Terence Kealey, “State-Funded Science”

Feb. 20, 2018: Chris Pope and Meredith Rosenthal, “Making U.S. Health Care Cheaper and Better: A Debate” 

*Feb. 12, 2018: Jennifer Lind, “Developing a Great-Power Economy: The Case of China”

*Jan. 29, 2018: Mark McPeek, “Charles Darwin Read Adam Smith in College”

2017

*Nov. 7, 2017: Meir Kohn, “Why There is No Such Thing As Capitalism (or Communism)”

Oct. 24, 2017: Jason Brennan, “Democracy: Are We Still For It?”

*Oct. 9, 2017: Anand Sundaram, “Corporations as the Climate Solution”

May 17, 2017: Peter Robinson (’79), “No ‘Tear Down This Wall’: The Story of a Speech on Its Thirtieth Anniversary”

May 10, 2017: Kevin Sabet and Jeffrey Miron, “Should Drugs Be Legalized? A Debate”

May 8, 2017: Hank Clark, “French Presidential Election Results”

May 8, 2017: Tom Hazlett, “The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Tech”

*May 1, 2017: Julieta Carolina Feltrin (’17) “Argentina’s Economic Decline”

April 6, 2017: Nancy Rose, “Common Ownership and Market Concentration”

Feb. 28, 2017: Joe Henrich, The Secret of Our Success

*Feb. 13, 2017: John Campbell, “Explaining the Rise of Trump”

Feb. 7, 2017: John W. Welborn, “Regulatory Failure: The Case of Dodd-Frank”

*Feb. 6, 2017: John W. Welborn, “What are the Prospects for Cryptocurrency?”

*Jan. 30, 2017: Marjorie Rose, “What does the IMF Actually Do?”

*Jan. 24, 2017: James Bartholomew, “The Failure of the Welfare State”

Jan. 11, 2017: Timur Kuran and Dirk Vandewalle, “What Killed Middle East Liberalism? A Debate”

2016

Oct. 20, 2016: “Was Slavery Essential to American Capitalism? A Debate”

*Oct. 17, 2016: Trevor Latimer, “The American Revolution: No Better Than Brexit?”

Oct. 13, 2016: Jonathan Haidt, “Three Narratives of Capitalism”

Oct. 10, 2016: Josiah Ober, “The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece”

Oct. 4, 2016: Peter Lindsay, “Re-envisioning Property”

*Oct. 3, 2016: Wei Ying Zhang, “Logic of the Market”

Sept. 29, 2016: Jeremy Horowitz, Douglas Moody, and Paul Novosad, “The Ethics of Travel in Developing Countries”

*Sept. 20, 2016: Meir Kohn, “How I Became a Libertarian”

May 24, 2016: Andrew Verstein, “National Security’s Entanglement With Corporate Law”

May 12, 2016: Kristi Olson, “The Anatomy of Envy-Freeness”

May 4, 2016: Jason Brennan and Debra Satz, “Are There Moral Limits to Markets?:” A Debate

*April 21, 2016: Richard Vedder, Harvey Silverglate and Rick Mills, “Why is College So Expensive?”

*April 18, 2016: Jason Sorens and Kate Schackai, “The Free State Project”

April 12, 2016: Peter Wallison, “Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worse Financial Crisis?”

Feb. 18, 2016: Ilya Somin, “Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter”

Jan. 25, 2016: Michael Strong and Magatte Wade, “Helping the Global Poor Through Entrepreneurship”

Jan. 24, 2016: Magatte Wade: “Poverty, Inc.: Fighting Poverty is Big Business”

2015

Oct. 22, 2015: “Fight for 15: Is a Higher Minimum Wage a Good Idea?:” A Debate

Oct. 20, 2015: Jonathan Katz, “Did Foreign Assistance Help Haiti After the 2010 Earthquake?”

*Oct. 19, 2015: Bernard Avishai, “The Political Economy of Network Effects”

*Oct. 12, 2015: Alex Tonelli (’06), “Breaking the Banks: Private Market Solutions to Public Problems”

April 29, 2015: Robert Litan, “Trillion Dollar Economists”

April 14, 2015: Lucian Bebchuk and Steven Kaplan, “Are CEO’s Overpaid? A Debate”

March 9, 2015: Patrick Byrne, “Wall St. Corruption, the SEC, and Classical Liberalism”

2014

May 12, 2014: Greg Mankiw and Jared Bernstein, “Income Inequality: A Debate”