Michael S. Greve is a professor at George Mason University School of Law. From 2000 to August, 2012, Professor Greve was the John G. Searle Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he remains a visiting scholar. Before coming to AEI, Professor Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in government from Cornell University, and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Hamburg. Currently, Professor Greve also chairs the board of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and is a frequent contributor to the Liberty Law Blog.

Professor Greve has written extensively on many aspects of the American legal system. His publications include numerous law review articles and books, including most recently The Upside-Down Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2012).

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Mr. Murphy is a long-time, well-respected political consultant who currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. He attended Georgetown for his graduate work before starting his own consulting firm. He has advised such politicians as John McCain, Mitt Romney and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mike is a contributing columnist at Time Magazine and a regular member of the Sunday morning Meet The Press panel. In recent years, he's added "Hollywood writer/producer" to his impressive list of professional credits, and he's one of the most interesting cultural voices on the Center-Right.

Always lively, always informative, Mike Murphy can be found on Twitter at @MurphyMike!

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A bestselling author and columnist, Jonah Goldberg's nationally syndicated column appears regularly in scores of newspapers across the United States. He is also a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a member of the board of contributors to USA Today, a contributor to Fox News, a contributing editor to National Review, and the founding editor of National Review Online. He was named by the Atlantic magazine as one of the top 50 political commentators in America. He has written on politics, media, and culture for a wide variety of publications and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Tyranny of Clichés (Sentinel HC, 2012) and Liberal Fascism (Doubleday, 2008).  At AEI, Mr. Goldberg writes about political and cultural issues for American.com and the Enterprise Blog.

We chat with Mr. Goldberg about the paperback release of Tyranny of Cliches and what it's like to sit next to Charles Krauthammer. Make sure to follow Jonah on Twitter at @JonahNRO!

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Jay is the author of the best-selling book Indivisible, the director of the Discovery Institute's Center on Wealthy, Poverty and Morality in Seattle, and a Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics in Washington D.C.

Dr. Richards recently debated social justice advocate and presidential adviser Jim Wallis, and we chat with him about the on-going conversation between religious Americans who are pro-free enterprise and those who favor increased government involvement in the fight against poverty.

In the second segment, RJ welcomes our old friend Caroline May of The Daily Caller. Ms. May has been tracking a few stories that involve welfare and entitlement spending at the state and federal level, and she joins the podcast to share some of what she's been able to dig up in recent weeks.

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Dr. Noell has been teaching Economics at Westmont since 1986 and his particular interests include the economics of the ancient Mediterranean world and the intersection of Christianity and economic thought. He's done extensive studies on the writings of the Scholastics, Protestant Reformers, and Adam Smith on questions surrounding labor markets, economic justice, usury, property rights, exchange and economic growth. Professor Noell currently serve as both associate editor and book review editor of Faith and Economics and is active in the work of the Association of Christian Economists.

The reason we invited Dr. Noell to join the podcast this week coincides with the exciting release of a new book from Values & Capitalism: Economic Growth: Unleashing The Potential For Human Flourishing! In this book, three professors—Dr. Noell, Stephen L. S. Smith, and Bruce G. Webb—explore the benefits of growth and address common concerns regarding how growth impacts the poor, the environment and culture.

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Professor Smith is one of the co-authors of a new monograph from Values & Capitalism titled Economics Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing. In it, they make the case for economic growth and seek to equip readers to understand its moral dimensions and benefits. The book offers empirical evidence of the past two centuries regarding the relationship between growth and human well-being, greater global equality, environmental improvements and sustainability, and the potential for human flourishing.

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Ms. Shlaes is a senior fellow and director of the Four Percent Project at the George W. Bush Institute. She is the author of the best-sellers "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" and "The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy."

Her latest book, and the primary topic of our conversation, is the presidential biography Coolidge.

Shlaes also wrote a book on German reunification, "Germany: The Empire Within." She was formerly a columnist for the Financial Times and a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. In the early 1990s she served as the Journal's op-ed editor. Prior to that she followed the collapse of communism for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. She is the winner of the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize and of the Frederic Bastiat Prize, awarded for writing on political economy.

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Robert is NR's Washington editor where he manages their Capitol Hill bureau and reports on the White House, Congress, and campaigns. Politico and Washingtonian magazine recently cited him as one of the capital’s best reporters. Costa earned a master’s degree in politics from the University of Cambridge in 2009, where his research focused on Winston Churchill. He graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in American studies.

Make sure to follow Mr. Costa on Twitter at @robertcostaNRO!

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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald is author of Not Your Mother's Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better (Bondfire Books, 2013). He is a writer and educator whose work most often considers the various manifestations of religion in culture. Fitzgerald is an editor at Patrolmag.com and writes a weekly column for the popular religion website Patheos. As a freelancer, his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Christianity Today, Religion Dispatches, The Huffington Post, Killing the Buddha, The Jersey City Independent, and more.

We chat with Jonathan about his new book and the socio-economic implications of the Millenial generation's penchant for "authentic" living.

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