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Average audio length:
55 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
19 episodes
since June 9, 2026
episodic

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Who should control your data—and what happens when that power is abused? Gregg Nunziata talks with former DHS Chief Privacy Officer Nuala O’Connor about government overreach, digital privacy, and why AI companies must play by the same rules as everyone else. Also: What does it mean to protect libe…

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Former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter joins Gregg Nunziata to explain how America’s election safeguards have weakened—and why the Trump administration’s efforts to expand federal control over elections deserve close scrutiny. They discuss the collapse of meaningful FEC enforcement, potential voter-roll…
What happens when winning elections becomes more important than the principles a movement claims to defend? Gregg Nunziata talks with Reason senior editor Stephanie Slade about her new book, “Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right,” and whether conservatism can reclaim it…
Historian Timothy Ryback joins Gregg Nunziata on Checks & Balances to discuss his book, 53 Days, and the decisions that helped Hitler dismantle Germany’s democracy in 1933. They examine the journalists and lawyers who resisted, the politicians who recognized the danger but voted to give Hitler…
Checks & Balances is a podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute. Federal judges are facing an unprecedented wave of threats. Amrit Singh, Professor of Practice and the founding director of NYU Law’s Rule of Law Lab, and Jeremy Fogel, a former district judge in California and the Exe…
Checks & Balances is a podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute. William Baude, the Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Constitutional Law Institute at the University of Chicago Law School, joins Gregg Nunziata, the Executive Director of the Society fo…
Checks & Balances is a podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute. Yuval Levin, the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), joins Gregg Nunziata on Checks & Balances for a discussion about our constitutional system—and h…
Checks & Balances is a podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute. Justice Clint Bolick of the Arizona Supreme Court joins Gregg Nunziata on Checks & Balances to discuss the power of state constitutional law. Justice Bolick explains why state courts often have the final word on pr…
Checks & Balances is a podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute. Stephen Richer, the former Recorder of Maricopa County, AZ, joins Gregg Nunziata on Checks & Balances to discuss how elections actually work in the United States of America. Stephen walks Gregg through the mechanic…
Checks & Balances is a podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute. John Malcolm—the Vice President of the Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American Freedom—joins Gregg Nunziata on Checks & Balances to discuss the conservative legal movement, the most rece…
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