Who Do You Imitate?

An important question for our time: Who are our role models? In this age of regulations and barriers, can we have freedom? David Gornoski argues that we can and gives an example of how the invention of the musket equalized the playing field in war through innovation. But our prosperity won’t mean anything, David says, if we are not able to cultivate good role models. Freedom and virtue must go together. We should celebrate good fathers. We should celebrate people like Lil Wayne who go against the grain, think for themselves, and escape the scapegoat rituals of our times. Listen to the full episode for all this and more.