Bob Zadek Show

Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. His legal career as a criminal defense lawyer has been deeply involved with death and life decisions.

In his new book "Dershowitz on Killing: How the Law Decides Who Shall...

The Democrats have effectively had One Party Rule in California for the last two decades, with the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s largely ineffective tenure as a Republican. The Since 1996, Democrats have continuously held a majority in the State Assembly and currently hold a dominant 62-18 supermajority in the 80-seat chamber.

Most forget what happened in the 1990s that permanently changed the balan...

Back in early 2021, Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter urged Washington "to abandon its efforts to torpedo Nord Stream 2." His warnings have been proven prescient by Seymour Hersh's recent revelations, which seem to confirm the US government's involvement in the destruction of the pipeline. Many journalists admit behind closed doors that they believe in the US's involvement, yet the media remains silent out of fear of...

Philip K Howard, the founder of the Common Sense organization, joins the show to make the case for a legal solution – not a democratic one – for fixing the brokenness of the system. He seeks to gain allies from those who want more accountability from public servants, such as police officers and teachers.

But is it possible to get the public to recognize the threat of public sector employee unions to democracy? Or, if the threat has...

Alex Nowrasteh, the director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, will return to the show to discuss pragmatic solutions for alleviating the chaos at the border.

These solutions include simplifying the system and providing more opportunities for immigrants to live and work here legally.

Alex Nowrasteh is the director of economic and social policy studies. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall St...

Mike Greenberg is an attorney at the Institute for Justice who joins the show to discuss a new case in which the FBI blatantly violated the terms of their warrant in seizing over $80 million in assets from a safe deposit company called US Private Vaults. A few customers may have been breaking the law in associated with their vaults, but a majority of the assets and precious family heirlooms have now been restored to their rightful ...

We all remember the bank bailouts of 2008, but almost nobody talks about the more recent COVID bailouts. $50 billion here; $25 billion there – pretty soon we're talking about real money. The airlines were one of several industries that enjoyed special treatment from the federal government on the grounds that they constituted an "essential business." What would happen if the airports shut down completely? Sounds scary.But the airlin...

Joe Cohn, director of FIRE’s Legislative and Policy department, joins the show to discuss a new proposed rule change from the same administrative office behind the infamous 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter. The new language would turn certain kinds of constitutionally-protected free speech into a punishable offense under the broad umbrella of “sexual harassment.” Under the new rule, the “trial” that results from alleged misconduct woul...

Dick Carpenter, II, senior director of strategic research at the Institute for Justice, recently published a report analyzing Yelp! reviews for six occupations across several states – some with licensing requirements and others without.

Unsurprisingly to anyone who understands the nature of licensing, the license made no difference to the service quality according to Yelp’s ratings.

In some cases, licensing actually seems to correl...