How free are we, really? We're taught that the United States is founded on freedom, but beyond a superficial understanding of the word, we really don't think that much about what real freedom is.

In today's episode, we'll explore this idea in detail. Our guest is Laura Davidson, an Oxford-trained scholar who recently published The Logic of Freedom: Free Will, Human Nature, and the Rational Argument for a Genuinely Free World.

The book is not bedtime story material for a 9 year old child. But it is both very well-written, and in such a way that it causes the reader to think twice about the most basic concept we're taught from the earliest age: Freedom.

Laura's book, and in a smaller way, this podcast will make you think about freedom, likely in ways you've never thought about before.

-What free will is - and isn't

-Thoughts on another dimension of consciousness that coexists alongside our "day to day" existence

-How dictators use the media and even peer pressure to maintain their ill-intended rule over others

-Why governments are antithetical to freedom, and why the founders of the U.S. wanted as little government as possible

There is of course more to it - and Laura and I only scratched the surface of her book in our short time together, but we made the most of what we had.

The Logic of Freedom by Laura Davidson