Oct 2, 2026 · 56 min · 11 segments
In today's episode, Brian sits down with Reem Ibrahim, a libertarian writer and commentator and one of the UK's youngest and sharpest free-market voices. She regularly appears on television and radio…
Reem IbrahimGuestBrianHostAmazing.
Well, okay, so it's quite, as you just alluded to there, you were kind of, I'd imagine the minority.
What is it from, what is it in your background that even sparked the idea of libertarianism? And it might even be worth, like, from your perspective, what would you define that as?
And, you know, in some instances that could be in different aspects of that, you know, whether it be in health care, in education, in education.
A lot of these conversations and the question is, what is the role of the state here? And the libertarian's answer to that would be either no role or a very limited role.
And I think that it's not necessarily a fundamental belief that people human beings are amazing and do amazing things and that capitalism sort of as a whole in the free market is going to cause great outcomes, although I do believe that to be the case.
So fundamentally, in a market, you are exchanging with other people voluntarily.
And yet we have to, we are forced to give our money to the government and the government chooses how it is spent.
So I think that the fundamental difference between sort of my own... viewpoint transition.
Amazing.
Well, okay, so it's quite, as you just alluded to there, you were kind of, I'd imagine the minority.
What is it from, what is it in your background that even sparked the idea of libertarianism? And it might even be worth, like, from your perspective, what would you define that as?
And, you know, in some instances that could be in different aspects of that, you know, whether it be in health care, in education, in education.
A lot of these conversations and the question is, what is the role of the state here? And the libertarian's answer to that would be either no role or a very limited role.
And I think that it's not necessarily a fundamental belief that people human beings are amazing and do amazing things and that capitalism sort of as a whole in the free market is going to cause great outcomes, although I do believe that to be the case.
So fundamentally, in a market, you are exchanging with other people voluntarily.
And yet we have to, we are forced to give our money to the government and the government chooses how it is spent.
So I think that the fundamental difference between sort of my own... viewpoint transition.
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