Dare to Think Podcast
Dare to Think Podcast is the official podcast of Mere Liberty, hosted by Kerry Baldwin. It is a multi-format show featuring solo episodes and interviews that challenge prevailing paradigms in politics, religion, and culture. The title is a conviction, not a provocation: honest, rigorous thinking is not a threat to what you believe — it may be the most faithful thing you do. Episodes range from libertarian political theory and applied ethics to Reformed theology, womanhood, and public intellectual inquiry.
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Socratic Method and Critical Thinking
The Socratic method, properly understood, is not a debate technique — it is a tool for inquiry-based discovery. Kerry Baldwin, Mike Leavitt, and Jacob Winograd discuss how this approach to critical thinking shapes the Liberty Seminar, an online course for learners aged 14 and older. Topics include the decline of ...
Mistaken Christian Views of Culture
Show Notes – Mistaken Christian Views of Culture American Christians are no stranger to the idea of culture. But there are number of mistaken Christian views of culture; ways in which they treat the Christian’s relation to culture poorly. Some mistaken Christian views of culture are derived from two broader ...
Gary Chartier, Anarchy & Legal Order (1 of 2)
Gary Chartier, Anarchy & Legal Order (1 of 2) | Show Notes In this episode of Dare To Think, I discuss anarchist legal order, a.k.a. polycentric legal order with legal scholar and philosopher, Gary Chartier. Main Points of Discussion 00:00 Introduction 04:01 Definitions of anarchism, capitalism, freed market, etc. 08:21 ...
What Cuban Liberty Means for the World
In July 2021, Cubans took to the streets in the largest public uprising against the communist regime in decades. Mainstream media framed the protests around COVID vaccines and the U.S. embargo. The protesters themselves said something different: "Patria y Vida" — Homeland and Life — a direct rejection of the ...
Ep. 28 Thinking Well in High Stakes Situations
Thinking Well in High Stakes Situations| Show Notes Summary It’s easy to believe high stakes situations – like a pandemic – create an imperative to act first. But this is false! Thinking well in high stakes situations means making better decisions under pressure. We cannot take purposeful action, or well-reasoned ...
What is Christian Love? A Reformed Philosophical View
What is Christian Love? | Show Notes What does the Bible say about loving one another? “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34 Jesus gives this command to his disciples at ...
Dare to Think is the official podcast of Mere Liberty, hosted by Kerry Baldwin. It is a multi-format show featuring solo episodes and interviews that challenge prevailing paradigms in politics, religion, and culture. The name captures the platform’s core conviction: that honest, rigorous thinking is not a threat to what you believe — it may be the most faithful thing you do.
Episodes range across libertarian political theory, Reformed theology, Reformational philosophy, applied ethics, womanhood, and public intellectual inquiry. Kerry Baldwin brings the same analytical discipline to each: surfacing hidden assumptions, refusing false paradigms, and following the argument wherever it leads — regardless of which side of the conventional divide it unsettles.
Dare to Think is hosted by Kerry Baldwin, founder of Mere Liberty and an independent researcher, writer, and Socratic educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kerry holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Arizona State University and is a published co-author of Faith Seeking Freedom (Libertarian Christian Institute Press). She is best known for her novel pro-life libertarian theory of fetal self-ownership and her Reformational account of womanhood that refuses the complementarian/egalitarian false paradigm. She also co-hosts the Reformed Libertarians Podcast at reformedlibertarians.com.
Dare to Think is available on all major podcast platforms including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. New episodes are announced at mereliberty.com and distributed through Libsyn. Subscribers can also follow Kerry Baldwin on Substack for episode updates and related writing.
Most theology podcasts avoid political philosophy. Most libertarian podcasts avoid theology. Dare to Think works precisely at the intersection — applying Reformational philosophy and the principle of self-ownership to the hardest questions in politics, religion, and culture without flinching from either side. Kerry Baldwin is equally willing to challenge secular libertarian assumptions and conventional Reformed evangelical ones. The goal is not to confirm what you already think but to think it through more honestly.
No. Kerry Baldwin is a confessionally Reformed Christian and that framework informs her thinking, but Dare to Think is for anyone willing to engage ideas seriously. Episodes are argued on philosophical and natural law grounds that do not require shared theological commitments. Reformed listeners will find the deeper framework; everyone else will find rigorous, honest inquiry that doesn’t depend on shared confession. The only prerequisite is a willingness to dare to think.