WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

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Based on his Wall Street Journal Opinion column "Free Expression," Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker speaks every week with some of the world's leading writers, influencers and thinkers about a variety of subjects. Baker will welcome his guests from the worlds of politics, philosophy, and culture for wide-ranging dialogues that will enlighten and fascinate listeners. Episodes will be released each week.... more

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Publishes	Weekly	Episodes	182	Founded	4 years ago
Number of Listeners		Categories	Society & CultureNews

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A Message About Free Expression

After nearly three years of enlightening conversations, Gerry Baker’s weekly Free Expression podcast is coming to an end. But you can still read his column every week in the Journal and he may even pop up from time to time in other places!

Learn mor... more

11 Dec 2025 • 2 min

Thinking With Machines

Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to an everyday reality in a few years. As the technology advances and transforms almost everything we do, the need to understand its potential - and how to harness it - grows by the day.

On this ... more

4 Dec 2025 • 35 min

Giving and Thanksgiving

The time of year when we express our gratitude for our many blessings offer an opportunity to reflect on the importance of giving.

On this episode of Free Expression, Gerry Baker speaks with financier John Studzinski, who shares lessons learned from... more

25 Nov 2025 • 37 min

Does Supply-Side Economics Still Work?

Once a defining principle of conservative governing economic policy, supply-side economics has taken some political hits in the last decade. The progressive left has always critiqued laissez- faire economics, blaming the pursuit of smaller government... more

19 Nov 2025 • 36 min

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Recent Guests

John Studzinski

Financier and philanthropist, author of A Talent for Giving

PIMCO

Episode: Giving and Thanksgiving

Matthew Elliott, Lord Elliott of Mikkel Fell

Political consultant and strategist, co-author of the book Prosperity Through Growth.

House of Lords

Episode: Does Supply-Side Economics Still Work?

Michael McFaul

Professor at Stanford University and former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow

Stanford University

Episode: America, Russia, China and the Struggle for Global Supremacy

Joel Kotkin

Professor at Chapman University and expert on American cities

Chapman University

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Helen Andrews

Former editor of The Washington Examiner, now a writer and commentator.

Episode: Are Women to Blame for Wokery?

Michel-Yves Bolloré

Co-author of "God, the Science, the Evidence"

Co-author, God, the Science, the Evidence

Episode: Science, Evidence, and the Existence of God

Neil Shearing

Group chief economist with Capital Economics and former advisor to the UK Treasury

Capital Economics

Episode: A Fractured World

Lord Nigel Biggar

Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Episode: Colonialism, Reparations, and the Rise of ‘White Guilt’

Ted Nordhaus

Founder and director of the Breakthrough Institute

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Episode: An End To Climate Alarmism

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Gerry Baker

Editor-at-large and host who specializes in political and cultural commentary.

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4.7 out of 5 stars from 921 ratings

I will miss the podcast
I looked forward to Gerry Baker’s weekly podcast and will miss his in-depth analysis of important issues
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United Statesa month ago
Great host
Really good informative podcast with great guests and host!
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fred225(
United States2 months ago
10/29 episode about women was pretty poor
Not enough viewpoints are considered on this one and it’s a very controversial idea. I generally like this podcast but I’m disappointed with this episode.
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United States2 months ago
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“Free men and free markets”
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United States3 months ago
Happy learner
This is one of my favorite weekly podcasts. Balanced guests and superb questioning.
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Thinking With Machines

Q: Is AI offering hope that perhaps trust in AI itself, but trust more broadly in society and our institutions could improve as a result of AI?

It could. I see a real potential here to use machines to make sense of government and democracy, making things more transparent and trustworthy.

Thinking With Machines

Q: What will be left for humans, if in the field of finance or health care or journalism, is there a human edge still that's going to be in demand?

I think so, we're facing this sort of impending bifurcation of humanity, where the smart gets smarter, that their skills get amplified because they're capable of asking the right kinds of questions, evaluating what the machine is telling them, and knowing which direction to nudge it in.

Thinking With Machines

Q: Is AI different in that respect, or is it just yet another innovative wave that's going to be incredibly disruptive?

To some extent, both of them. It's like any other technology, in that it forces humans to up their game. But it will cause massive displacement as well, because it's a new kind of machine.

Thinking With Machines

Q: How good is AI predicting its capacity for predicting?

When it comes to financial markets, for example, the chances are that it's not going to get better than, you know, 52, 53% accuracy. But in healthcare, you might get 75, 80% accuracy, and in driverless cars, you get 99.999999% accuracy.

Thinking With Machines

Q: Tell us what the book is about, why it's called Thinking With Machines, what the future of AI, what it means for us in terms of how we manage to work with artificial intelligence, what we need to do to be able to make it productive for us as it becomes increasingly important.

I called it Thinking With Machines because that's the future of humanity whether we like it or not. There is no opting out. So we should think about the issues that it raises, the new problems that it poses, and how we're going to address them.

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