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Liberty On The Air, hosted by Dan Fishman, is Boston's home for freedom centric political discourse and political news commentary on the weeks most pressing issues.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Liberty On The Air turns taxes, regulations and public institutions into pointed arguments about incentives, enforcement and individual choice.
Dan Fishman treats public policy as an argument about where government power begins and individual choice gets squeezed. Liberty On The Air brings that libertarian frame to tax legislation, government shutdowns and municipal rules, using a live-radio mix of conversation, calls…
A government shutdown resets your passwords to 'password'; if that joke lands, stay for the policy argument.
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A local policy conversation that uses bottle bills and bag limits to argue for incentives over compulsion.
This episode uses a handful of everyday Massachusetts policy examples to reach a bigger argument about liberty, incentives, and enforcement. Dan Fishman and Matt McLaughlin move from bottle bills to recycling rules and plastic-bag limits, testing where government is nudging,…
Shutdown talk, a teased show announcement, and loose libertarian argument shape the hour.
Liberty on the Air folds shutdown talk into jokes, ideological sparring, and the hosts' familiar argument about what government does and does not do.
A live Boston talk that folds tax policy, repatriation, Bitcoin, and political argument into a liberty-first conversation.
The show starts with a live, opinionated look at the tax fight, tracking what the Senate passed, what still has to be reconciled, and why none of it is law yet.
Veterans Day talk that moves from gratitude to the harder questions around service and suicide.
Veterans Day frames the episode as Dan Fishman and the panel move from a veteran's combat memory to the familiar thank-you ritual, then into the harder question of what can remain after service.
Ranked-choice voting lets Maine voters support one candidate while explicitly voting against another.
Liberty on the Air returns as Dan Fishman, who ran for Massachusetts auditor on the slogan 'why would you elect a Republican or a Democrat to audit Republicans and Democrats?', reviews his 4.2% result alongside Libertarian Party of Massachusetts chair Jeff Lyons.
Liberty On The Air returns to the studio.
Liberty On The Air spends this episode on the edge of a government shutdown.
Liberty on the Air spends this episode circling the tax fight first.
Dan Fishman opens Liberty on the Air’s Veterans Day show by quoting a New York Times piece that says many veterans do not want to be thanked for their service, and he contrasts that with invitations to dinner or drinks from a VFW speaker in Beverly.