Historians will be discussing and debating the election of 2016 for a long time to come. Doug Wead’s new book takes us through the history of the Clintons and the Trumps, all the way through the election season and its unlikely outcome. You’ll enjoy this… Read More
Archives for March 2017
Ep. 866 The Truth About Fat, and the Corruption of Nutrition Science
How did the low-fat, high-carb diet become entrenched within nutrition science, to the point that dissenters virtually disappeared? The answer gives us a fascinating glimpse into how nutrition science — far from being dispassionately devoted to whatever conclusions the empirical evidence pointed to — became… Read More
Everyone Is a White Supremacist Now
Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every weekday. Be one of them . Once they had called everyone else on earth a “racist” and the word had begun to elicit nothing but eye rolls from normal people, the left had to move on to something… Read More
So You Thought Newspapers Were Dying. You Didn’t Know the Half of It
OK, everybody knows newspapers are in trouble. But it’s much worse than I thought. Yesterday Gary North pointed out some figures compiled by the Pew Research Center that I’d never seen before. Take the 18-24 age range. As recently as 1999, 42% said they read… Read More
Ep. 865 Taxation Isn’t Theft, Because of the Social Contract
I critique an article trying to disprove the libertarian claim that taxation is theft. The social contract makes it all right, the author says…. Article Discussed “ The Ethics of Taxation, the Imperfection of Voluntaryism, and the Transcendence of the Social Contract ,” by ANdy Zou Related Episode Ep. 545 About That Social Contract I Never Signed… Free Resources! 1) Free guide… Read More
Ep. 864 The Bogus Public Goods Rationale for Government
We’re told we need government because only the public sector can give us “public goods,” which are either impossible to produce privately or are produced in the wrong quantities. In this lesson from my Ron Paul Curriculum course on government I put this claim under… Read More
The Campus Terror Campaign Just Got a Lot Worse
Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every weekday. Be one of them . You may have heard that a mob prevented author Charles Murray from delivering a public lecture at Middlebury College. They held signs telling him that “white supremacy” wasn’t welcome there. There’s no… Read More
Ep. 863 Trump and the Budget — More of the Same?
Today I review Donald Trump’s recent speech to Congress — a speech the media loved, I’m sorry to report — in terms of what it’s going to mean for federal spending and the budget. Speech Discussed Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, February 28, 2017 Articles Mentioned “ Stop Bleating About Crumbling Infrastructure ,” by David Stockman “ Why Tariffs Don’t Save Jobs ,”… Read More
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Here’s the video of the talk I gave at the Mises Institute’s recent event in San Diego. It applies the idea of Harry Browne’s book of the same name to the circumstances of my own life. I think some of what I’ve learned can apply… Read More
Ep. 862 The Alt Right
Paul Gottfried, longtime veteran of the American Right and foe of the yawn-inducing “conservative movement,” discusses the significance of what has become known as the “alt right.” About the Guest Paul Gottfried is professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient. Selected… Read More