There’s a possibly counterintuitive solution to the heroin epidemic, says Mark Thornton: legalization. We discuss his recent article. About the Guest Mark Thornton, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute , is book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and teaches economics at Auburn University.… Read More
Archives for March 2016
Ep. 629 Silenced Whistleblower Defies Authorities: A Conversation with Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds is a former translator for the FBI and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. Special Offer OK, all you folks out there who sell things: tonight is your LAST CHANCE to watch libertarian Daniel Levis, one of the great email marketers in… Read More
Ep. 628 The War on Food and Drink Freedom, and One Group That’s Fighting Back
We’ve heard about the raw milk controversy, but there’s so much more to the issue of food and drink freedom, and the regulatory thicket ordinary farmers are expected to navigate. We get the inside scoop from the executive director of the Farm to Consumer Legal… Read More
Ep. 627 Why We Can’t Have Nice Cars: Government’s War on Producers and Consumers
Libertarian car expert Eric Peters returns to the show to discuss a smorgasbord of topics, including the bubble in the used car market, how to get around government regulations by (essentially) calling a car a motorcycle, and the state of diesel vehicles in the U.S.… Read More
Ep. 626 The Perverse Consequences of Drones and High Level Targeting
Ep. 625 Feminism vs. Free Speech and a Free Economy
By popular demand, Christina Hoff Sommers joins me to discuss feminism, which has become 40% crazier just since she started writing about it. We discuss women in science, women’s pay, campus rape statistics, and much more. About the Guest Christina Hoff Sommers is W.H. Brady… Read More
Ep. 624 Ron Paul’s Bodyguard: This Guy Has Stories
Imagine what you would have seen and heard had you been in charge of security for the 2012 Ron Paul presidential campaign. You’d have accumulated some stories, right? Well, imagine no more: today’s guest was himself Ron Paul’s director of security and yes, he has… Read More
Ep. 623 The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom
Are schooling and education the same thing? No way, says Zachary Slayback, who encourages the cultivation of entrepreneurship skills in place of the passive experience of traditional schooling. Almost nothing we’ve come to believe about education goes unchallenged in this provocative discussion. About the Guest… Read More
Ep. 622 From the Air Force to Rothbard: Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski’s Journey
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, who was working at the Pentagon on 9/11 and has spoken out about the corruption of the intelligence-gathering process, has her own story. She didn’t begin her military career as a Rothbardian libertarian, that’s for sure. But then something happened —… Read More
Ep. 621 The IRS Is About to Terrify Organizations into Shutting Up
Wait until you hear the new rules the IRS is set to impose on a wide variety of organizations in September 2016 if all goes as planned. For example, forbidden “electioneering” will include so much as the mention of a candidate’s name on a website. We… Read More
