Mises biographer Guido Hulsmann joins me to discuss the life of the great economist and social philosopher Ludwig von Mises in the momentous year of 1918, one hundred years ago. Sponsor Get a free trial set, valued at $13, (pay just an eeny weeny shipping… Read More
Archives for March 2018
Ep. 1108 Teacher: School “Walkouts” for Gun Control Are Illegal
A schoolteacher in a left-liberal state argues that the school walkout movement — which is obviously spreading through intimidation, and the implied suggestion that no other point of view deserves a hearing — is in fact illegal, since it amounts to political activity by schoolteachers… Read More
Ep. 1107 Lew Rockwell on Standing Against the Tide
Topics include: Jordan Peterson, Trump’s tariffs, hate mail, the creation of LewRockwell.com, the future of the Mises Institute, and whether more than the nonaggression principle is necessary to sustain liberty. About the Guest Lew Rockwell is publisher of LewRockwell.com , and founder and chairman of the Mises Institute… Read More
Ep. 1106 Sizzling: Tom and Stefan on Libertarians Gone Wrong
Stefan Molyneux and I have a wide-ranging discussion about what’s been happening to the libertarian movement, the periodic witch-hunts, and why, in the age of the Internet (where you can build an audience even without the approval of the Official Libertarian Institutions), the drama doesn’t… Read More
The Marxist in the Audience Who Challenged Me
(From yesterday’s issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free, and get a free libertarian eBook at the same time, at TomsFreeBooks.com .) I spent Tuesday night talking to students at UC Santa Barbara about the true record of… Read More
Ep. 1105 Don’t Pine for the “Original Principles” of the Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution continues to be romanticized to this day. Plenty of communists claim that if only the Soviet Union could have stuck to the original principles of the Revolution, the horrors would not have occurred. Problem: the horrors began with the Revolution, and the… Read More
