Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress joins me to discuss the Green New Deal proposal, which seeks a radical transformation of the American economy in the service of “green” energy targets. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 25,000 classes in… Read More
Archives for January 2019
Ep. 1326 How to Secede From Our Monetary Regime
Frequent guest Bob Murphy returns, this time talking about his new (co-authored) book, The Case for IBC. This is an acronym for “Infinite Banking Concept,” a strategy that uses properly designed whole life insurance policies as a way to “become your own banker.” The concept was… Read More
Covington Update: Native American Man “Doesn’t Know” if He Agrees With Black Racists, Invents Stories on CNN
The latest issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free and receive my eBook Think for Yourself: Professors Who Resisted the Mob Tell Their Stories as a gift. CNN just published a softball interview with Nathan Phillips, the Native American man at the… Read More
Ep. 1325 Articles of Impeachment Against Abraham Lincoln? A Con Law Exam Startles a Critic
A law professor recently included a thought experiment on a constitutional law exam: suppose Lincoln had survived the assassin’s bullet, and later wound up facing articles of impeachment for some of his actions during the war. This is obviously a useful exercise, since many people… Read More
The Truth About the Covington Catholic Students at the March for Life
The latest issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free and receive my eBook Think for Yourself: Professors Who Resisted the Mob Tell Their Stories as a gift. No doubt you’ve heard the story about the Catholic school kids who supposedly surrounded and… Read More
Ep. 1324 How to Nudge Non-Libertarians in the Right Direction
Musician Tatiana Moroz has an audience a portion of which is new to libertarian ideas, so she asked me newbie-friendly questions: how I get non-libertarians to start thinking differently, who will build the roads, what about the police, the truth about the Federal Reserve —… Read More
Guess What the Russians Have Infiltrated Now, Say Left-Liberals
The latest issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free and receive my eBook Our Enemy, the Fed as a gift. I have three images for you today. The Russia item is third. First, this, from Twitter: That’s a grown man, dressed up as a… Read More
Ep. 1323 Agorism: Anti-Politics, Anti-State, Pro-Freedom Now
Author and publisher Victor Koman joins me to discuss agorism, the anti-political, anti-state philosophy and strategy developed by Samuel E. Konkin III. Those chapters that exist of Konkin’s would-be treatise, Counter-Economics, have just been released for people to read for the very first time. We… Read More
Ep. 1322 Smashing Fallacies in American Economic History
Professor Jeff Herbener just completed the first of two courses for my LibertyClassroom.com website on American economic history, an area where there are plenty of misconceptions and fallacies to refute. In this episode we talk about 19th-century monetary policy and bank panics, fiscal policy in an… Read More
The Civilization Wreckers Take Aim at “the Rich”
The latest issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free and receive my eBook Our Enemy, the Fed as a gift. Twitter is the gift that keeps on giving. I encountered someone the other day who thought it was simply obvious that “the… Read More
