A hundred years ago progressives thought it best that we be ruled by experts. Their vision culminated in the administrative state we have today, in which federal agencies make law, at times even clearly at odds with the actual wording and intent of Congress. Peter… Read More
Archives for January 2019
Ep. 1320 “Pro-Family” Economics Makes Me Crazy
Tucker Carlson, who’s been great on some issues, has been speaking out against what he considers the free-market fundamentalism (I wish!) of mainstream conservatism. He says we need to understand that there’s more to life than GDP, etc. Since this line of argument makes me… Read More
BONUS Ep. 1319 Your New Business for 2019: What to Do and What to Avoid
Steve Clayton was a vice president at LabCorp, where many of us have gone to have blood work done, and took a chance: he left it all behind to go out on his own as an entrepreneur. The gamble paid off magnificently. Today we compare… Read More
Ep. 1318 Cryptocurrency: Regulatory Hurdles, and Advances in Privacy
Today Sasha Hodder, an authority on the legal and regulatory aspects of cryptocurrency, discusses the regulatory hurdles faced by crypto but also advances in privacy for users. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 25,000 classes in design, business, technology, and more. Get… Read More
Ep. 1317 What Can Libertarians Contribute to the Study of Literature?
Allen Mendenhall, who holds a Ph.D. in English from Auburn University, joins me to discuss what libertarian literary criticism looks like. Sponsor Blinkist lets you read (or listen to) the key lessons and takeaways from 2500+ nonfiction books in 15 minutes or less. Get a… Read More
Ep. 1316 How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything
Pat Flynn — fitness expert, libertarian, and entrepreneur — joins me to discuss one of the vanishingly small number of books in personal development that gives you specific action items to improve yourself, as opposed to a ceaseless stream of fortune-cookie maxims. Chances are, your… Read More
Ep. 1315 Everything Should Be Abolished
In this episode I review some themes from my 2011 book Rollback, which makes the case against, well, pretty much everything — the Fed, the military-industrial complex, the whole kit and kaboodle. I also discuss an interesting development in the James Damore case at Google.… Read More
Meteorologist Loses Job for Slip of the Tongue
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. This one’s hard to believe even in 2019 America. Everyone on Earth has done it. You jumble words together unintentionally, so you… Read More
Ep. 1314 Ocasio-Cortez Wants 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate
She says it’s about time people “pay their fair share,” and that she needs the dough to fund her Green New Deal. Others are saying that since we had high top marginal rates in the past, it’s no problem to have them now — and… Read More
Ep. 1313 Capitalism Makes Poor Better Off; Left Goes Berserk
The latest claim — if you can believe it — is that so-called dollar stores make the poor poorer. This isn’t the first time the private sector has been condemned for expanding the choices available to the poor; I discuss three such cases in this… Read More
