I got to know the brilliant financial mind Larry Lepard during the 2008 Ron Paul presidential campaigns, when at great personal expense he took out full-page ads for Dr. Paul in USA Today and the New York Times. Discussed today: the inevitable inflation and collapse… Read More
Archives for July 2021
Ep. 1941 Shane Hazel on the Marines, Liberty and Being a Political “Spoiler”
Guest host Stephan Kinsella talks to Shane Hazel about his growing awareness of liberty and Austrian economics while in the Marines in Iraq, his run for Senate on the Libertarian ticket in 2020 in Georgia and his role as “spoiler,” his future plans to run… Read More
Ep. 1940 Helping the Poor Without the State
The outstanding Gret Glyer, creator of the DonorSee philanthropy app, has made it possible for donors to see the results of their donations — you can help fund someone’s eye surgery, and you’ll receive a video of the person seeing for the first time. Gret… Read More
Ep. 1939 Surviving a Cancel Attempt After a Hate Hoax
As a philosophy Ph.D. student at Yale University, Sarah Braasch found herself accused of a “hate crime” that a vicious and uninformed social media mob tried to destroy her over. Sponsor BitTrust IRA helps you seamlessly and securely add cryptocurrency to your portfolio. It stores… Read More
Ep. 1938 The War in Afghanistan Comes to an End
Scott Horton, author of Fool’s Errand, a study of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, joins us to discuss the end of the war, and what the U.S. can claim to have accomplished. Sponsor Blinkist lets you read (or listen to) the key lessons and takeaways… Read More
Ep. 1937 Patrick Moore on Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom
Patrick Moore helped found Greenpeace but left the organization when he thought it had drifted into anti-science hysteria. In his new book Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, he reviews case after case of scare stories that turned out to have nothing behind them.… Read More
Shutting Down One of My Email Lists
That headline isn’t clickbait. I am giving serious thought to shutting down my email list related to online business (not my libertarian one, which will be around as long as I am), and will likely do so by the end of the year. I’ll keep… Read More
Ep. 1936 Los Angeles Is Also a Disaster
The great libertarian comedian Andrew Heaton joins me for, well, a rather unusual but eminently worth-listening-to episode about the horrors of Los Angeles, with a little bit of libertarianism thrown in as well. Book Discussed Los Angeles Is Hideous: Poems About an Ugly City Guest’s Podcast The Political Orphanage Guest’s Twitter @MightyHeaton Free Resources! 1) Free guide on how… Read More
Ep. 1935 Should Libertarians Be Optimistic? Yes, Says Eric Brakey
Former Maine state senator Eric Brakey, who’s now with Young Americans for Liberty, makes the case for why libertarians should be optimistic rather than pessimistic. Sponsor Press House Coffee, the official coffee of the Tom Woods Show, is the most delicious I’ve ever tasted. You… Read More
Ep. 1934 Federal Raids on Crypto Activity in New Hampshire
Back in March a series of raids were carried out on various properties throughout New Hampshire, with six people arrested on charges connected with cryptocurrency activity. The legal outcome could help to establish whether Bitcoin is a currency or an asset, a question that has… Read More
