Yuri Maltsev, an adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev’s government, tells the story of his defection to the U.S., and relates stories from his life in the Soviet Union. While at Moscow State University, he received special permission to read forbidden, anti-communist books. He was told to… Read More
Equal Pay Day Is a Scam
Today is “Equal Pay Day,” the day that represents how far into 2014 the average American woman would have to keep working in order to earn what the average American man had earned in the previous year. Women earn 77 percent of what men do,… Read More
Alexander Hamilton: The Bad Guy Everyone Loves
How you can tell Alexander Hamilton was a bad guy: he is revered by the mainstream Left, the mainstream Right, and the so-called moderates. I talked to Tom DiLorenzo, author of Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution — And What It Means for Americans Today , on the Tom Woods Show this week. Here’s a link to the audio , and below you’ll find the YouTube. Subscribe to… Read More
Advice and Insight from The Libertarian Homeschooler
Ana Martin, who runs The Libertarian Homeschooler , a popular Facebook page, was my guest on the Tom Woods Show today. Here’s the audio file if you prefer that; I also have a YouTube below. As most of you know, I’m preparing courses for RonPaulHomeschool.com ; students are already taking two of them: Government 1B and Western Civilization I . Western… Read More
Note to Libertarian Scholars: Here’s How It’s Done
Gary Chartier (Ph.D., Cambridge) has written another important new book, this one exploring the work of John Rawls: Radicalizing Rawls: Global Justice and the Foundations of International Law . He explores a major problem with the Rawlsian framework, as you’ll hear in our conversation, and without doing violence to the Rawlsian approach, argues that market… Read More
David Stockman on the semi-Keynesian GOP
Today I talked to David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, about a bunch of things, among them the problem with Republicans whose analysis (not to mention their advisers) is Keynesian, warnings from Paul Krugman about “austerity,” and… Read More
OK, I’ll Say It: Old Movies Are Unwatchable
I am a heretic on the “old movies are awesome” question. I find old movies unwatchable. (1) Plot twists are exceedingly rare. It’ll be a courtroom drama, and the defendant looks clearly guilty. Oh, you think, there’ll be some twist and he’ll turn out to… Read More
How the Fed Causes Boom and Bust
I like people who are good at explaining things to a general audience. David Howden, economics department chairman at St. Louis University’s Madrid campus, is such a person. Listen to our conversation about the origins of the business cycle. Also, check out my resource page LearnAustrianEconomics.com . And remember to… Read More
Against Fuzzy Thinking
Stephan Kinsella and I reviewed the building blocks of libertarianism on my podcast the other day. This is necessary once in a while — even, or perhaps especially, for libertarians themselves. Have a listen ! Subscribe to the show on iTunes or Stitcher !
Stop Protesting Sweatshops
That’s the message of economist Ben Powell, author of the new book Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy (Cambridge, 2014). As always on my show, the conventional wisdom is turned on its head. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes or Stitcher !
