Mance Rayder, author of Freedom Through Memedom, joins me for some big-picture arguments against the state and for freedom. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 16,000 classes in design, business, and more. Get three months of Skillshare for 99 cents by going to skillshare.com/woods99 .… Read More
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Ep. 1080 Down With State Licensing (Including for Personal Trainers and Coaches)
Strength trainer Mark Rippetoe returns to discuss state licensing, its true motivations, and why a free society doesn’t need it. Related Articles “ Should Personal Trainers and Coaches Be Licensed by The State? ,” by Mark Rippetoe “ Government-Approved Workouts? The Fight Against Fitness Licensing ,” by Zach Weissmueller & Mark McDaniel “ Ridiculous licensing rules are holding back people who want to work ,” by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Guest’s Website StartingStrength.com Guest’s Facebook… Read More
Ep. 1079 The (Pernicious?) Idea of Utopia
This episode, featuring Justine Brown, begins with a discussion of Thomas More’s classic work Utopia, trying to get to the bottom of what the author meant to convey with it, and then continues with a discussion of utopian communities and theories, and what may be wrong… Read More
Ep. 1078 Lew Rockwell on the Media, the Regime, and Their Relationship
The media’s opposition to Trump has confused and obscured the true nature of the relationship between itself and the American regime. Do we really have an adversarial press? Lew Rockwell joins me to get to the bottom of it. About the Guest Lew Rockwell is… Read More
Ep. 1077 Dissident Historians
Michael Douma, Assistant Research Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown, and Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, joins me to discuss what it means to be a classical liberal, or libertarian, historian — do we have… Read More
Ep. 1076 Liberty, the Radio Spectrum, and Wireless Technology
Thomas Hazlett, former chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a professor of economics at Clemson University, talks about where regulators have gone wrong and the market has gone right, from the radio spectrum debate of the 1920s down to the present day.… Read More
Ep. 1075 Today’s Resistance to the FDA, NSA, DEA, and Other Evils
Michael Boldin, founder and executive director of the Tenth Amendment Center, talks about a wide variety of resistance movements at the state level against the federal government. Nullification: it’s happening! Report Discussed TenthAmendmentCenter.com/report Guest’s Websites TenthAmendmentCenter.com Legislative Tracking Page: tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com Model legislation page Guest’s Twitters @TenthAmendment @MichaelBoldin Guest’s Facebook Tenth Amendment Center Related Book Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century , by… Read More
Ep. 1074 Libertarians Have a Class Theory, Too (and It’s Better Than Marx’s)
With the idea of class so central to Marxian theory, libertarians might be tempted to ignore class as a category. But there is in fact such a thing as libertarian class theory, because in libertarian theory there are distinct groups of exploiters and exploited. Gary… Read More
Ep. 1073 How a Historian Saw the Light
Historian Brion McClanahan and I begin by discussing the conservative movement’s wary and sometimes hostile reception of his book criticizing Alexander Hamilton. From there, we trace out how Brion went from conventional conservative to Old Right/libertarian. (We love these stories, don’t we?) Guest’s Website BrionMcClanahan.com Guest’s… Read More
Ep. 1072 David Stockman on Bannon, Trump, and What’s Coming for the Economy
With Steve Bannon on the outs with Trump and out at Breitbart, David Stockman — director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan — returns to discuss Bannonism, the Trump economy, and what’s in store. And is he sticking to his claim… Read More