Richard Cobden, the nineteenth-century pro-trade, noninterventionist member of Parliament, once said, “The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace and the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education than upon the labor of Cabinets or Foreign Offices.” I take this one… Read More
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Ep. 1329 Lawyers Against the State
Today I talk to Ethan Blevins with the Pacific Legal Foundation, which does pro bono work for people wronged by the state. Crazy laws and regulations in left-wing Seattle keep these folks pretty busy, but they take on cases all over that part of the… Read More
Ep. 1328 Are the Media the Enemies of the People?
Some libertarians shrink from this kind of language, but I don’t see how it can be doubted, especially now. In this episode I discuss not just the Covington high school students, but also the media’s general pro-regime bias. Related Articles “The Truth About the Covington Catholic Students at the March for Life” “Covington Update: Native American Man “Doesn’t Know” if He Agrees With Black Racists, Invents Stories on CNN” “No Hard Feelings; the Media Just Want to Destroy You” Free Resources! 1) Free guide on… Read More
Ep. 1327 The Green New Deal Is Insane
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
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
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
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
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
Ep. 1321 The Progressives’ Dream — Rule by So-Called Experts — and How to Dismantle It
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
