During natural disasters, there’s a sudden and intense spike in demand for the existing stock of resources. This puts upward pressure on prices, and this upward pressure has salutary effects (which we’ll discuss in this episode). That’s not how most people see it. “Price gouging,”… Read More
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Ep. 986 Lew Rockwell: Will There Be a “Private Sector” Assault on Dissidents?
With various websites (not all “white nationalist”) seeing various Internet services withdrawn from them, and given that our media and political classes are not exactly known for their ability to make fine distinctions, could ever more sites and groups, more or less innocuous, find themselves… Read More
Ep. 985 What Are Schools Wrong About? Oh, Just History, Economics, Preparing Kids for Life….
In this episode I talk to Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com , in a conversation ranging from entrepreneurship to education, homeschooling, history, the Federal Reserve, nullification, and more. Source of This Episode Heathy Moms Podcast Liberty Classroom Learn the history they didn’t teach you at Tom’s Liberty Classroom . Get a discount via… Read More
Ep. 984 Strength Trainer Mark Rippetoe on Fitness, Government, and Entrepreneurship
By popular demand, popular (and iconoclastic) strength trainer Mark Rippetoe joins me to discuss strength training and fitness (and what so many people get wrong), as well as his libertarian views — and how it all meshes together. Guest’s Website StartingStrength.com Guest’s Facebook Starting Strength Guest’s Twitter @SS_strength Liberty… Read More
Ep. 983 Can We Really Measure the “Happiest” Countries?
The “happiness” literature purports to speak about levels of happiness in various countries. Popular journalism then purports to explain why the happiest places are happy — and it’s always because of the state. Is there anything to this research? About the Guest Gene Epstein is… Read More
Ep. 982 Ordinary Libertarian Fired After Antifa Tweets “Nazi!” at Employer
Well, this was bound to happen. Brandon Navom of Software Engineers for Liberty was fired from his job for planning to take part in a free speech rally that had nothing to do with anything other than free speech. Hysterics tweeted at his employer that Navom was a Nazi… Read More
Ep. 981 Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
The brilliant Scott Horton, a one-man libertarian foreign-policy think tank, joins me to discuss the Trump policy in Afghanistan, the real history of the war, and why the only sensible approach is to get out. About the Guest Scott Horton, managing director of the Libertarian Institute ,… Read More
Ep. 980 Moral Injury: War’s Undiscussed Casualty
Peter van Buren returns to the show to discuss his novel Hooper’s War, set during World War II. Beneath all the casualty figures and the news reports is something profound and lasting that damages us during war, and the author brings it out even in the… Read More
Ep. 979 Liechtenstein: The Closest Thing to a Libertarian Country?
The small country of Liechtenstein is run by Prince Hans-Adam II, who is a friend and correspondent of the libertarian economist and philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe. In today’s episode we tell the untold story about this extraordinary place. About the Guest Andreas Kohl is a council… Read More
Ep. 978 Charlottesville Once More: Left-Anarchist Keith Preston Discusses
Keith Preston, whose writing I always find interesting and challenging, wrote an excellent overview and analysis of what happened in Charlottesville last weekend. He does the impossible here: this is as dispassionate as it gets. Enjoy. About the Guest Keith Preston is (more or less)… Read More
