In the early twentieth century, some 1.5 million Armenians perished in the Armenian genocide, at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. This blood-curdling episode in world history largely vanished from public awareness for much of the twentieth century, and is still unknown by most people. We… Read More
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Ep. 898 As Brexit Begins, a Reminder: It’s Not About Protectionism
Toby Baxendale, an entrepreneur in the UK, comes back to the show, this time to explain that the media has created a false impression about the meaning of Brexit. The Leave campaign was run by libertarians, he says, not protectionists, but the latter have more… Read More
Ep. 897 Cato VP Attacks Ron Paul; I Share War Stories I Have Kept Secret
Cato Institute Vice President for Research Brink Lindsey launched an attack on Ron Paul and Murray Rothbard days ago, and it needs to be answered. Even more fun are my stories about my own treatment at the hands of these delightful people. Here’s an episode… Read More
Ep. 896 Thaddeus Russell Launches Renegade University, the Opposite of Our Crummy Universities
Thaddeus Russell was raised in Berkeley, California, by parents he describes as professional Marxist revolutionaries. His experiences with the academic establishment at Barnard College (the women’s college at Columbia University) have become legendary. He’s hard to pigeonhole ideologically, which makes him a compelling guest. We… Read More
Ep. 895 Ron Paulian State Legislator: How He Won, What He’s Done, What He Saw at Two GOP Conventions, and More
Eric Brakey is a 28-year-old state senator from Maine. We discuss how Eric got elected against a longtime incumbent, what he’s accomplished in the legislature, and his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2018. Not to mention some stories from the past two GOP conventions.… Read More
Ep. 894 Revisiting Libertarians for Trump, as the First Hundred Days Come to a Close
During the presidential election season, the prolific libertarian scholar Walter Block headed up an organization called Libertarians for Trump. At the time, financial analyst and libertarian blogger Robert Wenzel debated him on the subject on this very show. Today, with the end of President Donald… Read More
Ep. 893 This Episode on University Life These Days Goes Weirdly Off Track (in a Good Way)
This is a great discussion with Brett Veinotte, host of the School Sucks Podcast, that starts off about university shenanigans, then turns to my writing (which some have considered too harsh) on the left, then turns to my insane workaholism, its roots, and how I… Read More
Ep. 892 North Korea and the Nuclear Showdown
With confrontation brewing between the United States and North Korea, Michael Malice joins me to lend his insight into what’s happening, and whether there’s anything to the North Korean threats of nuclear war. About the Guest Michael Malice is an author and celebrity ghostwriter. He… Read More
Ep. 891 Fiscal Doomsday: When It’s Coming and What It Looks Like
The March 2017 report of the Congressional Budget Office paints a grim picture about the fiscal future of the United States — but don’t we hear a lot of grim predictions, and don’t things usually carry on as before? Gene Epstein explains what’s really going… Read More
Ep. 890 Yemen: The War the World Forgot
Under both Donald Trump and Barack Obama, the U.S. government has supported Saudi Arabia in a savage war that is leaving a humanitarian catastrophe in its wake, with (according to recent estimates) some 462,000 in danger of starvation. Where is the moral outrage of our… Read More
