Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels , recently testified before a Senate committee — and as you might guess, sparks flew. About the Guest Alex Epstein is president and founder of the Center for Industrial Progress . Special Offer Envious of people who run virtual businesses from a computer, and can… Read More
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Ep. 652 That Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech
Donald Trump’s April 2016 speech before the Center for the National Interest has sparked discussion, controversy, and debate. Was it really a call for an America First foreign policy? Scott Horton walks through it with us. About the Guest Scott Horton is the host of… Read More
Ep. 651 Austrian School Physician on What’s Wrong with Health Care
Dr. Michel Accad, a physician influenced by Austrian economics, says Austrian insights are essential to a proper understanding of health, which mainstream medicine cannot coherently define. Plus: why we don’t need medical licensing. About the Guest Dr. Michel Accad practices cardiology and internal medicine in… Read More
Ep. 650 Fascism: The Career of a Concept
How about that: fascism has a definition after all, and isn’t just a term for whatever people happen to dislike. In his new book, Paul Gottfried traces the meaning of the word and how it’s been used over the years as a polemical device in… Read More
Ep. 649 The Tyranny of Liberalism
Liberalism portrays itself as the ideology of liberty and liberation, as neutral between competing views of the good, and as the position all right-thinking people should adopt. None of this is true, but it is all brutally enforced. Jim Kalb and I discuss the true… Read More
Ep. 648 Entrepreneur Tells Government: Taxes Stop Me from Helping People
Entrepreneur Ryan Daniel Moran recently caused a splash on Facebook with a video showing how much he — a member of the hated 1% — was paying in taxes. Hint: it’s a lot. And of course the haters, who feel entitled to Ryan’s money, were… Read More
Ep. 647 Cancer: One Child’s Story, and Lessons Learned
What would cause the leading cancer doctor in the world to fly across the country to the funeral of a boy of 8? That’s part of today’s story. Past guest Roger McCaffrey discusses the terrible ordeal his family endured when they discovered their 4 1/2-year-old… Read More
Ep. 646 How to Debate a Socialist
My guest today has had tremendous success as a debater and recently debated a university socialist group. An Australian, John Hajek also lets us in on what’s happening at Australian universities. It’s almost enough to make you feel good about American campuses. About the Guest… Read More
Ep. 645 JFK’s Catastrophic Mistake in Vietnam
The standard narrative runs like this: Ngo Dinh Diem was the corrupt and oppressive president of South Vietnam whose removal (which wound up taking the form of assassination) the Kennedy Administration had no choice but to endorse. On top of everything else, Diem’s administration was… Read More
Ep. 644 How Not to Help the World’s Poor
So much of what’s been tried in order to help developing countries has backfired that it’s long past time to reexamine the whole question. A brand new documentary, called Poverty, Inc., is gaining plaudits across the ideological spectrum. I talk to director, producer, and writer… Read More