Anthony Gregory of the Independent Institute reminds us, in the age of Obama, how terrible the president’s predecessor was.
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Ep. 215 The Tiny House Movement
Jay Shafer of Four Lights Houses and author of The Small House Book discusses the “tiny house” movement.
Ep. 214 A Curmudgeon’s Dos and Don’ts
Charles Murray discusses his new book A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life .
Ep. 213 What Causes Banking Crises?
Charles Calomiris , a professor at Columbia Business School, joins Tom to discuss his new book Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit .
Ep. 212 World War I: The Legacy
Hunt Tooley, author of The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War , on the lasting consequences of World War I.
Ep. 211 How World War I Changed America
Robert Higgs, economist and economic historian and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episods in the Growth of American Government , looks at the domestic consequences of World War I.
Ep. 210 Mind Your Own Business
David Henderson of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution makes the case for a foreign policy of nonintervention. Read his speech “ An Economist’s Case for a Noninterventionist Foreign Policy .”
Ep. 209 World War I the Last Crusade?
Richard Gamble, author of The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation , talks about religion as a factor in World War I. And read Richard’s article “ Was World War I the Last Crusade? “
Ep. 208 The Start to World War I
Hunt Tooley, author of The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War , discusses the factors that combined to produce World War I.
Ep. 207 Organized Crime
Tom DiLorenzo discusses his book Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government .