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
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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
Ep. 1320 “Pro-Family” Economics Makes Me Crazy
Tucker Carlson, who’s been great on some issues, has been speaking out against what he considers the free-market fundamentalism (I wish!) of mainstream conservatism. He says we need to understand that there’s more to life than GDP, etc. Since this line of argument makes me… Read More
BONUS Ep. 1319 Your New Business for 2019: What to Do and What to Avoid
Steve Clayton was a vice president at LabCorp, where many of us have gone to have blood work done, and took a chance: he left it all behind to go out on his own as an entrepreneur. The gamble paid off magnificently. Today we compare… Read More
Ep. 1318 Cryptocurrency: Regulatory Hurdles, and Advances in Privacy
Today Sasha Hodder, an authority on the legal and regulatory aspects of cryptocurrency, discusses the regulatory hurdles faced by crypto but also advances in privacy for users. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 25,000 classes in design, business, technology, and more. Get… Read More
Ep. 1317 What Can Libertarians Contribute to the Study of Literature?
Allen Mendenhall, who holds a Ph.D. in English from Auburn University, joins me to discuss what libertarian literary criticism looks like. Sponsor Blinkist lets you read (or listen to) the key lessons and takeaways from 2500+ nonfiction books in 15 minutes or less. Get a… Read More
Ep. 1316 How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything
Pat Flynn — fitness expert, libertarian, and entrepreneur — joins me to discuss one of the vanishingly small number of books in personal development that gives you specific action items to improve yourself, as opposed to a ceaseless stream of fortune-cookie maxims. Chances are, your… Read More
