My guest today is known on social media by her pseudonym The Pholosopher. She’s been very successful at spreading the message of voluntaryism, so we discuss what’s been working. Guest’s Website ThePholosopher.com Guest’s YouTube The Pholosopher Guest’s Twitter @dapholosopher Guest’s Website @dapholosopher Episode Mentioned Ep. 1169  How to Make Someone an Instant…
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I’ve had lots of requests for an episode like this, so here it is. Today, at the behest of Steve Patterson, I discuss two things: the how and why of entrepreneurship, at least in my case, and Catholicism. The episode is not about the interrelationship…
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Ever heard a socialist brush off the experience of Venezuela on the grounds that that country isn’t really socialist after all? Here’s how to reply. Sponsor Harry’s razors, the official razors of the Tom Woods Show, know you’ll love their blades, so they want to…
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Tom W. Bell joins me to discuss the variety of micro-experiments in liberty, of varying degrees of significance, going on all over the world — like special economic zones, the beginnings of seasteading, even Liberland. Book Discussed Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Nations Guest’s Website TomWBell.com Related Episodes Ep. 948  Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Improve…
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New York Times bestselling author Larry Correia joins me to discuss what’s going on in the world of sci-fi and fantasy, where SJW influence has been growing, and non-SJW voices have been demonized with the customary accusations. Correia himself was recently disinvited from an important conference…
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Jorg Guido Hulsmann, a senior fellow of the  Mises Institute  and a professor of economics at the University of Angers in France, discusses those aspects of inflation most people overlook, involving how it changes the very texture of life. Book Discussed The Ethics of Money Production Click here  to read the book for free…
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Stefan and I go well beyond the college-is-a-waste-of-time stuff here. College can be fine, and the right thing for some people. But we go through: the ideological environment, quotas, how much people really learn, how to succeed without it, and a lot more. Stefan’s Website…
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John Tamny of  RealClearMarkets  joins me to discuss how progress really works and the extraordinary advances we’ve lived through that people scarcely notice or appreciate. And robots are going to make us better off, by the way…. Book Discussed The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job Guest’s Other Books Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics Who Needs the Fed? What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America’s Central Bank Guest’s Twitter @JohnTamny Related Episodes…
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Should insider trading be a crime? With Donald Trump suggesting that he might pardon Martha Stewart, it’s an opportune moment to examine this important question. Related Articles “ Ashcroft Gets His Pound of Flesh ,” by Bill Anderson “ Martha Stewart and Our Shadow Legal System ,” by Bill Anderson Guest’s Column Archives Mises Institute Archive Lew Rockwell Archive Previous Appearance Ep. 1137  Absolute Immunity for…
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There are plenty of arguments against Marxism, and we make several in this episode. But there’s one, by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, that crushes Marx. That’s because it stipulates, for the sake of argument, that Marx is correct about the labor theory of value and so…
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