A recent post on a libertarian Facebook page suggested that only blind ideologues would dispute that the war in Afghanistan has been a success. After all, local polling data finds satisfaction with the U.S. invasion and occupation, and conditions there have certainly improved. Scott Horton,… Read More
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Ep. 1259 A Neoconservative’s Embarrassing Fall
Neoconservative historian and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Max Boot recently called on Americans, Republicans in particular, to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November. He just released a book called The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right. He’s been writing and tweeting… Read More
Ep. 1258 Libertarians Are Cranks on Money, Our Critics Say
When it comes to sound money and fiat paper, we libertarians are nearly always dismissed as cranks. Why, don’t we know that we need the government to be able to create whatever amount of money the experts think best? Don’t we know this system has… Read More
Ep. 1257 The Wreckage of Feminism
Janice Fiamengo joins me to discuss the untold stories of how feminism has actually affected society and relationships, and the reality turns out to be rather different from the cartoon. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20,000 classes in design, business, and… Read More
Ep. 1256 How to Be a Good Person, Libertarian, and Scholar: Walter Block’s Amazing New Milestone
Walter Block is one of the world’s most prolific libertarian scholars. But recently he’s managed to outdo himself. He just reached a milestone that no other scholar anywhere can come close to matching, and it’s why Walter is such a treasure to our movement. Listen… Read More
Ep. 1255 The Problem With Government Police
…is that they’re government police. Is there a way to insert some good old-fashioned competition into police services? Sponsor Harry’s razors, the official razors of the Tom Woods Show, know you’ll love their blades, so they want to give you their special trial — a… Read More
Ep. 1254 Theater of the Absurd: Guess What These Peer-Reviewed Journals Were Tricked into Publishing
Three academics just made public a secret project they had been engaged in for a year: submitting absurd, nonsense articles to major, peer-reviewed journals in gender studies and similar fields — and getting them published. Whatever it is you’re thinking was in those articles, I… Read More
Ep. 1253 Libertarian Culture Wars
In this juicy talk I do begin with some internecine libertarian wrangling, to be sure, but that’s not my primary focus. I cover lots of ways in which we libertarians find ourselves at odds with the culture that surrounds us. The empire’s reaction to the… Read More
Ep. 1252 The Brett Kavanaugh Ordeal, with Dave Smith
Dave Smith, the popular comedian and host of the Part of the Problem podcast, joins me to try to get to the bottom of the situation with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford. Related Articles “ How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying ,” by… Read More
Ep. 1251 Are There Objective Moral Truths?
Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of the outstanding libertarian book The Problem of Political Authority. Today he discusses his work in “ethical intuitionism,” which holds that (1) there are objective moral truths; (2)… Read More
