Angelo Valle discovered libertarianism and the Tom Woods Show while in high school, heard about Praxis on the show, and at age 20 is now prospering at a successful startup. Now that’s the kind of story we ought to hear, so he shares it with… Read More
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Ep. 1110 Medical Marijuana, the Drug War, and the Way Forward
Josh Wilcoxson joins me to discuss the effectiveness of medical marijuana, the state of the legalization movement, and how we should proceed from here. Sponsor The State of Logic podcast, featuring libertarian Kevin Van Eekeren, looks at business, politics, current events, and more via a… Read More
Ep. 1109 Mises in 1918: Guido Hulsmann on a Momentous Year
Mises biographer Guido Hulsmann joins me to discuss the life of the great economist and social philosopher Ludwig von Mises in the momentous year of 1918, one hundred years ago. Sponsor Get a free trial set, valued at $13, (pay just an eeny weeny shipping… Read More
Ep. 1108 Teacher: School “Walkouts” for Gun Control Are Illegal
A schoolteacher in a left-liberal state argues that the school walkout movement — which is obviously spreading through intimidation, and the implied suggestion that no other point of view deserves a hearing — is in fact illegal, since it amounts to political activity by schoolteachers… Read More
Ep. 1107 Lew Rockwell on Standing Against the Tide
Topics include: Jordan Peterson, Trump’s tariffs, hate mail, the creation of LewRockwell.com, the future of the Mises Institute, and whether more than the nonaggression principle is necessary to sustain liberty. About the Guest Lew Rockwell is publisher of LewRockwell.com , and founder and chairman of the Mises Institute… Read More
Ep. 1106 Sizzling: Tom and Stefan on Libertarians Gone Wrong
Stefan Molyneux and I have a wide-ranging discussion about what’s been happening to the libertarian movement, the periodic witch-hunts, and why, in the age of the Internet (where you can build an audience even without the approval of the Official Libertarian Institutions), the drama doesn’t… Read More
Ep. 1105 Don’t Pine for the “Original Principles” of the Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution continues to be romanticized to this day. Plenty of communists claim that if only the Soviet Union could have stuck to the original principles of the Revolution, the horrors would not have occurred. Problem: the horrors began with the Revolution, and the… Read More
Ep. 1104 What I Told College Students About Communism
Here’s an overview of what I said about communism to an audience of students at the University of California at Santa Barbara last night. Were the crimes of communism mere aberrations? Were they perversions of an otherwise noble ideal? Or were they the natural, expected… Read More
Ep. 1103 Marx, Rawls, and Other Fonts of Error
David Gordon, whose knowledge the late historian Ralph Raico compared to the Library of Congress, joins me for a potpourri episode in which all kinds of wicked errors are delightfully smashed. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 16,000 classes in design, business,… Read More
Ep. 1102 Can Liberty Go Mainstream? A Comic Creator Says Yes
Johnny Rocket, host of the Johnny Rocket Launch Pad (on which I’ve been a guest, in one of my favorite interviews ever), joins me to discuss his Liberty Force Comic as well as other, unconventional ways we might bring our unorthodox message to the masses.… Read More