Dennis Fusaro, a longtime political consultant and grassroots activist, found himself in a legal battle for over a year because of what he considers the erratic application of unjust laws that curtail freedom of speech. The jury found him not guilty, in what appears to… Read More
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Ep. 970 The Real George Orwell
George Orwell has been a mystery to a great many readers. What did he truly believe? Was he a thoroughgoing socialist yet anti-totalitarian? David Ramsay Steele, author of a new book on Orwell, joins me to get to the bottom of it. Sponsor Need a… Read More
Ep. 969 Where Do Rights Come From?
In this episode I review the history of rights theories in the West from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Expect to hear about the medieval canonists, the late scholastics, John Locke, Murray Rothbard, and Hans Hoppe, among others. Liberty Classroom Learn the history… Read More
Ep. 968 Why Liberty Is So Hard to Sell — And Can We Do Anything About It?
Ep. 967 The Failure in Iraq: A Whistleblowing Eyewitness to the “Reconstruction” of Iraq
Peter van Buren, a 24-year veteran of the State Department, spent a year in Iraq as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams. When you hear what the U.S. government — which had destroyed much of the country and completely undermined its civil society —… Read More
Ep. 966 Left-Libertarians and Their Endless Moral Outrage
Mises Institute president Jeff Deist, who was Ron Paul’s last chief of staff, delivered an excellent and well-received talk at the Corax libertarian conference in Malta last week. As usual, though, emotional hypochondria got the better of a small group of left- and establishment libertarians, who are… Read More
Ep. 965 Take Off That Che Guevara Shirt (Plus: Venezuela)
It somehow became fashionable among young people to wear shirts depicting a murderer. One supposes the same indulgence would not be extended to shirts depicting non-leftist murderers (if such shirts existed, which they don’t). Federico Fernandez is behind an effort to take down the statue… Read More
Ep. 964 Austrian Economics vs. Conventional Wisdom
Whether it’s “monopoly,” child labor, the Depression of 1920-21, the New Deal, or World War II’s impact on the economy, our views and interpretations run counter to the conventional wisdom. Here’s a defense of our position. I delivered these remarks at the 2017 Mises University… Read More
Ep. 963 Good and Bad Ways to Fix Our Monetary System
Lucas Engelhardt, associate professor of economics at Kent State University, joins me to discuss bad ways to reform the monetary system, as well as good ones. (Bad ones include the Taylor rule, inflation targeting, NGDP targeting, and Milton Friedman’s approach.) Sponsor Bombfell is an easier… Read More
Ep. 962 Austrian Economics: The Basics You Secretly Crave
The Austrian School of economics, the school of thought that includes Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Murray Rothbard — and which influenced Ron Paul, of course — is the subject of the Mises Institute’s week-long Mises University summer program, which I’m attending right now.… Read More