During the presidential election season, the prolific libertarian scholar Walter Block headed up an organization called Libertarians for Trump. At the time, financial analyst and libertarian blogger Robert Wenzel debated him on the subject on this very show. Today, with the end of President Donald… Read More
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Ep. 874 Snappy Answers to anti-Libertarian Questions
Zack Rofer (the pen name of the author of the book being discussed today) joins me to deal with a bunch of the most common questions libertarians are asked. This episode will lift a weight from your shoulders. (Free) Book Discussed Busting Myths About the State and the Libertarian Alternative Related Episodes Ep. 725 A Spontaneous… Read More
Ep. 767 Romans 13: Does It Mean Christians Can’t Be Libertarians?
Romans 13 has generated an overwhelming amount of discussion and debate regarding Christian belief and political obligation. Pastor Larry Beane joins me to get to the bottom of what it really means. While we’re at it, we discuss Christian libertarians, p.c. Christians, and political correctness… Read More
The Libertarian Debate of the Century, Right Here
It’s here, my friends. Where else are you going to hear a civil yet engaging and informative libertarian debate on a topic like this? Resolved: “Israel was founded on the basis of legitimate homesteading of land and reclamation of lost Jewish property from previous generations… Read More
Ep. 739 Libertarians Debate Creation of Israel: Compatible with Libertarian Ideas?
With such libertarian luminaries as Murray Rothbard and Walter Block at odds with regard to the creation of Israel and its conformity or otherwise to libertarian principles, it seemed sensible to host a debate on the subject. The resolution: “Israel was founded on the basis… Read More
I Am Not Supposed to Have a Debate on the Creation of Israel
Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every weekday. Be one of them . Yesterday I wrote to you about a topic the fashionables avoid like the plague — or when they do mention it, they sound like Hillary Clinton. Today I’m preparing you for a still… Read More
Ep. 731 By Popular Demand: Libertarianism 101
Todd Seavey, author of Libertarianism for Beginners, joins me for a discussion that beginners and advanced students alike will enjoy. We go from the foundations, to real-world applications, to problems for libertarianism, to left and right and libertarians. Much to learn from and enjoy. Special… Read More
Ep. 725 A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society
Ep. 705 What’s Right with Freedom, and What’s Wrong with the Candidates
It’s pretty thin gruel, to put it mildly, for freedom lovers in 2016, so I spent the opening talk at this year’s Mises University program (hosted by the Mises Institute ) contrasting the free society with what Trump and Clinton have to offer. Zingy stuff. Special Offer… Read More
When There Were 25 Libertarians in the Entire World
In the late 1960s, when Murray Rothbard — Mr. Libertarian — was asked how many libertarians there were in the world, he answered… …25. Twenty-five libertarians in the whole world. Undeterred, Rothbard carried on, writing dozens of books and thousands of articles, editing several academic and popular… Read More
