Inequality is the battering ram the left is using these days to justify all kinds of programs of intervention. In this episode we drive a stake through its heart. About… Read More
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Ep. 875 Taxation Isn’t Theft Because It’s Not Your Money
Philosopher Philip Goff argues that you have no moral claim to the money you earn on the market, because its distribution of money is arbitrary. We hit back. About the… Read More
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… Read More
Ep. 873 Why the Greenbackers Are All Wrong About the Fed
Some people — known popularly these days as Greenbackers — oppose the Federal Reserve for all the wrong reasons: it doesn’t inflate enough (!), the bankers will wind up with… Read More
Ep. 872 Obamacare, Trumpcare, and Rand Paul: A Closer Look
With several options on the table on a complicated issue full of technical details, I thought it was a good time to bring on an expert who could explain them… Read More
Ep. 871 How to Keep the Spooks from Snooping Through Your Email
We know the government snoops on email and other electronic communications, and yet most of us do nothing about it: we figure we’d have to be full-time techies even to… Read More
Ep. 870 Am I “Fake News”?
Harvard University’s library system just released a guide to “fake news” and propaganda websites. Guess who’s on there? So’s LewRockwell.com, Antiwar.com, and even Wikileaks. Lew Rockwell joins me to discuss… Read More
Ep. 869 Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
The federal government has extended its authority into so many areas, and employed statutory language so vague, that ordinary people have found themselves criminals without having done anything they believed… Read More
Ep. 868 Science Fiction, Liberty, and Dystopia
Hillsdale College’s Brad Birzer discusses libertarian themes in some of the great works of science fiction. Special Offer Join Liberty Classroom and get this and all our other on-the-go courses! Use our… Read More
Ep. 867 The Trump Win and the Hillary Loss: Presidential Historian Doug Wead Breaks It All Down
Historians will be discussing and debating the election of 2016 for a long time to come. Doug Wead’s new book takes us through the history of the Clintons and the… Read More
