Glenn Jacobs, best known as the enormously popular WWE wrestler Kane, is also a Misesian and a fixture of the liberty movement. He’s currently running for mayor of Knox County,… Read More
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Ep. 972 James Damore’s Firing at Google, and Libertarian Confusion
As you likely know by now, Google fired James Damore after he wrote an internal memo questioning the assumption that all human differences are due to social conditioning. There is… Read More
Ep. 971 Jury Nullification at Work: Free Speech Trumps Statute, Jury Concludes
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… Read More
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… 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… Read More
Ep. 968 Why Liberty Is So Hard to Sell — And Can We Do Anything About It?
You’d think “I want to free you” would be an easy message to sell — and yet it isn’t. Why is that? This episode is the talk I gave at… Read More
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… 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… 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… 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.… Read More
