F.A. Hayek, illustrious member of the Austrian School of economics, won the Nobel Prize in 1974, and wrote prolifically on both economic and non-economic topics. He has been a source… Read More
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Ep. 1081 How to Jolt People Out of Conventional Thinking (and Push Them in Our Direction?)
Mance Rayder, author of Freedom Through Memedom, joins me for some big-picture arguments against the state and for freedom. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 16,000 classes in… Read More
Ep. 1080 Down With State Licensing (Including for Personal Trainers and Coaches)
Strength trainer Mark Rippetoe returns to discuss state licensing, its true motivations, and why a free society doesn’t need it. Related Articles “ Should Personal Trainers and Coaches Be Licensed by The State? ,” by Mark Rippetoe “ Government-Approved Workouts? The Fight Against Fitness Licensing ,” by… Read More
Ep. 1079 The (Pernicious?) Idea of Utopia
This episode, featuring Justine Brown, begins with a discussion of Thomas More’s classic work Utopia, trying to get to the bottom of what the author meant to convey with it, and… Read More
Ep. 1078 Lew Rockwell on the Media, the Regime, and Their Relationship
The media’s opposition to Trump has confused and obscured the true nature of the relationship between itself and the American regime. Do we really have an adversarial press? Lew Rockwell… Read More
Ep. 1077 Dissident Historians
Michael Douma, Assistant Research Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown, and Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, joins me to discuss… Read More
Ep. 1076 Liberty, the Radio Spectrum, and Wireless Technology
Thomas Hazlett, former chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a professor of economics at Clemson University, talks about where regulators have gone wrong and the market has… Read More
Ep. 1075 Today’s Resistance to the FDA, NSA, DEA, and Other Evils
Michael Boldin, founder and executive director of the Tenth Amendment Center, talks about a wide variety of resistance movements at the state level against the federal government. Nullification: it’s happening!… Read More
Ep. 1074 Libertarians Have a Class Theory, Too (and It’s Better Than Marx’s)
With the idea of class so central to Marxian theory, libertarians might be tempted to ignore class as a category. But there is in fact such a thing as libertarian… Read More
Ep. 1073 How a Historian Saw the Light
Historian Brion McClanahan and I begin by discussing the conservative movement’s wary and sometimes hostile reception of his book criticizing Alexander Hamilton. From there, we trace out how Brion went… Read More
