The Facebook purges continue, with recent victims including the Free Thought Project (3.1 million likes), Police the Police (1.9 million likes), and V is for Voluntary (165,000 likes). I speak… Read More
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Ep. 1266 How Government Makes the Poor Worse Off, Example #43,662
Jim Epstein of Reason TV just released a mini-documentary on the effects of the coming $15 minimum wage on one particular sector of the New York economy, and it’s devastating.… Read More
Ep. 1265 What I Told the Libertarian Party of Florida
Last week I spoke to a small gathering in Orlando of members of the Libertarian Party of Florida. Alex Merced, vice chair of the national party, spoke before me and… Read More
Ep. 1264 Going to College? Everyone Congratulates You. Not? You’re Probably a Loser
Note the difference in reaction between telling someone you’re going to college (congratulations and warm wishes) and telling someone you’re taking a different path (skeptical line of questioning). T.K. Coleman… Read More
Ep. 1263 Reason’s Matt Welch on Libertarianism, Foreign Policy, Journalism, and Michael Malice
Matt Welch, editor-at-large of Reason magazine, joins me to discuss his background, how his views evolved, the state of the Libertarian Party, his experiences in eastern Europe, and a lot more. Sponsor… Read More
Ep. 1262 What’s the Deal with Elon Musk? And Other Car News for Libertarians
The great Eric Peters returns with further updates from the world of automobiles. You don’t have to be a car aficionado to benefit from Eric’s knowledge, and as always we… Read More
Ep. 1261 Is There a Moral Obligation to Help the Poor Abroad, and Other Moral Questions Asked of Libertarians
Philosopher Jim Otteson and I discuss his book Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press), which advances a vigorous moral defense of the classical liberal, or libertarian, political tradition. We also discuss the claims… Read More
Ep. 1260 Has the War in Afghanistan Been a Success?
A recent post on a libertarian Facebook page suggested that only blind ideologues would dispute that the war in Afghanistan has been a success. After all, local polling data finds… Read More
Ep. 1259 A Neoconservative’s Embarrassing Fall
Neoconservative historian and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Max Boot recently called on Americans, Republicans in particular, to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November. He just released a book… Read More
Ep. 1258 Libertarians Are Cranks on Money, Our Critics Say
When it comes to sound money and fiat paper, we libertarians are nearly always dismissed as cranks. Why, don’t we know that we need the government to be able to… Read More
