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Beware the Robber Barons, and More Tales of Capitalism
Ep. 1121 The Mundane Truth About the Sherman Antitrust Act
Here’s how we learn about so-called landmark legislation in school: your wise public servants identified a problem, and then put their heads together in a disinterested, dispassionate way to solve it, and improve life for everyone. In fact, the real roots of legislation often turn… Read More
Ep. 467 The Truth About Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, and Other Myths Refuted
Larry Reed joins us once again to discuss common myths and misconceptions about the free society: Sinclair’s The Jungle, state education, Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, and more! About the Guest Larry Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education. Book Discussed Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism Guest’s Website Foundation for Economic Education Special… Read More
Ep. 413 Salon Says Rich Are Parasites; We Dissent
Peter Klein and I critique a recent Salon article containing just about every leftist cliche about the rich ever uttered. About the Guest Peter G. Klein is the Carl Menger Research Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is also an associate professor in… Read More
Ep. 412 What I Told the Eleventh Graders About Liberty
For the third year in a row, I was asked to speak on classical liberalism (libertarianism) to the 11th graders in my kids’ school, in their Great Ideas course. Video Mentioned When Did I Sign This ‘Social Contract’? Article Mentioned The Misplaced Fear of ‘Monopoly’ Assigned Reading “ The Anatomy of the State ,” by Murray N. Rothbard (the teacher asked what I… Read More
Ep. 355 Was the Industrial Revolution a Catastrophe for Workers? And Other Economic Topics
The standard historical accounts get a great many economic issues all wrong. In this episode I review a bunch of the most common ones, and supply the free-market answer. Topics Discussed The Industrial Revolution The New Deal Antitrust Monopoly The Marshall Plan Host of This… Read More
‘Uber Must Be Stopped!’
So says Andrew Leonard at Salon , who takes the opportunity to repeat every seventh-grade scare tactic about ‘monopoly’ that later research has refuted–on predatory pricing and on the so-called robber barons. Oooh, Rockefeller and Carnegie! As if simply mentioning their names is an argument. Check out my reply… Read More
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a real command of U.S. history, and be informed on topics like these? Colonial Background Virginia and the Cavaliers Puritan Society Puritans and Indians The Southern Colonies and the Celts The Middle Colonies and the Quakers The French as… Read More
“Glenn Beck Should Revere Theodore Roosevelt”
That’s the creepy title of a Newsmax article taking Glenn Beck to task for being critical of Teddy Roosevelt. Read the article for yourself. It’s written at a third-grade level, and amounts to a list of standard leftist assertions that “most reasonable Americans” agree with. (Remember, Newsmax is a “conservative”… Read More
