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Who's to Blame for Normalizing One-Man Rule?
Unfortunately, the corporate press and public health officials have determined that unilateral rule by executive decree, unimpeded by any conception of…
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Biden's Amtrak Infrastructure Scam
Profit-seeking entrepreneurs move factors of production to their highest and most economical uses. Amtrak, on the other hand, is diverting useful factors of…
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Ross Benes on America's Rural Rebellion
Politics degrades our lives in innumerable ways, from personal relationships to work to places of worship. Even sports and movies now seem to have become…
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The Biggest Threat to US Hegemony: China, Russia, or Debt?
China and Russia are trying to build a Eurasian bloc that can break free of any American spheres of influence. The American regime obviously opposes this, but…
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The Left Understands Taxation Is Theft, That's Why They Support It
It’s nice to know we all agree that taxes have nothing to do with civilization. They are for destroying with a side of discriminatory punishment. Original…
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The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America
Free market advocates long ago figured out that the monied classes of bankers and Wall Street operatives were exploiting the "little people" to prop up the…
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Scott Horton on Osama Bin Laden's Strategy to Take Down the US
Scott Horton comes back on the show to discuss his new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. He and Bob largely focus on Osama Bin Laden's…
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State Legislatures Are Finally Limiting Governors' Emergency Powers
The covid-19 lockdowns have unexpectedly brought into clear view the fact governors wield immense power over the daily lives of Americans. Some state…
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The Plan to Save the the Postal Service by Making It Even Worse
The post office can't seem to balance its books. So like all monopolists, the postal service plans to "improve" things by increasing prices and making its…
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How a Voluntary Society Would Handle Blockades and Immigration
Bob elaborates on two ideas he had when he wrote his novel "Minerva" in grad school. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Bob’s archives at…
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If the Nordic Countries Are Socialist, So Are These Less Impressive Countries
Have you ever noticed that it's only the wealthy Nordic countries that are singled out as being "socialist"? Places like Greece and Italy, which are more…
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Politicians Concerned about Violence Should Start by Ending Their Wars and Their Police State
When politicians claim to deplore violence, its hard to take them seriously when they have a long track record of supporting brutal and arbitrary violence both…
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Government Property Is Sacred. Your Property? Not So Much.
The government tantrum over the Capitol riot has shown that the regime sees its own property as sacrosanct. Your private property, on the other hand, is…
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The Equality Act's Attack on Religion Is Really about Private Property Rights
Like other "antidiscrimination" schemes, the Equality Act is just another way to to extend federal power over every private institution and aspect of private…
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Jeff Deist on Court Packing Chaos
Jeff Deist comments on the latest Democrat agenda of increasing the number of judges in SCOTUS. Does the expansion bill stand any chance in the house? How can…
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Rothbard's Anatomy of the State
Ryan McMaken joins the show for a lengthy discussion of Rothbard's brief but devastating essay Anatomy of the State. This book demands that readers understand…
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What Clarence Thomas Gets Wrong about Big Tech
"Private companies" that openly deplatform, impoverish, and unperson dissident voices are waging a war of attrition Original Article: "What Clarence Thomas…
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Biden and Janet Yellen Are Pushing a Global Minimum Tax Rate. The EU Is Very Pleased.
Globalists know that so long as sovereign states have the ability to set their own tax rates, regimes are tempted to engage in “tax competition” in order to…
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India's Crypto-Clueless Regulators
I would be silly to suggest that I know the precise potential of cryptocurrencies, but I would be even sillier if I were to say that the Indian government…
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Is Tucker Carlson Right about Replacement Theory?
Tucker Carlson seems to believe that if it weren't for immigrants, America would be dominated by religiously devout, tradition-minded, liberty-loving Americans…
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Shawn Whatley on Deconstructing Medical Socialism
Our guest is Shawn Whatley, a physician in Canada who is the author of the recently released book When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian…
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Walter Block Explains His Entry into Libertarianism and His View of the Future
Walter Block is a giant in the libertarian movement. He explains how he discovered this philosophy and why it will be difficult to advance liberty. Mentioned…
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Fedcoin to the Rescue?
It could take several years. But “Fedcoin'' is on its way and soon will be our reality. The question is: Will Fedcoin make our lives easier or just the Fed’s?…
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88 Years Ago, FDR Banned Gold. Will a Bitcoin Ban Be Next?
As FDR’s gold crackdown showed, tyrants know the importance of controlling money in a time of crisis. It appears cryptocurrency could be central banks' next…
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The Feds Are Pushing Pension Funds toward "Socially Responsible Investing"
Federal regulators are claiming "socially responsible investing" can be just as good as traditional investing in terms of gaining returns for retired workers…
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Major League Baseball Punishes Georgians for the Acts of a Handful of Politicians
Major League Baseball's boycott of Georgia only makes any sense at all if we conflate every single Georgia resident with the regime itself. But in the real…
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The "Mind Viruses" Creating Social Justice Warriors
The mental viruses Saad has in mind are to a large extent those that deny that human beings have a biological nature: “Many idea pathogens share one common…
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The Tyranny of the "Enlightened" Experts
Of course, scientists were never supposed to run our society. The technocrat class cannot possess all of the knowledge necessary to effectively run the lives…
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Big Debt Plus Rising Interest Rates = Big Danger
"Because there's so much debt today relative to 10, 15 years ago, a small debt, a small move in yields, 50 basis points in yields today is equivalent to 2% 15…
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UBI and the Road to Serfdom
Not only could the state use the UBI as an instrument of social control; we have every reason to think those in charge of the state would exercise their power…
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Extending AnCap Analysis for Vaccine Passports, Court Rulings, and Desegregation
Using a recent Dave Smith interview of Michael Malice as a springboard, Bob elaborates his understanding of anarcho-capitalist principles to the thorny issues…
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Progressivism's Failures: From Minimum Wages to the Welfare State
The empirical evidence shows that neither minimum wages or welfare reduce poverty. In fact, minimum wages tend to increase the cost of living while poverty…
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The Property-Based Social Order Is Being Destroyed by Central Banks
Private property is an institution central to civilization and beneficial human interaction. When central banks distort this institution with easy money, the…
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Clarifying the Economic Framework for Both Camps in the Bitcoin Debate
Bob helps to clarify the Bitcoin debate. On the one hand, the “no intrinsic value” skeptics are ignoring how Austrians deal with gold, while on the other hand…
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Decentralization Is a Step toward Self-Determination
Ludwig von Mises understood that locally based governance "follows necessarily from the principle of the rights of man.” And it's why Rothbard supported…
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Why Beijing Wants a Digital Yuan
The Chinese regime hopes it can use a digital yuan to challenge the supremacy of the US dollar. That brings a host of geopolitical advantages, as well…
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Gun Laws and Decentralization: Lessons from "Constitutional Carry"
Forty years ago, the US had almost no legal concealed carry. Then over just a few decades, eighteen states adopted full-blown "constitutional carry"…
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Lockdowns Are More Economically Devastating Than Voluntary Social Distancing
Lockdowns advocates claim fear of the virus is really what kept people home—and has thus led to the economic destruction of the past year. But they also claim…
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Can Las Vegas Recover from Covid?
In Las Vegas, airline passengers plummeted 64 percent during 2020, and the convention business has collapsed. For Vegas, there are troubling signs that the…
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GDP Hides the Damage from the Covid-19 Lockdowns
Government money printing may goose GDP, but It will do nothing to fix the losses that millions have suffered from covid restrictions and lockdowns. Original…
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Allen Mendenhall—Is Intellectualism Dead?
Allen Mendenhall joins the show to expand last week's discussion on the intellectual state of America. Are we living in a decidedly anti-intellectual age, or…
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Benjamin Boyce on the Evergreen State Protests and Lessons for America
Benjamin Boyce is a writer, interviewer, and filmmaker who rose to fame by relaying his experiences as a student during the infamous Evergreen State protests…
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Economic Prosperity Is a Prerequisite for All Other Kinds of Prosperity
Both Ludwig von Mises and Abraham Maslow understood that unless we first secure the benefits of economic progress, it becomes impossible to pursue higher human…
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Homicides Are Way Up in 2020, and Covid Lockdowns Are a Likely Cause
If we’re going to ask ourselves what might have caused such an unusually large rise in homicide, we ought to look for very unusual events. Covid lockdowns…
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If Deficits Don't Matter, Why Bother with Taxes?
If deficits don't matter, why bother with taxes? The regime has the answer: taxes are important for punishing people we don't like, rewarding our friends, and…
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Central Planning by Business Is Not the Same as Central Planning by Government
Electing better planners won't make socialism work. Central planning fails because planning without the feedback mechanisms of the market is an impossible…
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Opposition Builds to the F-35 Program's Runaway Costs
The reliability and service life of the F-35 were greatly exaggerated in earlier reports. Now the aircraft is looking like an even bigger boondoggle than…
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Taking Rites Seriously: Neither Theocracy nor Liberal Hegemony
In this plenary address from the 2021 Austrian Economic Research Conference, Francis Beckwith explains the many threats to natural rights that have evolved out…
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Victim-Centered Justice Throws Black Men under the Bus
By embedding victim-centered justice in law, lack of due process will become institutionalized. The burden of this will fall on men, and in particular black…
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Why Envy Can Destroy Economic Progress
In some cultures, entrepreneurial achievement and capital accumulations are viewed with high levels of suspicion and envy. This can be disastrous for economic…
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Daniel McCarthy on the Prospects for Fusionism
Daniel McCarthy joins the show to continue last week's discussion of the rapid breakdown of America's political order, with wokeism rising on the Left and…
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From Menger to Mises
In this plenary address from the 2021 Austrian Economic Research Conference, Samuel Bostaph, an economist and historian of economic though discusses how Ludwig…
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Biden’s Rescue Plan Won't Reduce Poverty
“Poverty in society is overcome by productivity, and in no other way. There is no political alchemy which can transmute diminished production into increased…
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Rothbard’s Account of the Action Axiom: A Neo-Aristotelian-Thomistic Defense
In this plenary address from the 2021 Austrian Economic Research Conference, Douglas B. Rasmussen speaks on some of the philosophical principles behind…
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State Preemptions of Local Government Are a Bad Thing. Even When Ron DeSantis Does It.
Centralizing political power in the hands of the state government only sets the stage for abuses when a new administration takes over. Original Article: "State…
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Josiah Neeley Gives the Other Side on What Happened with the Texas Power Freeze
Josiah Neeley is the Texas Director and Resident Senior Fellow in Energy for the R Street Institute. He has a lively discussion, pushing back on some of Bob’s…
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Rob Bradley Gives a Brief History of US Electricity Regulation, with Lessons for the Recent Texas Freeze
Rob Bradley is an expert in the history of US energy markets. He explains the role of Sam Insull (co-founder of General Electric) in showing what a free market…
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The Never-Ending Battle between Leviathan and Liberty
Few political follies are more hazardous than presuming that one’s liberties are forever safe. If liberty is God’s gift to humanity, then why were most people…
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They Said Things Would Be Much Worse in States without Lockdowns. They Were Wrong.
When Georgia and Florida scaled back covid restrictions, the experts predicted far more death in the "open states" than in the locked down states like New York…
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A $15 Minimum Wage Would Be a Huge Blow to the Small Business Economy
Wage hike advocates effectively seek to force entrepreneurs to raise the costs of production after many of them have barely survived what became a catastrophic…