On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss military escalation with Venezuela, more troubling jobs data, and how college football offers an example of how financialization, politicalization, and bad economy theory can undermine great American traditions.
The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve.
The Fed’s money printing creates bubbles everywhere. Now even college football is seeing its own easy-money fueled malinvestments.
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward him.
Some modern historians claim they are “doing science.” However, Ludwig von Mises in Theory and History decried what he saw as “scientism” instead of real scientific inquiry.
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya explains how “phony civil rights” expand state power at the expense of self-ownership and property, and offers a conservative-libertarian case for liberty rooted in reality.
Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”
On the John Curley Show, Ryan McMaken presents a practical case for strengthening families by shrinking Leviathan’s reach.
Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”
A refrain in the television series Foundation is that individuals and individual actions do not matter, but this is even disavowed as the story is told.
