Recent Podcast Episodes

Mark Thornton explains how mounting national debt crowds out private investment, fuels inflation, and burdens future generations with the costs of government spending.

Ryan McMaken and Murray Sabrin discuss the ways that the United States has become a land of regulation, taxation, and welfare. The American republic disappeared long ago, and the welfare-warfare state replaced it.

Foreign goods bring foreign ideas across the frontier.

Under capitalism competition moves people. Under socialism, decree must.

Early socialism dreamed of the self-sufficient village.

Historically, with the state came the church, and with the church came the state. This insight is key to understanding the underappreciated role of religion in the American Revolution.

No calculation, therefore no test of success or failure.

In the world of reality there is no stationary state.

To understand the socialist community, compare it with an army.

The latest answer to the affordable housing crisis is to build more government-owned units. Far from being a solution, it will lead to even more housing shortages.

Dr. Mark Thornton examines the growing risks in the global economy, why he believes we're living in an interconnected bubble economy, and how decades of central bank intervention may be setting the stage for another major financial crisis.

The Trump administration insists its actions against Cuba are justified because of Cuba’s communist government. Murray Rothbard, an enemy of communism, had harsh words against this kind of US interventionism.

Imagine an economy that never changes. Only then does the plan compute.

Socialism is, at bottom, nothing but a theory of just distribution.

John C. Calhoun often is misquoted and misinterpreted by modern historians. David Gordon and Wanjiru Njoya look to help set the record straight.

Socialization—a word built to obscure the problem it names.

Thanks to hard working American taxpayers, savers, and entrepreneurs, the experiences of American military personnel are increasingly defined by jobs like "drone pilot" that are nothing like the cannon-fodder jobs of old. 

Economics began with money prices. That was no accident.

Socialism promised not only wealth for all, but happiness in love.

The Law of the Stronger is really the negation of Law.