Recent Podcast Episodes

We need more Laissez-Faire Libertarians who understand that society needs no top-down rule. No society in the world needs good government in order to be free; it needs sectors of society that government cannot touch.

Dr. Mark Thornton warns that growing economic instability, energy shortages, and political unrest could create a dangerous global situation.

Jeff Degner explores Murray Rothbard’s witty cultural criticism arguing that the real enemy in the culture war is the modern state, whose true god is power.

Dr. David Gordon traces the antiwar core of the libertarian tradition through five of its great figures: Richard Cobden, John Bright, Lysander Spooner, Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard.

Dr. Per Bylund argues that economic growth comes not from stretching the Hayekian triangle before its original factors, but from entrepreneurs inserting new, more roundabout production processes within it.

Economist Judy Shelton reflects on sound money from Jefferson’s dollar to today, and argues that Rothbard’s ideas are gaining real-world traction from Milei’s Argentina to Europe’s gold-backed currency debates.

Mark Thornton warns that bombing Iran could unleash a global economic catastrophe while enriching the politically connected interests that profit from war.

Is it Christianity or geography or family demographics? Is it the Enlightenment?  Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost discuss theories regarding the rise of the West and why it's different from the rest of the world.

As the midterms helped demonstrate, the post-covid inflation crisis and both parties' disinterest in actually solving it has put incumbents at a tremendous disadvantage. And that has become the defining political dynamic of the 2020s.

History books often connect the Great Awakening to the American Revolution, but the connection remains vague. One overlooked link is how the revival challenged privileged religious establishments and helped fuel later colonial resistance to parliamentary supremacy.

Never was the individual more tyrannized than since the war began.

The enlightened despot the early socialists were always looking for was themselves.

Why did socialism win in peasant Russia rather than industrial Germany?

Even if socialism were inevitable, that would be no reason to want it.

The authoritarian state and Social Democracy looked like mortal enemies. They were counterparts.

Socialism means one thing only. All the rest is unimportant.

Three ways to pay for a war, and the anomaly in how soldiers were paid.

War prosperity enriches some with what it takes from others.

Prepare the economy for the next war—a program that cannot be carried out.

The emergency argument for planning, and why it proves nothing.