Recent Podcast Episodes

Pennsylvania legislators don't claim to be putting people out of work or killing job opportunities. They claim they just want workers to earn more pay.

Socialists and communists claim to support the rights of "indigenous" peoples. However, that support rings hollow given how the USSR abused the native peoples of Siberia, all while American socialists and communists uncritically supported the Soviet Union.

The use of interstate compacts by US states shows that the states don't need the federal government to dictate or manage interstate relations. 

From Jefferson to Madison, and on to Bastiat, Molinari, and Spencer, the "classical" liberals routinely denounced war as the enemy of freedom, prudence, and natural rights.

Some residents of St. Louis, fed up with the nonprotection from the city's police, have hired private security to deal with the problem. The egalitarian Left, of course, doesn't like that.

Government statistics on inflation in the food sector have failed to account for skimpflation and shrinkflation.

Trump is essentially being prosecuted for questioning the outcome of an election, and federal paranoia about protecting its own aura of legitimacy is entering a new highly aggressive phase. 

David Gordon take a critical look at Markus Gabriel's Moral Progress in Dark Times, and although he finds parts that are disturbing, he also discovers important areas of agreement.

President Biden makes the false claim that wind- and solar-generated electricity are cheaper than power generated from coal and oil.

Fitch's downgrade of US government debt is a good thing, but not good enough.

According to progressive elites, it is terrorism if consumers boycott businesses because of their leftist policies.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho look at the latest indictment of Donald Trump.

Adults tell young people to follow their dreams, but one cannot follow one's vision without realizing what it takes to get there.

Jonathan Newman joins Bob to explain why the data still support the case for recession and point out the eerie similarity to the calm before the storm in 2008.

The political passion for "social justice" is creating a larger free-rider problem and a problem of injustice.

To seriously threaten the regime, one must attack it at its roots. This would require rejecting the modern civil rights legal regime, something modern Buckleyite conservatives and James Lindsay-style liberals are not interested in, and unites paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians.

Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures.

Dr. Tate Fegley talks about his lectures from Mises University on policing, AI, and the deep state, and the important topic of economic calculation that connects the three.

In this new age of decentralized and democratized content creation, union members' demands may simply be based on wishful thinking for a bygone era.

Although they professed to support "states' rights," many proslavery activists wanted a stronger federal government that could force slavery on the western territories and deny local sovereignty to territorial residents.