Recent Podcast Episodes

Critics of capitalism claim that it is responsible for creating inequality in society. Yet the precapitalist societies enforced inequality in a rigid social structure.

For nearly two decades, business, academic, and political elites have spread the fiction that central banks can engineer prosperity by printing more money. Markets now are discrediting that fairy tale.

Energy production in the USA and elsewhere is in trouble because of government control. We need more energy and less regulation.

The more we understand critical race theory, the more we understand that it is not compatible with a free society.

Should there be vaccine mandates to deal with covid? Progressive authorities say one thing, but the data say another.

One hardly can imagine a better tool of social control than a digital currency. Not surprisingly, US monetary authorities are moving in that direction.

It has been a hundred years since Mises published Socialism. It is more relevant than ever.

Like the police in similar communities, the Moscow, Idaho police have long focused on petty drug offenses while more serious violent crime and property crime receives far less attention.

Progressives seem to believe that we improve healthcare outcomes by spending more. This is a recipe for failure.

There appears to be a six-million-man gap between the number of men in the prime age group—age 25–54—and the number of those men actually in the workforce.

Does 2022 America still have legitimate intellectuals? Professor Paul Gottfried joins Jeff and Bob to consider the state of real and pseudo-intellectualism.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Derek Dobalian to discuss the role Christianity has historically played in creating a bulwark against totalitarian regimes.

America's military technocrats (a.k.a. "generals") specialize in losing wars and also losing your money. Naturally, Congress wants to give them even more taxpayer cash.

Thomas Paine, whose fiery essay "Common Sense" made a case for the American Revolution, is a much-neglected American founder.

High time preferences also mean high times in a party atmosphere. When Jamaica embraced socialism many decades ago, it wasn't supposed to come to this.

Following the attack on Paul Pelosi, the Capitol Police office has demanded a big budget increase. This is not to increase safety but rather to increase the agency's bureaucratic reach.

The US monetary system is out of sorts and out of control. The authors show a path back from the inflation brink to monetary soundness.

During the worst days of the covid lockdowns and mandates, Americans were told that wearing masks was a matter of life and death. However, those giving the orders didn't believe what they were saying.

State regulation of marriage—and the ensuing secularization of marriage that followed—is a historical development that was part of the larger trend toward the expansion of state power.

While high-quality automobiles and other manufactured goods are being produced in the Southeast, northeastern states like New York are falling behind, thanks to progressive governance.