Recent Podcast Episodes

The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Lou Church Foundation.

Those gloating about Russia being "cut off" are overstating the case. In fact, many of the world's largest countries have shown a reluctance to participate in the US's sanction schemes, and even close US allies aren't going along with it.

From the Volga Germans to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire to the Spaniards and the Mennonites, choosing emigration as a means of avoiding military conscription has a long history.

Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter.

The scientific method requires free and open dissent from any scientific hypothesis. Yet JAMA is requesting that medical boards become a new Inquisition to root out heresy and apostasy from CDC doctrines.

The F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Greg and Joy Morin.

Jeff and Bob discuss the dynamics of the housing market in the context of a recent talk by Alex Pollock.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss whether Lindsey Graham is the worst member of the US Senate.

Today, we see Russian athletes, artists, and musicians punished because of their government's invasion of Ukraine. The last time Russia invaded another country, President Jimmy Carter decided to punish American Olympic athletes.

It is one thing to follow the law for prudential reasons and another thing entirely to assume the law brings with it some sort of moral imperative. Laws rarely do.

Imposing sanctions will advance the reach of surveillance capitalism while strengthening the power of states to control the financial system overall. The end result will be a lower standard of living and a less free economy.

Sanctions remain popular because they placate the voters who insist "we" must "do something," and government officials are more than happy to accept this invitation to grow state power.

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.

While government officials and politicians denounce high drug prices, they have created monopoly privileges for drug firms, thus ensuring higher-than-competitive prices for pharmaceuticals.

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Steven and Cassandra Torello.

In many ways, the liberal democracy that had its roots in nineteenth-century liberalism seems to have run its course. Can we revive it, or does something more authoritarian take its place?

The Ukrainian regime thinks it knows better than husbands and fathers when it comes to caring for their families. But no bureaucrat ought to be allowed to make such a decision.

President Harding wanted to see the end of war and a return to a more traditional American foreign policy.

Trade war means increasing the debt, eroding the public confidence, raising prices, and burdening the economy with interventions. All of it done in the name of the "public good."

Jeff and Bob Murphy talk about the state of gross economic ignorance in America today.