Recent Podcast Episodes

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the failure of the pollsters, the imaginary Blue Wave, and the end of naive democracy.

A repeated pattern of close elections accompanied by threats of violence (or actual violence) is a sign that something is wrong with a nation's political system.

Probably no other belief is now so much a threat to liberty… as the one that democracy, by itself alone, guarantees liberty.

While the libertarian electorate is not as popular a topic as it once was, it could actually be a very important demographic this year.

Kenneth Arrow showed in 1951 that the entire project of social choice theory rested on quicksand.

We asked several Mises Institute scholars and writers to come together to discuss the themes running through the 2020 election race and the most important policy issues for the American presidency. Here’s what they had to say.

Jeff Deist finishes his series on Hoppe's devastating classic with a look at the final chapters, critiquing conservatism, liberalism, and constitutionalism. 

With new legalization measures coming to the ballot box, voters have the opportunity to take steps that would reduce the drive to make drugs stronger and more potent, and more deadly.  

Projections have the 2020 election seeing record-high turnout. Conventional wisdom views this as a win for Joe Biden, but could conventional wisdom be wrong?

Jeff Deist joins David Gornoski on A Neighbor's Choice to talk about the religiosity of democratic elections, revolutions as late-stage statism, postmodernism as a recipe for social unrest, the great reset, and more.

Wisdom from James Bovard on the train wreck that is American democracy. 

The Left recognizes the importance of education in forming Americans’ ideology. The Left takes a long-term view. The Left accepts partial victories.

Contrary to popular assertions, the Nazis weren't only trying to expropriate Jewish wealth. They wanted the German people to come together as a collective entity, and this entailed socialism.

The fact that some Americans supported slavery in the eighteenth century is not at all remarkable. Most of the world agreed with them. What is remarkable is that many of them sought to abolish slavery in the new republic.

Doing what we can to help narrow Section 230 immunities back to a free speech interpretation could solve this while actually reducing government involvement in speech.

Did Murray Rothbard think that populism could work to limit the power of the state?

Why don't corporations just get bigger and bigger until they take over the whole economy? Unlike states, firms aren't necessarily better off as they get bigger.