Recent Podcast Episodes

We have reached the end of Murray Rothbard's definitive treatise Man, Economy, and State! 

Are there any differences between North Korea and Antifa? David asks. Deist says that, for the left, democracy is a means to an end. Listen to the full episode for all this and more.

This show features a personal and revealing interview of Comic Dave Smith by Jeff Deist. It shows a side of Dave you haven't seen before—so don't miss it. 

Although governments continue to insist "it's for the children," we should never go back to the dark ages of privacy before easy-to-use encryption. Nor should we allow a "back door" for governments to access our data.

The best way to think about tradition is to view it like capital accumulation. Knowledge is accumulated through countless centuries of trial and error. The state seeks to destroy historical consciousness and old ways of life to secure power.

For the LP Mises Caucus, Bob received a slew of questions to be answered in a half hour. The topics range from business cycle to free trade to a "voluntary" State.

Eric July is the front man for the street-hop/metalcore group Backwordz. He discusses his personal odyssey in navigating the leftist metal scene.

Syndicalism is a method of attack by organized labor for the attainment of certain political ends. It requires widespread acts of destruction on "capitalist" institutions as a means of ushering in a socialist regime.

Our guest is Adam Mortara, lead trial counsel in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University. We discuss the legal aspects of affirmative action in light of the paper by Dr. Norman Wang that set off a storm of controversy in academic medicine.

Negative interest rates lead to zombie firms, rampant consumerism, and growing obstacles to entrepreneurship. 

Leonard Read has explained how so many Americans arrived at the clearly false notion that a government post office is necessary.

Despite double-digit unemployment rates, banks are keeping loan-loss provisions low, no doubt assuming Uncle Sam will keep everyone’s boat afloat. But all good things come to an end.

Welcome to Radio Rothbard!

Jeff Deist calls in to comment on the CDC sneaking in under COVID regulations to become America’s new landlord. What are the implications of this takeover?

As confidence in the dollar falls, Americans put more of their money in gold, silver, and cryptocurrencies. State governments can help this process along by deregulating sound money.

Robert Yeh is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He joins the show to discuss the challenges of outcomes research and his excellent work to improve the reliability of observational studies.

American healthcare practitioners already do a relatively poor job of caring for birthing mothers. Haphazard and harmful covid prevention policies show an alarming disregard for their mental and physical well-being.

The attempt to conflate the defense of property with tribal street violence reflects the anticapitalist bias of the modern zeitgeist.

Bob shows how the movie "A Beautiful Mind" got game theory wrong.