Recent Podcast Episodes

A Question-and-Answer period and Panel featuring Laura Davidson, Noah Bonn, Bob Murphy, and Jeff Deist.

What might the future of democracy look like? Jeff Deist welcomes attendees to the 2019 Mises Circle in Seattle.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Seattle, 14 September 2019. Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Seattle, 14 September 2019.

Bob Murphy and Marsha Enright discuss how education would work in a free society.

The resurgent claim that the modern economy was built on slavery is yet another attempt to attack capitalism while also claiming "we are all to blame" for slavery. The slave owners of old tried a very similar tactic.

Bob Murphy uses examples from Dan Carlin’s amazing podcast, Hardcore History, to illustrate the flaws with state-provided military services.

"Libertarianism" is very much a part of what is now known as "classical" liberalism — the influential free-market ideology of the nineteenth century whose effects and legacy are still felt today.

Bob Murphy and Robert Anthony Peters discuss acting and his latest short film, Tank Man.

Professor Walter Block joins Jeff Deist for a fantastic in-depth discussion of Henry Hazlitt and his work.

Jay Kempton shares insights from his recent efforts to turn employers away from the wasteful and corrupt health insurance benefit model.

Bob Murphy discusses the Mises-Hayek theory of the boom-bust cycle, and explains the predictive power of an "inverted yield curve".

Patrick Frey challenges Bob Murphy’s views on plea deals and AnCap society.

Bob Murphy explains a common rhetorical dodge that he’s encountered from both the progressive Left and the conservative Right.

Bob Murphy explains how he got into Austrian economics and libertarianism.

Bob Murphy and Robby Soave discuss the corporate media.

One of the great and most persistent errors of classical liberals is to believe in "good government," a government that does "what it is supposed to do." But no state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.

What is needed to make peace durable is a change in ideologies. What generates war is the economic philosophy almost universally espoused today by governments and political parties.

Bob Murphy and Hannah Cox discuss the State’s abuses in the criminal justice system.