Recent Podcast Episodes

Help us distribute Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson to thousands of young people all across the country.

Two distinguished guests — Dorit Reiss and Jonathan Howard — join the show to debate the issue of vaccine mandates.

Professor William Anderson and Jeff Deist discuss the most important and devastating critique of administrative rule ever written.

Bob reviews the contributions of Böhm-Bawerk, Fetter, and Mises, and explains interest from an Austrian approach.

The number of jobs that require an occupational license now covers 30% of the US workforce, up from 5% in 1950.

A short episode commenting on a recent piece in Medscape by Arthur L. Caplan, one of the most influential bioethicists of the last forty years.

Socialism, democratic or otherwise, rides on the back of force and violence. When they drop the veil, its a government agent pointing a gun.

Venezuelans are defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties and economic livelihood.

Government interventions in the marketplace crate side effects which distort markets and impoverish consumers. The government must then step in the "correct" the problems with even more intervention.

Focusing primarily on the story of nine-year-old Elsie Duncan, Chris recounts the terrible years that followed the Battle of Shiloh for the civilians left in its wake. 

Bob Murphy interviews Robbie “The Fire” Bernstein, host of Run Your Mouth and junior host to Dave Smith on the popular libertarian podcast Part of the Problem.

Families provide an example of social bonds without private property, prices, and “capitalist exploitation.” So, it's odd that Marx wanted to abolish the family.

Dr. Joe Salerno and Jeff Deist explore the method of economics.

Chris Calton overviews the history of governmental efforts to stigmatize marijuana.