Recent Podcast Episodes

The Jacksonians saw central banking for what it was: a way of making the rich even richer, while ripping off ordinary people.

Many of the "solutions" peddled by today's experts are more likely to increase wealth inequality than decrease it.

In contrast to the classical cost (labor) theory of value, the so-called marginal revolution ushered in the modern, subjective theory, whereby market price is determined by the marginal utility of a good.

Trying to stay ahead of the government printing press is the modern citizen’s constant worry.

There are two distinct classes in America, and we have to break up. And we have to break up sooner rather than later. If we are to avoid a disastrous conflict, each side has to let the other go.

In Brazil, the most effective reforms seem to be accumulating at the state and local levels. There has been real success in pushing back against tax increases and more.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss some strategies for lessening the damage democracy can do.

Given the overt hostility that progressives have toward private enterprise in the first place, politicians will take shutdown-caused shortages and empty shelves as “proof” that private enterprise has failed.

Covid has exposed how easy it is for government to weaponize healthcare. How long will the doctor-patient relationship remain sacred?

The US Constitution says nothing about central banking, so it does not authorize the existence of a central bank. Yet, "the Constitution has been tortured and twisted even as we speak to allow big government to control our lives."

The NRA would be wise to vote with its feet. Millions of Americans have already escaped the high taxes and freedom-destroying blue state regimes by doing the same.

When it comes to covid-19, bureaucrats keep moving the goalposts, changing the rules, and engaging in bait-and-switch tactics so they can maintain the "new normal" dictatorship.

Vague and generalizing theories about culture and race don't tell us much about the wealth gap between blacks and whites. The answer is more complex.

Rather than choose among a group of narcissists desperate to become popular by redistributing the income of others, why not choose officeholders by lot for a single term?

Governments that redistribute wealth and regulate our daily lives are inherently corrupt. We cheapen the word "corruption" when we reserve it for just a few politicians who break the arbitrary rules.

Jeff Deist discusses Hazlitt's radical and controversial ― and virtually unknown ― 1942 book A New Constitution Now, a how-to guide for remaking the US constitutional system.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss why people aren't nearly cynical enough about the US Supreme Court.