Recent Podcast Episodes
Why Plea Deals Are a Gross Miscarriage of Justice
Bob Murphy explains why “offering a plea deal” is a horrible practice.
How College Profs Push Students to Socialism
Lew Rockwell on the College Cheating Faux Scandal, the Sinister FBI, and How the CIA Kills People
Bob Murphy interviews Mises Institute founder Lew Rockwell.
Brexit’s Downsides Are Caused by Our Own Government
Brexit and decentralization are good things, but the unfortuante truth is that harmful post-Brexit policies are equally likely to be imposed by the UK’s own government as by the European bureaucracy.
Reaching the Next Generation
Help us distribute Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson to thousands of young people all across the country.
A Debate on Vaccine Mandates
Two distinguished guests — Dorit Reiss and Jonathan Howard — join the show to debate the issue of vaccine mandates.
A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela?
How ironic that Pompeo and the rest of the neocons in the Trump Administration are ready to violate the US Constitution in order to attack Venezuela to "restore their constitution."
The Bureaucratic Revolution
Professor William Anderson and Jeff Deist discuss the most important and devastating critique of administrative rule ever written.
Capital and Interest in the Austrian Tradition, Part 3 of 3
Bob reviews the contributions of Böhm-Bawerk, Fetter, and Mises, and explains interest from an Austrian approach.
Inflation: The Rumors of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated
Defenders of the Status Quo: Arthur Caplan and the Modern Bioethics Movement
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.
Occupational Licensing — An Unnecessary Evil
The number of jobs that require an occupational license now covers 30% of the US workforce, up from 5% in 1950.
Sorry! I Can’t Relax About Socialism
Socialism, democratic or otherwise, rides on the back of force and violence. When they drop the veil, its a government agent pointing a gun.
How Gun Control Became an Instrument of Tyranny in Venezuela
Venezuelans are defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties and economic livelihood.
Why Social Democracy is Failing Europe
Freedom or Government Control — There Is No True “Third Way”
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.
Unlike Real Insurance, Social Security “Insurance” Creates Greater Risk for the Future
Life After Shiloh: Tory Rule
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.
Robbie “The Fire” Bernstein Discusses Stand-Up Comedy, Dealing With AOC, and the Coming Economic Crash
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.