Recent Podcast Episodes

In this 32-minute talk, Jörg Guido Hülsmann examines and summarizes Mises’s insights and innovations in understanding money, its origins, and

Economic knowledge should not be the sole province of technical experts, but it is. The price we pay for this ignorance is that most people can easily fall prey to the political class and to the technocrats whose economic theory is generally far from sound.

Michael Boldin and Jeff Deist discuss the realities behind breaking up the US politically.

Should doctors have something to say about guns? If so, what should they say?

"Sure, maybe capitalism produces more goods more affordably," the Marxists say, "but it corrupts our souls." In this 90-minute lecture, English professor Paul Cantor discusses how culture has become the "last frontier" of Marxism.

Chris Calton presents some important pre-war background history on the Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminoles.

In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.

In this episode, Bob talks to Mises Institute president Jeff Deist.

Bureaucratic appeal to measurement as a check on personal judgment rules the medical field but also permeates our entire culture. Guest Jerry Z. Muller brings a valuable historical perspective to the subject.

Jeff Deist on the importance of alternative sources for news, economics, history, and politics.

Bob tackles Tucker Carlson's claim that Jeff Bezos is unloading his labor costs onto taxpayers.

In this 42-minute talk, Canadian historian and political scientist Ronald Hamowy discusses the basics of how Canadian healthcare works, plus the many rarely-mentioned true costs of the system.

Could pushing policy levers on a grand scale conceivably have negative unintended consequences?

One of the most foundational assumptions behind modern democracy is that the elected officials somehow represent the interests of those who elected them.

Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.

After months of growing tension between the United States and Britain, a single event almost plunges the two countries into war.

Bob brings on his other podcast co-host for a lively discussion.

The state is not "us".

Voting "no" on a tax increase doesn't mean you really consented to it.

In this inaugural episode, Bob talks to his old friend Tom Woods.