Recent Podcast Episodes

As the fear of spies and traitors spread through the North, political arrests became commonplace, even in states as far north as Maine.

For most doctors, Hippocrates is a quaint figure of the past with hardly any relevance to the modern practice of medicine. We may label him as the “father of medicine,” but we have no idea what really connects us to him.

Jeff Deist and Jay Taylor discuss the poisoned state of things in Washington DC and beyond.

Are doctors patsies for the medical device industry? Are patients put in harm’s way for lack of tough standards on new device approvals? We examine the question with Jeanne Lenzer.

Included in John C. Frémont’s declaration of Martial Law is the first emancipation proclamation of the war.

Guest Dr. William Rothstein looks at the patterns of coronary mortality rates throughout the world over the last 8 decades and calls into question received notions about this disease.

Let’s drop the scrappy underdog posture, the quietism, the retreatism, and the remnant mentality.

The special legal status of unions is what harms workers. Not the so-called "scabs."

Confederate and Union forces fight on Bloody Hill, and the Battle of Wilson’s Creek comes to an end. 

Dr. Brahmajee Nallamothu discusses financial incentives of publishing, ideological biases in medical journals, the peer review process, the Twitter effect, and a new editorial position of independent troller!

F.A. Hayek's many contributions to the Austrian school of economics are highlighted by Peter Klein.

US medical schools overwhelmingly support centralization of healthcare and health care decision-making. That is not a surprise since, over the decades, academic institutions have greatly benefited from healthcare policy.

Jeff Deist and Dr. Mary Ruwart discuss the sobering reality of the US medical cartel.

Chris Calton recounts one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.

Adam Gaffney joins Michel and Anish to defend a single-payer healthcare system.

In this 28-minute talk, Peter Klein explains why governments employ so many economists, and what economists should really be doing.

This is the first episode in a series focusing on immigration. We begin with the perspectives of Ludwig von Mises.

Rafael Fonseca and John Tucker share their eye-opening analysis of a recent article on bribery in the medical profession.

Whether racially motivated or not, land expropriation in South Africa is just another episode of state-forced wealth redistribution — with disastrous effects.

Jeff Deist and Steve Hanke discuss how and why currencies fail.