Recent Podcast Episodes

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

In their eagerness to eliminate from history any reference to individuals and individual events, collectivist authors resorted to a chimerical cons

Mencken saw the implications of where his thinking was leading him and he acknowledged those implications frankly. "I am," he wrote in The Smart Set in 1922, "a libertarian of the most extreme variety."...

Thomas Mun set forth what would become the standard mercantilist line.

Rocker was awful on economics, but his focus was not on that. He wrote about nationalism and culture, and here Rocker is fantastic. "States create no culture; indeed, they are often destroyed by higher forms of culture."

Nature does not generate peace and good will. The characteristic mark of the “state of nature” is irreconcilable conflict.

It is Republicans, not libertarians, who favor handouts to and special privileges for big corporations. And Republicans are not libertarians.

Friedenberg was among those who regarded US participation in the Vietnam War as an abomination. He had begun expressing his outrage in print in the mid-'60s, though most of it was directed at American public schools rather than at American foreign policy...

For hundreds of years, politicians (like a certain current US president) have pushed the idea that one man’s profit is another man’s lo

Rothbard shows that Gresham’s law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the “arrogant, boorish, and feisty” Sir Thomas

It seems now that almost everyone, from journalists to academics to clergy, relies unthinkingly on Marxian doctrines.

"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected, whether by revolution or by any other means."...

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and editor of the new translation of Richard Cantillon&#8

Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to all the advantages that the good’s employment may generat

Rothbard’s vast published output does not exhaust his thinking and writing.

English justifications of absolutism stressed time and again that the subjects must obey the king in any and all circumstances, whether or not the

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.