Recent Podcast Episodes

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The Origins of the Federal R

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “From Hoover to Roosevelt: T

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “From Hoover to Roosevelt: T

Kropotkin, the founder of anarchist communism, defended the key ideas of libertarianism - social cooperation and rejection of coercion - and was the chief influencer of Murray Bookchin...

Gold and silver are international commodities, and, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as sta

This world-renowned merchant seeks no fame for his business achievements.

The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for

Dennis Miller interviews Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author of ‘Rollback,’ who takes a closer look at Obama’s new budget.

Higher food prices set off the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the mass protests in countries like Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, and Iran.

Warren rejected Owen's communist colonies like New Harmony, Indiana, because he saw that the individual would be stifled by the common property scheme...

Announcing that 50 million Americans are uninsured means nothing.

Voters are faced with bundled choices, they vote infrequently, no individual’s vote will affect the election, voters have little incentive to

The use of mathematics necessarily leads the economist to distort reality by making the theory convenient for mathematical symbolism and manipulati

Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History is highly recommended for showing, among many other things, that both individualism and Puritanism thrived in America even while they were political antagonists.

The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object — one thing to which they stick, letting all else go.

God knows I had enough to do without sitting and listening to the city people tell me what an idyllic life I had and how they envied me.

It is theoretically conceivable but scarcely likely that the ruling class will rush to embrace a philosophy and a political economy that will end t

It is vital — indeed, it is literally a life-and-death matter — that Americans be able to look as coolly and clear-sightedly, as free from myth, at

Sci-fi novels are an important means of spreading the libertarian anti-state word.The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell and the Weapon Shops of Isher by A.E.van Vogt are two that deserve notice.

It was the physiocrats who broke with centuries of sound economic reasoning and contributed to what would become, in the hands of Smith and Ricardo