Recent Podcast Episodes

People seem to universally agree that equality is good and inequality is bad, but no one seems to know what that means.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

While F.A. Hayek saw human ignorance as the basis for what he called spontaneous order, Ludwig von Mises saw human reason as the basis for praxeology.

It has been nearly eighty years since the US used atomic warfare on Japan as a way to end World War II. The legacy of that event is not one of peace but of outright madness.

Javier Milei’s recent “snub” of Spain's political establishment during a recent visit there may have been a “violation” of diplomatic protocol, but it also was a statement that Spain’s socialism itself is uncivilized.

Last week, Julian Assange was freed and the Chevron doctrine was overturned. These are huge wins for liberty. Not long ago, they felt completely out of reach.

Many small colleges are shutting their doors, and it is largely the fault of overexpansion, government protectionism, and bureaucratic infiltration.

As the progressive Left expands its occupation of our institutions, the concept of truth itself becomes little more than a weapon to utilize to achieve political goals.

For all of the claims that governments “create jobs,” in reality, government jobs come at a greater cost than any value those jobs may create. Government jobs are a burden to the economy.

Academic elites claim that there is no objective truth, only social constructs. Thus, people can create their own reality in many areas, and everyone else is expected to accept whatever “reality” is presented—or face serious consequences.

Tom DiLorenzo appears The Schilling Show.

Who Needs the Fed? Tom DiLorenzo talks to Shaun Thompson about fiscal illusion and the failure of the Federal Reserve.

Tom DiLorenzo appears the Alan Nathan Show.

Tom DiLorenzo appears on WILKOW! with Andrew Wilkow to discuss Austrian Economics and the Federal Reserve.

Mark Thornton discusses his new paper on Ludwig von Mises, trade, and human progress.

Tom DiLorenzo appears Ringside Politics with Jeff Crouere.

What began as supposedly a free trade union has been turning into an authoritarian, interventionist nightmare. A recent speech by a top European Union commissioner shows the sad direction the EU is heading.

The current explosion in rental and home prices is the direct result of government intervention aimed at making it easier to buy a house. Mises wrote that government intervention into the market tends to make things worse. He was right.

While President Biden’s inflationary economy continues to falter, the president proposes to outlaw bank overdraft fees, ostensibly to help lower-income Americans. Bank fees, however, are not the biggest threat consumers face; inflation and intervention are the real threats.

For all of the media ballyhoo about the CHIPS Act, it really is a page out of the old five-year plans from the Soviet Union. The CHIPS Act will have the same success as befell the Soviets.