Recent Podcast Episodes

What happens when war shuts down the Strait of Hormuz? What about the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and Baltimore harbor?

Nick Gillespie joins Bob to make the case that American Libertarians are too pessimistic.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by Karl-Friedrich Israel to discuss the economic conditions in Europe.

According to Marx, all ideas represent class-based interests, leaving no room for objective truth. The problem is that Marxists claim to hold to objective truth, but manage to contradict themselves.

Do you like your central bank capital positive or negative? The Fed is bankrupt, but even after taking recent losses, the Swiss National Bank still has positive capital. 

As the government expands the reach of civil rights law, one of the casualties is the presumption of innocence. The new rule seems to be “guilty until proven guilty.”

In his review of The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination, David Gordon examines systems of ethical norms. The Misesians have the best insights, of course.

In a new book, The Natural Order of Money, Roy Sebag argues that money is the "extension of the natural order," and that it is not arbitrary.

While Connecticut authorities call on "experts" to help them quell the state's housing shortage, they fail to consider the policies that have caused it.

Once again, Congress is threatening to ban TikTok over “national security concerns.” But as long as Washington continues its unnecessary and provocative posturing around China’s coasts, Americans will never be safe.

In his review of The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination, David Gordon examines systems of ethical norms. The Misesians have the best insights, of course.

Mark links the Global Climate change agenda to the old “Population Bomb” of the 1970s.

Bob was invited to Oklahoma State, where he made the case, from scratch, for a voluntary society with privately provided legal and defense services.

A discussion of the 1974 South Royalton Conference on Austrian Economics by those who attended. 

Senior Fellow Jörg Guido Hülsmann joins Ryan and Tho to talk about his new book on the economics of generosity, charity, and abundance.

Ryan and Zach talk about the signs that the West is slowly abandoning its goal of total victory over Russia in Ukraine.

When people say that “socialism doesn’t work,” what do they mean? To better examine and critique socialism, one should apply the socialists’ framework, which is alone worthy of condemnation.

While “wokeness” seems to be a new phenomenon, the problems are tied to a sixty-year-old “landmark” law: the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This law, unfortunately, promotes government tyranny in the name of freedom.

Far from being an “automatic stabilizer” that mitigates recessions by engaging in “countercyclical” spending, the welfare state actually makes recessions longer and deeper. Time to acknowledge that fact and do away with it altogether.

By the logic of "we tried it before," the Soviet victory over Lithuania in 1953 meant that the question of independence was settled forever, and that Irish secession was forever verboten after the Easter Rebellion failed.