Recent Podcast Episodes

Progressives have created a new thought crime: cultural appropriation. However, one cannot appropriate something that is not owned by anyone else.

Read the New York Times (or even National Review) and you'll learn that the budget standoff is between congressional “adults” and right-wing House nutjobs. This is not the case.

The decision to use artificial intelligence–powered robots in the fast food industry depends upon differences in costs and performance between humans and robots. State minimum wage laws are pushing the industry toward robots.

Andreas Granath joins Bob to discuss his recent article explaining the different definitions of "inflation" and why it matters.

Austrian economics stands apart from the economic mainstream in its deductive approach to economic analysis.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho talk about the historic end to Kevin McCarthy's run as Speaker of the House. 

Compared to how most other people in the world live, Americans have a high standard of living. And despite the talk about inequality, there is more economic and social mobility here than anyplace else.

While philosophy is a discipline that has been hijacked by the Left, once in a while a philosopher comes along and surprises us.

When covid restrictions were at their tightest, many people died alone in ICUs, as friends and family were kept away in the name of "public health." A more accurate assessment of the policy is to call it barbaric.

The ruling classes have determined that crimes are political in nature. Thus, Donald Trump faces criminal charges while actual crimes by other presidents go uncharged and unpunished.

As the economy slowly deteriorates, consumer debt rises. In the meantime, the Fed is pushing up interest rates to deal with the inflation it caused. This does not end well.

While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.

Because California’s government has hamstrung electricity producers in the state, its legislature now wants EVs to be “bidirectional,” that is, to put power from their batteries back into the grid.

The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as "the social contract." But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR.

Obamacare's forced electronic medical recordkeeping is denying patients the care they need.

Free trade has its enemies on the left and the right. However, despite the supposed “sophistication” of their antitrade arguments, when we break them down, those arguments really are sophistry.

The Federal Reserve is playing its typical confidence game.

Alex Pollock explains to Bob the mechanics of the Fed's current insolvency and its implications for ordinary Americans.

More than forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urged his fellow Russians “not to live by lies.” In our politicized age, his words ring truer than ever.

If we read between the lines, it is apparent that the Fed is hoping that price inflation will fall to politically acceptable levels without any additional tightening, and without a recession.  But "hope" is all the Fed has.