Recent Podcast Episodes

From Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Narrated by Jim Vann.

From Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Narrated by Jim Vann.

From Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Narrated by Jim Vann.

From Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Narrated by Jim Vann.

From Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Narrated by Jim Vann.

From Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Narrated by Jim Vann.

Walter Bagehot, as Jim Grant writes, believed that bankers and central bankers should exhibit financial discipline. He would not recognize today's banking world.

Washington elites and especially their media have denounced what they once praised: leaking of official documents that show the government has been lying.

Ryan and Zack talk about some of the details from the recently leaked Pentagon documents. 

Even when currency is backed by gold, governments have many political reasons to pursue national, territorial currencies. Now there are hundreds of national currencies. It didn't have to be this way. 

Official Washington and its Court Media are up in arms that someone has told the truth via leaking government documents. They won't rest until he is punished severely.

Donald Trump legally pays hush money and prosecutors try to fashion a crime from it. However, if a president lies and thousands of people die, it is called foreign policy.

Adherents of leftist dogma increasingly push the notion that teachers should be permitted to distract, confuse, or influence their students by discussing their personal beliefs, ideas, and private activities and choices in the classroom.

American politicians are beating war drums. They forget that bad relations are costly in many ways.

Mark discusses something bigger than the Disney layoffs: the Wall Street Journal's frontpage article on investing in gold.

We are hearing calls both from right and left for an amicable national divorce. In truth, the states were never "hitched" in the first place, at least not by any plausible definition of marriage.

Despite all of the supposed safeguards to prevent bank failures, banks still fail. Perhaps the so-called safeguards are causing much of the trouble.

As markets settle down after the last set of bank failures, political elites claim the crisis is behind us. But it is not over, not by a long shot.

Are NASA contracts propping up the private space industry? Or are Government regulations stifling the private space race?

Although equality and "equity" are modern buzzwords, the only way to reach such a social nirvana is through violent means. Do we really want to go there?