Podcast
Brain Death: Challenges and Responses
Does it matter if we call irreversibly comatose patients “dead?” Our guest is Doyen Nguyen who authored a 600-page monograph that takes a critical look at brain death from a variety of perspectives.
How Long Can the Fed Keep This Time Bomb from Exploding?
Although the Fed insists otherwise, the central bank really has no tools left except money creation, and the Fed will keep printing money in a panicky attempt to prevent a financial collapse.
Econtradictions: Bob Discusses Free Trade, Welfare Benefits, Price Gouging, and Utility Theory
Bob unveils a new series in which he explains and then evaluates apparent contradictions in the way free-market libertarians handle certain issues.
Global Health Bureaucrats Want Even More Power to Impose Their Plans across National Borders
Global health bureaucrats would have a much easier time if they could force "renegade" countries like Sweden into line with the power to force a uniform health policy on everyone.
The Privilege of Politics
In 2020, privilege manifests as political extortion. Push back against these bullies.
Chris Coyne on How American Militarism Abroad Leads to Tyranny at Home
GMU economics professor Chris Coyne explains how US militarism abroad ends up violating civil liberties on the home front. They also discuss the contributions of James Buchanan that should interest Austrian economists.
Why Racism Can’t Explain Europe’s Drive for Conquest and Colonial Power
Hoppe’s Democracy with Stephan Kinsella
Lawyer and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the middle chapters of Hoppe's Democracy, The God That Failed—in particular dealing with "desocialization" of collective property, immigration, and free trade.