Harvard Astronomy Chair Avi Loeb Explains the Physics of Black Holes
Bob Murphy interviews Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and Chair of the Astronomy Department at Harvard, and founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative.
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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Andy Duncan joins Jeff to review an overlooked classic by Mises:The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality.
The Gateway Drug Myth
The Time magazine article creating "the gateway drug" myth in the 1970s provided no citations for its claims, except ambiguous references to unnamed “experts.” The evidence remains elusive forty years later.
In the Footsteps of Donabedian: The US News and World Report Hospital Ranking System
Accad and Koka have a fascinating conversation with Ben Harder, an expert in hospital and physician quality ratings.
Why Plea Deals Are a Gross Miscarriage of Justice
Bob Murphy explains why “offering a plea deal” is a horrible practice.
How College Profs Push Students to Socialism
The true aim of these “scholar activists,” as many academics have begun calling themselves, is to propagate socialism by redefining capitalism to encompass every evil of human history. Which means they're mostly attacking straw men.
Lew Rockwell on the College Cheating Faux Scandal, the Sinister FBI, and How the CIA Kills People
Bob Murphy interviews Mises Institute founder Lew Rockwell.
Brexit’s Downsides Are Caused by Our Own Government
Brexit and decentralization are good things, but the unfortuante truth is that harmful post-Brexit policies are equally likely to be imposed by the UK’s own government as by the European bureaucracy.
A Debate on Vaccine Mandates
Two distinguished guests — Dorit Reiss and Jonathan Howard — join the show to debate the issue of vaccine mandates.
A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela?
How ironic that Pompeo and the rest of the neocons in the Trump Administration are ready to violate the US Constitution in order to attack Venezuela to "restore their constitution."
