Podcast

Money spent on "luxuries" goes to support ordinary people who use profits from luxury goods to make a living and support their families.

Patrick Newman on what Murray Rothbard can still teach us today.

Why is it that starving Venezuelans are eating dogs while Americans are rescuing dogs from hurricanes?

Some inequality arises naturally from freedom of choice. Some comes from government meddling. One is good and the other is bad.

Ball’s Bluff evolves from a “slight demonstration” into a small-scale battle, and claims the life of one of President Lincoln’s closest personal friends.

The life of a clinical trialist involves juggling multiple demands. Beyond the purely scientific questions are the clinical interests of the patient and the personal demands on the physician.

Daniel Lacalle and Jeff Deist discuss why all of us have a stake in seeing central bank balance sheets shrink.

One of the most fundamental questions that a doctor may be asked to answer is the following: Is this man or is that woman dead? Guest D. Alan Shewmon offers a compelling rebuke to the principal arguments put forth to defend the concept of brain death.

Chris Calton details all of the mistakes that were made leading up to The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, setting the stage for a Union catastrophe.

The arcane procedure patients must follow to file out-of-network claims is an important obstacle for a more widespread embrace of a third-party free medical practice. Could that process be made less daunting?