Decentralization and Secession

Ryan McMaken's Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities in audiobook format.

Ryan and Tho are joined by Łukasz Dominiak, a Mises Fellow and Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland.

Princeton “historian” Allen C. Guelzo’s newest hagiography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on Lincoln’s supposed love affair with commerce, albeit “commerce” based upon protectionism and government tariffs. As David Gordon notes, Guelzo has a problem getting his economic history correct.

As the State continues to grow in power and intrude on the lives of citizens, the states have begun to cling power back from the Federal Government. 

David Gordon reviews Paul C. Graham’s Nonsense on Stilts: The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln’s Imaginary Nation, examining Lincoln's logic and finding it wanting.

While Thomas Paine might be one of the most obscure "Founding Fathers" of this country, he was a powerful intellect who helped move people to choose liberty and independence.

Dave Smith makes the Rothbardian/Hoppean case for government restriction on immigration, arguing that it's a second-best solution given the undeniable fact of government control of "public" property.

Princeton “historian” Allen C. Guelzo’s newest hagiography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on Lincoln’s supposed love affair with commerce, albeit “commerce” based upon protectionism and government tariffs. As David Gordon notes, Guelzo has a problem getting his economic history correct.

While Thomas Paine might be one of the most obscure "Founding Fathers" of this country, he was a powerful intellect who helped move people to choose liberty and independence.

"Government" and "state" are terms typically used synonymously these days. But good governance and good law do not require the presence of the state and its monopoly power.