First Bob explains his contest involving Adventures in Pacifism–winner gets 100 smackers. Then he explains the incredibly powerful, and surprisingly Austrian, result by which Kenneth Arrow showed it was impossible to coherently aggregate individual preferences into a social ranking.
Dan McCarthy, Editor at Large of The American Conservative, joins Bob to discuss his view that conservatives and libertarians should stop heaping contempt on democracy. McCarthy argues that the elites are the real threat to liberty, not the masses.
Jeff Deist returns to the show to comment on allegations of voter fraud; the future of politics in a post-Trump America; the death of the old GOP; the push for a “great reset;” the crippling of the economy via shutdown and bailouts; and more.
"We’re already past any of these illusions about democracy or politics or constitutionalism. I would argue that we’ve reached the point where loving our country requires us to identify and begin to separate the various nations which are within it. I think there’s nothing more important today."
Grand invocations that "I will unify us" are actually shorthand for "We mean to get our way, regardless of others' well-being and desire."
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 6–7, 2022.
Recordings of the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 18–19, 2022.
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