U.S. History

Ryan and Tho discuss Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Joe Rogan, and why he's right about America's dangerous "security" agencies.

Recent Iranian missile strikes on Israel in response to its earlier attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria have escalated the prospects of all-out war in the Middle East. There is an alternative to expanding the war: de-escalation.

Seditious conspiracy—like all conspiracy charges in American law—is essentially a thought crime and a speech crime. 

Biden has embraced the trade war. But, if protectionism actually produced competitiveness, American steel manufacturers would have become world leaders long ago. 

Historian David Beito joins Bob to discuss issues such as the Japanese concentration camps and the government's mass surveillance of telegrams.

Ryan and Tho discuss Renato Moicano's viral Mises moment and the backlash it received from pundit Sohrab Ahmari.

Lying between Taiwan and Mainland China, Kinmen Island would almost surely be the first place Chinese armies would land if they were to invade Taiwan. Kinmen also serves as the tripwire to bring the US into a China-Taiwan conflict.

In return for power, positions, and money, intellectuals persuade the majority that their government is good, wise, and at least inevitable.

While Social Security is not exactly a pension system, it has had a negative effect on private pension plans and has discouraged people from engaging in long-term savings. In the end, its negative effects outweigh the positive ones.

Recent Iranian missile strikes on Israel in response to its earlier attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria have escalated the prospects of all-out war in the Middle East. There is an alternative to expanding the war: de-escalation.