World History

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by Karl-Friedrich Israel to discuss the economic conditions in Europe.

According to Marx, all ideas represent class-based interests, leaving no room for objective truth. The problem is that Marxists claim to hold to objective truth, but manage to contradict themselves.

According to a recent 60 Minutes broadcast, Russian agents are suspected of launching microwave rays at US diplomats abroad. The problem is that many of these stories are technologically implausible. Maybe skepticism is in order here.

F.A. Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom was published eighty years ago. Critics then called Hayek a “reactionary.” Today, he is looking more and more like a prophet.

Since the inception of the NDA Government in 2014, India’s right-wing has consistently performed well across all sectors of society.

The Methodenstreit between the Mengerian Austrian School and the German Historical School needs to be rejoined. Mainstream economists are embracing the historicist approach, which is not real economics at all.

While modern India is known for adopting socialism in the 1940s, it has an older tradition of free markets. It is time to rediscover that tradition.

By the logic of "we tried it before," the Soviet victory over Lithuania in 1953 meant that the question of independence was settled forever, and that Irish secession was forever verboten after the Easter Rebellion failed. 

When people say that “socialism doesn’t work,” what do they mean? To better examine and critique socialism, one should apply the socialists’ framework, which is alone worthy of condemnation.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by Marcel Gautreau to discuss the situation unfolding in Haiti.