Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDepopulation Won’t Save Us or the Planet
The recent death of Paul Ehrlich reminds us that his crackpot overpopulation theories still are with us, even as they are being regularly discredited…
10 hours ago
Hobbes’s State: “Why Are You Hitting Yourself?”
To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state throug…
4 days, 13 hours ago
How to Change the World: Entrepreneurship versus Politics
Entrepreneurship is a voluntary undertaking that causes change by providing value. No force, no threats, and no coercion are involved. It is market a…
5 days, 8 hours ago
Where California Went Wrong
California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high housing costs and hig…
5 days, 13 hours ago
The President Goes to War
Of course the president, like everyone, frequently protests his desire for peace. Everyone does this. And I think we may assume he is quite sincere a…
5 days, 14 hours ago
The MBS Slope n’ Swap
If executed perfectly, this swap allows the Fed to neutralize a shrinking money supply by swapping $2 trillion in mortgages for $2 trillion in govern…
6 days, 10 hours ago
Fukuyama Was Wrong; History Did Not End
Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to a more peaceful world. …
6 days, 10 hours ago
Vote Harder? Why Secession Is the Only Answer to the American Megastate
The populist “victory” of the Trump administration is perhaps the best evidence yet that a strategy of “vote harder” is simply not going to lead to a…
6 days, 15 hours ago
Is Libertarianism Incoherent?
Philosopher Matt Zwolinski has declared libertarianism to lack any coherent standards. Zwolinski’s confusion is the result of his rejection of libert…
6 days, 16 hours ago
When the Federal Government Subsidized Robberies
The government created a market for stolen goods, paid criminals cash for five months, watched robberies spike, arrested everyone at a mafia-themed p…
6 days, 18 hours ago