Podcast Episodes

Nationality: You Belong to the State

There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is …

1 week ago

Three Reasons Why the French Revolution Was So Different from the American Revolution

In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted …

1 week, 1 day ago

The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment

California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 b…

1 week, 2 days ago

The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment

The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other …

1 week, 3 days ago

The Importance of Teleology in Understanding Economic Inequality

As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify…

1 week, 3 days ago

Rothbard vs. the Conservatives on the American and French Revolutions

Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conse…

1 week, 3 days ago

Why the French Revolution Was Not a Libertarian Revolution

A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution.

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2 weeks ago

Jason Arday and the DEI System that Just Won't Die

After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change.

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

The Seen and the Unseen Cost of a Government Grocery Discount

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederi…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

The Innovation Mirage: Why DeepSeek and Kimi 3 Do Not Settle the Question of Chinese Technological Supremacy

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.

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2 weeks, 3 days ago