Podcast Episodes

Equality under the Hayekian Rule of Law

What do we mean by equality? F.A. Hayek believed that equality under law and the socialist belief of material equality were opposed to each other. Furthermore, he held liberty to be necessary for civ…

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Reintroducing the Levellers

Before the American Revolution, there were the Levellers, who sought liberty during the English Civil War. While their influence on the American colonists would be indirect, nonetheless, many of thei…

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Inflation by Design: How Keynesian Dogma Undermines Capitalism

In most of the world, inflation is no longer an exception, it is the rule. Official inflation targets of 4 percent, 5 percent, or even 6 percent per year have become normalized.

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We Should Not Apologize for Businesses Being Profitable

In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up For Business by Onkar Ghate and Dan Watkins. While praising the effort, he also shares some con…

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The Last Day of Barter and Questions for the First Day of Chartalism

In examining the Austrian Regression Theorem of Money, Joshua Mawhorter takes on the Chartalist/MMT claim that government gives money its value. The Chartalist/MMT advocates lack a necessary cause-an…

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The European Miracle: How Contractual Politics and Divided Power Gave Birth to Western Prosperity

How did Europe move from a collection of impoverished city states and kingdoms to a prosperous state of affairs? Europeans learned the value of contracts, private property, and the limited power of t…

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Can the BRICS Nations Lead Us to a Better World?

There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS.

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Scholars and Schemers: How the Left Ruined Higher Education

One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call to bring about socialism in the West by e…

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The Threats of AI Come from the State

Artificial Intelligence is advancing, but people often fear it for the wrong reasons. AI is not a threat in itself, but rather becomes a threat when the state uses it as one more tool to limit indivi…

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America’s War on Arab Christians

The recent attack by Israeli setters on the village of Taybeh in the West Bank has brought attention to the conflicts between Israel and the Christian population in Palestine. American Christians who…

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