Podcast Episodes

Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance

The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us …

Published on 1 month ago

Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals

November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from th…

Published on 1 month ago

On Resisting Evil

We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/resisti…

Published on 1 month ago

Dystopia Misdiagnosed: How the Rich Drive Health Innovation

The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Hobbes’s Accidental Case Against the State

If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it.

Original article: https://mises.…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It Doesn’t Mean

While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they c…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Recipes with Rothbard: What Chocolate Cake Can Teach About Economics

When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/recipes-rothbard-…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Murray Rothbard and World War II Origins

Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/murray-rothbard-and-world-war-ii-origins

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

By All Means, Elect Mamdani and Watch His Socialist Laboratory at Work

Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of n…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Trump Administration Is Lying Us Into Another War

Trump's team is citing the fentanyl crisis to justify its escalations near Venezuela. But virtually all illicit fentanyl is made and smuggled thousands of miles away. If war or regime change in Venez…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago