Podcast Episodes

Mises on Separating Morality and State

The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has focused attention on political violence. Ludwig von Mises, not surprisingly, understood that tying morality to politicized state helps create the climate …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own pri…

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Individualism and the Violence of the Identitarian Left

Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining ev…

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Inflation and Economic Growth

According to mainstream economists, inflation aids economic growth while deflation impairs growth. Austrian economists, however, point out that in much of US history, economic growth was accompanied …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Jefferson's War on the Barbary Pirates Is an Unjustified Password for Military Intervention

Advocates for US military intervention have invoked the war against the Barbary pirates as justification. Yet, an examination of that conflict shows that President Jefferson’s actions were limited an…

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The Complicated Legacy of Andrew Jackson’s Bank War

Was Jackson’s victory over the Second Bank of the United States a triumph for liberty, or did it merely expand federal authority under the guise of constraining it? His legacy is complicated, but the…

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Absolutism and the “Reason of State”: Rothbard on the Growth of Statism

The Renaissance period is seen as mostly positive by historians, but the sinister development of absolutism and the imperial state complicates the legacy of that time.

Original article: https://mises.…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

James Comey Is Not an Innocent Victim of the Lawfare He Helped to Create

Although the political establishment claims the Comey indictment represents an unprecedented moment in our history, the truth is much different. Federal prosecutors have a long history of bringing un…

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The Wheels of Government Cheese

By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus harming the farmers they were trying to support.

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How the Fourteenth Amendment Empowers Judicial Activism

Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a good thing.

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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago