Podcast Episodes

The Next Food Pyramid: Lab-Grown Meat and the New Moral Orthodoxy

The anti-meat movement has influenced government policy well beyond anything close to the truth about meat. From the discredited food pyramid to gove…

13 hours ago

God Bless Captain Vere: When Constitutional Duty Yields to Institutional Power

With President Trump demanding people in the armed forces as well as in other government offices do his bidding no matter what the law might be, it i…

16 hours ago

How War and Fiat Currencies Drive the Price of Gold and Oil

In this interview with Kaneki Kojo, Mark Thornton explains why gold acts like a “canary in the coal mine” for runaway debt, war, and inflation, and w…

17 hours ago

A Look Behind the Fed’s Curtains

Our own Jonathan Newman had the opportunity to sit down with a Federal Reserve governor. The central banker's answers to Newman's questions were evas…

1 day, 2 hours ago

Why Trump's Populism Failed

The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal powe…

1 day, 9 hours ago

Libertarians Must Never Warm to the Warfare State

Just as, for them, liberty must be the highest political end, peace must be the highest end of foreign policy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mis…

1 day, 11 hours ago

Rothbard Was Right: Libertarians Must Never Warm to the Warfare State

A foreign policy that seeks to maintain a global empire is entirely incompatible with the laissez-faire, free-market system at home that many hawkish…

1 day, 11 hours ago

Trump’s Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Needs a Strategic Reset

President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time f…

1 day, 12 hours ago

Who Pays the Hormuz Toll?

According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer …

2 days, 11 hours ago

Raico, Ekirch, and the Tragedy of American Militarism

In dealing with the question of why the United States, a country founded on liberty, turned into a militaristic behemoth, Ralph Raico looked to the w…

2 days, 11 hours ago