Podcast Episodes

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.

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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Election Fallout: Is Inflation Radicalizing Our Politics?

Episode 10

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho take a look at this week's off-year elections. Were any of the outcomes a real surprise? Does Mamdami reflect the future of the left? Will aff…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks 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, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s Tariff Power Grab

The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain consis…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Land of the Free? Government Mismanagement of America’s Open Spaces

Episode 6

Dr. Timothy Terrell explains how the federal government’s vast land holdings breed crowding, decay, and wildfire risk—and why returning land to private owners, guided by prices and responsibility, yi…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How to Counter Arguments That Taxation Is Legitimate

Episode 5

Dr. David Gordon explains why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel & Murphy’s “myth of ownership”—collapse, and why natural rights still say taxat…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Why Food Stamp Spending Is Out of Control

Episode 227

Ryan McMaken takes a deep dive on food stamp spending, food stamp recipients, and how Big Ag and other industry lobbyists fight to keep food stamp spending flowing and increasing. 

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Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Freedom as a Tonic for Social Conflict

Episode 4

Dr. Shawn Ritenour draws on Mises to show that specialization and trade align long-run interests and raise living standards when prices are guided by sound money. He also argues that state interventi…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Is Paying Down Government Debt Bad for the Economy?

Episode 524

Is paying down the federal debt a recession trigger? Bob takes on the MMT claim and checks the record, citing US debt payoffs, Canada’s 1990s reforms, and ECB case studies. Conclusion: real wealth be…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Nothing Good Starts at the Top

Episode 135

Speaking at the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit, Mark Thornton argues that lasting reform comes from the bottom up, not from political edict. Drawing on Hayek’s “worst get to the top” insigh…

Published on 2 months ago