Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Vendée: The French War for National Liberation
To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolut…
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The FIFA World Cup: Price Controls on Ticket Prices?
World Cup tickets are a hot commodity with prices through the roof. Naturally, governments want to do what governments always do unsuccessfully: levy…
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Foucault, Panopticism and the Carceral Society; the Rise of the Surveillance State
The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that thes…
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Why Is the Healthcare System Broken? Speaker Panel
Episode 5
Ryan McMaken, Timothy Terrell, Charles Sauer, and Robert Murphy take questions from the audience on healthcare economics, free market alternatives, a…
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America’s Gerontocracy Goes Deeper than Aging Politicians
America’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger American…
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What the Conservatives Get Wrong about the French Revolution
If avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and …
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How to Fix the Economics of Healthcare
Episode 4
Bob makes the case that American healthcare's dysfunction is not a market failure but a pricing failure manufactured by government. He closes with pr…
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Why Do So Many Intellectuals Hate Free Markets?
Why do so many intellectuals despise the market that sustains them? Ralph Raico weighs Hayek's theory of "scientism" against Schumpeter's portrait of…
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The UK’s Monstrous Equality Act
Great Britain’s “Equality Act” is not simply a civil rights bill gone too far. It is, as Murray Rothbard would have put it, a “monstrous” piece of le…
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Why Is the Healthcare System Broken?
Episode 3
Charles Sauer profiles four healthcare entrepreneurs who built functioning free-market alternatives to the broken hospital system before turning to W…
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