Podcast Episodes

Peace in Gaza, Homicidal Text Messages, and the Future of Obamacare

Episode 10

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at this week's headlines, including the prospects for the Gaza peace deal, blue state propaganda, the Jay Jones text message scandal, a…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The "Acid Rain" Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex

“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.

Original…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?

Bari Weiss’s appointment to head CBS News has brought cries of anguish from the usual suspects on the left and approval from some on the right. But will she really bring the kind of change that will …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Going for Broke

Once upon a time, American firms built with the long term in view, and the government did not try to hinder them. Today, thanks to reckless federal government spending, we are living hand-to-mouth, a…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard's Views on Lincoln, Slavery, and Popular Sovereignty

“The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican Acts were monstrous.”

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

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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, 3 weeks 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…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Importance of Time in Explaining Asset Bubbles

Episode 520

Jonathan Newman returns to join Bob in a critique of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s viral theory of investment bubbles. Yudkowsky states that the bad investment during bubbles should be felt before the bubble p…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Vitamins vs. Technocracy: Lessons from MK-7

Episode 135

On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton uses vitamin K2 (MK-7) as a case study in how technocracy goes wrong, elevating cutting-edge findings and bureaucracy over experience, incentives,…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago