Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI, Creative Destruction, and the Politicization of Economic Change
Not surprisingly, the present government is rapidly politicizing artificial intelligence. We don’t have to look far for disastrous results.
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2 weeks ago
Potential Lockdowns, Polarization, And What Should be Done
The covid lockdowns were useless for public health, but they vastly strengthened government’s stranglehold over our lives. We cannot allow this to ha…
2 weeks ago
How American Progressives Influenced Hitler
Despite attempts to whitewash its past, progressivism was a poisonous ideology from the beginning. One of its worst legacies is eugenics, which not o…
2 weeks ago
Medieval Europeans Paved the Way for Freedom in the West
Contrary to the myth that kings routinely ruled over cowed subordinates by "divine right" in the Middle Ages, civil governments of the period faced c…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
A Scholarly Takedown of MMT: Emmanuel Maggiori on the Theory's Fatal Flaws
Episode 552
Bob sits down with economist Emmanuel Maggiori to discuss his new book If You Can Just Print Money, Why Do I Pay Taxes?, a carefully researched, poin…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Anarcho-Tyranny is Killing College Sports
The current free-for-all in Division I NCAA sports is not the product of a free market, but rather is chaos being imposed by the courts and governmen…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
We’re Freaking Doomed without Freedom from State Rule
As AI continues to grow, we are told to fear private transactions and to depend on the state for safety and security. The reality is that we need to …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Taxpayers vs. Tax-Consumers: Rothbard’s Real Theory of Taxes and Spending
Episode 170
Mark Thornton replays his Rothbard University lecture on government spending and taxation, using Rothbard’s framework of binary intervention to overt…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Charles Lee: The Alternative “George Washington” You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
This key decision of the Continental Congress matters because the way a war is fought affects the outcomes; the choice to fight like a state means ei…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Federal Reserve is Why the People are Unhappy
According to the University of Michigan’s latest Index of Consumer Sentiment, a record number of Americans have negative views of the economy. This i…
3 weeks ago