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Back to SearchRepublican Party Displacement
Episode 185
Mark Thornton returns to Rothbard’s idea of major party realignment, arguing that ideology—not interest-group politics alone—drives long-term politic…
2 months, 1 week ago
Gold, Socialism, and the Crisis of the Dollar
Episode 185
Mark Thornton opens this triple-header episode with a live Radio Rothbard appearance from Mises University, joining Ryan McMaken to discuss inflation…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Stocks, Manure, Gold, and Socialism: Markets and Bad Ideas
Episode 185
Mark Thornton opens with an update on the “Stocks versus Manure” prediction contest, where agricultural stocks are beating the S&P 500 year to date. …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Major Party Realignment
Episode 185
Mark Thornton looks at the growing strength of democratic socialism inside the Democratic Party and asks whether the United States may be entering an…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Dupes of War: Mises on Statism, Propaganda, and Foreign Conflict
Episode 185
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton examines the “dupes of war”—citizens trained by government, schools, and historians to accept fa…
3 months ago
The Vine That Ate the South: Government Solutions vs. Market Solutions
Episode 184
Mark Thornton delays part three of his series on American government in favor of something lighter for the 250th: the story of kudzu, the vine that a…
3 months, 1 week ago
Politics as Power: Elites, Inflation, and the Austrian Answer
Episode 183
Mark Thornton opens this episode of Minor Issues by tracing how politics shifted from the classical ideal of justice and community order into a Machi…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Fed’s New Face, Same Old Game
Episode 181
Mark Thornton examines Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting and argues that despite the tough rhetoric, nothing fundamental has changed. The Federal Reser…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Politicians Lie—and How Easy Money Keeps the Boom Alive
Episode 181
On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton opens with a review of John Mearsheimer’s Why Do Politicians Lie?, focusing on strategic deception in …
4 months 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…
4 months, 1 week ago