Bob handles some common objections to US secession, and gives proponents a real-world strategy to pave the way.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• David R. Henderson's article on his early days teaching.
• Bob's pamphlet on Texas independence.
• Dave Smith on Michael Malice's show to discuss objections to secession.
• Joan Rivers goes off.
• Trailer for "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
• Help support the Bob Murphy Show.

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Singer-songwriter Tatiana Moroz updates Bob on her latest adventures, including her move to Miami, music video shoot in Poland, and performance at the antiwar rally in DC. The conversation includes deep issues of God and Satan, and the problem of evil.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The YouTube version of this interview.
• Tatiana's website.
• Tatiana's new music video, "Whatcha Gonna Do"
• Cryptomediahub.com
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Bob answers a listener email asking how to think rationally about vexing problems in Christianity.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• C.S. Lewis on miracles.
• Richard Feynman on physical laws.
• Science: Meditators have younger brains.
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Due to listener request, Bob explains why a legitimate owner has the right to set policies that would be immoral for the State to implement, and why in practice private owners would be much less likely to do so.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• Bob’s essays on Private Law and Private Defense.
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Bob addresses Curtis Yarvin's physics analogies that supposedly show libertarianism is akin to Newtonian physics, since it leaves out the need to use violence to establish order.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• BMS ep. 258, which is Part 1 of Bob's response.
• The Michael Malice episode featuring Yarvin vs. Smith.
• Ben Powell and co-authors show that Somalia under anarchy did well.
• Bob's essays on Private Law and Private Defense.
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Bob addresses Curtis Yarvin's claim that free trade policy has hurt America, and that libertarians don't have a good response to it.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The Michael Malice episode featuring Yarvin vs. Smith.
• FRED charts showing manufacturing employment, index of total manufacturing production, components of manufacturing, and domestic auto production.
• A previous BMS episode that critiqued Yarvin.
• A Yarvin post that Bob liked.
• Bob's warning about free traders going too far.
• Bob explains the social function of call and put options.
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Bob walks through Hans Hoppe's argument that Mises' action axiom extended Kantian epistemology by solving the mind/body problem.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• Hoppe's booklet, Economic Science and the Austrian Method.
• David Gordon's lecture on the method of praxeology.
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Bob explains the Rothbardian approach to defining the State, and then applies it to the recent example of a gas station hiring private security.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• Rothbard's book, The Anatomy of the State. (Bob read from the first chapter during the episode.)
• A news story covering the Philly gas stations employing private, heavily armed security.
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Bob responds to critics who had defended Kanye West's anti-Semitic remarks, on both a theological and secular level. He then explains a recent study arguing that there is little racial discrimination in US mortgage lending.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The Economist article.
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Bob first explains the synthetic control method and then critiques a newly published paper by Magness and Makovi employing the technique. M&M argue that were it not for the 1917 Russian revolution, Marx would today be a minor figure. Bob sharply disagrees.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• The Magness & Makovi paper on Marx.
• RECEIPTS for Bob's claims.
• Their AIER summary post.
• Bob's paper with Phil on Piketty.
• John Ganz critique, 1 and 2. Phil's response to Ganz.
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