Flagship Freedom

Not all heroes wear capes. This week’s guest, author of The Voluntaryist Comic Series (www.volcomic.com) demonstrates just how easily the thin razor of principle slices through political bullshit like a hot knife through…. well, bullshit. From the ridiculous “libertarian fascism” sub-movement to the political hysteria du jour, learn how principle can be your guiding light (and you don’t have to sacrifice pragmatism while you’re at it).

YAL (Young Americans for Liberty) is in some hot water after disillusioned student interns blow whistle over fraud and general political hackery. Kristen Jones shares her firsthand account on this episode of Flagship Freedom.

After many, many attempts to engage in debate with a real live communist (a syndicalist, to be precise) Danny has finally found a willing participant! Topics range from systemic coercion and rights to scarce resources and more. Decide for yourself!

The liberty movement has no doubt become divided within the last 1 to 2 years. While some choose to stand by the timeless non-aggression principle, many prominent figures have been calling for a departure from principle in order to avert supposed short-term disasters. Some even openly advocate for Fascism. How can this be? Join Flagship Freedom with guest Adrian from Love, Life, and Anarchy to discuss this controversial (and perhaps contradictory) tactic, as well as related ideologies like collectivism, racism, Nazism, and more.

 

Not all self-proclaimed anarchists are capitalists. In fact, anarcho-communists reject capitalism vehemently. Clearly, “AnCaps” and “AnComs” can’t both be right. Is property theft? Is capitalism voluntary? Is profit exploitative? Dive into the rabbit hole of philosophy with Danny boy and repeat guest “The Pholosopher” for an examination of this alternative anarchic concept.

Not all self-proclaimed anarchists are capitalists. In fact, anarcho-communists reject capitalism vehemently. Clearly, “AnCaps” and “AnComs” can’t both be right. Is property theft? Is capitalism voluntary? Is profit exploitative? Dive into the rabbit hole of philosophy with Danny boy and repeat guest “The Pholosopher” for an examination of this alternative anarchic concept.

Almost ten years after publishing his seminal work called The Beautiful Tree, Professor James Tooley joins Michael on the Flagship to talk about the ever stunning phenomenon of low-cost education spontaneously appearing in third world countries all over the globe. The most remarkable thing? They outperform government run schools!

The two dig into the professor’s research leading up to the publication of his book, what he has discovered since, and his brave new endeavors in a first world country!

* The Beautiful Tree

* Tedx Talk with Professor Tooley

* “Low-cost private schools WON’T work”

* “Low-cost private schools WILL work”

* Imprisoned in India

Think the anti-abortion movement was always the religious right’s reaction to feminism, civil rights, and sexual liberation? Think again. History is written by the winners and on 1973, pro-abortion advocates won a landmark case that earned them the presumption to rewrite history in a way more suitable to their interests.

But what if I told you that before Roe v. Wade, the anti-abortion movement was once built around a diverse coalition of New Deal Democrats, Catholic Liberals, and African Americans? 

In the first of a multi-part examination of the practice of abortion through the lens of libertarianism, Michael talks with Professor Daniel K. Williams of the University of West Georgia about the untold history of what eventually became the pro-life movement.

* Defenders of the Unborn

* NYT Review of Defenders

* Daniel K. Williams

Michael takes the offensive once again to attack Danny on his views that the all powerful invisible hand of the free market can solve the ailments of the world. Find out whether Danny has what it takes to defend against criticisms of capitalism like profits as exploitation, labor mechanization, child labor, and monopolies in our latest episode of the Flagship!

* Free Market and Job Safety

* Forgotten Facts of American Labor Laws

* Living Economics, a great book on the fundementals of economics

* Sweatshops: A Way Out of Poverty

* Child Prostitution in Bangladesh

* Sex, Science, and Profits, a non-fiction on evolution and progress towards free market economics

* V-1 “flying bomb”

* Nazi medical research

* Nazi human experimentation

* America poaches Nazi scientists

* Soviet Re-animation experimentation

“I usually tell my American friends that they take their liberty for granted because when we have liberty, we have everything, and we just don’t care. And it’s just about time, you know? It starts very slow, like a cancer. And when you know you have it, it’s too late. I’m talking about socialism.”

Danny and Michael meet a new hero of the liberty movement when they invite Leonardo Brito, the managing director of the Bastiat Society of Caracas, Venezuela, onto the Flagship to talk about the hidden horrors of modern day socialism. Leonardo gives us his harrowing account of what the Venezuelan people currently endure at the hands of an ideological regime that murders its people daily to keep its bread lines short.

* Bastiat Society of Venezuela

* Bastiat Venezuela Twitter

* Bastiat Venezuela Donation Page

* Bastiat Society

* Real Heroes by Lawrence Reed

* NY Times Venezuelan Violence Article

* Macroeconomics of South American Populism

* Chavez’ war on the press

* Free Market Venezuelan news