Flagship Freedom

In a monstrous episode well worth your time, Michael and Danny play host to the prolific Anarcho-Capitalist thinker Professor Walter Block on a number of topics that you, our listener, sent in to us over the last couple weeks. From the internet to the roads, the military to education, we challenged you to come up with services that should, could, or must be in the public sector and Professor Block provides us consistent rational as to why we should think twice when we ask the big G for help.

Please forgive Michael’s abysmal audio as his microphone malfunctioned for the duration of the interview.

* Privatization of Roads and Highways by Walter Block

* Dale Brown, Threat Management Center

* Private Arbitration Company – American Arbitration Association

* Nations By Consent by Rothbard

* Rothbard on the “warfare state”

* Hoppe on Immigration

* Truancy, the law

* Block on Education

John Q Public AKA Michael challenges Danny on the omnipresent, almost obnoxious internet meme, “Taxation is theft”, by throwing some of the most common and effective arguments at him. Does Danny rise to the challenge and defeat John Q’s malevolent onslaught? Join us to find out!

* John Rawls

* Best Taxation is Theft memes

Danny and Michael engage with the first barrage of frequently asked questions about a free society by tackling issues like poverty, human goodness, racism, monopolies, and more! If you have questions that you want to ask for the next Statist Bingo, you can bet we’re interested. Head to our contact page and email us your stumpers.

* The Science of Giving (The Guardian)

* Charitable Giving in the US: Facts and Figures

* Additional Study from Bristol

* The Myth of the Robber Baron

* The Truth About the Robber Barrons

* Economic Progress: The Path to Proven Prosperity

A bonus dialogue episode for our loyal listeners! Danny and Michael chat with a loyal FF listener named Evan about his research into the myriad potential applications of blockchain, the groovy new technology known most famously for the system behind bitcoin. This fantastic force of decentralization could mark a watershed moment for consumers, businesses, and advocates of liberty alike!

* Watch each transaction, second by second

* CIO: What is Blockchain?

With the holidays already here, Danny and Michael decide that they need a refresher course on how to not destroy a lively party with our radioactive ideas so we enlist the help of Jon Torres of Logical Anarchy to chat about “picking your battles” in the war of ideas. We recounting our most successful conversations, our worst failures, and the hard won lessons we’ve learned for engaging with those who disagree with our beliefs.

* The Logical Anarchy Podcast (check them out now!)

* How to Talk to Vets and Soldiers

* Michael was referring to a quote from Neil Stephenson’s seminal cyberpunk novel, Cryptonomicon. “Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”

With a Donald Trump presidency in our future, Danny and Michael complete the panorama sketch of the nascent American socio-political landscape by examining in-depth the always vocal, often amorphous movement known as the alternative right.

Below are links to some of the video and editorial content that Michael reviewed in preparation for the discussion. Some are Alt-Right critiques, others defenses, and some simply analyses so it is important to discern the sources to understand what kind of slant they are taking (though most are obvious on the outset).

* What is the Alt-Right with Stefan Molyneux and Vox Day

* Jared Taylor

* Sargon of Akkad’s Analysis

* What is the Alt-Right by Ben Shapiro

* Responding to the Alt-Right by Ben Shapiro

* Where Do SJW’s Come From (Jordan Peterson’s study of left-right authoritarianism)

* Why Do They Hate Us? by Richard Spencer

* The Psychological Mechanisms of White Dispossession by Kevin MacDonald

* How Whites Respond to Racial Realism by Sam Francis

* Vox Day Interviews Greg Johnson

* Greg Johnson on the Alt-Right, Trump, a White Future

* Why Political Correctness Must End, Milo Yiannopoulos and Stefan Molyneux

Danny and Michael visit desert island to learn about the basics of economics, play with coconuts and mangos, and explore why capitalism naturally follows if one accepts the tenets of voluntaryism.

* Non-excludible good is the term that Michael was fishing for that refers to the concept of a public good.

* Scientists convert C02 to ethanol

* It appears as though Denmark has fallen from grace in recent years and now is .01 (for all it’s worth) away from the US. Nevertheless, here is the data that Michael referred to for your examination.

As a post-Halloween treat for helping us reach one thousand unique listeners, Danny and Michael welcome economics author and lecturer Jeffrey Tucker onto the Flagship to discuss “experimenting with” sports fandom, fascism in our midst, the election, and politics as a poison to our most dear relationships.

* Politics is Poison to the Human Spirit

* Foundation for Economic Education

* Liberty.me

In their most controversial episode yet, Danny and Michael arrive very late to the party to plumb the depths of the possibly well-intentioned, though likely intellectually faulty social justice movement and find they have very different opinions as to why the movement exists.

* Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

* Washington and Lee Rape Case

* Professor Johnathan Haidt’s Where Microaggressions Really Come From

* U of C “Safe Space” Letter

* Rachel Dolezal: I identify as Black

“Property Boy” Danny and Michael plunge deeper into the fascinating world of Libertarian ethics and discover that everything is property rights.

It is important to note that several leading philosophies have been proposed to solve the issue of property rights that we did not completely depict in this podcast episode.

Locke substantiates his property claims through the mixed labor theory which has been criticized by some for opening the door to intellectual property. Rothbard through Mises supports an occupancy and mixed labor theory. Finally, Hoppe develops the idea that the best way to claim property is through first use and embordering, that is using definitive or publicly seen representations delineating the borders of the property that a claimant owns. For more information on property right ethics, please see the very detailed work of Stephen Kinsella found here.

In later episodes, we are certain to discuss these issues further. As always, email us with questions when you have them about this very important topic!