The Austrian Circle

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0020.mp3 We can be very hard on ourselves and can become our own personal dictators. Our self, our self interested preferences must be sacrificed, ignored, and mandated away. Today I talk about how our deep, personal preferences can be inconvenient for ourselves and others or can even be completely overruled by courts and politicians.

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0019.mp3 Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the injustice of the police and the courts in upholding unjust laws which did not adhere to the non-aggression principle. Arresting people, abusing them in prison for non-violent behavior, in this case in enforcing segregation laws, is an aggressive and unjust action.

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0018.mp3 Martin Luther King, Jr. was known for taking action and speaking out against injustice and racism. What is less talked about is how the racism was often systematically enforced or implemented by and defended by governments through their passage of law and their use of police, as he talks about in the letter he […]

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0017.mp3 In the Star Wars universe, the empire was formed because of a betrayal by it’s political class and because the people demanded something that could never work: central planning of resource allocation via the political class. Central planning places the preferences of the planners above those of the consumer.

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0016.mp3 Star Wars is an epic tale of a Jedi family who, in the prequels, help to create and inflict the universe with a galactic empire, capable of the destruction of entire planets who refuse to submit to its demands. In the later episodes, Darth Vader’s son Luke fights back against this empire with the […]

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0015.mp3 Devin Keehner, student and contributing writer, speaks with me about his article he wrote defending libertarianism and free will.

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0014.mp3 Today, we compare the different economic systems of capitalism and socialism in an attempt to understand how we can make human beings more prosperous and engage in ethically valid behavior. We also talk about some myths about the market economy and why we may want to rename the term capitalism to something else.

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0013.mp3 We take another look at how the Western governments have intervened in foreign lands and have created the very terrorists that they then use as justification for even more intervention, more meddling, and more loss of innocent life by war and weaponry. We also inspect the recent conflict with Russia and it’s planes being […]

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0012.mp3 Blooded the Brave, a hip hop artist and performer from Indiana, guest stars the show with me this week. We talk about his music, the history of hip hop and it’s focus on lyrics, and we also discuss the recent rise of the police state in society. Featuring “Man Down”, the new single off […]

https://24b9eb400710dac81e8d-597f4ed4ea6895a41e2bd2978eb66730.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/austriancircle/Austrian_Circle_0011.mp3 Secession is a concept as old as the American Revolution itself, as the early colonists seceded from Britain with the Declaration of Independence. Armies and guns soon invaded, as also occurred in the South seceding in 1861 prompting the War Between the States. Today, we’ve come a long way from armies suppressing dissent: now […]