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Ep. 1517 The Real James Mad...

10.19.2019

Madison biographer Kevin Gutzman joins me for a discussion of the Madison nobody knows. Show notes for Ep. 1517

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10.19.2019 Ep. 1517 The Real James Madison Madison biographer Kevin Gutzman joins me for a discussion of the Madison nobody knows. Show notes for Ep. 1517
10.17.2019 Ep. 1516 Israel and Palestine: A Reexamination Sheldon Richman, author of the new book Coming to Palestine, joins me to discuss the rights and wrongs of Israel and the Palestinians. Show notes for Ep. 1516
10.16.2019 Ep. 1515 Democrats Debate Again; Lew Rockwell and I Dismantle Twelve Democrats debated in Ohio last night, and as usual Lew Rockwell and I watched so you didn't have to. We cover the lowlights as well as who's up, who's down, and more. Sponsor: Skillshare Show notes for Ep. 1515
10.15.2019 Ep. 1514 Michael Malice and Tom on Personal Struggles and Mental Health In this highly unusual but weirdly compelling episode in the wake of World Mental Health Day, Michael and I discuss how we've dealt with difficult personal struggles. Show notes for Ep. 1514
10.15.2019 Ep. 1513 Crypto and a World of Individual Sovereignty User-friendly cryptography has dramatically altered the world by enabling secure communication and commerce via the Internet. But this is only the beginning: by applying cryptography to the control and ownership of digital assets we can return power to the individual ...
10.11.2019 Ep. 1512 The Phantom Menace: Isolationism Lindsey Graham and Bill Weld have been accusing Donald Trump (and Barack Obama) of "isolationism." This is such a deranged thing to say that I had to make an episode about it. Show notes for Ep. 1512
10.11.2019 Ep. 1511 Impeachment: Trump Stonewalls, So What Happens Now? Kevin Gutzman joins me for some historical/constitutional background on impeachment, how strong the case against Trump is, and what is likely to come of Trump's refusal to cooperate. Sponsor: Blinkist Show notes for Ep. 1511
10.09.2019 Ep. 1510 Syria, Trump, and the Kurds: Scott Horton Tells the Story The hysteria reached a fever pitch with Trump's recent announcement about American withdrawal from northern Syria. Scott Horton joins me to explain the real situation, and how a satisfactory arrangement might have been reached had the U.S. government not prevented ...
10.08.2019 Ep. 1509 Making Sense of Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, and Free Speech Gerard Casey joins me to discuss free speech, why we should be absolutists on it, the perils of "hate crime" laws, and much more. Sponsor: Harry's Show notes for Ep. 1509
10.07.2019 Ep. 1508 My First Battle with the Neocons, and Other War Stories In this episode I talk a bit about episodes in my own evolution, including the big turning point that red pilled me, how I went from vice president of the Harvard Republicans to (eventually) a libertarian, my first battle with ...
10.04.2019 Ep. 1507 Dave Smith on Libertarian Strategy, the Toughest Libertarian Views to Defend, and More We conclude Dave Smith Week with questions drawn from the Tom Woods Show Elite, which you can join at SupportingListeners.com. How has he navigated a comedy world and a city that are unsympathetic to his views, to say the least? ...
10.03.2019 Ep. 1506 Dave Smith on "Cancel Culture" and the Thought Controllers The new rule, evidently, is that if you joke about anything our overlords have told us is Not Funny, or if you are found to have said something naughty on Twitter ten years ago, you are to be destroyed and ...
10.02.2019 Ep. 1505 Dave Smith on Comedy Here Dave takes us into the weeds of comedy itself. How to write a joke (more or less), who's on Dave's Mount Rushmore of comedy, who his influences are, and a lot more. Also whether there's a line, in terms ...
10.01.2019 Ep. 1504 Dave Smith: How Screwed Up is the Libertarian Movement Right Now? The second episode of Dave Smith Week covers the libertarian movement itself, with Dave's recent Soho Forum debate against Libertarian National Committee chairman Nick Sarwark the springboard for discussion of larger issues. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for Ep. 1504
10.01.2019 Ep. 1503 Dave Smith Week Begins: The Making of a Comedian and Libertarian Dave Smith went from being a stand-up comedian to being a stand-up comedian who also happens to be one of our most articulate and indispensable voices. We get into Dave's background and turning points in his life. Sponsor: Policy Genius ...
09.27.2019 Ep. 1502 The Trayvon Hoax? Documentary filmmaker Joel Gilbert joins me to discuss his investigative work into the Trayvon Martin case, where it turns out that a serious case of witness fraud was at the heart of the trial. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for ...
09.27.2019 Ep. 1501 How I Talk to My Progressive Friends, and More with Marc Clair Marc Clair, host of the Lions of Liberty podcast, joins me to discuss how we can reach folks outside our orbit, plus some fun podcaster-to-podcaster inside baseball. Sponsor: Kettlebell Kitchen ships you fresh, delicious, ready-to-eat (just heat!) meals customized for ...
09.25.2019 Ep. 1500 The Modern Presidency and Its Origins Professor Jeremy Bailey joins me to discuss the evolution of the modern presidency and the way key figures like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson tried -- and failed or succeeded, which is the question -- to change and expand it. ...
09.25.2019 Ep. 1499 The Neocon Takeover of the American Right This episode is more of an overview of the life and evolution of one of our important thinkers, Paul Gottfried, who holds his Ph.D. in history from Yale. Paul has been an opponent of the neocons from the beginning, and ...
09.24.2019 Ep. 1498 Against Bernie's National Rent Control Bernie Sanders is proposing a nationwide program of rent control -- because why should landlords be allowed to raise rents arbitrarily? I explain why this is a terrible idea. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for Ep. 1498
09.21.2019 Ep. 1497 Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom Michael Rectenwald returns to the show to discuss woke capitalism, big tech, the mob mentality, and the suppression of dissident voices. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for Ep. 1497
09.19.2019 Ep. 1496 "I Fooled Penn and Teller" As a fan of magic myself, I was delighted to learn not only that I had a professional magician among my newsletter subscribers, but also that he managed to fool Penn and Teller on their "Fool Us" television program. Doc ...
09.18.2019 Ep. 1495 Space Exploration and the Private Sector Jim Cantrell, co-founder and former CEO of Vector Launch, veteran employee of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab and France's CNES, and founding team member of SpaceX and Moon Express, joins me to discuss the future of space exploration (including Mars settlement) ...
09.17.2019 Ep. 1494 The CIA and Mind Control Bestselling author Stephen Kinzer returns to the show to discuss the CIA's research and experiments in mind control. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for Ep. 1494
09.17.2019 Ep. 1493 Peter Schiff on What to Do With Your Money, and More Peter Schiff returns to answer listener questions about Trump's economics, navigating the ups and downs of the economy, and a lot more. Sponsor: Honey is a free browser extension that saves you money wherever you shop online. Time magazine calls ...
09.14.2019 Ep. 1492 Lew and I Watched the Debate So You Didn't Have To Lew Rockwell returns to discuss yet another Democratic debate. Join us as we slice through the inanities. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for Ep. 1492
09.12.2019 Ep. 1491 How This Metal Vocalist Became a Libertarian (Hint: Ron Paul is Involved) Phil Labonte, the outspoken libertarian frontman of the band All That Remains, joins me to discuss how he became a libertarian, how his views compare to those of other people in his genre, how the Internet has changed the music ...
09.12.2019 Ep. 1490 Lessons of 9/11, with Scott Horton Scott Horton joins me to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and respond to the rah-rah "they hate us because we're great" view of why the attacks occurred. Show notes for Ep. 1490
09.10.2019 Ep. 1489 Something to Celebrate: Left-Wing Thought Control Website Closes The left-wing thought-control site ThinkProgress has closed its doors, after many years of policing allowable opinion. Because of my interests I'm aware in particular of their absurd treatment of the Tenth Amendment Center -- which, unlike ThinkProgress, is alive and ...
09.10.2019 Ep. 1488 Opinions You're Not Allowed to Hold I review my refrain about the narrowness of allowable opinion in American (and Western) political discourse: you can argue about the fringes of what the state apparatus should be doing, but no fundamental questions may be raised. Also, at the ...
09.07.2019 Ep. 1487 The State and the Roots of Collective Violence David Gornoski has taken what sounds like rather an obscure topic -- the mimetic theory of Rene Girard -- and showing the liberty movement how it helps us understand the state and collective violence. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for ...
09.06.2019 Ep. 1486 Want Abundant, Clean Energy? We Need Thorium, Not Wind or Solar By popular demand, Kirk Sorensen joins me to discuss the energy potential of thorium, which can be tapped safely in overwhelming abundance and which solves every problem that troubles environmentalists. Sponsor: Away Show notes for Ep. 1486
09.05.2019 Ep. 1485 Dave Smith on the New Dave Chappelle Special Comedian Dave Chappelle generated enormous controversy with his recent Netflix special, "Sticks and Stones." Fashionable opinion explained to us that we were to reject this special as "racist" and otherwise insensitive. Comedian Dave Smith joins me to sort it all ...
09.04.2019 Ep. 1484 Another Ron Paulian Heads to Congress? Check This Out Eric Brakey served two terms in the state senate of Maine, and has been a Ron Paul supporter and Tom Woods Show listener for years. He's currently seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Congress from Maine's second district, where he ...
08.31.2019 BONUS Ep. 1483 Picking the Brain of the World's Top Affiliate Gerry Cramer has been repeatedly ranked as the top affiliate on Clickbank, which in turn has been called the top affiliate network in the United States. His students, for that matter, can frequently be found among Clickbank's top ten affiliates. ...
08.31.2019 Ep. 1482 Eric July on Malcolm X, SJWs and Comics, Metal and Rap, and More Eric July, the politically incorrect libertarian frontman for the metal band Backwordz, joins me for a freewheeling discussion of music, politics, Malcolm X, the SJW takeover of the world of comics, and much more. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for ...
08.30.2019 Ep. 1481 Does Bitcoin Have What It Takes? Saifedean Ammous recently debated Professor George Selgin at the Soho Forum on the subject of Bitcoin's suitability to replace existing currencies and challenge central banks. We review that debate in today's episode, and finish with a discussion of Saifedean's latest ...
08.29.2019 Ep. 1480 Trump, the Federal Reserve, and the Business Cycle Murray Sabrin, a professor of finance at Ramapo College, discusses the damage caused by the Federal Reserve, as well as the various approaches to business cycles taken by different economic schools of thought, and Trump's demands for lower interest rates. ...
08.28.2019 Ep. 1479 Sweden Is Truly Awful Are libertarians too quick to argue that "after all, Sweden is really very capitalist, so you can't use it against us"? One author thinks so. This episode looks more closely at the Sweden story to make sense of it from ...
08.27.2019 Ep. 1478 New York Times Thinks Slavery Drives Economic Progress The New York Times recently announced its "1619 Project," by which it intends to demonstrate that "nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery." Our friend Phil Magness points out that in its economics it relies on ...
08.23.2019 Ep. 1477 Teacher Pulls Back Curtain on Government Schools Larry Ludlow reports from his own experiences within the government school system. It's pretty brutal, folks. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for Ep. 1477
08.22.2019 Ep. 1476 Government, Food, Farmers, and You John Moody returns to update us on government and its various agencies, and how they affect farmers, your food, and you. Sponsor: Blinkist Show notes for Ep. 1476
08.21.2019 Ep. 1475 Gene Epstein Smacks Down Progressive Economics Gene Epstein returns to discuss People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, the new book by economist Joseph Stiglitz. It gets the full Epstein treatment. Sponsor: Skillshare Show notes for Ep. 1475
08.21.2019 Ep. 1474 What Is Fascism? Gerard Casey, professor emeritus of philosophy at University College, Dublin, joins me to discuss the philosophy of fascism, which he describes as a form of irrationalism. Sponsor: Simple Habit Show notes for Ep. 1474
08.20.2019 Ep. 1473 Are People Naturally Libertarian? and Other Questions With the LP's Executive Director Dan Fishman recently became executive director of the Libertarian Party. He joins me to discuss (among plenty of other things) his political evolution, where he sees the party going, and whether people are naturally libertarian or anti-libertarian. Show notes for ...
08.17.2019 Ep. 1472 How We Flourish Without a Central Planner Julie Borowski, the popular libertarian content creator, has just released a children's book called Nobody Knows How to Make a Pizza, in which she illustrates how, without a central planner, amazing feats of production that could be carried out (or ...
08.17.2019 Ep. 1471 How to Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior Today I am joined by two libertarians: Dr. Michael Edelstein and Dr. David Ramsay Steele. Together they wrote Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, which applies an easily replicated technique to conquering all sorts of undesirable conditions ...
08.15.2019 Ep. 1470 Vince Vaughn on Hollywood, Libertarianism, and American Politics Vince Vaughn has scores of Hollywood films to his credit -- from The Lost World: Jurassic Park to Hacksaw Ridge and many in between -- and has been a Ron Paul supporter since the 2008 presidential campaign. He and Tom ...
08.15.2019 Ep. 1469 Scott Horton on Iran, Syria, and His Critics Not long ago, the great libertarian foreign policy expert Scott Horton joined me for a full week's worth of episodes. We got some great feedback and a little criticism, so Scott and I decided that replying to critics makes for ...
08.13.2019 Ep. 1468 Spooner vs. Locke: Can Governments Rest on "Consent"? John Locke tries to rest the legitimacy of government on the consent of the people. But can they really give consent? Locke himself admitted that unanimous consent was impossible, but thought the state could be legitimized anyway. Lysander Spooner thought ...

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