Tom Mullen Talks Freedom

Summary:

The Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases both involved private citizens providing what some people would argue are services reserved to the state. These same people would no doubt point to these cases as reasons why a stateless society would not work. But do they represent typical behavior in a stateless world?

Additional Reading:

No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner

The Anarchist Handbook by Michael Malice

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Rothbard

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Guest bio:

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor.

Kerry's research interests include homeschooling and alternatives to school, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, Reason Magazine, City Journal, and Entrepreneur, among others. She has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College.

Kerry lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children.

You can sign up for her weekly newsletter on parenting and education here.

Guest Links:

Liberated with Kerry McDonald (newsletter)

About Kerry McDonald

Additional Reading:

Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (2019) by Kerry McDonald

Why Schools Don’t Educate by John Taylor Gatto

Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

13 Reasons Why is an indictment of schools, not legitimization of suicide by Tom

Mullen

The Thanksgiving Day deception: Exhibit A against public schools by Tom Mullen

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Guest bio:

Gary Dickson became the first Republican Town Supervisor of West Seneca, N.Y. in 50 years when he was elected in 2019. As of the 2021 election, Republicans are also in the majority on the West Seneca Town Board.

Guest Links:

Gary A. Dickson Town of West Seneca

Additional Reading:

"We will not comply:" Town Supervisors condemn county-wide mask mandates

(WKBW)

A Dispatch from Behind the Iron Curtain (New York State)

Don’t Confuse the Scientists with Science: Thomas Kuhn and the Covid Cult

Another day, another Covid “news” article where the reporter questions nothing

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Summary:

Libertarians since Thomas Jefferson have talked about natural, inalienable rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and more. We entertain the correct view that our rights are so numerous that they couldn’t all be named in any manifesto or treatise.

The only problem is that, since rights are so numerous and can’t all be named in any one place, those wishing to invade our true rights start inventing false ones like rights to healthcare or education or to lock us in our homes until they feel safe from a virus they believe we might be carrying.

In this episode, I suggest that we stop thinking and talking about rights as separate and distinct principles and return to the source of our philosophy and a concept that might help us more clearly understand and articulate our positions.

Additional Reading:

You Have a Right to What You Own and Nothing More

The Second Treatise of Civil Government – John Locke (1690)

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973)

Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? Part 1 – Tom Mullen (2015)

The Best Argument Against Minimum Wage Laws: You Don’t Own Other People

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Guest bio:

Jason is an award-winning producer and director of documentary films with over a decade of commercial filmmaking experience. He has worked with A-list talent and celebrities, like Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, U.S. Senators, and presidential candidates. He has also worked with global brands such as Aston Martin, Toyota, Mazda, and Mercer. Lately, Jason has focused more and more on documentary storytelling on unapproved subjects or, in his words, “things that get me canceled.”

Guest Links:

https://qsentmemovie.com/

http://www.jasonrink.com/

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Guest bio:

Dr. Murray Sabrin retired from Ramapo College on July 1, 2020 as Professor of Finance. On January 25th, 2021, the Board of Trustees awarded Dr. Sabrin Emeritus status for his scholarship and professional contributions during his 35-year career. His book, Universal Medical Care: From Conception to End-of-Life: The Case for a Single Payer System, calls for the individual or family to be the single payer to restore the doctor-patient relationship.

His latest book, Navigating the Boom/Bust Cycle: An Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide, was published in October 2021. Sabrin is the author of Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty, a blueprint on how to create a tax-free America in the 21stcentury, and Why the Federal Reserve Sucks: It Causes, Inflation, Recessions, Bubbles and Enriches the One Percent, which is available on Amazon.

Guest Links:

https://www.murraysabrin.com/

Universal Medical Care from Conception to End of Life: The Case for A Single-Payer System

Additional Reading:

https://tommullen.net/featured/the-culture-of-entitlement-in-medicine/

https://tommullen.net/featured/politicians-talking-gibberish-about-health-care/

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Summary:

Most people were led to believe during their schooling that the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony suffered and starved for the first few years because they just didn’t know how to survive in the New World. It wasn’t until Squanto taught them to put a dead fish under each cornstalk that they grew enough corn to make it through the winter.

Well, Squanto did teach them the fish trick, but that wasn’t what saved them. According to Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford himself, it was getting rid of their socialist economic system that turned their misery to prosperity. Socialism also failed in the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and in at least 119 voluntary socialist societies in early 19th century America. Join Tom for some forgotten history to celebrate Thanksgiving!

Additional Reading:

The Thanksgiving Day deception: Exhibit A against public schools

How Capitalism Save America

What ‘Little Women’ Author Louisa May Alcott Learned about Socialism in a 19th Century Utopian Commune

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Guest bio:

Daniel McAdams is executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and Co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report. He served in Ron Paul's Congressional office in Washington as a foreign affairs and defense advisor.

Guest Links:

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/

Additional Reading:

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/september/13/twenty-years-on-we-ve-learned-nothing-from-911/

https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2013/06/23/what-we-have-learned-from-afghanistan/

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2003/07/ron-paul/weve-been-neoconned/

https://tommullen.net/featured/911-happens-every-day-to-victims-of-u-s-foreign-policy/

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Guest bio:

After winning the Green Card lottery, Carla Gericke left the plains of Africa for a better life in America. Before then, she finished boarding school when she was sixteen years old, and law school when she was 21, working as an attorney in South Africa and California.

Carla is author of The Ecstatic Pessimist: Stories of Hope (Mostly), now available on Amazon or directly from Carla (personalized and shipping included).

Carla has appeared on WMUR, CNN, and Fox News, been featured in GQ and Playboy, been quoted in The Economist, and has discussed libertarianism on the BBC. She has visited more than 40 countries, hiked to the base camp of the 10th highest mountain in the world, lost a shoe in a taxi more than once, had her passport stolen in Goa, got kidnapped in Vietnam, and has noshed on more “mystery meat” street food than she cares to admit.

Carla is the President Emeritus of the Free State Project, a conspiracy to get tens of thousands of libertarians to move to NH, take over the state, and leave everyone alone. Carla just started her own webcast called the Carla Gericke Show and is again running for NH state senate against an opponent she describes as “an eighty-something, 12-term Establishment dude,” and she’s getting closer and closer to beating him.

Guest Links:

https://www.carla4nhsenate.com/

https://www.fsp.org/

https://www.carlagericke.com/

Additional Reading:

The Ecstatic Pessimist: Stories of Hope (Mostly)

https://www.carlagericke.com/just-say-no-to-sleepy-joes-dc-bribe/

http://tommullen.net/featured/centralization-is-insane/

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Tom Mullen has been writing about freedom for over a decade. He is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and  A Return to Common  Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America.  His writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, RealClear Markets, The Daily Caller, LewRockwell.com, 321 Gold! and The Foundation for Economic Education. 

Now, Tom is bringing his unique perspective and penetrating analysis to his new podcast, Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. The podcast will feature a variety of formats, including interviews, solo commentary, and Q&A. The show will start with 3 episodes per week and ramp up to 5 per week in the not-to-distant future.

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Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, An Anti-State Christmas, at antistatechristmas.com.

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