All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel every passionate antiwar advocate needs to read time and again.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel every passionate antiwar advocate needs to read time and again.
Every time something good seemed to emerge from Tinbergen’s work, he seems to have managed to twist it in an awful direction.
Faced with countless demographic, economic, and strategic problems, China is more likely to collapse than take over the world.
Bob reviews the "Unbreakable" movie trilogy, arguing that M. Night Shyamalan knows we need to awaken the superheroes among us. They might not even know who they are—yet.
The capital gains tax cuts off start-ups and smaller entrepreneurs from access to flows of capital. The tax makes society more wasteful, less innovative, and less dynamic.
In this lecture from 2021's Mises University, Lucas Engelhardt summarizes the basics of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), its consequences, and the strange ideology behind it. Presented at Mises University 2021.
Macron says vaccines are not compulsory for the general public for now, but they are essentially required for anyone who wants to live a normal life.
For the libertarian, the way forward is not joining in left-right political boxing matches, but secession. The success of libertarianism is independence from the state’s influence.
US car owners are being preyed upon by thieves, because South African mine owners are being preyed upon by their government.
From climate policy to stimulus to unemployment, Prof. Murphy takes a detailed look at the many practical and theoretical problems of Joe Biden's economic agenda. Presented at Mises University 2021.
Canada's "private" long-term care homes are anything but private. But the fact a small sliver of the marketplace is allowed to charge fees for services means activists want even more socialized medicine.
In a May 2021 essay, Curtis Yarvin (a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug) argues that the American economy runs on an inflation machine.
Per Bylund discusses three of his current book projects, all touching on various aspects of the Austrian School and its continued importance.
The risk of government expropriation of private property remained low, and Botswana rejected antiwhite reformist politics which destroyed capital in many other countries in the region. Economic success has been a result.
An Indiana University health officer laments that incentives such as access to events, donuts, french fries, and even hard cash are no longer moving many Americans to fall in line with vaccination.
Bob unveils a new recurring series, in which he gives the context of infamous quotations.
The Fed says it "provides the nation with a safe, flexible and stable monetary and financial system." Can we all breathe easier now?
We may be told price controls are a temporary necessity, as in 1971 under Nixon. But one thing is certain: price controls will do nothing to resolve the issues underlying the inflation.
With such a messed-up economy, why is it still hard to spot a bust on the horizon?
Professor Bradley Birzer from Hillsdale College joins the show to dissect Russell Kirk's famous 1981 essay condemning libertarians.