Recent Podcast Episodes

Chapter 13 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Chapter 18 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Chapter 1 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Chapter 6 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Chapter 11 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Chapter 16 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Postscript to Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

Preface to Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.

As artificially low interest rates damage the economy, progressives in Congress demand more of the same. In the vernacular, they want the economy to “take the hair of the dog that bit them.” Of course, this only makes things worse in the long run—which is where we are today.

Recent Iranian missile strikes on Israel in response to its earlier attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria have escalated the prospects of all-out war in the Middle East. There is an alternative to expanding the war: de-escalation.

For the past fifty years, Nigeria’s government has required young people to “serve” for a year under the National Youth Service Corp. This more resembles slavery than service.

As Murray Rothbard noted, reason is a powerful tool to help us discern how to thrive in our world. Government, through propaganda and interference with education, seeks to stifle reason and replace it with obedience to the state.

As artificially low interest rates damage the economy, progressives in Congress demand more of the same. In the vernacular, they want the economy to “take the hair of the dog that bit them.” Of course, this only makes things worse in the long run—which is where we are today.

California’s draconian fast-food minimum wage law is bad enough, but it turns out a company can avoid the trouble if it has ties to the governor.

While “colorblind equality” has a better ring to it than the DEI regime, nonetheless, the concept is unworkable and actually contributes to worsening racial outcomes. 

In less than a century, Argentina went from being one of the world’s wealthiest nations to one that struggles with poverty and massive inflation. Human Action provides lasting wisdom to improve life in that country.

Mark Thornton explores basic concepts of the world, humanity, and the disagreeableness in society.

Seditious conspiracy—like all conspiracy charges in American law—is essentially a thought crime and a speech crime. 

Historian David Beito joins Bob to discuss issues such as the Japanese concentration camps and the government's mass surveillance of telegrams.

Mark takes another look at the Producer Price Index.