Recent Podcast Episodes

Bill Moyers interviews Lew Rockwell in 2003. Lew discusses Bush, Iraq, and the US economy.

The Biden administration claims it wants to get out in front of the development of artificial intelligence. However, the likely scenario is that AI will leave government regulators in its wake.

On a bus from Boston to New York, a reporter learns a lot from voters.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by Dr. Gilbert Berdine, an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University.

Econometric models are constructed with the idea that they can be substituted for authentic human action. Not surprisingly, they fail badly.

A bedrock of Austrian economic thinking is the notion of causality. A libertarian worldview also requires the understanding of causality.

Not only is Washington in political turmoil, but the policies emanating from the Beltway are more incoherent than ever.

Since the original sugar tariff of 1789, US government policy has been to subsidize sugar, a policy that has led to serious consequences, including a health crisis of obesity.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is at it again: demanding government intervention in the nation's healthcare system to deal with problems caused by earlier government intervention.

Critics of college legacy admissions claim that the practice is racist and admits undeserving students. The longer-term results of such admissions show why colleges continue to employ them.

Is cryptocurrency a scam or is it a legitimate alternative to state-corrupted money? Political elites want to eliminate it altogether, but that alone should tell us we need to better understand this alternative money source.

Philip Goff wants to solve the why of the universe, but his answers are not always logically coherent, as David Gordon explains.

In the past two decades, the TSA has proven it is ineffective in providing real security for airline passengers. However, its growing incompetence is matched only by its increasing intrusion into travelers' lives.

Progressives claim that perhaps individual freedom might be appropriate for a simpler society but that as society grows more complex, the need for government grows. As Leonard Read pointed out, however, greater complexity requires greater freedom, not less.

Mark explains why the recent "all-time highs"—even "new highs"—are an ambiguous signal about the future. 

Mainstream economists turned climate warriors use cost-of-production methods to determine the “true” social cost of carbon. They appeal to a discredited methodology falsely attributed to medieval Scholastics.

The US Government will face another round of federal debt expansion in 2024, but will there be enough creditors to allow their continued spending?

According to a Brown University professor, ExxonMobil threatens our democratic republic by purchasing another company. The totalitarian woke atmosphere in American higher education is the real threat.

While the Fed tries to engineer the mythical “soft landing” for the economy, Austrian economists know that this is an exercise in futility. Once the credit-fueled boom occurs, the bust logically follows.

Ten years ago, I discovered the Mises Institute. This is the advice I wish I could send back to my younger self.