Recent Podcast Episodes

While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.

Because California’s government has hamstrung electricity producers in the state, its legislature now wants EVs to be “bidirectional,” that is, to put power from their batteries back into the grid.

The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as "the social contract." But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR.

Free trade has its enemies on the left and the right. However, despite the supposed “sophistication” of their antitrade arguments, when we break them down, those arguments really are sophistry.

The Federal Reserve is playing its typical confidence game.

Alex Pollock explains to Bob the mechanics of the Fed's current insolvency and its implications for ordinary Americans.

Obamacare's forced electronic medical recordkeeping is denying patients the care they need.

More than forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urged his fellow Russians “not to live by lies.” In our politicized age, his words ring truer than ever.

If we read between the lines, it is apparent that the Fed is hoping that price inflation will fall to politically acceptable levels without any additional tightening, and without a recession.  But "hope" is all the Fed has. 

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho take a look at "classical liberalism," a term that has come to mean a variety of different things in recent years. 

Can there be a bridge between Heideggerian metaphysics and practical political philosophy?

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2023. Includes audience Q&A period.

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2023.

The call for "price stabilization" was part of the recent Republican debate. Despite its attractive appearance, having the Fed try to "stabilize prices" is a very bad idea.

The Nigerian government should have seen the economic disaster the eNaira would cause. They didn’t, and chaos and rioting followed.

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2023. Includes audience Q&A period.

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2023.

Just-wage theory tells us that an employer cannot reduce his workers' wages below some presumed "cost of living." Yet, that same employer can be permitted to reduce the worker's wage to zero if the worker has been replaced by a machine. 

While Leo Strauss did not share G.W.F. Hegel's acceptance of historicism, nonetheless he gives Hegel a sympathetic review. David Gordon takes a closer look at both men.

Economists and political elites fondly claim that economic growth is due to increased technological knowledge. That is only partly true.