Bastiat’s “The Law” Ep. 99

by Patrick Macfarlane | Nov 26, 2018

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In this episode of the show, Keith and I take on the classic blueprint for a free society: Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law.”

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Show Notes:

The Bastiat Collection (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Thomas DiLorenzo “The Myth of Natural Monopoly

Liberation Library [6]: Dissecting Anatomy of the State ft. Keith Knight

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Patrick Macfarlane

Patrick Macfarlane

Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute where he advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy. He is a Wisconsin attorney in private practice. He is the host of the Vital Dissent at www.vitaldissent.com, where he seeks to oppose calamitous escalation in US foreign policy by exposing establishment narratives with well-researched documentary content and insightful guest interviews. His work has appeared on antiwar.com, GlobalResearch.ca, and Zerohedge. He may be reached at patrick.macfarlane@libertyweekly.net

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