Some myths in politics die hard. We are constantly reminded by the managerial classes that foreign aid is crucial to lifting the developing world out of poverty. With the magic wand of public spending, money is sent to the developing world in hopes of pushing these...
How America became obsessed with physical and emotional safety – and how damaging it’s been to our culture.
Hell, yes! Radical abolitionist anarchist libertarians can -- and I say ought to be -- incrementalists because, sorry, "abolition now!" is not on the menu today. No contradiction exists in the radical incrementalist or the incrementalist radical. Tom Knapp addresses...
US News A Dallas salon owner was sentenced to seven days in jail and a $7,000 fine for operating her salon during a lockdown. She was given the offer to apologize rather than go to jail but explained that she was staying open because her employees were going hungry....
On FPF #488, I discuss the US-Taliban "peace agreement." The agreement has brought a reduction in violence between the US and the Taliban. Overall the violence between the Taliban and US-supported Afghan government rages. In the first three months of the year, Taliban...
56 Minutes Safe for Work In a flashback episode, Pete welcomes his favorite economist to the show, Dr Robert P Murphy. Pete throws a whole bunch of economic fallacies Dr Murphy's way, and Bob deftly takes them apart so that the listener can know how to answer when...
37 Minutes Safe for Work Pete welcomes an active duty LEO who wants to be identified as Zan to the show. Zan is leaving the force due to a change in ideology but is still on the job. He talks about why he's leaving and answers the big question as to whether most of...
I'd say defenders of the automobile versus mass transit are looking pretty good these days.
Author and Reporter for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi shares insight on newly released documents about the government's handling of Michael Flynn's case and, "Russiagate." https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=460&v=1ppMzbmJQhY&feature=emb_logo
Our countrymen. Largely confined to their homes and worried about the spread of the coronavirus and its risks to their own health or that of loved ones, a segment of the United States has turned informant, calling the police, public health authorities and the...
