Download Episode. Scott talks with Quincy Institute research fellow Annelle Sheline about the recent anti-Saudi sentiment in the Democratic Party and the effort to end the war in Yemen. After some tension between the Biden Administration and OPEC+, many Democrats...
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“You can send a man to Congress but you can’t make him think,” quipped comedian Milton Berle in the 1950s. To update Berle for our times: You can spend $60 billion a year on intelligence agencies but you can’t make politicians read their reports. Instead, most...
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Josef Stalin’s top henchman famously said, “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” What it meant was that Soviet justice was about politics, not the rule of law. First decide who, for political reasons, is to be punished, and then the state will provide the...
Ryan McMaken Sells Secessionism in ‘Indispensable’ New Book
Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities by Ryan McMaken Mises Institute, 2022, 230 pp. Those of us who think that there should be no state at all, or at most a very limited one, must view all existing states with...
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10/21/22 Daniel Davis on the Looming Battle for Kherson
Download Episode. Scott talks with Daniel Davis about the evolving situation on the ground in Ukraine. Davis has his eyes on the southern city of Kherson where the Russian forces are digging in for a Ukrainian attack. Clearly the Ukrainian forces have benefited from...
10/20/22 Peter Van Buren: How Close to the Brink Are We Really?
Download Episode. Scott interviews Peter Van Buren to talk through the risk of a nuclear detonation related to the war in Ukraine. Both Scott and Van Buren think the use of nuclear weapons is unlikely, but they dig into the differences in their views of the...
The One Question AOC Supporters Can’t Answer…
https://youtu.be/IHenu8z3H9A The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. – Robert Nozick, Ph.D., Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974 [2013] Basic Books), p. 163. Watch full debate here: Democratic Socialism v. Free...
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