This Monday, NPR consumers woke up to this alarming report on the coronavirus: Florida Smashes U.S. State Record Of Daily New Cases: More Than 15,200 Not content to scare readers in the headline, the dire framing continues in body of the report, which was discussed on...
Coronavirus
Abolish the CDC, Zika Example
by Scott Horton | Jul 4, 2020 | Blog
From the Post: Four years before the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fumbled the nation’s chance to begin effective early testing for the novel coronavirus, the agency similarly mishandled its efforts to detect another dreaded pathogen. Amid a...
Three Observations on the Second Wave of COVID-19
by Eric Schuler | Jun 29, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
The long-feared second wave of COVID-19 in the United States appears to have arrived. National case numbers are making new records and two states have started to move back towards quarantine. Since news reports on the virus continue to emphasize the wrong metrics,...
Episode 433: Fact-Checking the CV-19 ‘Fact-Checkers’ w/ Jeremy R Hammond
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jun 19, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
51 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Independent journalist Jeremy R. Hammond returns to the show to go over select CV-19 stats and claims made by corporate media, and social media "fact-checkers," that in many cases turn out to be more in error than what they are...
Three Ways Not To Analyze COVID-19 Statistics
by Eric Schuler | Jun 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns continue to cause unprecedented devastation of everyday life in the United States--approximately 100,000 deaths, tens of millions unemployed, and countless plans, activities, and goals put on an indefinite hold. In this context,...
Episode 424: ‘Escape From California Vol. 2,’ Mexico Edition w/ Marc Clair
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 29, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
56 Minutes PG-13 Marc Clair is the host of the flagship show on the Lions of Liberty podcast network and has come on to talk about his recent exodus from Los Angeles to Mexico as a result of the measures put in place by the California government's in response to...
16 Simple Steps to Deal with Future Respiratory Virus Pandemics
by Koen Swinkels | May 27, 2020 | Blog
Without a need for massive government intervention in the form of lockdowns, vaccines, immigration controls, or contact tracing. In fact, there is no particular reason why people and institutions in a libertarian society would not be able to implement the common sense...
Episode 423: Thinking Outside The ‘Covid-19 Box’ w/ Donnie Gebert
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 27, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
56 Minutes PG-13 Donnie Gebert returns to the show to talk about his thoughts on the government and society's response to CV-19. Donnie was on when most of the shutdowns started happening and had some harsh words for China. With more information Donnie's thoughts have...
About Those Shutdowns
by Sheldon Richman | May 25, 2020 | Blog, Economics
When the only tool in your toolkit is a blunt instrument, every problem looks like one that can be addressed only with a blunt instrument.
Episode 422: ‘Escape From California’ w/ Vin Armani
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 25, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
86 Minutes PG-13 Vin Armani is back to talk about his move from California to Saipan to avoid growing tyranny in response to CV19 by state governors in the lower 48. He also gives his opinion on Rogan's move to Spotify, whether at this point Agorism can free masses of...
Episode 421: On The Growing Technocratic State w/ Dave Smith
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 22, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
61 Minutes Strong Language Pete invited podcaster and comedian Dave Smith to return to the show. They have a discussion about how the U.S. government continues their technocratic growth by now adding medical health to their list of subjects that are beyond question...
Federal Regulations Are Obstructing Development of Coronavirus Tests
by Ross Marchand | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
With inconsistent rules getting in the way of COVID testing, America’s dysfunctional regulatory system has made it more difficult for America to cope with the Coronavirus. While laboratories face the nearly impossible task of complying with two different sets of...
Episode 419: Escaping Great Britain’s Tyrannical ‘Covid Laws’ w/ Amory Devereux
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 18, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
64 Minutes Safe for Work Amory Devereux is a freedom activist from Great Britain who, after reading Britain's new laws that were passed in response to Covid-19, left the country and declared himself a refugee in Canada. Amory explains the ramifications of the new laws...
Episode 418: The Government’s Response to Covid-19 and Another Failed ‘Coup’ in Venezuela w/ Scott Horton
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 15, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
61 Minutes Safe for Work Pete invited Scott Horton to return to the show to talk about how he sees the future after the government's response to Covid-19, and to comment on a failed "coup" in Venezuela. Scott Horton is Managing Director of The Libertarian Institute,...
Blog
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
Crime and Poverty
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...
Don’t Be Silent
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...
Can There Be Only One Race?
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...