Scott interviews journalist Vincent Bevins about his latest book, The Jakarta Method, in which he lays out some of the history of the U.S. government’s support for violent right-wing coups all over the world. During the Cold War, America backed brutal extremists in...
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Episode 435: Cronyism From The Constitution To The Mexican-American War w/ Patrick Newman
46 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Patrick Newman is an assistant professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a Mises Institute Fellow. Patrick is writing a book detailing crony capitalism in America from the early 1600s up through the Mexican-American War...
Episode 385: Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism w/ Gary Chartier
39 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete invited Professor Gary Chartier to come on the show. Gary is Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He is...
4 Reasons Why Socialism Is Becoming More Popular
The newfound openness of large numbers of Americans to socialism is, by now, a well-documented phenomenon. According to a Gallup poll from earlier this year, 43% of Americans now believe that some form of socialism would be a good thing, in contrast to 51% who are...
Episode 249: A Perfect Example of ‘Crony Capitalism’ w/ Colin Grabow
38 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete welcomes Colin Grabow to the show. Colin is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies where his research focuses on U.S. trade with Asia as well as domestic forms of trade...
Ron Paul: Sheldon Adelson’s Casino Interests Ahead of States Rights?
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul recently penned an op-ed for the New York Daily criticizing the Justice Department’s recent reversal of the 2011 memo finding that the 1961 Wire Act gives the government authority to ban online gambling even in states that have...
Ron Paul and Norman Singleton on Rand Paul’s reintroduction of Audit the Fed
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul and President Norm Singleton issued the following statements regarding Senator Rand Paul’s reintroduction of Audit the Fed in the Senate. The bill number is S. 148. Ron Paul — "Rand continues to be the leading voice in the...
Throw Capitalism into the Dustbin of History
Capitalism should be thrown into the dustbin of history. Not the economic system of capitalism, but the word “capitalism.” The word has such negative connotations that it has become a pejorative to call someone a capitalist. Karl Marx was the first to use the word to...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...