https://youtu.be/k5l1auvn4aQ Consider the blatant double standard when it comes to the word contract, which usually implies that I will do X for you in exchange for Y. When you don’t pay taxes, you are denounced for supposedly not upholding your end of the “social...
49 Minutes Suitable for All Audiences Pete invited, professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Michael Huemer to the show. Micheal wrote a book entitled, "The Problem of Political Authority," in which he deftly takes apart the concept of such...
The most important lesson of the “Me Too” phenomenon has, of course, gone completely ignored: it is the same as the most important lesson that ubiquitous cell phone video and Donald Trump’s presidency have taught us, which is that absolutely no one, no matter how...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPPjPo6dSaU Audio Only I'm excited to welcome back Keith Knight, one of my favorite guests, to the show. In this episode, we take a two-pronged approach to tackling social contract theory from both a legal and a philosophical...
Mance wanted to do a podcast on "The Social Contract" as this is a subject he has touched on but never directly addressed. He asked his friend Rollo McFloogle to come on and help him destroy, once and for all, this dangerous myth that has kept people's minds in...
“No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person, unless they do it in so open and authentic a manner as to make themselves personally responsible for his acts. None of the voters in this country appoint their...
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...
