LB of the Been Awake podcast joined me to discuss the terms left and right. LB is a great thinker and podcaster and we wanted to dig into the essence of what the terms left and right mean politically. As Orwell noted, politics neuters language and weaponizes words, so...
https://youtu.be/beOl_6ebVoU 1. People are more willing to make good decisions for themselves than others 2. People have better information on their preferences than other people 3. If you know you will control your future decisions, you are more able to make good...
Not speaking clearly may be the first problem of politics. It is much like the old axiom, often misattributed to Burke, that for evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. In much of the world, conservatism has been living in fear since the last...
https://youtu.be/66vN8OA6qao Free-market capitalism is a marvelous antidote for racism. In a free market, employers who refuse to hire productive black workers are hurting their own profits and the competitive position of their own company. Murray N. Rothbard Making...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AVGumi40U ... my basic motivation for being a libertarian had never been economic but moral. ... While I was convinced that the free market was more efficient and would bring about a far more prosperous world than statism, my major...
https://youtu.be/nohK6D99wVc In a socialist state, the government has arrogated to itself virtually all property and power of the country. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 446 LBRY / Odysee:...
54 Minutes Safe for Work Yuri N. Maltsev is a Professor of Economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. He held various government and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the US in 1989, he was a member of a senior economics team that worked on...
https://youtu.be/RldpvhquEyM In politics, whenever I hear the word “unity,” to paraphrase the famous words of a German politico of the 1930’s, “I reach for my revolver.” For almost always, “unity” is a scam, a call to abandon principle and follow the leader into some...
