Radio Rothbard

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop talk with economic anthropologist Jovana Diković about how a focus on "solving" global warming endangers the food supply for much of the globe, especially in the developing world. Even rich nations face a world of less food at higher prices. Use promo code ROTHPOD for a 20% discount on Ryan McMaken's new book Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities: Mises.org/RR_108_Book Recommended Reading "Environmental and Political Elites Are Destroying Food Production for Climate Goals" by Diković: Mises.org/RR_108_A "Eat or Heat: Europeans Already Are Facing Previously Unthinkable Dilemmas" by Claudio Grass: Mises.org/RR_108_B "Regime Pseudoscientists Enforce Climate Change Narrative" by Michael Rectenwald: Mises.org/RR_108_C "Germany's (and Europe's) Self-Inflicted Upcoming Energy Crunch" by Weimin Chen: Mises.org/RR_108_D Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Tho Bishop and Ryan McMaken break down the results of this year's midterms. American anxiety over inflation and crime failed to create the red wave many expected. While Republicans took back the House, and maybe the Senate, this year's midterms underperformed traditional midterm elections. Tho and Ryan discuss why this is, as well as what a DeSantis victory might mean for a potential civil war with Trump.  Use promo code ROTHPOD for a 20% discount on Ryan McMaken's new book Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities: Mises.org/RR_107_Book Recommended Reading "Antidemocratic Just Means Something the Regime Doesn't Like" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_107_A "The Realistic Market for Private Governance" by Jeff Deist: Mises.org/RR_107_B "Murray Rothbard versus the Progressives" by Joseph T. Salerno: Mises.org/RR_107_C "Breaking Away: The Case for Smaller Polities" by Ryan McMaken (video): Mises.org/RR_107_D Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Tho Bishop and Ryan McMaken preview next week's midterms. How big of a red wave is on the horizon, and how much does it really matter? Should the real focus be on governor races? Can a Republican actually win in New York? And, what about Blake Masters? Ryan and Tho consider these questions and more in this week's episode. Use promo code ROTHPOD for a 20% discount on Ryan McMaken's new book Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities: Mises.org/RR_106_Book Recommended Reading "Can National Conservatism Threaten the Regime?" by Tho Bishop: Mises.org/RR_106_A "The Realistic Market for Private Governance" by Jeff Deist: Mises.org/RR_106_B "Practicing Politics as Self-Defense" by L. W. Blakely: Mises.org/RR_106_C "Breaking Away: The Case for Smaller Polities" by Ryan McMaken (video): Mises.org/RR_106_D Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the Alex Jones verdict and the weaponization of defamation law. Now that Twitter is under Elon Musk's control, will the regime increasingly turn to the court system to crack down on the "dangers" posed by "misinformation"? Use promo code ROTHPOD for a 20% discount on Ryan McMaken's new book Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities: Mises.org/RR_105_Book Recommended Reading "The Alex Jones Verdict Shows the Danger of Defamation Laws" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_105_A "Modern Information Control: State Intervention and Mistakes to Avoid by Kelly Offield: Mises.org/RR_105_B "Florida's Social Media Anticensorship Law and the Court's Tortured Legal Logic" by Tate Fegley: Mises.org/RR_105_C Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop talk with historian Chris Calton about student loans, "the college experience," and the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses today. Use promo code ROTHPOD for a 20% discount on Ryan McMaken's new book Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities: Mises.org/RR_104_Book Recommended Reading "College as an Economic and Social Problem: Dealing with the Culture" by Chris Calton: Mises.org/RR_104_A "Higher Education Woes: Student Loans Help Fuel Higher College Costs" by Chris Calton: Mises.org/RR_104_B "Higher Education in Crisis: The Problem of Ideological Homogeneity" by Chris Calton: Mises.org/RR_104_C "The Perils of Higher Education: Institutional Failure" by Chris Calton: Mises.org/RR_104_D Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

Connor Mortell joins Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop to discuss his recent article entitled "We Are Not the Government, but America Is No Longer Anything More than the Government" and to consider what it means to be an American in the current era. As Americans become increasingly divided politically and culturally, and as those divides fuel a great migration within the country, what truly unites Americans—beyond sharing a common oppressive regime? How modern is this development? What can be done to further build on these trends, to undermine the control of that regime further? These questions and more are considered in this episode of Radio Rothbard.  Recommended Reading "We Are Not the Government, but America Is No Longer Anything More than the Government" by Connor Mortell: Mises.org/RR_103_A "College Conference Switching as Secession? A Case Study in 'Nations by Consent'" by Connor Mortell: Mises.org/RR_103_B "Nations by Consent" by Murray N. Rothbard: Mises.org/RR_103_C Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

Until the day comes that a majority of the population wants to abolish all states, it makes sense in the meantime to look to ways that will reduce the power of states, localize that power, and take at least some of it out of the hands of some of the most powerful ruling state elites. This episode of Radio Rothbard features Ryan McMaken's talk presented at the Mises Institute 40th Anniversary Supporters Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 7, 2022. Recommended Reading "On Secession and Small States" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_102_A "What We Mean by Decentralization" by Lew Rockwell: Mises.org/RR_102_B "The European Miracle" by Ralph Raico: Mises.org/RR_102_C "Nations by Consent" by Murray N. Rothbard: Mises.org/RR_102_D Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

Ryan and Tho talk with Mises.org author and German native Rosanna Weber about the energy crisis in Germany. German policymakers have greatly worsened the ongoing energy crisis in Germany by abandoning nuclear energy and taking a hard line on Russian natural gas. Now with the damage done to the Nord Stream pipeline, German consumers face even fewer options as winter approaches.  Rosanna Weber is a graduate student in Economic History at the London School of Economics and a freelance journalist. Recommended Reading "Germany's Nuclear Choice: Russian Energy Crisis Forces a Reckoning" by Rosanna Weber: Mises.org/RR_101_A "Eat or Heat: Europeans Already Are Facing Previously Unthinkable Dilemmas" by Claudio Grass: Mises.org/RR_101_B "Europe Ditched Russian Energy. Now People Are Sitting in Line For Days to Buy Coal. Is Biden to Blame?" by Alice Salles: Mises.org/RR_101_C "Germany's (and Europe's) Self-Inflicted Upcoming Energy Crunch" by Weimin Chen: Mises.org/RR_101_D "The 'Stunning Success' of the Green Revolution Is Yet Another Progressive Myth" by Kristoffer Mousten Hansen: Mises.org/RR_101_E Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

Tate Fegley joins Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop to discuss his recent Mises Wire article, "Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson". As businesses increasingly interject broader "social values" into their business plans, customers are increasingly forced to make difficult decisions about how to navigate their economic behavior with ideological values. What role does the ideology of the state play in the decisions behind how businesses behave? Is a battle for power an inevitable consequence of a civil rights regime? How would these things be handled if we took property rights seriously? This and more on this episode of Radio Rothbard. Recommended Reading "Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson" by Tate Fegley: Mises.org/RR_100_A "The Equality Act's Attack on Religion Is Really about Private Property Rights" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_100_B "The Transgender Debate Should Be about Women’s Freedom and Private Property Rights" by Jess Gill: Mises.org/RR_100_C "To Understand Economics, First Understand Private Property" by Chris Calton: Mises.org/RR_100_D "Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game" by Michael Rectenwald: Mises.org/RR_100_E Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Joseph Solis-Mullen take a look at brewing debt crises in emerging markets and how the dollar still looks good when compared to other global currencies. Recommended Reading "How the Fed Helped Create Another Calamity: The Ongoing Emerging Market Debt Crisis" by Joseph Solis-Mullen: Mises.org/RR_99_A "August's Price Inflation Soared, and That Means Earnings Fell Yet Again" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_99_B "Greenspan Would Be Proud: A Lesson in Fed Speak" by Joseph Solis-Mullen: Mises.org/RR_99_C "It Just Might Be Time to Listen to the Austrians" by Joseph Solis-Mullen: Mises.org/RR_99_D "Throwing the Fed's Machinery in Reverse: Fed Interest Rate Policies Continue to Damage the Economy" by Frank Shostak: Mises.org/RR_99_E Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.