- Between the Covers — Broken Worlds
Tracy interviews Mike Ghere, author of the Broken Worlds series: "Classic Fantasy with a Techno-Twist!"
Innocent blood is spilled, unfathomable magic is called, and lightning arcs across the sky. The boundary between worlds is broken and a teenaged boy falls through the crack.…
Check out the first book in the series right here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0093KDUXC
- The Tatiana Show — Gary MIliefsky of Cyber Defense Magazine & Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift
Tatiana and Josh interview Gary MIliefsky of Cyber Defense Magazine & Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift.
Gary is a Counterveillance expert and founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Gary Miliefsky, is the Founder of SnoopWall and the sole inventor of the company’s technologies. He has successfully advised two White House administrations on cyber security, filed more than a dozen patents of his network security inventions, and licensed technology to major public companies, including IBM, BlackBox Corp. and Computer Associates International. Gary is a recent Editor of Cyber Defense Magazine. He also founded NetClarity, Inc., an internal intrusion defense company, based on a patented technology he invented. He also advised the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in their development of The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Erik, CEO of leading digital asset exchange ShapeShift.io, is among the top-recognized serial Bitcoin advocates and entrepreneurs, understanding Bitcoin as one of the most important inventions ever created by humanity. Erik’s former project, the groundbreaking gaming phenomenon SatoshiDICE, was, at its peak, responsible for more than half of all Bitcoin transactions on Earth and popularized the concept of “provable fairness.” Having been a featured guest on Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC, BBC Radio, The Peter Schiff Show, and numerous Bitcoin and industry conferences, Erik humbly suggests that there is no such thing as a “free market” when the institution of money itself is centrally planned and controlled.
- Unbiased America #51
- UA spotlight with David J. Shestokas: Constitutional Sound Bites Part IIII
David J. Shestokas, author of Constitutional soundbites will Join Will Ricciardella of Unbiased America to discuss what the constitution means and why it still matters. The topics in part IIII will deal with Volume III of his book and many of the questions and topics he covers (like the Bill of Rights) and ending with the epilogue. Buy the book and follow along!
- UA spotlight with David J. Shestokas: Constitutional Sound Bites Part III
David J. Shestokas, author of Constitutional soundbites will Join Will Ricciardella of Unbiased America to discuss what the constitution means and why it still matters. The topics in part III will deal with his books introduction to volume II and Volume III and many of the questions covered in the second and third volume of his book. Buy the book and follow along!
- UA spotlight with David J. Shestokas: Constitutional Sound Bites Part II
David J. Shestokas, author of Constitutional soundbites will Join Will Ricciardella of Unbiased America to discuss what the constitution means and why it still matters. The topics in part II will deal with his books introduction to volume II and many of the questions covered in the second volume of his book. Buy the book and follow along!
- Free Association
May 24, 8 pm EST
- Between the Covers — Liberty Fiction Jamboree
Tracy Lawson welcomes George Donnelly, Lyssa Chiavari and Mike DiBaggio to celebrate the GIANT 99-cent libertarian book sale
- Unbiased America #46—Charles Peralo
Charles Peralo is running for Chairman of the Libertarian National Committee. The Unbiased Americans talk to Peralo about his campaign, his plans to grow the libertarian movement, and his positions on philosophy + policy.
- Free Association — Voting, Democracy, and Other Ills
Lucy Steigerwald and Sheldon Richman are back again to engage in many thoughtful tangents coming off of the issue of voting. Steigerwald rants about bathroom bills and praises Trump, Richman once voted for a man named Elvis Presley, and they both flirt with anarcho-monarchism, if only for a minute or two.
- Unbiased America #45 — Mohammed Shaker
Wednesday, April 27, 8 pm Eastern
- Politics after Dark — LP Debate + Zootopia + Cake Freedom
Rachel Mills welcomes the one and only Jeffrey Tucker. They talk about the recent Libertarian Party debate, cake baking, and the insightful new movie Zootopia.
- Jeffrey Tucker Interviews Sheldon Richman — "America’s Counter-Revolution"
Jeffrey Tucker interviews his old friend and mentor Sheldon Richman about his new book — America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited.
From Jeffrey's foreword:
This much I can assure the reader: after reading this book, you will never think about the U.S. Constitution and America’s founding the same way again. Sheldon Richman’s revealing and remarkably well-argued narrative will permanently change your outlook.
The Constitution, far from limiting government, was actually designed to bring about a new one that betrayed the ideals of the Declaration of Independence itself. The ratification of the Constitution was a counter-revolution.There is a reason it has done a poor job in protecting freedom: it was never intended to do so.
- We the Individuals — Christopher Chase Rachels
- Scotch and Scholars — Walter Block: Libertarians for Trump?
Tune in for the latest shock from Block.
Prolific scholar Walter Block has founded Libertarians for Trump, with the goal of "mobilizing massive support for Donald Trump."
What is the likely outcome of hitching a libertarian wagon to Trump?
Is supporting Trump significantly better or worse than supporting the other candidates in the major parties, or in the Libertarian Party, or just abstaining from the process altogether this cycle?
- Free Association — Let's Talk About Trump
Trump's narrative paints the US as a victim. But this aggrieved-nation shtick is not new.
Read more
- Unbiased America #38
- Between the Covers with Tracy Lawson — Radio Sphere
Devin terSteeg's writing is influenced by Ray Bradbury, George Saunders, Miranda July, Feodor Dostoevsky and the incredible Orson Welles.
Radio Sphere, his 2015 novella, is set two hundred years into a post-apocalyptic world, where humanity struggles with diminished resources and shrinking ambitions. Radiation has poisoned minds as well as matter, and people are running out of the critical supplies of civilization.
(http://www.amazon.ca/Radio-Sphere-Devin-terSteeg-ebook/dp/B0121JTRG0)
Meanwhile, a mysterious alien race observes the ruins of humanity and tries to make sense of what it sees.
Join Devin with me, Tracy Lawson, Wednesday night. I can't wait to find out how TerSteeg built the world of Radio Sphere.
- Unbiased America #37
- Liberty Classics — The Road to Serfdom
Let Jeffrey Tucker introduce you to (or reacquaint you with) one of the most famous books in the libertarian tradition: Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom.
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production
- Liberty Classics — Machiavelli's The Prince
How to wipe away the illusions promised by political control? An excellent place to start is Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. Written in 1513, it considered the founding document of what is today called political science. It is an eye opening read, simply because it is such an unvarnished account of the primary purpose of the state. It is a manual for states to do the best possible job at achieving their aims.
And what is that aim? Back in the day, the excuses for power were to secure the population against invasion, to protect the people’s faith against heresy, to control the mob so as to restrain chaos that makes life impossible. Today the exoteric reasons for state control include those but add many others: to being about income fairness, to stop unjust discrimination, to clean up the environment, and so on.
See Jeffrey's new article on Machiavelli and 4 other essential books for liberty lovers.
- Jeffrey Tucker - What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Jeffrey Tucker returns, ready to explore one of the biggest little books in liberty: Murray Rothbard's What Has Government Done to our Money?
Innumerable economists, investors, commentators, and authors have learned from this book through the decades. After fifty years, it remains the best book in print on the topic, a real manifesto of sound money.
Rothbard boils down the Austrian theory to its essentials. The book also made huge theoretical advances. Rothbard was the first to prove that the government, and only the government, can destroy money on a mass scale, and he showed exactly how they go about this dirty deed. But just as importantly, it is beautifully written. He tells a thrilling story because he loves the subject so much.
- Daniel Fernández — Liberty in Europe with the Bitcoin Couple
Daniel Fernández Méndez is a lecturer in economics at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala and is Director of UFM Market Trends, an economics/finance newsletter. He is a PhD candidate in economics at King Juan Carlos University, and is a former Mises Institute summer fellow. We will discuss his recent research on the Cyprus crisis.
- Scotch and Scholars - Richard Ebeling
This week's guest is Richard M. Ebeling, on to talk with Mike about his new book Monetary Central Planning and the State. It's currently rocking the #2 spot in the Political Freedom category on Amazon.com.
How deep does the Keynesian infection of the modern economy go?
How can we get to monetary freedom?
Join in, have fun, and find out.
- Dr. Rahim Taghizadegan — Liberty in Europe with the Bitcoin Couple
Dr. Rahim Taghizadegan is a distinguished scholar at the Institut für Wertewirtschaft in Vienna, Austria, which has recently been relaunched as “Scholarium.” We will discuss the Scholarium’s study program based on the Austrian School. Additionally, we will discuss the original Austrian School and the modern Viennese perception, which differs a bit from the US. Finally, Dr. Taghizadegan will highlight his efforts to bring Austrian economics back to Austria.
- Jeffrey Tucker — Liberty Classics: The Way to Will Power
Enjoy an evening with Jeffrey Tucker and the greatest works of the libertarian tradition.
Tune in this week for his review of Henry Hazlitt's The Way to Will Power:
Henry Hazlitt’s The Way to Will Power, written in 1922, is a splendid as a manual for the management of personal life. It’s extraordinary to think that Hazlitt not only wrote the best-selling economics text of all time but also wrote a fantastic book on how to manage one’s life with expertise and success.
It is a lucid and entertaining book on psychology, applying common sense to discussions of will, self-confidence, and desires. He applies economic concepts of value-scales, and choice among values or desires. He offers a valuable early critique of psychoanalysis.
- Eye on the Empire #10 — Hostility Scoreboard
Join Jeffrey Tucker and Scott Horton for Horton's new hostility scoreboard: What's the status of America's current wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine?
- Eye on the Empire #9 -- Jeffrey Tucker Arrested
Jeffrey Tucker was arrested last week!!! Tune in for this special edition of Eye on the Empire in which Scott Horton and Jeffrey Tucker himself will share all about the uncomfortable experience.
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 3 Afternoon
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Saturday 7/18 Afternoon
13:00-14:00
Austrian business cycle theory, Howden
14:15-15:15
Economic calculation and socialism, Fox
15:30-16:30
Austrian vs. Chicago Schools, Block
17:00-18:00
Dinner and closing ceremony
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 2 Afternoon
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Friday 7/17 Evening
13:00-14:00
The Ethics of Liberty, French
14:15-15:45
Capital and Production, Fox
16:00-17:00
Banking, free and 100-percent reserve, Howden
17:00-18:00
Panel Discussion and Q&A, Block, French, Fox, Howden
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 1 Afternoon
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Thursday 7/16 Afternoon
13:00-14:00
Subjectivity and price determination, Fox
14:15-15:45
Time Preference and interest rate determination, Howden
16:00-17:00
A historical perspective on the Austrian school, French
17:00-18:00
Panel Discussion and Q&A, Block, French, Fox, Howden
- Jeffrey Tucker – Liberty Classics: Economics of Illusion
Join Jeffrey Tucker for another show about the world's best liberty literature! This week he'll be chatting about Economics of Illusion by L. Albert Hahn.
The beautiful thing about Hahn’s book is how liberating it is. Keynesian economics was refuted before it began? Yes indeed. This one point stands the whole history of ideas of the 20th century on its head. The widely held view, then and now, is that Keynes’s economics were the “new economics”; nothing like this theory had ever been advanced and he was a singular mind in the history of ideas. But Hahn actually shows that he did nothing but regurgitate old fallacies and apply new terminological razzle-dazzle to them.
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 3 Morning
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Saturday 7/18 Morning
09:30-10:30
A Stock-taking of Austrian microeconomics, and some critiques of the mainstream, Block
10:45-11:45
Money, French
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 2 Morning
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Friday 7/17 Morning
09:30-10:30
Competition and Monopolies, Block
10:45-11:45
Production and the firm, Fox
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 1 Morning
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Thursday 7/16 Morning
09:30-10:30
Praxeology and the Method of Austrian Economists, Block
- Jeffrey Tucker – Liberty Classics: The Use of Knowledge in Society
Join Jeffrey Tucker for another exciting installment of his Liberty Classics series! This week, he'll be chatting about F. A. Hayek's The Use of Knowledge in Society.
The Use of Knowledge in Society is an essay that sums up the insights of a lifetime. It is a template for a worldview. It is a source of unlimited amounts of study and reflection. It is an insight that explains vast amounts of the world around us. It is a flash of brilliance, a revelation that millions have missed, a paradigm for understanding the past and future. It is a rebuke to intellectuals from time immemorial and a new way of thinking for true intellectuals of the future. No single essay by Hayek is more important. “The Use of Knowledge in Society” is all that and more.
- New Hampshire Austrian Economics Group - The Depression of 1907
The New Hampshire Austrian Economics Group will be discussing the Depression of 1907, and reviewing several short texts on the episode. The Depression of 1907 is seldom explored in as much detail as the Great Depression, or even smaller recessions such as the Dot Com Bust. But it plays an important role in history: This depression was used as an excuse for the nationalization of bank notes in the US i.e. the creation of the Fed as central bank.
READINGS:
PDF pages 241-244 "A History of Money and Banking in the United States" by Murray Rothbard (Link)
"The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman" by Ivan Pongracic (Link)
"Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depression" The Panic of 1907 (Link)
- Jeffrey Tucker – Liberty Classics: Socialism
Everyone's favorite Chief Liberty Officer, Jeffrey Tucker, is back for another dose of Liberty Classics. This week, he's chatting about Ludwig von Mises's great work, Socialism.
This book is a legendary classic.
This is not a book for the shelves. It is a book to read and engage right now, right where you are. It is a book that explains vast amounts of the reality we are living right now. It was written in 1922, but it works as a decoder to today’s headlines.
How can that be? Most people assume that socialism has somehow been defeated. Not so. It has spread out all over the world in different forms. Mises’s book addresses every conceivable form of the socialist idea. He shows you how to find the errors in Obamacare, QE3, the education bubble, the U.S. imperial wars, environmentalism, and so much more. There are insights on every page.
- Liberty Classics: Against Intellectual Property
In this episode of Liberty Classics, Jeffrey Tucker and Stephan Kinsella discuss Against Intellectual Property.
"Mises had warned against patents, and Rothbard did too. But Kinsella goes much further to argue that the very existence of patents are contrary to a free market, and adds in here copyrights and trademarks too. They all use the state to create artificial scarcities of non-scarce goods and employ coercion in a way that is contrary to property rights and the freedom of contract."
For more by Jeffrey Tucker, check out his book, 25 Life-Changing Classics.
Make sure you also check out Stephan Kinsella's Liberty.me guide, Do Business Without Intellectual Property!
- Austrian Economics: Free State Style #2
The New Hampshire Austrian Economics Group will be joined by famed economist, Philip Mirowski, in an effort to better understand how various types of market structures evolve and what the implications of viewing them as “markomata” are. As a departure from standard orthodox approaches, two of Mirowski’s own papers, “Inherent Vice” and “Markets Come to Bits”, will be analyzed in this regard.
All Liberty.me members are invited to join in from their homes during this LIVE event!
- Austrian Economics: Free State Style #1
The Austrian Economics Group will meet again in Portsmouth, NH, on February 10 to discuss the similarities and differences between Austrian economists Ludwig Lachmann and Israel Kirzner in regard to equilibrium. We will read Karen Vaughn's paper "The Problem of Order in Austrian Economics: Kirzner vs. Lachmann" and Chapter 9 of "Wresting with Time" by Currie and Steedman.
All Liberty.me members are invited to join in from their homes during this LIVE event!
- Liberty Classics: Resist Not Evil by Clarence Darrow
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive, sweeping, compelling, and unsettling case ever penned against what is laughingly called the "criminal justice" system. It is a classic, devastating at its core, that is made newly available to speak to us in our times in which the state is completely out of control.
Clarence Darrow is best known today as the Chicago lawyer who defended John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. But that case actually played a minor role in his life. He was an attorney by training who, from experience, learned that the entire state apparatus of courts, trials, and prisons was the worst single feature of the state. He saw the entire machinery as a gigantic fraud, a purveyor of injustice, a producer of criminality itself, as has noted by many in the legal treatment of the Eric Garner murder.
Join Jeffrey Tucker on December 28th at 8pm EST for this session in our Liberty Classics series. Jeffrey Tucker will guide you, week by week, through 25 of the most important works in the classical liberal and libertarian tradition, all of which are available free with your subscription to Liberty.me!
- CYCLE: Defending the Undefendable… for a Profit with Walter Block
Walter Block, Author, Economist, and Austrian School Legal Theorist, takes time out of his nearly continuous writing schedule to talk about the non-aggression principle. Defending the black market, prostitutes, pimps, blackmailers, and gypsy cab drivers.
- Liberty Classics: The Rise and Fall of Society by Frank Chodorov
It might be the greatest book you have never heard of. It is a full-scale manifesto of political economy, one that follows a systematic pattern of exposition but which never slows or sags from beginning to end. The book is not a difficult read in any sense, but there is so much wisdom in its pages that it cannot possibly be fully absorbed in one reading. It covers economic theory, ancient history, political theory, American history, social theory and political reality and has so many asides and pithy statements that you find yourself absolutely stopping as you read: I must reflect on this; I must remember this. Join Jeffrey Tucker as he discusses this liberty classic Sunday, November 23rd at 8pm ET!
- Liberty Classics: The Politics of Obedience by Étienne de La Boétie
Why does the state have power and why does it persist? Renaissance philosopher and public intellectual Étienne de La Boétie explained that it is due to public tolerance. Despite all the coercion used by the government, it is the deference of the people toward public authority that gives tyrants their power. His plea is for people to withdraw that consent and deny the tyrant his authority. This is the way we see state’s collapse. Jeffrey Tucker explains that this is precisely what is happening in our time Sunday, November 9th at 8pm ET!
- The Man of the Century: Mises and His Works, Session #9
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science was Mises’s final work in a career that stretches back to the early 20th century. He urges a completely new direction in economics, away from positivism and planning and toward a humane social science and laissez faire economics. Jeffrey Tucker discusses the erudition of this book, its many surprises, and sums up his 9-session series on the central books in the Misesian literary legacy. Join him Thursday, November 20th at 2:30pm ET!
- The Man of the Century: Mises and His Works, Session #7
If you were going to name the single greatest book in the social sciences from the 20th century, it would be Mises’s Human Action. Jeffrey Tucker discusses the history of how it came to be written and its main themes. Human Action is a book that you can never stop reading. No matter how many times you read it and reference it, there always seems to be more to discover. Join Jeffrey for a discussion of this book and its legacy Thursday, October 30th at 2:30pm ET!
- Liberty Classics: The Art of Being Free by Wendy McElroy
Can we live full, free, and prosperous lives in these times, starting now? McElroy says that we can and we must. She presents a new way of thinking about how to build civilization even when it is so under attack. In her view, the worst mistake we can make is to allow our lives to be consumed by politics and the awful realities that surround us. We must instead surround ourselves by people and things we truly love. The best way to fight back, she says, is to find and build freedom for ourselves. We must discover the art of being free. Join Jeffrey Tucker for a discussion of this book Sunday, November 2nd at 8pm ET and learn how you too can live a freer life!
- Liberty Classics: Economics of Illusion by L. Albert Hahn
L. Albert Hahn's 1949 book, The Economics of Illusion, was a blistering attack on the Keynesian paradigm which then dominated academia. A prominent German banker and economist, Hahn immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1940 as World War II threatened to expand. As Hahn was a former Keynesian himself, he possessed a keen understanding of the true perils of that system, particularly during war, and sought to tear it down from its foundations. Join Jeffrey Tucker as he discusses this book Sunday, October 19th at 8pm EDT!
- Sci-Fi Economics with Lucas Engelhardt
Science Fiction has long been a favorite genre for liberty-lovers. But can it teach Economics? Enter "Sci-Fi Economics," a four-part original course from Liberty.me LIVE. Instead of assigned (suggested) readings, we'll have "assigned watchings" from your favorite sci-fi TV shows. Professor Lucas Engelhardt, himself a connoisseur of science fiction, will be your guide.
This week will begin with "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River," Season 7 Episode 6 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, available free from CBS.com, by subscription through Hulu, Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Netflix, and for digital purchase from Apple TV and Vudu. Prof. Engelhart will use this episode to discuss the role of money and discuss the relationship between praxeology and fiction Monday, October 13th at 9pm EDT, only on Liberty.me LIVE!
Update: Thanks to an epic glitch with the recording, we'll be reprising session #1 October 13th, so if you missed it, head on over!
- Liberty Classics: Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor by Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard's classic essay makes the case against egalitarianism, communism, primitivism, and romanticism, and makes the case for liberty, inequality, and the division of labor. In a time in which government policy drives us ever further back, we can look on Murray Rothbard's strong argument for freeing the private sector to push us forward. Join Jeffrey Tucker to discuss this controversial liberty classic Sunday, September 28th at 8pm ET!
- Liberty Classics: The Use of Knowledge in Society by F.A. Hayek
Knowledge is a good, perhaps the most important good, something vastly more important than all physical property combined. It is the driving force of history, the immortal, sharable, reproducible, malleable substance that has built our world and makes possible the forward motion of history. This essay shows why it is not possible for this knowledge to be produced or used by centralized agents in the civic order; rather, knowledge must be generated, extracted, and put to use by real actors using real property and interacting with the world around them. Social complexity grows organically from experience of time and place, and this can never be produced from the outside regardless of the supposed intelligence of the the planning class. Tune in to Liberty.me LIVE Sunday, September 21st at 8pm EDT to join Jeffrey Tucker in exploring this brilliant essay.
- Liberty Classics: Conscience of an Anarchist by Gary Chartier
Professor Gary Chartier's concise, yet beautiful, introduction to the philosophy of anarchism is a modern anarchist manifesto, written to appeal to even the most ardent of statists. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary, and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom. Join Jeffrey Tucker to discuss "The Conscience of an Anarchist" Sunday, September 14th at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: Socialism by Ludwig von Mises
When he wasn't laying the foundations of the Austrian school of economics or predicting the Great Depression, the greatest economist of the 20th century, Ludwig von Mises, was demolishing the concept that was sweeping the world: Socialism. Join Jeffrey Tucker to discuss Mises's powerful and in-depth discussion of Socialism Sunday, September 7th at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn
This 1944 classic by John T. Flynn describes the effect that war has on the rest of society. Historically, wartime planning is often accompanied by fascism at home, with restrictions on economic and civil liberties. Join Jeffrey Tucker for a journey through this essential book Sunday, August 31st at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson
What is the machine that enables human progress and civilization? Capitalism, individualism, and liberty are all boldly defended in this insightful 1943 book by Isabel Patterson. Join Jeffrey Tucker to discuss one of the most influential liberty texts of all time Sunday, August 24th at 8pm EDT!
- The Crisis of 2008 with Steve Horwitz
Was the financial crisis a result of the unfettered free market, or did government intervention play a role in creating the Great Recession? Economist Steve Horwitz discusses the economic crisis of 2008 and the Austrian theory of the business cycle. Join Horwitz Tuesday, August 19th at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: The Law by Frederic Bastiat
"The Law" is one of the oldest, yet one of the most influential, classically liberal texts. Frederic Bastiat's works are still repeatedly cited today. Why is "The Law" still so influential and what can you learn from it? Join Jeffrey Tucker for a discussion of this book and its legacy August 17th at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: Anthem by Ayn Rand
Before Atlas Shrugged, before Fountainhead, was Ayn Rand's 1938 dystopian novella, Anthem. In a world where "I" is replaced with "we," what happens to the freedom of the individual?
Join Jeffrey Tucker as he discusses this classic and brilliant novella written by one of the most successful fiction authors of the 20th century Sunday, August 3rd at 8pm EDT.
- Economic Fallacies, Session #1 with Robert Murphy
Forget everything you've heard about capitalism. It often gets a bad rap today, but economist Robert Murphy begs to differ. In this brilliant and concise introduction to free market economics, Murphy dispels some common myths about capitalism.
Join Dr. Murphy for this four-session course following the track of his book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, July 28th, August 11th, August 17th, and August 24th at 9:30pm EDT!
- Living Economics with Pete Boettke
Why are certain nations rich and others poor? What increases quality of life and what destroys it? What brings humans out of their natural state of impoverishment? Economics can give us the answers to these questions and more. Join Prof. Peter Boettke of George Mason University to learn about the history and gain a deeper understanding of economics Wednesday, July 23rd at 8pm EDT!
- RU - Austrian vs. Chicago Schools: Walter Block
Liberty.me's exclusive live stream of Rothbard University happens here -- join Walter Block, David Howden, Glenn Fox, Doug French, and Alfred Wirth for three full days of superb instruction in Austrian Economics, July 17th-19th on Liberty.me U!
- Liberty Classics: The Cinder Buggy by Garet Garrett
"The Cinder Buggy" chronicles the transformation of America from the age of iron to the age of steel. Garret beautifully portrays a battle over technology and innovation during a crucial time in American history. It is a wonderful novel for anyone who is intrigued by American history, economic theory, and the place of technology in the progress of society. Join Jeffrey Tucker as he explores this idea-filled story Sunday, July 20th at 8pm EDT.
- Liberty Classics: Denationalization of Money by F.A. Hayek
What if the government let anyone use a currency of his or her own choosing? What if the government permitted entrepreneurs to innovate in the monetary sector, such as by creating digital currencies or minting commodity money? This is precisely what F.A. Hayek argues in this book written in 1974. Join Jeffrey Tucker for a discussion of this book, and of current innovations in monetary denationalization, June 6th at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: Resist Not Evil by Clarence Darrow
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive, sweeping, compelling, and unsettling case ever penned against what is laughingly called the criminal-justice system. It is a classic, devastating at its core, that is made newly available to speak to us in our times in which the state is completely out of control.
Clarence Darrow is best known today as the Chicago lawyer who defended John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. But that case actually played a minor role in his life. He was an attorney by training who, from experience, learned that the entire state apparatus of courts, trials, and prisons was the worst single feature of the state. He saw the entire machinery as a gigantic fraud, a purveyor of injustice, a producer of criminality itself.
Join Jeffrey Tucker on May 25th at 8pm EST for this session in our Liberty Classics series. Jeffrey Tucker will guide you, week by week, through 25 of the most important works in the classical liberal and libertarian tradition, all of which are available free with your subscription to Liberty.me!
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