Episodes
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Lysander Spooner: No Treason, Part 2
In this episode, Caleb O. Brown reads part two of Lysander Spooner’s No Treason, VI. In our first number on Lysander Spooner’s No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, our author systematically rejects the notion that individuals consent to government by paying taxes or voting. There, the…
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Lysander Spooner: No Treason, Part 1
This episode features Lysander Spooner’s infamous argument that the Constitution of the United States, and thus the “social contract,” has no legal authority and, properly construed, commands no allegiance from sovereign individuals. Lysander Spooner’s No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority...
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The Autobiography of Ferret Snapp Newcraft
In early 1838, John L. O’Sullivan’s United States Magazine & Democratic Review published a “Full Exposition and Exemplification of ‘The Credit System,’” in the form of a satirical autobiography. In this sly and amusing commentary on the emerging American monetary system, one Ferret Snapp Newcraft...
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Karl Hess and Robert Anton Wilson: Subversion for Fun and Profit
This episode features an excerpt from Subversion for Fun and Profit, with Karl Hess and Robert Anton Wilson. Hess and Wilson are icons of libertarianism and radical individualist thinking in the 1960s and 1970s. Karl Hess was an influential figure among high-level Republicans in the early 1960s.…
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Barry Goldwater: The Conscience of a Conservative, Part 3
The Conscience of a Conservative was first published under the name of Senator Barry Goldwater. The book was a smashing success beyond anyone’s expectations. Over 3.5 million copies sold, and its success garnered Goldwater enough national fame to secure his party’s nomination in 1964. For…
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Barry Goldwater: The Conscience of a Conservative, Part 2
The Conscience of a Conservative was first published under the name of Senator Barry Goldwater. The book was a smashing success beyond anyone’s expectations. Over 3.5 million copies sold, and its success garnered Goldwater enough national fame to secure his party’s nomination in 1964. For…
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Barry Goldwater: The Conscience of a Conservative, Part 1
In this episode, Caleb O. Brown reads part one of a selection from Barry Goldwater’s 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative. The Conscience of a Conservative was fist published under the name of Senator Barry Goldwater. The book was a smashing success beyond anyone’s expectations. Over 3.5...
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Barry Goldwater: 1964 Republican National Convention Address
In mid-July, 1964, the Republican Party descended upon the “Cow Palace” arena in Daly City, California. At the party’s national convention, a clique of traditionalist-conservatives surrounding Senator Barry Goldwater fulfilled their long-laid plans to overtake the GOP. After Goldwater’s...
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Abram D. Smith: Nullification - Part 2
In this second of two selections from Smith’s decision In re Booth (1854), Justice Smith verbally elaborated before the court his earlier written decision. Smith argues that state judges have obligations and duties to protect the rights of citizens regardless of the unconstitutional…
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Abram D. Smith: Nullification - Part 1
Virtually no one is aware that Abram D. Smith ever existed. His life has almost gone unnoticed by historians, yet Abram D. Smith was not only floated by some for Vice President on the Republican ticket in 1860, but he briefly served as President of the Republic of Canada more than two decades...
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John L. O'Sullivan: The Great Nation of Futurity
John L. O’Sullivan and his Democratic Review gained fame, notoriety, and influence by spearheading the movement to produce an authentically American national culture distinct from European antecedents. Publishing now-canonical authors like Whitman and Hawthorne as well as editorials written by...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address
This episode features a remastered recording of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address. With the Cold War looming and the destruction of the species itself at stake, Eisenhower implores citizens to tirelessly and virtuously strive for peace, prosperity, love, and mutual respect between all...
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Lysander Spooner: To the Non-Slaveholders of the South
In this episode, Caleb O. Brown reads Lysander Spooner’s 1858 essay “To the Non-Slaveholders of the South.” In response to the 1857 Dred Scott decision, Spooner penned this essay advocating for a total overthrow of the slave trade dominating the South at the time. He advises all slaves and...
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The Loco-Foco Declaration of Principles
In this episode, Caleb O. Brown reads the Loco-Foco Declaration of Principles. On the evening of 29 October, 1835, radical liberal conspirators poured into Tammany Hall, fulfilling their carefully-laid plans to overtake the local Democratic Party nominating conventions from the conservatives who...
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Richard Cobden: On Free Trade
In this episode, Caleb O. Brown reads selections from Richard Cobden’s writings and speeches on the freedom of commerce after his election to Parliament in 1841. Cobden was a successful English businessman and manufacturer, who upon his arrival to the political stage, fought for the repeal of...
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Benjamin R. Tucker: The Relation of the State to the Individual
In this Episode of Classics of Liberty, Caleb O. Brown reads excerpts from Benjamin Tucker’s speech on the parasitic and inherently agressive nature of the state. Originally given to the Unitarian Ministers’ Institute in 1890, Tucker explores anarchism as a stark contrast to the violence and...
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Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
In this episode of Classics of Liberty, Caleb O. Brown reads selections from Henry David Thoreau’s subversive essay Civil Disobedience.
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Adam Smith: The Man of System and Labor and Commerce
In this episode of Classics of Liberty, Caleb O. Brown reads two selections from the works of Adam Smith: “The Man of System” from The Theory of Moral Sentiments and “Labor and Commerce” from The Wealth of Nations.
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Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
In this episode of Classics of Liberty, Caleb O. Brown reads the iconic speech “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass.
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