Episodes
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The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It
Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time. The anomaly in human history is not slavery, but the ideas and political systems that uphold individual freedom - movements which should be celebrated. The willful disregard of the actual history of slavery throughout the world and, in...
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The Movement for Decentralization and The Origins of the Deep State, Part 1
Discussion of recent efforts at decentralization, state sovereignty, and push back on Federal overreach. Then we begin our two part series on The Origins of the Deep State - a history and analysis of America's renegade Deep State complex and the ideology justifying it.
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Cargo Cult Economists and Why Stimulus Spending Cannot Stimulate
The government is spending trillions in "stimulus," but what does stimulus mean? In simple terms, what is economic prosperity, and why is it logically impossible for the government to achieve it through so-called stimulus spending?
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Inflation Everywhere, The History of Money and Banking and the Road to Ruin, Part 3
Even most free market advocates don’t quite understand what inflation is and how destructive it is on so many different levels. Far from being an esoteric economic topic, its something that everyone needs to deeply understand. The lack of understanding of inflation's profound destructive power is...
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Recap and Reformat, America 4.0
A shorter podcast to summarize and recap my America 4.0 theory in the context of the fight for freedom and individual rights.
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Wampum, Wildcats, and Inflation, The History of the Monetary System and the Road to Ruin, Part 2
The structure of the modern banking system is the product of hundreds of years of bad legal and economic theory that is leading us to disaster. In Part 2 of this podcast, I discuss the early history of colonial and European banking practices which helped set us on the path to monetary catastrophe.
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The History of the Monetary System and the Road to Ruin, Part 1
The structure of the modern banking system is the product of hundreds of years of bad legal and economic theory that is leading us to disaster. In Part 1 of this podcast, I explain some basic principles of money, banking and set out some early history of our current monetary system.
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The Supreme Court's Historical Role in Promoting Federal Tyranny
What was the Founder's conception of the role of the states vis-a-vis the federal government, and how did the Supreme Court set America on the path to Civil War and federal tyranny?
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The Psychological and Cultural Roots of Cancel Culture Madness
Critical Theory and Postmodern philosophy underlie the authoritarian left's movement to destroy Western liberal democracy, but are there also devastating psychological, technological, and cultural factors at work. We use Haidt and Lukianoff's book "The Coddling of the American Mind" to analyze…
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Post-Moderns at the Gate: The Battle for Free Speech
Critical Theory and Postmodernist philosophy is at the core of the Left's authoritarian calls to silence, suppress, cancel, and censor right wing speech. What is postmodernism and critical theory, what is its philosophic basis, and how is it being used to throttle free speech and destroy the...
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Patriots Rise Again: The Whiskey Rebellion and the Storming of the Capital
Many are denouncing the recent riots in Washington DC. , but this is not the first time that frustration and angst over unjust federal over-reach has provoked riots. In this episode, we discuss the anti-federalists at the Founding who warned of federal tyranny, and analyze the Whiskey Rebellion…
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America 4.0: An Introduction
Why is America is on the brink of a totalitarian revolution? What philosophical, economic, and psychological forces have brought us to this point? In this episode, I give an introduction and overview of my theory, America 4.0.
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What Did We Learn from this Election?
We knew the 2020 election would tell us something about the country. So what were the political and philosophical lessons, and what do advocates of freedom and individual rights do now?