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Consequential Actions Podcast — 96 episodes

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The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself. “Self-Government Before Theory”

2

The Houthis vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Can End Yemen’s War?

3

Did the Iroquois Shape the Constitution? The Great Law of Peace

4

Peter McPhee on the French Revolution: Robespierre, the King's Trial, and the Terror

5

The Draft Was Never Repealed. Here Is What Changes in December

6

Does Majority Consent Make You Free? Voltaire, Rousseau & the General Will

7

What Did Your Straight Ticket Buy? Both Parties' Platforms, Graded

8

Humboldt County's Cannabis Fines & the Civil Jury | Jared McClain, Institute for Justice

9

Massie, Hegseth & the Epstein Petition: Why Congress Stopped Checking

10

Everyone Quotes Montesquieu Almost Nobody Reads Past the First Page

11

Socialist Calculation Debate Explained: Menger, Mises, Hayek and "I, Pencil" in 2026

12

Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson: The Wealth of Nations, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, and the Militia Question

13

David Evans of Sentiero Ventures on Artificial Intelligence, Lyapunov Time, and the Knowledge Problem | Self-Evident Week 12

14

NYC Municipal Grocery Stores, the Rent Freeze, and Federal Equity Stakes: Hume's Knowledge Problem in 2026

15

Hutcheson, Hume, and the Scottish Enlightenment: Undesigned Order Before It Had a Name

16

James Ostrowski on the 1689 Arms Clause, the NY SAFE Act Reversal, and Government Takes 80%

17

A Tax Expired at Midnight. Another Took Its Place in the Same Minute.

18

In the Age of Trump and Biden, Victor Davis Hanson Is Wrong About Third Parties

19

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the English Bill of Rights

20

Dr. Thomas Laehn, LP Candidate for US Senate — On Locke, Eminent Domain, and Jury Nullification

21

Scribere Est Agere: When a Government Turns Your Writing Into an Act

22

Algernon Sidney and John Locke: How Two Men Answered Filmer and Armed a Revolution

23

Brendan Kirby, FOX10 News Investigative Reporter, on Grand Jury Secrecy, Body Camera Records, and Alabama's Open Records Act

24

Fauci Contempt Vote Explained: The Fifth Amendment, the Pardon, and the Lois Lerner Precedent

25

The Levellers

26

Brian Peltier, Libertarian for PA House District 60: Open Fields, Defend the Guard, and Ballot Access

27

The Golden Metwand, Some Powers Were Never the Vote's to Give Away

28

The Common Law Will Control

29

English Monarchs Explained: Henry VIII to George III — Coke, Charles I, the Glorious Revolution & 1776

30

Jamie Frost Remmey — Libertarian for U.S. House, PA-01 — On Ballot Access, Defend the Guard & War Powers

31

Grotius, the Free Sea & the War Powers Debate: Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab & Article I

32

The Dutch Republic Explained: William the Silent, Toleration, the VOC & Grotius

33

John Thomas, LP Candidate for PA Lieutenant Governor — On Resistance, Romans 13 & School Choice

34

Who Actually Writes the Laws You Live Under? (It Isn't Congress)

35

The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the Birth of Resistance Theory

36

Censorship, the Printing Press, and Free Speech: Luther's Inheritance Today

37

Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms (1521): Conscience, the Reformation, and the Birth of Resistance

38

Flock, Palantir & the Caribbean Boat Strikes: Due Process in 2026

39

Magna Carta & Aquinas: The Medieval Roots of "The King Is Under the Law"

40

Ellsberg, Snowden, Assange & the Espionage Act of 1917

41

How Baghdad Saved Aristotle for the West | House of Wisdom

42

Why the House Has 435 Members: The 1929 Cap Explained

43

The Law Above the Law: Cicero, Natural Rights & 1776

44

Flemming v. Nestor: Why You Have No Right to Social Security

45

The Golden Thread

46

Republic or Empire — Where Do We Go From Here?

47

Libertarians Being Libertarian: After Kentucky

48

The Aristocracy of Pull — From Smedley Butler to the Equity State

49

“The Monroe Doctrine Inverted” — Venezuela and the Ongoing Interventions

50

The Adjective and the Noun

51

What Are Sanctions — Do They Work, and Who Pays the Price

52

The Exorbitant Privilege

53

The Bear Fed — How the Iran War Handed Russia the Negotiating Position It Could Not Win on the Battlefield

54

Whose Liberation, Whose Loss? — The Pattern of Intervention’s Aftermath, From Baghdad to Tehran

55

“The Arab Spring’s Winter” — Libya, Syria, Yemen, and the Pattern Continues

56

The People’s House? — The Engineered Paradox and How Congress Built a Machine Against Accountability

57

The Echo Chamber — Foreign Influence and the Iran War

58

“The Special Relationship and the Israel Lobby”—Foreign Influence on American Policy

59

The Petrodollar’s Last Stand—How a War to Save Hegemony May End It

60

The Indispensable Nation—Post-Cold War Interventionism and the Squandered Peace

61

Charlie Wilson's Warning—From the Mujahideen to the Kurds to the Failed State

62

Who Guards the Guardians?—Congress, Accountability, and the Lessons of Mockingbird

63

Why This War? — The Motivations Behind the War on Iran

64

The Quiet Americans—CIA Operations from Cuba to Chile

65

The Approver—From Secret Coups to Open Selection

66

Kermit's Game—Iran 1953 and the Template for Regime Change

67

The Institutions Deliver—From the War on Terror to Operation Epic Fury

68

The Labels That Silence—How the Old Right's Critics Continue Their Work Today

69

The Perpetual Emergency

70

War Is the Health of the State—Wilson and World War I

71

You Furnish the Pictures—Yellow Journalism and the Great Media Migration

72

Serving Commerce—1898 and the Birth of American Empire

73

The Template Endures—From Polk to Caracas and Tehran

74

Manifest Destiny—Continental Expansion and the Seeds of Empire

75

Foreign Policy Comes Home—Somalia, Refugees, and the Minneapolis Connection

76

Introducing Empire of Liberty—America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever Wars

77

New Year Reading Recommendations

78

The Welfare-Security Fusion: Managing Citizens Instead of Governing Them

79

Prologue: From General Welfare to Emergency Power

80

Hidden Theft Wrapped in Big Beautiful Bills

81

After the Oval Office Fireworks, are you "with Ukraine"

82

Trump/Harris/Plus 1 - Debate (Part 2)

83

Trump/Harris/Plus 1 - Debate (Part 1)

84

X Spaces suffers DDOS Attack during Trump Interview

85

Socialism and derivative -isms

86

Harris picks Walz

87

A Review and Analysis of NABJ Convention with President Trump

88

Bastiat's "The Law" - Part 2 (Plunder)

89

Bastiat's "The Law" - Part 1 (Non-Aggression Principle)

90

Social Studies and our Teachers

91

Free Assange (and Snowden and Ross too)

92

Should we talk about privatizing the FDIC?

93

30 Years of History with NATO, Russia, and Ukraine

94

Non-Interventionism, Isolationism, and the Hawks

95

EU Elections and France's Response (Globalism vs Localism)

96

An Introduction to the CAP and Libertarian News of the Week