Episodes

  • The Next Food Pyramid: Lab-Grown Meat and the New Moral Orthodoxy

    The Next Food Pyramid: Lab-Grown Meat and the New Moral Orthodoxy
    Apr 23 2026
    The anti-meat movement has influenced government policy well beyond anything close to the truth about meat. From the discredited food pyramid to government funding of “lab-grown meat,” government aids the activists who are making our lives worse. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/next-food-pyramid-lab-grown-meat-and-new-moral-orthodoxy
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    9 mins
  • God Bless Captain Vere: When Constitutional Duty Yields to Institutional Power

    God Bless Captain Vere: When Constitutional Duty Yields to Institutional Power
    Apr 23 2026
    With President Trump demanding people in the armed forces as well as in other government offices do his bidding no matter what the law might be, it is time for people to learn the lesson of Captain Vere. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/god-bless-captain-vere-when-constitutional-duty-yields-institutional-power
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    12 mins
  • A Look Behind the Fed’s Curtains

    A Look Behind the Fed’s Curtains
    Apr 23 2026
    Our own Jonathan Newman had the opportunity to sit down with a Federal Reserve governor. The central banker’s answers to Newman’s questions were evasive and riddled with contradictions. It seems there is not much behind the Fed’s technocratic veneer. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/look-behind-feds-curtains
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    18 mins
  • Why Trump’s Populism Failed

    Why Trump’s Populism Failed
    Apr 22 2026
    The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-trumps-populism-failed
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    17 mins
  • Libertarians Must Never Warm to the Warfare State

    Libertarians Must Never Warm to the Warfare State
    Apr 22 2026
    Just as, for them, liberty must be the highest political end, peace must be the highest end of foreign policy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/libertarians-must-never-warm-warfare-state
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    24 mins
  • Rothbard Was Right: Libertarians Must Never Warm to the Warfare State

    Rothbard Was Right: Libertarians Must Never Warm to the Warfare State
    Apr 22 2026
    A foreign policy that seeks to maintain a global empire is entirely incompatible with the laissez-faire, free-market system at home that many hawkish self-described libertarians claim to support. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-was-right-libertarians-must-never-warm-warfare-state
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    10 mins
  • Trump’s Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Needs a Strategic Reset

    Trump’s Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Needs a Strategic Reset
    Apr 22 2026
    President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time for policy reset. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-foreign-policy-latin-america-and-caribbean-needs-strategic-reset
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    15 mins
  • Who Pays the Hormuz Toll?

    Who Pays the Hormuz Toll?
    Apr 21 2026
    According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-pays-hormuz-toll
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    11 mins