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==> If you want to hear me talk even more about the Texas blackouts, I was recently on Bill Peacock’s podcast. ==> Jeff Deist has interesting thoughts on how Rothbardians should think about Big Tech. I especially liked his analogy of how the legal treatment of horse thieves has understandably evolved, and what implications that […]

BMS ep 194: How a Voluntary Society Would Handle Blockades and Immigration

Some deep thoughts, in which I elaborate on two ideas I used in the novel Minerva I wrote in grad school.

BMS ep. 192: Extending AnCap Analysis for Vaccine Passports, Court Rulings, and Desegregation

In this episode, I use a February discussion between Dave Smith and Michael Malice as the springboard for my thoughts on diverse topics. On some issues I am just extending what Dave/Malice said, but on others I disagree with them.

BMS ep. 154: Review of “The Hunt” and “The Purge” from An-Cap Perspective

Audio here.

BMS ep 124: How to Defund the Police, and Eyewitness Account of CHAZ

This is one of the rare times when my areas of expertise are actually in popular demand. (The other time was when capital theory briefly became cool when Piketty’s book came out.) I first spend an hour or so laying out the theory of how to think about “defund the police.” Then I interview Whitney […]

Bob Murphy Show ep. 122: Alex Salter on the Empty Slogan “State Capacity,” and the Infamous Somalia Challenge

Audio here, video below:

And Miles to Go Before I Sleep

I have been the Indiana Jones of economics lately (picture the map showing Indy as a moving red line). I know there are at least 3 of you who only know about my new podcast episodes and articles by checking here, so let me bring you up to speed: ==> On the Lara-Murphy Show, I […]