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People who say you can't be allowed to govern yourselves because you'll do it wrong are on the side of Robespierre. They're on the side of the Jacobins. They're on the side of the people who wanted to see heads roll for opposing the central plan. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod.

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The Vendée peasants didn't want revolution. They wanted to keep their priests, skip the draft, and be left alone. The Republic's response: infernal columns—soldiers sent to burn every village, kill every resister, and impose enlightenment by the sword. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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6 days ago

The standard narrative: medieval kings ruled absolutely, then the Enlightenment invented freedom. The historical record: medieval Europe had thousands of competing jurisdictions with overlapping authority. Absolutism came after. @RyanMcMaken reviews the evidence. #RothPod

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30 days ago

The state isn’t “us.” Rothbard’s *Anatomy of the State* explains why: it’s the only institution that lives by coercion, not voluntary exchange, and it survives by making you confuse society with the rulers. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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about 1 month ago

Rothbard’s test: which “crimes” does the state punish most? Harm to citizens, or threats to itself? *Anatomy of the State* is a 60-minute detox from civics-class propaganda. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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about 1 month ago

Buckley mocked libertarians for talking all day about leash laws while having nothing to say about nuclear war and conscription. In 1963, Rothbard answered him with a complete libertarian theory of war, and it still applies to every conflict since. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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People say wars are inevitable, as if that settles the argument. Murder and rape are also inevitable. Does that mean we should stop trying to limit them? Rothbard wasn't trying to create utopia. He was trying to build practical constraints on state violence. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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Rothbard: if your property is being stolen by Smith, you have the right to repel him, but not by bombing a building and murdering innocent people. If you do, you are as much a criminal aggressor as Smith is. The same standard applies to states waging war. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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about 2 months ago

Beltway libertarians always reach the same conclusion: since no redrawn border will be perfectly just, don't redraw any borders at all. The status quo wins every time. Rothbard and Mises said the opposite: keep breaking it down into smaller pieces. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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2 months ago

Raico asked a question in 1996 that most libertarians still can't answer: if the communists win the election, are liberals required to say "well, they won"? Ludwig von @Mises had no real theory for this. And the immigration question makes it even harder. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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2 months ago

Tell a progressive you support the welfare state, but administered at the local level. Watch them panic. They know local control means the end of Washington's patronage machine. It was never about helping people. @RyanMcMaken @Solis_Mullen #RothPod

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2 months ago

Constitutionalism was liberty's great program. It failed. The state uses its own courts to interpret its own limits and always expands its own power. Words on paper never restrain the men holding the guns. @RyanMcMaken and Joseph @Solis_Mullen on what comes next. #RothPod

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3 months ago

Every teenager has thought it: "I never asked to be born." Turns out they're making a serious philosophical point. @RyanMcMaken and @JakeDesyllas on why that intuition is the key to the libertarian theory of parental obligation. #RothPod

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3 months ago

Critics love to claim libertarians think parents can abandon their children. It's the #1 attack on libertarian ethics. @RyanMcMaken and @JakeDesyllas show why they're wrong, and why libertarian principles actually demand more from parents, not less. #RothPod

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3 months ago

Foreign policy scholar @Brandan_Buck joins @RyanMcMaken to discuss whether or not a US tactical victory in Iran can lead to a strategic victory as well. Are there any prospects for a lasting peace? #RothPod https://t.co/Ej04zStz8P

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4 months ago

On the latest #RothPod, Italian economist @BernFerrr joins @RyanMcMaken to discuss the state of European politics over taxes, spending, inflation, and fiscal and monetary policy. Do Europeans claim to care about deficits and debt like Americans? https://t.co/mY7wUGQgLZ

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5 months ago

Older voters want their asset prices to go up foooooreeeeeeveeerrr. @RyanMcMaken @ChrisCalto91066 #RothPod https://t.co/PW1r9b0ms6

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7 months ago

On the latest #RothPod, @RyanMcMaken and @ZacharyYost take a look at international relations scholar John Mearsheimer’s claim that Europe faces a bleak future as the US pivots away from NATO. Can Europe thrive without American taxpayers’ money? https://t.co/8CTRA2iDad

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7 months ago

Taxpayers will pay the price. @RyanMcMaken #RothPod

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9 months ago

Does growth require “elastic” money? History says no. Real output can rise while prices fall: no printing press needed. Elasticity mostly aids debtors and the state. @NewmanJ_R and @RyanMcMaken explain why sound money scales. #RothPod

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