This episode features an interview of education and parenting researcher, writer, and lecturer Alfie Kohn from 2009 by Laura Markham of Aha! Parenting. They consider and critique the misguided use of both punishments and rewards in the rearing of children.
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Christopher Preble: War Is the Health of the State (54m)
This episode features an interview of U.S. foreign policy academic Christopher Preble from 2015 by Trevor Burrus and Aaron Powell, hosts of the Free Thoughts podcast. They ask whether there exists a single libertarian foreign policy that all libertarians would agree with; talk about the idea that war powers, resolutions, and laws passed during wartime don’t recede in times of peace; give a quick rundown of American military history; and discuss the rise of a permanent private industry supplying the military. When should the United States go to war? When did the American military really start to get massive? How much do we spend on the military today? Relative to recent history? Is the military open to the same kinds of critiques that libertarians make about other government programs?
Tom Woods: A Stake Through the Heart of Socialism (27m)
This episode features a lecture by historian and Austro-libertarian Tom Woods as published on his podcast in 2019. This is a lecture taken from the Ron Paul Homeschool curriculum (found at RonPaulEducation.com) and explores the economic calculation problem inherent in socialist economic planning.
Daniel Quinn: Schooling, the Hidden Agenda (29m)
This episode features an audio essay written by American author Daniel Quinn in 2000, which comprises Chapter 18 of Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting, edited by Skyler J. Collins and published in 2012. He explores the true purpose of mass public schooling and its effects.
Andrew Napolitano: How the Courts Killed Natural Law (37m)
This episode features a rousing talk by former Federal judge and libertarian Andrew Napolitano from 2018. He looks at the Declaration of Independence’s natural law tradition–and how federal courts relentlessly and successfully attacked the principles it represented.
Shooting, Lockpicking, and Liberty (1h0m) – Episode 021
Episode 021: Join your host as he shoots the breeze with Pat Watson, co-host of the Insurgency Knitting Circle podcast. Although we had a few connection issues, it was a great conversation. Pat Watson has served 11+ years in a combination of military service, federal law enforcement, and local law enforcement, and is now a civilian who teaches survival skill sets and speaks openly about his voluntarism ideals and the failures of government. He is the owner operator of UncensoredTactical.com and is a co-host on the InsurgencyKnittingCircle podcast.
Peter Gray: Education and Human Evolution (1h49m)
This episode features a lecture by evolutionary psychologist, research professor, and author Peter Gray from 2016 on how children’s natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, and willfulness have all been shaped by natural selection to serve the function of education.
Alice Miller: Childhood, The Unexplored Source of Knowledge (28m)
This episode features an audio essay written by psychologist and psychoanalyst Alice Miller in 2007, which comprises Chapter 25 of Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting, edited by Skyler J. Collins and published in 2012. She explores childhood as a source of understanding tyranny and violence.
Brink Lindsey: Is Income Inequality a Problem? (52m)
This episode features an interview of academic and juris doctorate Brink Lindsey from 2014 by Trevor Burrus and Aaron Powell, hosts of the Free Thoughts podcast. We know income inequality exists, that some people are very rich and others very poor. And this bothers quite a lot of us. Aren’t we right to be concerned about this? Isn’t there something wrong when some people have access to far more resources than others?
Gardening, Graduations, and Getting Others to Listen (23m) – Episode 020
Episode 020: Join your host as he discusses the virtues of growing a vegetable garden, the sacrosanct ceremony of graduation, and having conversations with Joe six-pack.