Lew Rockwell Podcast

Since July 2008, Lew Rockwell of LewRockwell.com and Mises.org has been producing and providing podcasts (audio segments) through LRC.  I’ve listened to every one of them, some many times, and find them all to be fantastic.

Lew posted the Top 10 Podcast link today.

  1. $2000 Gold and the Break up of the US: Gerald Celente
  2. The Biggest Bubble in the History of the World: Ron Paul
  3. America’s Slow-Motion Fascist Coup: Naomi Wolf
  4. The Greatest Depression in History: Gerald Celente
  5. Thanks for the Inflationary Depression: Peter Schiff
  6. How the Government Wrecked the Economy: Peter Schiff
  7. The Panic of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Ron Paul
  8. The Crash of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Jim Rogers
  9. Stop the Bailout!: Lew Rockwell on the Michael Reagan Show
  10. There Is Hope: Ron Paul

My favorite of this lot, is the amazing Naomi Wolf interview.  Perhaps I have listened to too much Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente (who are all excellent btw), but the Noami Wolf interview was a great gateway to the left, and a really special moment where it turned into a conversation between two intelligent people sharing information and ideas.

Sadly, the left-libertarian doorstops (they have to be good for something) haven’t seemed to have done much to help promote it.

Some of my other favorites include (in no particular order)

28. What is Neoconservatism?

65. A Libertarian in the USSR

32. Intellectual “Property”

13. The Old Right

15. Democracy: The God That Failed

68. Are You an Anarchist?

8. The Scam Called the State

I hope more libertarians blog about and share these around.  They appeal to all sorts of different groups, from anarchists to Reagan republicans, antiwar protestors to wall street observers.

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Value driven libertarianism.

If you don’t embrace multi-culturalism, you’re not libertarian.

If you discriminate in your business dealings or personal/religious/cultural affairs, you’re not libertarian.

If you aren’t for X, Y or Z, then you’re not libertarian.

Value driven libertarianism makes me mad.

I’ve been accused of using the NAP as a rhetorical device, but I believe that is only an attempt to dissuade me from constantly referring to what I consider a bedrock libertarian concept. Non-aggression.

I don’t care if people want to engage in bizarre sexual acts, I don’t care if they do or do not inter-marry and I certainly could care less what religion someone belongs to, as long as they do not promote their values to me through aggression. As long as they are content making decisions over their lives and not trying to make decisions over mine, we can co-exist regardless of what values they hold.

Some libertarians are not so forgiving. To them, libertarianism and a free market society carries with it certain guarantees of social structure, the end of some ideas and the institution of others.

I don’t buy that. I don’t know what a free market will produce, and I don’t pretend to know. People might try the free market, not like it, and impose a state upon themselves. Freedom allows all kinds of goofy decisions like that.

Watch out for libertarians who claim to have it all figured out. Odds are, they’re closet statists with their own social, economic and religious (or atheist) agendas.

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