Permissionless Liberty

In this episode, Adam and Dan explore the writings of Leonard Reed and the concept of 'Kakistocracy,' or governance by the least qualified, and debate the moral and ethical implications of collectivism versus individualism. — — https://fee.org/articles/when-meddlers-run-amok/ Liberty Is Natural, Practical, and Divine — https://libertyletters.substack.com/p/natural-practical-and-divine

In this episode, Adam and Dan discuss Adam's argument that libertarianism’s central weakness isn’t messaging, morality, or public ignorance—but the absence of any real system for producing liberty. While governments reliably generate new rules, penalties, and controls through established institutions, libertarians have no equivalent machinery that regularly creates new freedoms in the real world....

Can a tiny minority meaningfully shift society toward liberty? And does social change come from trying to improve others or improving oneself. In this epsiode, Adam and Dan unpack Leonard E. Read’s arguments about the outsized impact of small intellectual vanguards, drawing parallels to historical movements (the American Revolution, Bolshevism) and modern examples like the cypherpunks and Bitcoin.

In this episode, Adam and Dan explore the core ideas from Adam's essay "The Logic of Liberty." Their discussion centers on the fundamental psychological and incentive-based reasons people choose coercive systems over voluntary ones—such as risk aversion, perceived certainty, and cultural acceptance of state authority. Read "The Logic of Liberty": https://www.adamknott.com

In this episode, Adam and Dan discuss the biggest challenge facing modern libertarians: how to revive, enact, or prototype genuine freedom within a society philosophically oriented toward government control—whether through persuasion, example, or direct creation of new liberty-oriented institutions.

Adam explains his intellectual journey, discussing how he became a libertarian and how he developed the concept of "Permissionless Liberty."