The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Dobson and Patton

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether, if everyone followed the advice of popular AM radio financial advisor Dave Ramsey, would the fiat economy collapse? Does Dave Ramsey only give good advice for individuals or would society as a whole be better off if everyone followed his advice? Is Ramsey a hypocrite for collecting rents/earning interest off capital while at the same time basically adv...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether the word democracy is a coherent concept or whether it is merely a meaningless “feel good” word for its advocates and a swear word for its critics? What exactly is a democracy on a definitional/conceptual level? What is a “non-democracy”? How do democracies differ from autocracies or dictatorships especially if seemingly nowhere has truly free speech an...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether female education was a mistake, virtuous, an inevitability, or malicious? Did female education bring about world peace and the eradication of crime as some thought? Did female education make women more or less happy? Was female education merely an almost inevitable consequence of modernity/industrialization rather than some sort of constructed movement?...

The Mindcrime LIberty Show discusses why elites were never truly woke. If elites really cared about “brown and black people” they wouldn’t be bombing or sanctioning countries made up of them. On the domestic front in Western countries the concept may have more merit but it is arguably more “anti-white” than pro-black/brown in that elites view the existing entrenched populations as a threat and wan...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether or not “people exist”. Every 5 years the physical contents of one’s body is rebuilt a la ship of theseus. Considering there is no physical part of one’s body that is still there from 5 years ago how do we socially view others and ourselves? Are humans a kind of “intellectual property”? Are secular thinkers forced into a kind of non-physical essence of h...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses what “fringe” dissident intellectuals want people to do with their free time or their time in general. If people aren’t working, what are they supposed to do? What do intellectuals such as Guy Debord, Roger Scruton, Jeff Deist, or Peter Hitchens want us to do which isn’t merely "degenerate" or “inauthentic consumerism"? If you abolish the working system, yet so...

The Mindcrime LIberty Show discusses the case against children. If life has some amount of suffering, and suffering is a negative, then why create new life? On a theological level unless one is a universalist there is no guarantee of a happy outcome for children. What are the best arguments against having children? Do children make their parents lives better or worse? Would the people who currentl...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show makes the case for why Libertarians, Paleoconservatives, and other reactionaries shouldn't be overly concerned about Mamdani's recent victory in the New York City mayor's race. First, Mamdani is likely neither a radical socialist nor a radical jihadist. But even if he were, what power does he truly have? Culturally, Mamdani is highly representative of New York City—a cit...

The Mindcrime Liberty show discusses time and its relationship to the industrialized managerial state. Did "time," as we now measure it, even exist before industrialization and the rise of clocks? Are seasonal clock changes a good idea? Are centralized time zones beneficial? What exactly is "natural time," considering that historical societies have had varied numbers of days in a week and differen...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show explores the intricate link between technology and bureaucracy. We ask: Can a society advance technologically without being suffocated by red tape? What fuels the parallel growth of technology and bureaucratic systems? We then turn to the world of insurance: Is it an inevitable social institution, or, as theorist Hans Hoppe argues, mostly welfare in disguise? Finally, we...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show explores whether Disney is more "real" than the places it has replicated—Paris, London, and Japan. From an anthropological perspective, people worldwide, including Americans, treat Disney parks as pilgrimage sites (or what we commonly call "vacations"). When travelers visit Europe, they often flock to relics of the past—historic but static landmarks. Disney, despite its...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses the non-leftwing case for abolishing the professionalized, well paid, legally protected police and law enforcement. Contrary to what some people on the so-called conservative movement might think, police forces are a relatively recent invention. The City of London in the 19th century is credited with something that is arguably similar to what modern police forc...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether a single ruler can rule? What would the limitations be of this single ruler? If rulers must exist is this system preferable? What constrains the power elite in any system to stop a single ruler from forming?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether highly informed journalists and commentators such as Scott Horton, Whitney Webb, and Ryan Dawson, not those of the BBC or CNN, are blackpilling. If you can define a problem very well in all its gory details, does that give you a way to overcome a problem? If many of the wretched power elite go unnamed and remain unaccountable then what exactly is the po...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether Hans Hoppe is an anarchist or a monarchist? Many of Hoppe’s critics, as well as his disciples, take the view that he is a monarchist but is that the case? Is Hans Hoppe only backhandedly defending monarchies by arguing they are superior to the current existing regime of so-called liberal democracies, or is he outright defending monarchy? Arguably Hoppe...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses Kevin Carson and the broader left-libertarian movement. The left-libertarians would argue that legal and economic privilege is the cause of inequality in the world. The problem is why did certain individuals, families, societies or firms put themselves into a position to achieve privilege in the first place? If Trump, Bezos, Gates and Musk are rich because thei...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses the thought of Caleb Maupin. Maupin recently declared that he is no longer a Marxist. We can get into weeds about whether ex-Marxists were ever Marxists, but what exactly is the trajectory of Maupin’s thought, especially in the US? Maupin calls himself a US patriot but what would Maupin’s innovationism look like in the US? Is Maupin merely an advocate of social...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses, when ought life legally begin? Do the pro choice advocates prove too much? Aren't babies and young children as helpless as fetuses? When do children cease to be helpless and dependent? It clearly doesn't begin at day 1 - thinkers like Peter Singer who condones infanticide are much more consistent. On the other extreme, when does bad parenting become a crime?

  The Mindcrime Liberty Show is joined by Rik Storey to discuss whether social media is social or anti social? Has social media “improved” things if indeed one can believe in improvement? Is it not the case that social media is radically superior to the network television era of the 1950s to 2000s? What are the downsides of social media usage? Is social media more truthful, if indeed truth exists,...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why abolishing the current existing managerial state will decrease the prominence women have in society. The modern managerial welfare bureaucratic state with its highly regulated economies are a boon for the feminist movement. In five key areas including family law, justice, education, economic regulation and welfare, the modern managerial state helps the femi...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether servicemen ought to be hated since most recent wars are pointless, if not outright criminal, and leave western home countries both poorer and more insecure. Are veterans merely just doing a job and following orders? In the US since Vietnam it has been an all volunteer force. What should be done about these men (as well as woman) and how should dissident...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses the blind spots of declinism. Recently Bob Murphy was interviewed by Reason magazine’s Nick Gillepsie about whether libertarians, or more broadly people on the so-called “right,” are unduly pessimistic. The first question is whether the areas such as economy, culture and fertility/family formation are in decline and when did they start? If it is in decline, wha...

The Mindcrime Liberty show discusses whether the State and the Pentagon “won” against Julian Assange. First of all, we here at this show think Assange is a hero and he will be remembered as a hero by most right thinking persons; however, did the State accomplish what it wanted? The state managed to get Assange, who is in poor health thanks to his time in prison, to plead guilty to the Espionage Ac...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether anyone is innocent on various levels. Do any innocent people exist in the eyes of god, international law (if such a thing exists) or the managerial state bureaucracy? On the theological level, why do people baptize children if indeed children are considered cute and innocent? When do children become adults? Why do antiwar activists stress the death of c...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether Plato is right in his guardian family model where children are raised without knowing their precise parents. Will keeping parents anonymous cut down on favoritism (as well as disfavoritism) and make society more cohesive and less individualistic? Why are intellectuals so boring and traditional when it comes to family and marriage? Isn’t gay marriage “co...