The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Dobson and Patton

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether there is a market for truth? Do people want to know the truth, if it does indeed exist, and can it be produced on the “market”? What are the incentives for those who want to spread the truth? Do the so-called “traditional” print media and “journalists” do so? Did the internet make things better or worse? What exactly do so-called reporters and journalis...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether anarchism, or abolishing the state, would lead to what is normally understood as right wing. There is a movement to try to transcend or render meaningless the terms left and right; however, even though the terms may not be entirely useful in all areas, this axis still reveals a lot of truth. Anarchism done in the 21st century and beyond will be abolishi...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether Charles Murray and Michel Foucault are right that the left hates the poor? Murray and Foucault are two intellectuals whom some might categorize as being at opposite purposes, they are in fact both critical of the modern managerial welfare state. When the modern left speaks of helping the poor arguably they are “warehousing” the poor by providing them a...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether it is possible to save for the future outside of actual material goods. Austro-Libertarians are famous for their criticisms of government backed fiat currency as either outright criminal or just a known fraud. If that criticism is the case, what value does anything denominated in US currency, as well as other fiat currencies such as the Euro, Yen and Po...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether eliminating voting would make family and friendships stronger. With the growing polarization which is occurring in the major "democracies” there is a growing trend of family, friendships, churches, marriages and business relationships being broken up on the grounds of who one votes for. Is this "rational" or a good state of affairs? Are friendships and...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether the “War on Covid regime failure” is a white pill (or provided many of what Sean Gabb calls collateral benefits) or was it a black pill? All three aspects of the war on Covid including vaccine mandates, masks and social distancing are retrospectively being renounced, or walked back/distanced, by most so-called experts. To paraphrase Peter Hitchens every...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether non-profits are profitable? How does one judge an organization which doesn’t have profits and losses? Are some non-profits merely front organizations for billionaires to further enrich themselves and create good PR for them? Are some non-profits merely rackets to gain further donations to keep the organization alive? Are non-profits merely holding cente...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether the extremists are more logical and clear than moderates? On a variety of issues it seems that those with the extreme viewpoints are more clear than those who are considered moderate. Is this merely a kind of genetic horseshoe fallacy or do the extremists have a commitment to consistency and rigor that “the adults in the room” don’t have? Extremists are...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses what an ideal, or libertarian, society ought to do with those of low abilities? One can dispute whether there would be as many in an ideal society with a freed market and stateless institutions; however, it seems that there would be a class of persons who aren’t competitive. Christians of the left and the right often times criticize libertarians for not caring...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why do people get out of bed in the morning and what counts as coercive violence? Would coercive violence to force people to work exist in a stateless or an ideal society? Why do people get out of bed and work in the current existing world? Is work necessary to have a society? Does work make people happier? Assuming a society of UBI welfare is possible, would i...

The Mindcrime Liberty show is joined by Rik Storey to discuss whether sin exists.  One of the more common maneuvers is to state that sin exists because free will exists, thus, in order to explain sin one must explain free will. Our guest Rik Storey defends free will as being integral to his understanding of Catholic Christianity. What are the limitations of free will and who are some Christian the...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show is joined by Keith Preston to discuss the long term status of Israel by using East Prussia as an analogy. East Prussia used to exist as a major port and was one of the causes of the German invasion of Poland but now is Polish/Russian Federation territory with hardly any German inhabitants. Will Israel cease to exist in this fashion? Is Israel dependent on the US for its...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why no thinking person of the Right should care about transmen competing in women's sports leagues. Sports themselves, and its rise, are quite important for males of all ages in developed industrialized societies as both an outlet and a venue for athletic excellence. Elite sporting leagues are a necessary Platonic ideal embodying that excellence and shouldn’t h...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses surveillance. If one isn’t doing anything wrong should one care about surveillance and spying? Can one have privacy in the modern world if one chooses to participate in its various technologies? How private was the past? Should one expect privacy and is it a genuine right?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses with Keith Preston whether organized crime and street gangs are like states/megacorps. What is the relationship between street gangs, organized crime and the formal state? Is Thaddeus Russell right in that crime gangs have provided America (and elsewhere) a steady stream of goods/services that the formal society outlaws and thereby a kind of material freedom? I...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses Carl Schmitt with Lukas Eidolon of Metanaissance. What can one, in particular libertarians and anarchists, learn from Schmitt’s concept of the political? Why has the friend/enemy distinction been such a relevant concept? What would Schmitt think of Thomas Hobbes and vice versa? Is trying to abolish the state unrealistic? Does the sovereign actually have truly i...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether environmentalists would prefer a world with fewer people. Environmentalists of the Left as well as the Right have pursued a variety of policies in particular forms of birth control as well as higher education for girls which has lowered the birthrate in most, if not all, industrialized developed countries. Intellectuals like JS Mill spent a night in pri...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses, are school teachers AND college professors merely prison guards? Is this rhetorical extremism? Are state schools merely about warehousing and disciplining children in order to create obedient soldiers and corporate employees? Why is there so much sympathy toward school teachers as well as college professors from the general public? Is there really any differen...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether mass immigration is compatible with the idea of a volunteer militia. The defence of a stateless society is a common point of criticism made against libertarians and anarchists. One of the solutions, other than rights protection agencies, proposed by theorists like Roderick T. Long and David Friedman is the adaptation of a much older form of organization...

Who won the Nassim Taleb and Gary North “debate"? There was no actual debate that happened; rather, the Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses an early essay written by the legendary Mises institute speaker and author Gary North, which critiqued Nassim Taleb’s very first and arguably best book, Fooled by Randomness. In that essay North perceptively picks up that Taleb is a Hayekian by adapting the evolu...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses the Euthyphro dilemma of art, music and films. To paraphrase the Euthyphro dilemma of theology, is good art merely good because powerful people and institutions say it's good, or are there some timeless propaganda-free and power-free ways to judge art? If the New York Times or Guardian reviews a film highly but more independent critics and the audience “pan” it...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether contraception, including natural family planning, is murder, if indeed abortion is murder? If humans, in particular couples who view abortion as murder, engage in sex while knowingly frustrating the natural consequences of the act, what is the difference between that and many abortions (in particular those that occur early on which are the majority)? Th...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether marriage is a form of slavery. Feminists, as well as other radical thinkers, view marriage as a form of slavery from which the individual needs to be liberated. Currently many men's rights advocates would posit that men of all classes can and do get exploited by marriage laws. It seems that both sides have a low view of marriage, yet unlike chattel slav...

The Mindcrime Liberty show discusses veganism. Why don’t vegans care about plants? Can the vegans (hopefully) be stopped? Are frugivores the most consistent? Is being a vegetarian, let alone a frugivore, healthy? Are vegans anti-human? Are environmentalism or animal rights the primary pro-vegan argument? What is the best way to refute the growing vegan movement? Is veganism a form of post-Christia...

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses who exploits whom? Is modern society merely exploitative a la Ted Kaczynski? Is the modern state exploitative? Do the unemployed exploit the employed? Is capitalism as defined by Marx exploitative? Is everyone in the periphery exploited by the first world? Are absentee landlords exploitative? Are central banks defined by Mises exploitative? If exploitation does...