Culture is upstream of politics, and while libertarians are great at compiling spreadsheets and writing white papers, they’re a little bit behind when it comes to making compelling art that communicates the benefits of a free society.
Series - Kibbe on Liberty
Libertarian Matt Kibbe puts aside politics to have mostly honest conversations with mostly interesting people. Subscribe to Kibbe on Liberty on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere you get podcasts.
Can the Deep State Be Dismantled? | Guests: Vivek Ramaswamy and Kyle Seraphin | Ep 233
The Deep State, that collection of unelected bureaucracies that run the government and maintain the status quo in spite of what the American people vote for, has been identified as one of the biggest threats to liberty and democracy faced by our country.
Everyone would like to have access to better, healthier food, but government regulations favor huge factory farms while making it difficult for the thousands of independent farmers across America to reach consumers.
Stop Using Children to Justify Censorship | Guest: Shoshana Weissmann | Ep 231
Won’t someone please think of the children? From time immemorial, this has been the battle cry of the moral guardians who want to control what you’re allowed to see, hear, or think.
Did Ayn Rand Inspire The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? | Guest: Eric Boehm | Ep 230
As progressive politics infects more and more sources of popular entertainment, it’s becoming increasingly rare to find themes of independence, freedom, and self-determination in movies and television.
In today’s hypersensitive environment of political correctness, it seems like nobody can even take a joke.
Big Beer Chooses Woke Politics over Its Loyal Customers | Guest: Jennifer Sey | Ep 228
With the recent rash of beer commercials insulting the companies’ own customers in order to score cheap political points, it’s reasonable to ask what’s going on.
E-Verify Will Be Used to Surveil Americans | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | Ep 227
Matt Kibbe and Thomas Massie talk about the dark implications of such a program, comparing it to China's social credit system and vaccine passport program that was conceived during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
America prides itself on being a classless society. We abolished the peer system of England and replaced it with the concept of social mobility and the belief that all men are created equal. But in March of 2020, the country was suddenly and forcibly divided into essential and non...
Matt Kibbe and Sen. Rand Paul discuss the series of terrible decisions Fauci made during his handling of the pandemic and his continued equivocation and evasion under questioning.
Markets, Not Mandates, Will Save the Environment | Guest: Chris Barnard | Ep 224
For decades, we’ve been told that only top-down mandates from the government can organize people to protect the environment, but in many cases, the federal government actually does more harm than good.
The world of the arts is one in which creativity and original thinking should be valued above all else. But in fact, it's one of the industries that most enforces conformity and obedience.
In the midst of yet another American banking crisis, the so-called experts are at a loss to explain how these crises keep happening. But there is an answer, and it’s one that Austrian economists have known for more than a century.
TikTok Ban Empowers Government Speech Police | Guest: Robby Soave | Ep 221
The war against Big Tech is in full swing. Republicans in Congress are attempting to pass the Restrict Act, a dangerous piece of legislation that would not only allow them to ban TikTok, the China-controlled social media app, but would also give them broad powers to regulate Americans’...
The housing crash of 2008, leading into the Great Recession, was one of the worst economic crises in the last hundred years.