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April 13, 2021

WTMWD #63: The Tenth Amendment Center's Michael Boldin: How do we do this?

I start off asking Michael Boldin, of the Tenth Amendment Center, how we can use the principle of nullification to put an end to the lockdown insanity and create free societies... and we end up talking about everything from the...


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Published on April 13, 2021 13:10

April 12, 2021

Building Free Communities with Private Membership Associations - a webinar with the Freedom Angels

Yesterday, the Freedom Angels hosted a webinar with Vanessa and Mike Colomb of Renegade Ranch, a new Private Membership Association (PMA) grocery store in Penn Valley, Nevada County, California. They talk about Private Membership Associations - how they work, and...


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Published on April 12, 2021 12:05

April 11, 2021

WTMWD #62: Todd Seavey on Secession and Open Borders

In which long-time libertarian writer and friend Todd Seavey does his best to offend those on both left and right on two hot-button issues that might actually unite people if only they would think about them in the right way...


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Published on April 11, 2021 16:13

April 5, 2021

WTMWD #61: Unbreaking Science with Dr. James Lyons Weiler

How broken are the systems that evaluate scientific research, and what can be done to fix them? I talk with Dr. James Lyons Weiler about these questions, and about his own contributions to independent research - including his analysis of...


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Published on April 05, 2021 12:56

March 23, 2021

WTMWD #60: Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski on how the lockdowns may have made Covid-19 more dangerous

I speak with Professor Knut Wittkowski, former head of the Rockefeller University's Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, about what normally happens with viruses when societies are not locked down, and how locking down may have made things much...


         
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Published on March 23, 2021 20:37

March 22, 2021

Sakura

There they are again. Sakura blossoms. Coming out again this year just like they did last year and the year before... and hundreds, maybe even thousands of years before that. Taking over a small mountain village, a well-worn pathway... or...


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Published on March 22, 2021 13:09

March 18, 2021

Happy Birthday to "What Then Must We Do?"!

A year ago today, I posted my first ever podcast episode. The state I live in had just "locked down" vast swathes of our lives, and my guest was the fantastic Jeff Tucker, of the American Institute for Economic Research....


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Published on March 18, 2021 07:16

March 15, 2021

March 10, 2021

WTMWD #58: Roger Koops used to work in vaccine development. Here's why he doesn't plan to get the Covid-19 shot

I speak with retired chemist Roger Koops, about his experience working in vaccine development. We talk about some misunderstandings about how vaccines work, and some of his concerns about the Covid-19 vaccines. Roger Koops is a contributing author for AIER,...


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Published on March 10, 2021 15:51

March 8, 2021