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Full cast audio drama productions and audiobooks from the award winning Wireless Theatre Company. Look for our other podcasts, or see our full catalogue at wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk
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Lore Sjoberg's humorous view of all things techie.
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Wired Storyboard: Are you Wired? Want to know what really went on in making this month's magazine? Wired's editors, writers and designers take you deep into the stories they've been working on for a behind-the-scenes look at the latest issue. Join this podcast for an in-depth look at the tech, science, gadgets and culture stories by the people behind Wired magazine.
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Short stories and audio poems from the award winning Wireless Theatre Ltd. Visit wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk for great audio drama, comedy, thrillers and more.
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Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same kinds of assets earlier generations procured. The result is inter-generational conflict. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-interventionism-and-intergenerational-resent…
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David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing. Americans should know how FDR’s presidency led to one disaster after another. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bursting-bubble-was-fdr…
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Elon Musk recently claimed that artificial intelligence will make money itself obsolete. He needs to read the literature of Austrian economics. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/elon-musk-claims-money-will-become-irrelevant-he-right
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Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-banning-hate-speech-evil
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The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the lies from Washington. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/unjustified-conflict-grants-memoirs-mexican-american-war…
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The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/lane-train-and-rest-college-footbal…
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New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real things and reality will hit New Yorkers soon enough, and they won’t like it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/zohran-mamdanis-socialism-flunks-basic-economics…
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For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that's really about family fun and eating a huge meal. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-domestic-life
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The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-free-enterprise…
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From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/families-are-key-building-alternatives-state
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In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebrating-birth-american-free-enterprise
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Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.” Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/minarchism-worst-kind-state-idolatry
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The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-intervention-not-blackrock-blame-housing-crisis
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Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-i-wont-be-mourning-dick-cheney
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We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/origins-welfare-state-america
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Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/road-de-civilization-inflation-and-moral-erosion-society
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Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s early libertarians. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/roger-williams-exemplar-americas-soul
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The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/meaning-revolution
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The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/food-stamps-and-federal-war-self-reliance
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November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-world-war-i-triumph-progressive-intellectuals…
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We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/resisting-evil
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The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge wealth transfers can bring medical care to low-income people—is fundamentally flawed. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dystopia-misdiagno…
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If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-accidental-case-against-state
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While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/election-mamdani-what-it-means-and-what-it-doesnt-mean…
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When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/recipes-rothbard-what-chocolate-cake-can-teach-about-economics
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Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/murray-rothbard-and-world-war-ii-origins
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Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/all-means-elect-mamdani-and-watch-his-socialist-laboratory-work…
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Trump's team is citing the fentanyl crisis to justify its escalations near Venezuela. But virtually all illicit fentanyl is made and smuggled thousands of miles away. If war or regime change in Venezuela is good for the American people, why hide the true motivations? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-administration-lying-us-anoth…
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The food stamp program is a way for PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola company to legally rip off the taxpayers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-food-industry-lobbyists-keep-food-stamp-gravy-train-going
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For more than 60 years, the US government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing that has collapsed, however, is the logic in the US policy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/brief-history-enduring-american-embargo-against-cuba…
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September’s fiscal surplus was not thanks to tariff revenue. In truth, it was thanks to Americans paying more in income tax. Tariffs were only 5.7 percent of revenue. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-tariffs-did-not-cause-septembers-budget-surplus
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Despite the change in the White House, critical race theory is still with us, dominating the academic sectors and being ingrained in progressive culture. We need to better recognize what it is and how it works in order to better refute it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-recognize-critical-race-theory…
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No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians like Donald Trump did not cause the crisis. Instead, as Lawrence Mead writes, they are a symptom of the government's assault on our culture. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/recognizing-roots-current-us-political-t…
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As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his government-subsidized competitors. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-robber-barons-james-hill-versus-crony-competitors
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Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/america-hurts-farmers-and-discounts-chinas-soy-imports-while-providing-crutch-argentina…
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The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-planned-obsolescence…
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“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?" Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-rothbard-letters-show-his-early-opposition-both-nixon-and-reagan
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There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-will-next-gold-bust-look
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The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-progressives-broke-constitution-and-praised-themselves-it…
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Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/popular-media-romanticism-and-statist-insinuation
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Audio Drama Montage for 2025. Time has flown since our last montage in 2017, So here’s our latest short collection, courtesy of the awesome Joe Richardson. Features clips from: Treasure Island Bleak House Hell CatsPor Wireless Theatre Ltd
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The yearning for a state-controlled system is not born of compassion for others but rather of infantile selfishness. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/economics-and-infantilization-culture
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“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/acid-rain-scare-and-science-industrial-complex
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Once upon a time, American firms built with the long term in view, and the government did not try to hinder them. Today, thanks to reckless federal government spending, we are living hand-to-mouth, accumulating massive debts, and soon enough will be broke. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/going-broke…
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Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining every supposed peaceful goal they claim to be pursuing. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/individualism-and-violence-identitarian-left…
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According to mainstream economists, inflation aids economic growth while deflation impairs growth. Austrian economists, however, point out that in much of US history, economic growth was accompanied by deflation. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-economic-growth
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Advocates for US military intervention have invoked the war against the Barbary pirates as justification. Yet, an examination of that conflict shows that President Jefferson’s actions were limited and followed the direction of Congress. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jeffersons-war-barbary-pirates-unjustified-password-military-inter…
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