Episodes

  • Ep 333 | School Choice Is Making Incredible Progress | Guest: Corey DeAngelis

    Ep 333 | School Choice Is Making Incredible Progress | Guest: Corey DeAngelis
    May 21 2025
    For libertarians in America, there are plenty of things to be depressed about as Congress fails to cut spending or implement the DOGE’s recommendations. But one area where there is room for optimism is the school choice movement, particularly at the state level. Matt Kibbe talks to Corey DeAngelis, author of “The Parent Revolution,” about the great strides parents are making in taking control of their children’s education. After the pandemic locked down schools, forced students onto Zoom calls, and exposed parents to what is actually happening in the classroom, parents are more energized than ever to break free from the government school system. They are working with their legislatures to keep more of their tax dollars, which can be used to opt for private schooling or homeschooling. Even Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” contains some important school choice provisions that will bring more educational freedom to the country.
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    1 hr
  • Ep 332 | The Pandemic Is Being Memory Holed | Guest: David Zweig

    Ep 332 | The Pandemic Is Being Memory Holed | Guest: David Zweig
    May 14 2025
    In the aftermath of most national disasters, such as 9/11, the Iraq War, and even January 6, the media typically spends years writing an endless series of think pieces, autopsies, and analyses of what went wrong and how to prevent it from ever happening again. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdowns, we’re not seeing the same thing, and in fact most media outlets seem to want to forget the whole thing ever happened, even though it represented the most dramatic curtailing of American civil liberties in living memory. Matt Kibbe talks to David Zweig, author of “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions,” who argues that the media wants to hide its own culpability in pushing for lockdowns and censorship of dissenting ideas. Zweig, who considered himself broadly left-wing before the pandemic, was shocked at the persistent illogic of keeping schools closed in the face of evidence that children faced virtually no risk from the virus, and his ensuing investigation led him to question many of his preconceptions about the state of American journalism.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ep 331 | DOGE Has Found Billions in Waste. Now What? | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie

    Ep 331 | DOGE Has Found Billions in Waste. Now What? | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie
    May 7 2025
    Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, came storming in this January with a mission to expose government waste, fraud, and abuse and to highlight up to $2 trillion that could be cut from the federal budget. One hundred days in, the department has made some impressive progress, but government spending remains as high as ever. Matt Kibbe sits down with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to find out where we stand in the congressional budget process, as well as the progress of the Make America Healthy Again coalition and Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs.
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    57 mins
  • Ep 330 | Nobody Agrees with John Stossel | Guest: John Stossel

    Ep 330 | Nobody Agrees with John Stossel | Guest: John Stossel
    Apr 30 2025
    At the Young Americans for Liberty conference in Washington, D.C., Matt Kibbe sits down with legendary journalist and educator John Stossel to talk about his long career bringing libertarianism to the masses. Stossel reflects on how the media landscape has changed, with decentralized platforms offering more opportunities to communicate without the fear of editorial censorship, and explains how his recent projects are bringing liberty into the classroom. He also laments the fact that for as long as he has been pointing out the benefits of free markets and personal liberty, many Americans are still not receptive to the ideas of freedom. Can Kibbe cheer him up with a dose of optimism? Watch to find out!
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    45 mins
  • Ep 329 | Executive Orders? Hold My Beer! | Guest: Matt Kibbe

    Ep 329 | Executive Orders? Hold My Beer! | Guest: Matt Kibbe
    Apr 23 2025
    The second Trump administration has awakened Democrats to the dangers of executive power, but they have no one to blame but themselves. Matt Kibbe goes through the history of the expansion of executive authority, in which the presidency becomes more and more dominant over the other two branches of government. A lot of what we are now seeing can be traced to Barack Obama, who boasted that he could do what he wanted without Congress because he had a pen and a phone. Since then, there has been an arms race between the two parties to see how much they can get done with the presidency alone. It’s a strategy that only harms the American people and our freedoms and will almost certainly come back to bite the very people who started it.
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    53 mins
  • Ep 328 | When ‘Fringe’ Ideas Trump the Expert Class | Guest: Matt Kibbe

    Ep 328 | When ‘Fringe’ Ideas Trump the Expert Class | Guest: Matt Kibbe
    Apr 16 2025
    In a recent debate on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Douglas Murray chastised the host for platforming non-experts he claims are spreading dangerous misinformation. Matt Kibbe points out that not only has the expert class completely failed to earn the trust of the American people but that the democratization of knowledge is one of the best things about the internet and podcasting in general. The process of challenging established dogma is what leads to greater dialogue and the free exchange of ideas. This is not unlike the theories of the Austrian school of economics, which prioritizes the importance of individual action over mindless deference to so-called experts, who claim to know what’s best for everyone else.
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    34 mins
  • Ep 327 | Lower Tariffs Will Put America First | Guest: Antony Davies

    Ep 327 | Lower Tariffs Will Put America First | Guest: Antony Davies
    Apr 9 2025
    As the Trump Administration appears to double down on protectionist trade policies, many critics have taken a sneering, condescending attitude toward those who think that tariffs might just make America great again. Matt Kibbe sits down with economist Antony Davies to try to address these concerns with empathy and understanding, while at the same time demonstrating that high tariffs actually hurt American workers by making everything more expensive. There are good reasons to be dissatisfied with the state of America’s economy, but raising taxes on consumers will only make things worse.
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    54 mins
  • Ep 326 | Meet the ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’ Running the NIH | Guest: Jay Bhattacharya

    Ep 326 | Meet the ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’ Running the NIH | Guest: Jay Bhattacharya
    Apr 2 2025
    To celebrate the confirmation of Jay Bhattacharya as director of the NIH, this week’s “Kibbe on Liberty” features unseen footage from Matt Kibbe’s series “The Coverup,” in which Dr. Bhattacharya explains how he was demonized and attacked for his opposition to COVID lockdowns, as well as some greatest hits from Jay’s previous appearances on the show.
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    30 mins