Building Tomorrow
Can You Monetize Everything You Do?
This week, we talk about smart televisions watching you, the Brave browser, and the life of Twitch streamer Ice Poseidon.
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Building Tomorrow
Smart Contracts Aren’t Trustless, Nor Should They Be
Criticizing smart contracts for not being completely “trustless” instruments completely misses the point.
Excursions
A Few Kind Words about the Most Evil Man in Mankind’s History
George Smith explains some fundamental features of Immanuel Kant’s moral and political theory.
Liberty Chronicles
Revolution in Utica and Buffalo
The Polk years began in a sort of uneasy truce between radicals and conservatives.
essays
Menger’s Principles of Economics: Coordinating Stuff and Time
At base, economics is an historical discipline—it is the study of how productivity and material resources, combined over time, satisfy human needs.
columns
The Errors of Nostalgi-tarianism
Pining for a golden age of liberty that never existed is analytically and rhetorically disastrous.
Free Thoughts
When FDR Took Americans’ Gold (with Sebastian Edwards)
Sebastian Edwards joins us today to discuss why we abandoned the gold standard.
Prototype
Election Hacking and the Global Politics of Attention
Fears of internet borne electoral interference have spurred even liberal states to assert a collective right to attention.
Building Tomorrow
How Smart are ‘Smart Contracts’?
Kate Sills joins to respond to several recent articles criticizing smart contracts, including the “Oracle problem.”
essays
Menger’s Principles of Economics: Linking Cause to Effect
To the causal-realist, all economic production is linked in great causal chains to the fulfillment of individual human needs.
Excursions
Some Personal Reflections on Ayn Rand
George Smith discusses some good and bad influences that Ayn Rand’s ideas had on his own intellectual development.
Liberty Chronicles
The Vile Mexican War
In 1844, America’s first libertarians made a serious mistake. The kind of mistake with the potential to destroy their whole movement.
columns
Should Libertarians Abandon the Word “Capitalism?”
It may be doing more harm than good.
Free Thoughts
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (with Alex Nowrasteh)
Alex Nowrasteh joins us today to discuss the state of immigration in President Trump’s America.
Prototype
The Problem Is What They Know
From Equifax to Ashley Madison, the inevitability of big data leaks drives the democratization of disciplinary power.
Building Tomorrow
What’s in Your (Crypto) Wallet?
This week, we discuss cryptocurrency and security.
Excursions
Ayn Rand on Aristotle
George Smith examines some of Rand’s claims about the beneficial influence of Aristotle’s ideas on the course of Western civilization.
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Welcome to Building Tomorrow!
Welcome to Building Tomorrow! A new podcast by Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute.