Paul Matzko

Biography

Paul Matzko is the Tech and Innovation Editor at Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org. He received a PhD in History from Pennsylvania State University in 2016. He has a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press titled The Radio Right, which details the John F. Kennedy administration’s successful efforts to censor Right‐​wing radio broadcasters in the 1960s. He has published articles with Presidential Studies Quarterly and Fides et Historia.
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Aaron Ross Powell and Paul Matzko
Introduction to Visions of Liberty

Visions of Liberty sets out to explore libertarianism by describing the hopeful future it could bring about.

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Paul Matzko
Bernie Sanders, the Accidental Nominee

Sanders’ frontrunner status is a symptom of the devolution of the Democratic Party. Collective action problems could produce Sanders 2020 just like they did Trump 2016.

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Paul Matzko
Trump, the Accidental President

Donald Trump is a symptom and not the cause of the decline of the Republican Party.

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Paul Matzko
The Death of the Modern Political Party

Martin Van Buren could have warned us that Donald Trump is what you get when a modern political party stops functioning like one.

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Paul Matzko
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Reactions to Hayek

The Road to Serfdom arrived in the spotlight just as public opinion was turning against the New Deal.

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Paul Matzko
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Reactions to Beveridge

Bolstered by support from the British government, Social Insurance and Allied Services recieved a warm & popular reception.

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Paul Matzko
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: In Dialogue

Beveridge’s and Hayek’s dispute over expert control of economic and social policy was a manifestation of a much deeper disagreement, known as the “Knowledge Problem”.

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Paul Matzko
Where Have All the Disney Redheads Gone?

Disney’s recasting of redheaded characters with black actors makes historical and artistic sense.

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Paul Matzko
King George III or Donald Trump? Reading the Declaration of Independence in 2019

Donald Trump is more similar to King George III than many care to admit, but we should.

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Paul Matzko
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom

In The Road to Serfdom F. A. Hayek warned that allowing the government the powers needed to enact a welfare state risked undermining political liberty.

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Paul Matzko
The Fairness Doctrine Was Terrible for Broadcasting and It Would Be Terrible for the Internet

American was founded upon the immodest proposition that the best response to bad speech is more speech. It is a fundamentally democratic proposition, one that is as appropriate for the digital age as it was for the 1780s.

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Paul Matzko
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Beveridge’s Social Insurance and Allied Services

Beveridge targeted “five giants”; want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness, all needed solutions from the welfare state.

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Paul Matzko
Hayek vs. Beveridge on the Welfare State: Introduction

How did F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Sir William Beveridge’s Social Insurance and Allied Services shape the politics of the welfare state in the United States and the United Kingdom?

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Paul Matzko
The Real Reason Facebook and Netflix Support Net Neutrality

In the debate over net neutrality, we need to pay closer attention to the anti‐​competitive interests of Internet Content Providers.

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Paul Matzko
How the FOSTA Rules Create a “Bootleggers and Baptists” Scenario for the 21st Century

In a parallel to Prohibition, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act will backfire by boosting demand for black market sex trafficking.

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Learn Like a Machine
Max Sklar and Paul Matzko
New Technologies of Freedom
Chris Berg, Darcy W. E. Allen, Matthew Feeney, & Paul Matzko
Trump’s Brain Drain
Caleb Watney and Paul Matzko
Content Moderation vs. Free Speech
Paul Matzko and John Samples
Do We Still Need Cities?
Paul Matzko and Peter Van Doren
What’s a Life Worth During a Pandemic?
Paul Matzko and Peter Van Doren
Mrs. America
David Boaz, Kat Murti, Paul Matzko, Landry Ayres, & Natalie Dowzicky
The Secret History of Right‐​Wing Radio
Paul Matzko
COVID on Campus
Bryan Caplan and Paul Matzko
The Radio Right
Paul Matzko, Trevor Burrus, and Aaron Ross Powell
Homeschooling Goes Viral
Kerry McDonald and Paul Matzko
Decentralizing Social Media
Aaron Ross Powell, Paul Matzko, and Bill Ottman
Books
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Aaron Ross Powell and Paul Matzko
Visions of Liberty