Rothbard And War – With Guest Lew Rockwell

Lew Rockwell, founder of The Mises Institute and publisher of the enormously popular LewRockwell.com, joins today’s Liberty Report to discuss his upcoming speech at the Ron Paul Institute Washington conference and the importance of Rothbard to antiwar thought. We also discuss the headlines of the day, including the recent mass shootings and the US “maximum pressure” campaign against China.
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