Posts related to "libertarianism"

In this episode Jad and Kevin discuss an article Kevin found about a kid getting expelled from his school for having a weapon in his car. Well maybe it wasn’t a weapon. In fact, maybe […]

In a fun twist of roles, one of the editors of the JKPodcast (Lee) asked if we could do an episode discussing libertarian and anarchist positions of environmentalism. Although we had intended just to record […]

In this final part detailing the Libertarian Party of Texas’s 2014 state convention, Jad and Kevin talk about the three to four hour long discussion the Libertarian delegates had over borders and immigration. While platform […]

Jad and Kevin branch out from the usual political conversations and delve a bit deeper into the technical details of Bitcoin this week. Bearing in mind of course that Bitcoin is certainly affecting policies. We […]

In this second of three parts detailing the Libertarian Party of Texas’s 2014 state convention, Jad and Kevin discuss the gubernatorial race. The race essentially came down to two candidates, Kathie Glass and Robert Bell. […]

With Kevin currently running for the Texas House of Representatives, he definitely felt he should attend his own party’s 2014 state convention. Over the next three Monday Morning episodes Jad and Kevin will walk through […]

As part of our ongoing Monday Morning Campaign Update series, Jad and Kevin talk about Kevin’s run on the campaign trail over the past two weeks. Since we last chatted about it, Kevin had the […]

As part of our ongoing Monday Morning Campaign Update series, Jad and Kevin talk about the financial information gathering process Texas candidates are subjected to. Since Kevin is experiencing this process first hand (as a […]

As a continuation of our Monday Morning Campaign Update series, Kevin and Jad talk about some of the interesting candidate questionnaires Kevin has been receiving on the campaign trail. The short of the story is […]

This week Jad and Kevin pick back up where they left off last week with a discussion of local governments spending taxpayer money on citywide projects. Amongst many other things, we finish talking about a […]

After discussing the possibility of this for quite some time, Kevin officially announces his candidacy for the Texas House of Representatives in Texas House District 46. Jad and Kevin discuss the nuances of filing candidate […]

This week we’re joined by our old friend and local Austin author, Tom de Lorenzo. The three of us discuss how women fit into libertarianism and anarchism. We essentially consider the fact that many modern […]

This week Jad and Kevin conclude their discussion of the Travyon Martin and George Zimmerman situation. This is the second part of a two part conversation that began last week. One part of the episode […]

This week we conclude our two-part episode on finding common ground. In the first part of this discussion, Jad, Tom and I discuss varying methods, strategies, and pitfalls for finding common ground in which to […]

This week we begin the first of a two-part episode primarily focused on the idea of finding common ground in political discourse. In a round-about way we’ve actually discussed the topic many times before, but […]

We’ll get to the topics in just a moment, but first a little note about the podcast. This week is a little different for us. Over the past 9 months now, Jad and I have […]

This week we conclude our previous week’s episode with a larger discussion on the Freedom of Conscience. If you didn’t get an opportunity to hear the build-up to the topics within this episode, please have […]

Hello and welcome once again to the JKPodcast. This week we’re presenting the first of a two-part episode primarily focusing on the Freedom of Conscience. Our conversation on the topic was actually a spin-off from […]

We’ve got some pretty tough topics to tackle this week. With a spotlight still on the 2012 presidential election, and in addition many other incidental points discovered along the way, we discuss the emptiness of […]

In this episode we explore how human beings respond to authority. Since the philosophical ideals of libertarianism sit exactly opposite those of authoritarianism, Jad and I are essentially always focused on this topic. I think […]