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By Matt Cockerill at 7:38AM

Cockerill Interviews David Henderson

David Henderson, economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey California, research scholar the Hoover Institute, and columnist for antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com, was kind enough to do an interview with me recently.

David discussed the liberty-movement leaders young people ought to emulate, the problems he sees with the Austrian Theory of the business cycle, and the personal responsibility of the peacenik and soldier in fighting against, and not fighting in, an unjust war. I believe this is a very important interview for young people, in terms of broadening their mind and seriously challenging the status quo. As such, I didn't cut much of the interview and I ask you, the reader, to find a time to listen to it in full.

If you absolutely can't listen to the whole interview, then fast-forward to about 2:21 minutes into Part 4. Here, I ask David about the issues of peace and personal responsibility, and he gives what I consider to be a very thorough and important response.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

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By Matt Cockerill at 4:52PM

Jane Hamsher, Adam Kokesh to be interviewed for YAL!

I am lucky to have two great guests lined up for a special doubleheader edition of the "The Matt Cockerill Show" on Saturday.

First, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake. Hamsher is a prominent voice in the progressive blogosphere who, like the principled Glenn Greenwald, has not kowtowed before any of President Obama's Bush-lite policies. In fact, she has gone so far as to compare his war escalation in Afghanistan to the War in Vietnam.*  I'm hoping to get Hamsher, who has been very respectful to the Ron Paul movement (even attending the 2008 rally for the Republic), to try to help form a left-right coalition in opposition to the corporatism, aggressive war, and civil liberties incursions of the ruling Republicrat duopoly.

Second is Adam Kokesh, a well known activist in the peace and liberty movement. As most of you know, Adam is currently seeking the Republican nomination for US Congress in New Mexico's 3rd district and is an antiwar Marine Corps veteran of Iraq. YAL cannot endorse candidates for public office, so talk about the election will have to be dispassionate and informative. However, I plan on asking him some interesting personal questions.


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By Matt Cockerill at 5:10AM

"Murray Rothbard Was a Badass" -- An Interview with Walter Block

I had the great pleasure of interviewing libertarian stalwart Walter Block Friday afternoon. The great economist/philosopher discussed his personal story of coming to liberty, his remarkable memories of the brilliant Murray Rothbard, his view on a couple controversial applications of libertarian ideology --in age of consent laws and whether or not "free market" monopolies exist -- and the moral obligation of a libertarian living in a statist world.

Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

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By Matt Cockerill at 6:22AM

Cockerill to Interview Block

Today at 6 PM EST, I'll be interviewing Walter Block, the prolific Austrian Economist and libertarian philosopher. Please submit any questions you'd like me to ask him. I have him for 40 minutes, so it's very likely I'll have time to squeeze it in. :]

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By Matt Cockerill at 7:02AM

Cockerill Interviews Dr. Tom Palmer

The merits of minarchism vs. anarcho-capitalism are a matter of serious debate, albeit not tension, between members of YAL. Cato Sr. Fellow Dr. Tom Palmer was kind enough to do an interview with me, which included extensive discussion on this topic (click below the jump for more):


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