Kibbe on Liberty

Libertarian Matt Kibbe puts aside politics to have mostly honest conversations with mostly interesting people. Mostly because it’s really hard to be honest and interesting at the same time. Mostly bec…

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Ep 51 | Can Socialist Sanders Win It? | Guest: Matt Welch
Reason editor at large Matt Welch joins Matt Kibbe to discuss Bernie Sanders and the 2020 presidential campaign. The guys rail on Bernie, but worry about his populist, anti-establishment qualities, similar to those that propelled Donald Trump in 2016. They touch on international trade, foreign poli…
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Ep 50 | Women Have a Right to Defend Themselves | Guest: Nikki Goeser
Matt Kibbe sits down with Nikki Goeser of the Crime Prevention Research Center to discuss how gun laws have impacted her personally. After she had to watch her husband get gunned down in a supposedly gun-free zone, Nikki wrote a book about how gun laws designed to keep us safe actually make us all …
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Ep 49 | The Science Is Never Settled | Guest: Terence Kealey
Author and biochemistry professor Terence Kealey joins Matt Kibbe to discuss how the religion of science is misleading the public. Government funding and the peer review system have created a bubble that refuses to be challenged, and in areas such as nutrition, the resulting groupthink has literall…
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Ep 48 | Only Congress Can Declare War in Iran | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie
In the wake of the killing of Qasem Soleimani, everyone is worried about war with Iran. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states that Congress has the power to declare war or authorize military action. Rep. Thomas Massie joins Matt Kibbe to explain how Congress has abdicated that respon…
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Ep 47 | Canadian Health Care: Myths vs. Reality | Guest: Troy Lanigan
Matt Kibbe sits down with Troy Lanigan, president of Canada’s Manning Center, to talk about what Canadian health care is really like. At a time when everyone in America is talking about Medicare for All, it’s important to puncture the misconceptions about socialized medicine in countries like Canad…
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Ep 46 | A Story of Heroes and Villains | Guest: Randy Barnett
Matt Kibbe is joined by Prof. Randy Barnett to talk about the Constitution and how it should be interpreted. Barnett’s new book, “An Introduction to Constitutional Law,” highlights 100 Supreme Court cases that everyone should know to understand how the law of the land has evolved over the course of…
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Ep 45 | A Very Kibbe Christmas | Guests: Free the People Staff
In this special Christmas episode of Kibbe on Liberty, Matt Kibbe is joined by the motley Free the People staff, Terry Kibbe, Matt Battaglia, Kara Pally, Sam Martin, Logan Albright, and Joel Davis to talk about video storytelling and conveying the message of liberty to a younger generation. The gan…
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Ep 44 | Be the America Hong Kong Thinks You Are | Guests: Lee Bishop and Cyan Banister
Matt Kibbe is joined by Lee Bishop and Cyan Banister, two of the voices behind the NBA protests in support of a free Hong Kong. They explain their motivation for getting involved and why Americans owe it to themselves to support Hong Kong's struggle for the same types of freedom and democracy we en…
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Ep 43 | Baby Yoda for President | Guest: Andrew Heaton
Comedian Andrew Heaton sits down with Matt Kibbe to discuss the perils of Scottish soil, science fiction, and the incipient dark-horse presidential campaign of Baby Yoda. It’s a whirlwind tour through all the hard-hitting issues, and it’s as weird as it sounds.
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Ep 42 | Politicians Are Trying to Control Your Life | Guest: Logan Albright
Free the People writer Logan Albright joins Matt Kibbe to discuss his new book, “Our Servants, Our Masters.” He outlines how a huge number of so-called public servants, from the education system to health care, are actually more about reducing your options and telling you what to do than offering t…
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