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From new wars to vaccine mandates, we’re told to trust the government because the government supposedly has special knowledge inaccessible to mere ordinary citizens. This is just a form of government propaganda. Ryan McMaken interviews Joshua Mawhorter.

0:00 “Our Leaders Know More”: The Black Box Argument 6:19 Foreign Policy Gnosticism 8:56 Who Bears the Burden of Proof? 12:23 The Presumption of Peace 15:06 Trusting and Distrusting the Government at Once 18:37 Turning Ignorance into Knowledge 21:24 Do Politicians Really Know More—or Care? 28:34 Rothbard: Policies Named for Their Opposite 35:00 Sam Francis and “Politics Stops at the Water’s Edge” 39:03 Trust the Experts: COVID, Bailouts, and the Fed 41:37 The Black Box Argument, Step by Step 48:24 The Skeptics Keep Being Right

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