Why We Hate Thomas Hobbes
By Ryan McMaken
December 23, 2025
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Josh Mawhorter talk about how Thomas Hobbes, even nearly 400 years later, remains a popular spokesman for almost limitless state power. In fact, by Hobbes’s logic, the world should by ruled by a single global dictatorship.
Ryan W. McMaken is the editor of Mises Daily and The Austrian. Send him mail.
