Why We Hate Thomas Hobbes

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.

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