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Stefan Molyneux is the founder and host of Freedomain, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world. With more than 4,500 podcasts, 10 books and 600 million downloads, Stefan has spread the cause of liberty and philosophy to millions of listeners around the world. Mr. Molyneux holds a Masters Degree in History from the University of Toronto; his graduate thesis focused on the History of Philosophy, detailing the relationship between the metaphysical arguments and the political ethics of major Western philosophers such as Plato, Kant, Locke and Hegel. Prior to launching Freedomain, Stefan built a thriving career as a software entrepreneur and executive. In 2007, he left his work in the tech industry to devote his efforts to spreading philosophy. Now a full-time parent and philosopher, Stefan has given speeches at liberty-themed events all over the world. His speeches cover subjects ranging from politics, philosophy, economics, relationships, bitcoin, parenting and how to achieve real freedom in your life! Stefan traveled to Australia for a sold-out speaking tour, where he addressed the future of freedom and the necessity for philosophy. Other live appearances have included presentations at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, Libertopia (2010, 2012), Students For Liberty (2010, 2011, 2013), FreedomFest, LibertyNow (Speech, Q & A), Capitalism and Morality (Part I, Part II), LibertyFest West, the Brazilian Mises Institute’s Idieas em Movimento (Part I, Part II), Freedom Summit and The Next Web Europe Conference. Stefan also stars in the media documentary “Hoaxed.” Stefan has participated in a number of live debates, among them: – “Bitcoin vs. Gold: The Future of Money” with Peter Schiff – “The Postmodernism Debate” with Dr Thaddeus Russell – “The Failure of Capitalism?” with Paul Craig Roberts – “Zeitgeist Versus the Market” with Peter Joseph – “The Function of the State in Society” with Professor Vladimir Safatle – “How Much Government is Necessary?” (Part I, Part II) with Libertarian Candidate Michael Badnarik.
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Friday Nov 14, 2025
Friday Nov 14, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux Follow me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025 Where was my consciousness before my birth? Is the Enlightenment or the French Revolution more responsible for where we are today?
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux Follow me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025 how do I know if I have a strong bond with my 13th month old son? What can me and my wife do about his sleeping schedule since he still wakes up 3-4 times per night to feed. My wife doesn’t want to sleep train him because she fears the bond between her and him will be negatively impacted but she hasn’t had a full nights rest in 6+ months. Thank you.
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux Follow me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025
Saturday Nov 08, 2025
Saturday Nov 08, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux Follow me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025 Hello Stefan I am listening to #6162, cursor currently positioned at about 44:00, and you had been arguing for some time with a gentleman about the meaning of "truth". Since your argument started I had been feeling an increasing sense of unrest and active rejection, the pinnacle of which happened when I heard you saying that a madman in the middle ages ranting that the earth revolved around the sun, wouldn't be making a true statement... I felt properly annoyed by that point. I soon identified this feeling as the reaction to an attempt to redefine a fundamental word in the vocabulary I have been using for my whole life, an attempt which was not made by just anyone that I could ignore, but by Stefan Molyneux himself, in an argument that was not free from references to your -undeniable I say- prime skills in debates, almost turning it into an argument from authority. "Truth" in my vocabulary means "corresponding to reality", which you might say is a shorter, less precise version of "relationship between concepts in the mind and things in the real world", definition which I do not contend against. On the off chance that my vocabulary could be wrong, I asked the following to ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok: "does the word "truth" only refer to something that is proven? if for example a madman from the middle ages, during one of his random rants, described the microbe theory down to the details, could that be called a true statement? or was the first to make a true statement about it, Pasteur?" All of the AIs acknowledged the philosophical question, and agreed that the madman would have made a true statement just like Pasteur. What Pasteur said was not only truth though, but also justified belief, or knowledge. And you briefly and rightly touched on this later on, when making the analogy of scribbling random stuff on a wall while being blindfolded, and producing a haiku, "...would you then say I know japanese?". So no, nobody in their right mind would say that you KNOW Japanese, that's correct. But nobody who can read Japanese would say that it is not true that you wrote a haiku just because you were randomly scribbling. In other words it is TRUE that you wrote a Japanese haiku, just as much as it is true that you did not have any knowledge or justified belief of it. My conclusion being, that it is wrong to define "truth" as only that which is proven, and that it would be indeed a true statement if the madman from the middle ages precisely described by pure chance the way the universe works. A useless, random and inactionable statement at the time, but, nonetheless, true. Since I took the opportunity to write the above, I'll touch on another topic I've been wanting to discuss with you for a long while. I remember you saying you are the first one to have provided a logical proof of secular ethics. While UPB is by all means an original approach, and I do not intend to try and deny it as I reckon that it's not possible to do so, I'd like to know your stance about The Ethics of Liberty by Rothbard. Is that not a solid, rigorously and deductively logic proof of ethics, made before you invented UPB? Respectful regards, Bob
Friday Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
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Friday Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux Follow me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux Follow me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux Follow me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X: https://x.com/StefanMolyneux YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freedomain1 GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/ Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free! Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows! You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more! See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025