There was an unfortunate post yesterday at Bleeding Heart Libertarians attacking the apriorism of the Misesian tradition. Now sure, the author can claim no such intent — he never mentions Mises’ name, after all. But after giving rather an unhelpful overview of the issues at stake, he does… Read More
Archives for October 2013
Is Recycling a Scam?
A great chat on the show today with Dr. Floy Lilley of the Mises Institute .
Need Advice from Bitcoin Folks
I’m going to start accepting Bitcoin at LibertyClassroom.com . There, I’ll need to get people’s email addresses, because there’s no other way I can send their login information. But I’m also going to add a donate widget to the TomWoodsRadio.com site. There I don’t strictly need people’s… Read More
IRS Employee Hears Tom Woods Show, Changes Profession
A listener writes: I just wanted to thank you for yesterday’s podcast , the Mises lecture. Particularly, the line regarding how anytime the government promises the people something, the unspoken end of the sentence is “with a gun.” I work for the IRS. I’m not specifically involved… Read More
Is Secession Legal?
A fun little chat with Brion McClanahan, author of The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution . (Next month, incidentally, I’ve been asked to speak on secession at St. Louis University School of Law.)
Progressive: Don’t Ally With Libertarians!
This is almost funny. Tom Watson, writing at Salon , takes his fellow progressives to task for including libertarians and other people who aren’t clones of themselves in an anti-NSA coalition. Why, why, libertarians oppose “communitarian participation in liberal society” (a delightful euphemism that leaves out the police and the… Read More
Obamacare Is Full of Surprises
Though they’re not surprises to some of us. Kevin Gutzman writes on Facebook today: Kaiser Health News says, “Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have… Read More
Six Minutes to Enlightenment
On central banks and business cycles, that is. Want to learn Austrian economics? Start with my LearnAustrianEconomics.com .
Here Is the Answer to the Burning Question
Congratulations to Jeremy Neufeld, who correctly identified the outro music of the Tom Woods Show and won the signed copy of We Who Dared to Say No to War . It’s “Misère” by Martin Barre, guitarist for Jethro Tull. Here’s the whole thing (the part I use starts around 0:33). I really like this… Read More