Here’s how we learn about so-called landmark legislation in school: your wise public servants identified a problem, and then put their heads together in a disinterested, dispassionate way to solve it, and improve life for everyone. In fact, the real roots of legislation often turn… Read More
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Ep. 273 The Case Against Antitrust
Tom DiLorenzo, whose books include The Real Lincoln and How Capitalism Saved America , overturns the standard narrative of antitrust and monopoly.
The Crushing Case Against Antitrust: Tom DiLorenzo on the Tom Woods Show
Tom DiLorenzo, whose books include The Real Lincoln and How Capitalism Saved America , reviews the fallacies behind antitrust law, which is normally described as necessary and benign. We also mentioned the books Concentration, Mergers, and Public Policy , by Yale Brozen, and Antitrust and Monopoly , by Dominick Armentano. Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday… Read More
The Problems with Antitrust
Your anti-market friends are not going to listen to this lecture by Dom Armentano, author of Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure and professor emeritus at the University of Hartford. That’s not what it’s there for. It’s for you to listen to — while you’re cleaning your house or doing other… Read More
Ep. 2418 Toss That US History Book Out the Window (and Maybe Your Economics Book, Too)
Author and retired economics professor Tom DiLorenzo, recently chosen to be the new president of the Mises Institute, discusses a variety of topics: how government agencies manipulate the public for bigger budgets, the problem with the “big business” chapter in your American history book, institutional rivalry in… Read More
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WAIT! You and I are now experiencing what it’s like to live in a genuine madhouse. You know what I mean. It’s as if everything said by every official outlet is distorted, mistaken, or simply made up. It is downright astonishing the outright falsehoods that… Read More
Woods Derangement Syndrome
Updated April 7, 2022 I recently reviewed with folks on my email list some of the craziness that has been coming from a small group of left-libertarians on social media I have dubbed the Loser Brigade, and I’m going to do so more systematically here. I do… Read More
Ep. 1140 The Progressive Era Was a Scam
Patrick Newman, who recently edited a brand new Rothbard book out of the archives, joins me for a bird’s-eye overview of one of the least understood periods of American history. Book Discussed The Progressive Era , by Murray N. Rothbard Episode Mentioned Ep. 713 Does Scientific Research Require Government Funding… Read More
Ep. 954 Tom DiLorenzo Smashes Nancy MacLean’s Book on the “Radical Right” — a Term That Includes You and Me
Nancy MacLean generated much discussion and controversy when she released her book Democracy in Chains, which purports to explain how the “radical Right” — in which she includes the most implausible figures — conspired to take over America. The book is the standard leftist hysteria about… Read More
What It Means When Leftists Say Your Work Is “Discredited”
Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every weekday. Be one of them . When leftists say a scholar has been “discredited,” you should translate this as: “He says things that displease us.” I remember reading that I myself had been “discredited” in the wake of… Read More