Robert Higgs joined me today as World War I week continues on the Tom Woods Show . Bob, a scholar of government growth (among many other things) is uniquely qualified to discuss the institutional and other changes in American life that resulted from the Great War. Have a…
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World War I week continues on the Tom Woods Show. Today my guest was Richard Gamble, author of   The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation . It turns out, contrary to what we’re led to believe, that left-wing clergy, far from being “pacifists,” were among the most bloodthirsty and belligerent pro-war voices…
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All this week on the Tom Woods Show we’re talking about different aspects of World War I. It was 100 years ago today that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting in motion the sequence of events that yielded World War I. Today’s guest was Hunt…
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The Daily Beast, like its neoconservative counterparts at the Free Beacon, is a thought-control site that aims to ferret out unapproved opinions. We are supposed to confine ourselves to the McCain/Obama box where the Daily Beast is comfortable. Anyone with opinions outside that box is…
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Trying to persuade someone of libertarianism, or even just that these issues matter? This presentation of mine may help. I think it’s one of my better ones. Judge Napolitano hugged me afterward, exclaiming, “Better than ever! Informative, funny, well paced, excellent!”

I’m glad to announce that I’m part of Ron Paul’s new venture, Voices of Liberty . Here’s the brief video I made to give some background. Ron emailed me later that day: Tom, Fantastic introductory message. Thanks. At least I know the message of Liberty will be carried…
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The Mises Institute’s week-long Mises University instructional program for students was the most significant academic event of my life as a student when I first attended it in 1993. It’s still going strong even today, and last night, for the second year in a row,…
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The Mises Institute ‘s week-long Mises University program, an exciting introduction to the Austrian School of economics, and which I first attended as a student myself in 1993, is coming up next week. You can watch all the plenary sessions from your own home, for free, at  this link…
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The neoconservatives over at the Free Beacon, a thought-monitoring website in the mold of ThinkProgress on the left, took time out of their customary schedule of spreading Islamic radicalism around the world to criticize Rand Paul for recommending a few books on foreign policy whose conclusions are not…
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Here’s my conversation with Ralph Nader, whose latest book is Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State . Productive and interesting. I was surprised that he conceded my point that while libertarians seem willing to work with the left, the feeling (to his regret) generally isn’t mutual. Subscribe to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or…
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