I finish my reply to the AlterNet article containing 11 questions that are supposed to demonstrate whether your libertarian friend is a hypocrite or not. Joining me this time is Professor Peter Klein. If the left is going to refute us, it will first need… Read More
Archives for February 2019
Ep. 1351 Medicare for All, and Other Disasters
Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, discusses what’s really wrong with health care (hint: it isn’t a lack of government involvement) and how to fix it. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 25,000 classes in… Read More
Ep. 1350 Remember When Conservatives Didn’t Make You Pull Your Hair Out?
Remember when conservatives used to be antiwar, opposed centralized power, and actually wanted to eliminate government agencies rather than just take them over? Yes, such people once existed. Robert Nisbet, whom you’ll never hear mentioned on right-wing radio, but who was one of the great… Read More
Elizabeth Warren Supporter Teaches Econ 101
The latest issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free and receive my eBook The Deregulation Bogeyman as a gift. It’s one thing not to know economics, but it’s another to lecture the world while not knowing it.Hence this Elizabeth Warren supporter on Twitter:… Read More
Ep. 1349 What’s So Extreme About Socialism?
Bob Murphy and I discuss the view, apparently now mainstream on the left, that socialism has been unjustly demonized, and that it would be quite all right to have the federal government in direct control of fully one-third of the economy. We’re not so sure… Read More
Ep. 1348 Another Leftist Tries to Refute Us. WOMP WOMP
An article at AlterNet called “11 Questions You Should Ask Libertarians to See If They’re Hypocrites” is just crying out to be discussed and demolished on the Tom Woods Show. Today is your lucky day. Article Discussed “ 11 Questions You Should Ask Libertarians to See If They’re Hypocrites ,” by RJ Eskow Book Mentioned 33 Questions You’re Not Supposed to Ask ,… Read More
Ep. 1347 Hooray for Billionaires
“The rich” are one of the few groups we’re supposed to hate. Unfortunately, among the so-called rich we have vanishingly few people capable of launching a full-throated defense of themselves against ignorant criticisms. Most are pathetically apologetic, desperately hoping to be loved. Boo. Stand up… Read More
Ep. 1346 Libertarianism vs. Postmodernism and “Social Justice” Ideology
Professor Michael Rectenwald, the former Marxist who will deliver the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at the Mises Institute’s Austrian Economics Research Conference this year, returns for a sneak preview of what he plans to say there about postmodernism, authoritarianism, and “social justice.” We also… Read More
Ep. 1345 The Making of Michael Malice, #1 Tom Woods Show Guest
Both times I’ve surveyed my listeners, Michael Malice has been chosen as their favorite guest on the Tom Woods Show. Here I try to uncover what makes him tick. That takes us back to his birth in the Soviet Union, his move to the United… Read More
Ep. 1344 More Unknown History: People Weren’t Always Clueless About the Boom-Bust Cycle
When you read old — and I mean old, like nineteenth century old — American writers on money and banking, something jumps out at you: they understood things with a surprising clarity, and had a proto-Austrian conception of why the economy experienced boom-bust cycles. Suddenly… Read More