The Free State Project’s Carla Gericke joins us with updates: RFK, Jr., on secession, bold moves in the New Hampshire legislature, the fate of the “Crypto 6,” and plenty more. Link to Carla’s clip: On Instagram Sponsor Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in the search engines? Your… Read More
Archives for September 2023
Ep. 2398 The $900B Military Budget and Other Follies, with David Stockman
David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, walks us through current stupidities, his conclusions after studying 20th-century American economic history, and how he ended up working in the Reagan Administration. Sponsor CrowdHealth is a community of people who are tired of… Read More
Ep. 2397 Trump v. DeSantis: Gavin Wax and Steve Deace Debate
I invited Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republican Club, and Steve Deace, host of The Steve Deace Show on The Blaze, to hash it out. Sponsors If you’re a listener of the Tom Woods Show, chances are you have some gold. But… Read More
Ep. 2396 The Oliver Anthony Problem
The singer who goes by the name Oliver Anthony took America by storm with his unexpected hit “Rich Men North of Richmond.” He correctly identified the villains in America — not rich people as a class, but a specific group of unjustly rich people. At… Read More
Ep. 2395 Civil Rights Law Is Why We Hate Each Other
Typically when people seek the origins of woke ideology, they point to this or that philosopher or philosophical movement. Richard Hanania says the answer is far more mundane: it is a direct result of the idiosyncratic twists and turns of civil rights law. Thus wokeism… Read More
Ep. 2394 The Evil ADL
Paul Gottfried joins me to discuss the Anti-Defamation League, which has garnered quite a bit of additional attention because of its ongoing feud with Elon Musk. Sponsor The Tom Woods School of Life trains decent people to flourish and prosper in a world that hates… Read More
Ep. 2393 Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on the Sad State of American Medicine
Joseph Ladapo, surgeon general of Florida, holds his MD from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2019 he was entirely within the so-called mainstream of medicine, but the way Covid was handled opened his… Read More
Ep. 2392 Alex Epstein: Don’t Declare a “Climate Emergency”
Alex Epstein warns of what a “climate emergency” would mean, and pours cold water on the hysteria. Sponsors If you’re a listener of the Tom Woods Show, chances are you have some gold. But if you’re just sitting on it, you’re leaving money on the… Read More
Ep. 2391 Want a Journalism Career? Then Shut Up About the You-Know-Whats
Journalist Rav Arora, who hosts the Illusion of Consensus podcast with Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya, discusses being shut out of outlets that once published him because during Covid he took being a dissident a little too far for them. Sponsors CrowdHealth is a community of people who… Read More
Ep. 2390 The State Is Making You Mentally Ill
In mental health people talk about “cognitive distortions” that must be overcome for the person’s mental condition to improve. CJ Killmer of the Dangerous History Podcast contends that many cognitive distortions accurately describe the effects that propagandists seek to induce in the minds of their… Read More
