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. 1139 Anti-Libertarian Cliches Sliced and Diced
Today’s episode covers a wide range of topics: the origins of Trump, fallacies of protectionism, how to respond to critics who say libertarianism has never been tried, plus Somalia, working conditions under capitalism, why libertarianism is attacked when we’re so marginal, the increasing use of… Read More
Ep. 1138 Black Guns Matter
Kevin Dixie, owner and founder at No Other Choice Firearms Training, talks Second Amendment, crime, safety, and what it’s like dealing with the “black leadership” when you’re teaching black folks how to defend themselves. Sponsor Harry’s razors, the official razors of the Tom Woods Show,… Read More
Ep. 1137 Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors: The Built-In Bias Against the Accused
Professor William Anderson joins me to discuss the perverse incentives in the American legal system that work against the accused and their ability to fight back against abuses and outrages perpetrated against them. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 16,000 classes in… Read More
Ep. 1136 Dave Smith on Speaking Forbidden Truths on CNN; Plus: the Rotten State of Comedy, and More
Dave Smith, the libertarian comedian whose comedy special Libertas spent three weeks as the #1 comedy album on iTunes last year, joins me to discuss his wonderful CNN gig, where he gets away with telling truths you’d be hard-pressed to find on any network. Plus:… Read More
Ep. 1135 Domestic Consequences of U.S. Militarism
Libertarians often point out that war has consequences at home as well. The co-author of a new book on precisely this subject joins me to fill in the details. About the Guest Christopher Coyne is the and F. A. Harper Professor of Economics at George… Read More
“Say What You Will About Hitler, But…”
Until recently, the left-wing inflationist Ellen Brown used the example of Hitler’s Germany to show that Greenbacker economics really works. She was taken to task for this. She told Gary North: First, since you’ve made so much of my Hitler example and I’ve taken so… Read More
I Gave This Washington Post Reporter an Earful
Blast from the past: One of my favorite speeches ever was the one I gave in Houston, on secession, during the last presidential campaign. The Mises Institute hosted a one-day event on secession. Ron Paul and I were among the speakers. The Washington Post sent… Read More
Conservatives Still Support Intervention in the Middle East? Still?
[Today’s issue of the Tom Woods Letter — which you can subscribe to for free when you download my free eBook Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About Guns.] Well, Woods’s Law is on full display these days: No matter whom you vote for, you always… Read More
Ep. 1134 Princeton Professor Hits Back at Campus Censors
Keith Whittington, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University, joins me to talk trigger warnings, safe spaces, campus censorship and intimidation, and the purpose of a university. I ask him some tough devil’s-advocate questions, but he sticks to his guns. Well worth… Read More
