UPDATE: I’ve added a couple annotations toward the end of the video to deal with a good objection. UPDATE II: Daniel Beaulieu writes: “I am getting web designers and Paulites together at 8PM to bounce ideas around to make Tom’s idea come to reality. Be… Read More
Austrian Economics Is ‘Unscientific’
You will get this once in a while. More than 95 percent of the time it will come from people who have never heard of or read anything by Ludwig von Mises. I got it in response to my post “Austrian Economics Is Common Sense” (which was in fact not… Read More
The Anniversary That (Almost) Everyone Overlooked
Yesterday was the 213th anniversary of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, that great Jeffersonian document that made the case for state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws. I meant to blog about this but simply forgot. (In my defense, I have been feeling under the weather,… Read More
Shock: Guilds Enriched Powerful, Harmed Society
I have interacted with quite a few opponents of the free market, both socialists and “traditionalists,” who have looked to the medieval guilds as a great example of how society can be organized without the alleged dog-eat-dog competition of the market. Under the guilds, competition… Read More
Talking Wealth Distribution on the Peter Schiff Show
Someone made a YouTube out of the reply I made to a caller while guest hosting the Peter Schiff Show yesterday (Thursday, November 10). The caller wanted to know what percentage of total wealth I would be comfortable with the top one or five percent of earners owning,… Read More
My Most Pertinent Book for Veterans Day
Is the collection I co-edited for Basic Books, We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now . Here I discuss it with Jeff Tucker.
Can Someone Make Me a YouTube?
I’d really like to get onto YouTube the audio of me speaking to Steve Deace, an important Iowa radio host with a large evangelical audience, on a program that featured me making the Christian case for Ron Paul. Here’s the link ; I come on somewhere around 13:00… Read More
Ron Paul’s Plan: 1-1-1
In the debate tonight, an exasperated Herman Cain insisted he was the only one on the stage who had presented a bold economic plan. In my dream, Ron Paul steps in and says, “Hang on a minute. I’ve got a pretty bold plan. I call… Read More
Woods on Iowa Radio: The Christian Case for Ron Paul
Here’s the link to my appearance on the Steve Deace Show today. I appear in the first hour around 13:00. Deace, who’s a very influential radio host in Iowa, invited me to make the Christian case for Ron Paul. I think I did a creditable job.
Guest Hosting the Peter Schiff Show Tomorrow
I’ll be guest hosting the Peter Schiff Show again tomorrow (Thursday), 10am-noon ET. Tune in !