Independence Day is coming up, and I wonder how many people really get why it matters. In school, we were told this: “No taxation without representation.” Zzzzzzzz. The real principles were more like the following. (1) No legislation without representation. The colonists insisted that they… Read More
Libertarians Urged to Nominate Another Stuffed Shirt
I’m in Boston with the family this week, so I’m dialing back the emails. (For shame, I know!) Anyway, I keep reading respectable people telling me the Libertarian Party needs Bill Weld. Latest example: George Will. Why this is funny: I do not understand the… Read More
“Racism” Accusation Blown Out of Water, Gloriously
[Yesterday’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 .] Sometimes the world runs just the way it should. The classic example: Woody Allen in Annie Hall is standing in line, listening to… Read More
Everyone Should Have the Same Rotten Education, Say Progressives
[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 .] Here’s what you’re missing by not being on Twitter. Someone writes, “Private schools should be banned. The rich shouldn’t be able to buy… Read More
How to Respond to a Crazy Person
This is one for the books, my friends. Let me begin with this: I earned my Ph.D. in history under Alan Brinkley, whose father was the famous newsman David Brinkley (of This Week with David Brinkley fame, and who was a staple of mainstream television… Read More
It’s Exhausting to Be a Libertarian
You know what’s tiring? Being a libertarian. You’re expected to be an expert on everything. How would A be done without the state? What about B? Or C? Or what about section 3.2, paragraph 12, of local regulation PT-4488B? Or these chestnuts: Wouldn’t children be… Read More
Jordan Peterson Is Enabling “Jew Hatred,” Says Paper
Jordan Peterson, the Canadian professor who’s become an international sensation, is “enabling Jew hatred,” according to the Forward. Dave Rubin, meanwhile, my guest for episode 1057 of the Tom Woods Show, Tweeted out in response: “I’m a Jew and I’m opening for Jordan Peterson on… Read More
Taxation Isn’t Theft, Since You Have No Right to Your Income Anyway
Another great thing about the Internet: because it knocks down the gatekeepers of approved opinion, non-mainstream opinions suddenly have a fighting chance of being heard. And arguments that our betters have long assured us are closed (because all respectable people share their view, you see)… Read More
Citizen, LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP Is All About Liberation! It’s Not About Coercion or Groupthink at All
[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 .] Before I get to the juicy stuff, here’s what’s coming up the rest of the week on the Tom Woods Show. Tomorrow it’s… 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