In our weekly podcast Contra Krugman (which refutes one Paul Krugman column per week), co-host Bob Murphy and I have too much fun with the cruise promotion. When we want to segue into a plug for our annual cruise, we always begin with, “You know where you… Read More
The Brilliant Thomas Sowell Has a New Book — at Age 87?
[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 .] Thomas Sowell is one of a handful of people whose prose I genuinely envy. He’s also brilliant, of course. Milton Friedman, whom I… Read More
New Book from Thomas Sowell
Liz Cheney’s Commentary for the IQ Deprived
(This is today’s issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. To subscribe for free — and get my new eBook Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About Guns, click here .) Evidently there’s a rule: each new Trump nomination makes you long for… Read More
The Marxist in the Audience Who Challenged Me
(From yesterday’s issue of the Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people read. Subscribe for free, and get a free libertarian eBook at the same time, at TomsFreeBooks.com .) I spent Tuesday night talking to students at UC Santa Barbara about the true record of… Read More
Karl Marx Wrote Creepy Poems
(From today’s issue of the Tom Woods Letter. Subscribe for free, and get a free libertarian eBook at the same time, at TomsFreeBooks.com .) That’s an odd topic to write about, but I was reminded of Marx’s poems today by way of contrast with a left-wing… Read More
Guess Which Insane Academic Article Excerpt Is Fake
OK, which one of these selections is not really taken from an academic publication? A. “I argue that people’s bodily sensations of sweat – smell, touch and sight – can provide insights to the relations between subjectivity and space. I draw on feminist ideas of… Read More
Cyber Monday: Cheapest Day of the Year to Start a Website
With my various bonuses and free publicity, I’ve helped over 1500 of my listeners start websites and drive free traffic to them. So it would be strange for me not to tell you that today, Cyber Monday, is the day Bluehost offers its lowest hosting… Read More
Yale Students Tried Refuting Me; I Beat Them Down
Earlier this year I got an audience at Yale — Yale! — to vote in favor of the right of state secession, by a margin of 2 to 1. Yes, I had some supporters in the audience. But an organizer said that even correcting for… Read More
Bernie Supporters: Bolshevik Revolution “Lit a Spark of Hope”
The Bolshevik Revolution was one of the worst events in human history. That scarcely seems debatable. Some deluded folks try to pretend Joseph Stalin hijacked what had originally been a noble cause. This is what my professor of Russian history, Vladimir Brokvin, called the “Good… Read More
