Thanks so much for listening in over the past year! I did today’s show on my own, answering listener questions about child labor, working-hours legislation, the minimum wage, and how to tell your kids their textbooks are screwy. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion… Read More
‘If Only the Fed Had Listened to Me!’: The Fallacies of the ‘Taylor Rule’
Mateusz Machaj joined me today to discuss the fashionable “Taylor Rule,” a rule for monetary policy that supposedly would have prevented the housing bubble. Matt shows how to respond to this claim. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday… Read More
How I Navigated Academia
I recently did a Q&A episode of my show in which among other things I answered a question about my graduate school experience at Columbia after — to my surprise — people on my Facebook page told me they wanted to know. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of… Read More
The Lunacy of Obama’s Campaign Against ISIS
Scott Horton joined me today to discuss the Obama intervention against ISIS. Staying out is the only course of action that makes sense, Scott argues. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher… Read More
The State of Freedom in Canada 2014
I talked to Redmond Weissenberger of Mises Canada today about health care, government growth, political correctness, and more. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher so you don’t miss an episode!
Photography Is Not a Crime
Today I talked to Carlos Miller, creator of PhotographyIsNotACrime.com and author of The Citizen Journalist’s Photography Handbook , about monitoring police behavior through video. What a compelling personal story Carlos has. Well worth your time. Here’s the audio , and below is a YouTube version. Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through… Read More
Arguments for the State Don’t Work
Today I spoke once again to Michael Huemer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey . When we last spoke , Huemer went through the key arguments for the legitimacy of the state — the social contract, democracy, etc. — and showed… Read More
Rockwell and Woods on Rothbard, the Man and His Work
I spoke to Lew Rockwell of LewRockwell.com and the Mises Institute today about the life and work of Murray Rothbard, about whom I had not yet devoted an episode of the Tom Woods Show . Here’s an interesting way to jump into Rothbard for the first time, or, for you more… Read More
Cars and Liberty: Electric Cars, CAFE Standards, and How to Get a Good Deal on a New Car
I talked to Eric Peters of EricPetersAutos.com today, and the conversation was fantastic. An expert on cars who’s also a Rothbardian libertarian — not a common thing, I don’t imagine. Have a listen! ( Here’s the audio and there’s a YouTube version below.) Get a commute-sized portion of… Read More
But Who Would Educate the Poor?
James Tooley, author of The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey into How the World’s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves , gave an extremely persuasive answer to this classic gotcha question for libertarians. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher so you don’t miss an… Read More
