David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan Administration, covers a wide range of topics in this episode including the strangely controversial question: is this a good economy or a bad one? Sponsors Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in… Read More
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Ep. 2515 Antiwar Voices in the Republican Party
Brandan P. Buck recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the forgotten history of right-wing antiwar voices, a tradition that is beginning to reassert itself. Sponsors At PolicyGenius.com , you can get quotes and compare rates on life insurance, disability insurance, renters insurance, and health insurance. It’s… Read More
Ep. 2514 Nobody Cares About the Federal Debt
Jane Johnson, a retired instructor of economics, discusses the bipartisan lack of interest in the federal debt and what it means for our future, as well as what may be in store for American higher education. Sponsors Support the Tom Woods Show by going to… Read More
Ep. 2513 Doug Casey on the West’s True Enemies
Investor and New York Times bestselling author Doug Casey talks about how young people should think and what they should do in the current environment, as well as the uniqueness of Western civilization and what’s being done to it. Sponsors Blinkist lets you read (or listen to)… Read More
Ep. 2512 Supreme Court Overturns Evil System; Evil Bastards Cry Foul
Kevin Gutzman, a professor of history and the author of numerous important books, and who also teaches at Tom’s LibertyClassroom.com , discusses the significance of the overturning of “Chevron deference” as well as the particular merits of Clarence Thomas. Sponsors Ron Paul Curriculum Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible… Read More
Ep. 2511 The Supreme Court vs. Free Speech
In Murthy v. Missouri the Court refused to consider the merits of a free-speech case because the plaintiffs allegedly lacked “standing,” but as the dissent argues, all the elements for standing were present, and the Court most certainly should have ruled on the merits. Tracy Beanz, who’s… Read More
Ep. 2510 How to Win Arguments, with Gene Epstein
Gene and I discuss his two debates at the most recent Porcfest: one on whether consequentialist arguments (e.g., capitalism makes us rich) or arguments based on first principles (e.g., the nonaggression principle) work better to persuade people to adopt our point of view. We also… Read More
Ep. 2509 Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: What to Accept, What to Discard?
Gerard Casey, professor emeritus of philosophy at University College, Dublin, wrote a massive history of political thought from a libertarian perspective, called Freedom’s Progress?: A History of Political Thought. Today I throw questions at him about Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, primarily related to what people who… Read More
Ep. 2508 Any Prospects for Peace in Ukraine or Gaza?
Kyle Anzalone, news editor at the Libertarian Institute and opinion editor at Antiwar.com , joins me for a review of the state of major conflicts. Sponsors Blinkist lets you read (or listen to) the key lessons and takeaways from thousands of nonfiction books in 15 minutes… Read More
Ep. 2507 How (Not) to Run Wars
Christopher Coyne of George Mason University has discovered. drearily predictable pattern of terrible decisions in one American war after another. Sponsors If you’re a listener of the Tom Woods Show, chances are you have some gold. But if you’re just sitting on it, you’re leaving… Read More