David Friedman , whose book The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism , is now available in a third edition, takes on some of the hard libertarian questions.
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Ep. 262 What Do Left and Right Mean?
Dan McCarthy of The American Conservative magazine joins Tom to discuss what the political terms Left and Right really mean.
Ep. 261 A Progressive for Secession
Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the Middlebury Institute and author of Human Scale , among many other books, talks left, right, freedom, and secession.
Ep. 260 The Bipartisan Foreign Policy Is a Failure
Michael Scheuer, former director of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit, explains why U.S. foreign policy plays into the hands of ISIS. Check our Scheuer’s books, among them Imperial Hubris and Osama bin Laden .
Ep. 259 Cars, Government Regulation, and More
Eric Peters of EricPetersAutos.com returns to the show to answer listener questions.
Ep. 258 Calvin Coolidge: An Overview
Amity Shlaes, author of (among other books) the New York Times bestsellers The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and Coolidge , discusses the life and policies of President Calvin Coolidge.
Ep. 257 Austrian Economics vs. a Mainstream Text
Tom talks to Jeff Herbener, who’s just completed a course for LibertyClassroom.com subjecting a popular college economics textbook to a systematic Austrian critique. You can get this course at LibertyClassroom.com or as a Silver, Gold, or Platinum supporter of the Tom Woods Show!
Ep. 256 The Truth About the Fast Food Protests
Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute’s Economics21 discusses the economics of the fast-food protests and the minimum wage, as well as who was really behind all the demonstrations.
Ep. 255 Making Economics Funny
Emmy nominee David Angelo joins Tom to discuss his hilarious, and free-market, eEconomics YouTube series . Check out the videos on Financial Regulation and Trickle-Down Economics .
Ep. 254 What’s Wrong With Health Care
Documentary filmmaker Colin Gunn discusses his outstanding new documentary Wait Till It’s Free .