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…
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Today I talked to Deirdre McCloskey, the author, most recently, of  The Bourgeois Virtues  and  Bourgeois Dignity , about how the West got rich,…
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What a great story: a new off-Broadway show, Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter , takes a hard-money line in its treatment of the…
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This show was just great. Michael Malice , author of Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il , gave us a fascinating glimpse into the totalitarian regime…
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What a great conversation today with Chris Guillebeau , author of  The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future . I usually hate books like this, because they’re…
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On my show today I talked about publishing. Whether or not you’re interested in publishing a book yourself,…
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So says Andrew Leonard at Salon , who takes the opportunity to repeat every seventh-grade scare tactic about ‘monopoly’ that later research…
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On today’s episode of the Tom Woods Show I answered a bunch of listener questions, and talked a…
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