I finish my reply to the AlterNet article containing 11 questions that are supposed to demonstrate whether your libertarian friend is a hypocrite or not. Joining me this time is… Read More
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Ep. 1351 Medicare for All, and Other Disasters
Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, discusses what’s really wrong with health care (hint: it isn’t a lack of government involvement) and how… Read More
Ep. 1350 Remember When Conservatives Didn’t Make You Pull Your Hair Out?
Remember when conservatives used to be antiwar, opposed centralized power, and actually wanted to eliminate government agencies rather than just take them over? Yes, such people once existed. Robert Nisbet,… Read More
Ep. 1349 What’s So Extreme About Socialism?
Bob Murphy and I discuss the view, apparently now mainstream on the left, that socialism has been unjustly demonized, and that it would be quite all right to have the… Read More
Ep. 1348 Another Leftist Tries to Refute Us. WOMP WOMP
An article at AlterNet called “11 Questions You Should Ask Libertarians to See If They’re Hypocrites” is just crying out to be discussed and demolished on the Tom Woods Show.… Read More
Ep. 1347 Hooray for Billionaires
“The rich” are one of the few groups we’re supposed to hate. Unfortunately, among the so-called rich we have vanishingly few people capable of launching a full-throated defense of themselves… Read More
Ep. 1346 Libertarianism vs. Postmodernism and “Social Justice” Ideology
Professor Michael Rectenwald, the former Marxist who will deliver the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at the Mises Institute’s Austrian Economics Research Conference this year, returns for a sneak preview… Read More
Ep. 1345 The Making of Michael Malice, #1 Tom Woods Show Guest
Both times I’ve surveyed my listeners, Michael Malice has been chosen as their favorite guest on the Tom Woods Show. Here I try to uncover what makes him tick. That… Read More
Ep. 1344 More Unknown History: People Weren’t Always Clueless About the Boom-Bust Cycle
When you read old — and I mean old, like nineteenth century old — American writers on money and banking, something jumps out at you: they understood things with a… Read More
Ep. 1343 From Blackstone to Marxism: The Strange Journey of American Legal Thought
Stephen Presser and I go from William Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England played such a central role in influencing early American ideas about the law, all the… Read More
