The American people give vastly more in philanthropic donations on a percentage basis than anyone in the world. This is the best-kept secret in American textbooks. Any schoolboy would have… Read More
Search Results for: keyword
Ep. 658 War and Peace: The Key Libertarian Issue
Ep. 650 Fascism: The Career of a Concept
How about that: fascism has a definition after all, and isn’t just a term for whatever people happen to dislike. In his new book, Paul Gottfried traces the meaning of… Read More
Tolerant Students Shout Profanities at Tom Woods Show Guests
Daily email for April 27, 2016. What in the world is the matter with Americans — or the entire West, for that matter? How have we allowed ourselves to be lectured to… Read More
Ep. 649 The Tyranny of Liberalism
Liberalism portrays itself as the ideology of liberty and liberation, as neutral between competing views of the good, and as the position all right-thinking people should adopt. None of this… Read More
Ep. 645 JFK’s Catastrophic Mistake in Vietnam
The standard narrative runs like this: Ngo Dinh Diem was the corrupt and oppressive president of South Vietnam whose removal (which wound up taking the form of assassination) the Kennedy… Read More
Ep. 644 How Not to Help the World’s Poor
So much of what’s been tried in order to help developing countries has backfired that it’s long past time to reexamine the whole question. A brand new documentary, called Poverty,… Read More
Ep. 642 The Israel Lobby: What It Does and How It Works
We are supposed to believe that the network of organizations promoting a particular view of Israel and the U.S. relationship with that country doesn’t exist, and that anyone who says… Read More
Ep. 639 Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron or Hero of Capitalism?
Historians haven’t been terribly sympathetic to business leaders of the late nineteenth century. What should we think about Andrew Carnegie? Does he deserve the abuse of historians, or is there… Read More
Ep. 638 Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis?
In order to distract attention from government housing policy and the Federal Reserve, left-liberals claim the financial crisis was brought on by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (the partial repeal of Glass-Steagall)… Read More
