Phil Magness returns to discuss the sound and unsound aspects of the New York Times’ 1619 Project. Topics include Lincoln and the colonization of the former slaves, the role of… Read More
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Ep. 1521 Why Economists Never Took Marx Seriously
It’s fashionable to like Karl Marx again, so it’s worth remembering that economists dismissed him from the beginning. The Marginal Revolution of the early 1870s upended the foundations of Marxism,… Read More
Ep. 1478 New York Times Thinks Slavery Drives Economic Progress
The New York Times recently announced its “1619 Project,” by which it intends to demonstrate that “nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.” Our friend Phil… Read More
Ep. 1462 The Moral Mess of Higher Education
Phil Magness discusses his new book (with Jason Brennan) about the problems with higher education. They aren’t talking about ideological conformity, bad as that is. They are discussing other problems,… Read More
Ep. 1274 Major Discovery: Previously Lost Works by Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner, the great 19th-century individualist anarchist, evidently wrote on banking and currency competition, but those works had been lost until now. Phil Magness, through some clever detective work, tracked… Read More
Ep. 1211 Major Smear Job on Libertarians, One Year Later: Nancy MacLean (Sort of) Responds
Historian Phil Magness joins me to discuss the controversy over Nancy MacLean’s book Democracy in Chains, which claims to trace a massive racist, right-wing conspiracy back to — of all people… Read More
I Sat Through Total Crap in the Disney Hall of Presidents
The best thing I can say about Disney’s Hall of Presidents is that it’s air conditioned. On a hot day a couple weeks ago when I was in town to… Read More
Ep. 462 We Found a Major Flaw in the Egalitarian Argument
Gene Epstein discovered a crushing flaw in the argument of Thomas Piketty, whose book Capital in the 21st Century has been used as an indictment of capitalism and inequality. He… Read More
Ep. 318 Piketty Taken Down for Good?
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century was supposed to be the definitive condemnation of capitalism as an anti-social engine of inequality, but the closer his work is examined, the more… Read More
The Tom Woods Show Library of Episodes
Subscribe to the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher and never miss an episode! Ep. 1547 The Country Where Libertarian Thought Is Thriving – December 4, 2019 – Raphael Lima Ep. 1546 Another Multimillionaire Who… Read More
