A guy named Paul O’Rourke wrote a nasty blog post today claiming that Ron Paul doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to the Constitution. I always find it funny when conventional left-liberals like O’Rourke single out Ron Paul of all people for criticism, when (here… Read More
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George Soros: Not Just Sinister; Also Stupid
George Soros, who among many other things bankrolls the left-nationalist thought-control site ThinkProgress, gave a lecture on economic thought the other day. Ouch. Soros said, “Friedrich Hayek is generally regarded as the apostle of a brand of economics which holds that the market will assure the optimal allocation of… Read More
Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Soviet Apologist
Courtesy of Kevin Gutzman, a “distinguished research professor” writes on an email list in excitement about Eric Foner’s Pulitzer Prize: “If I may add my two cents — Eric Foner is no ivory tower scholar. His Lincoln, like his other works, reflects his own commitments… Read More
In Defense of Ron Paul
I Had No Idea How Right I Was
Until supporters of unconstitutional presidential war powers began commenting on my blog threads. Not one has cited any kind of relevant source. It’s all bare assertion. Then I am expected, after having written two book chapters on this, to disprove their bare assertions. (“Show me… Read More
About Tom Woods
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the 2019 winner of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show . Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil.,… Read More
The Phony Arguments for Presidential War Powers
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. A U.S. president has attacked another country, so it’s time for the scam artists to pull out their fake constitutional arguments in support of our dear leader. Not all of them are doing so, to be sure – in fact,… Read More
Matt Yglesias, Commissar
It says a lot — none of it good — about our society that a nonentity like Matt Yglesias is considered a leading pundit. He is really the worst kind of leftist, the commissar who monitors opinion so he may appropriately scold anyone who deviates… Read More
Back on the Road to Serfdom
Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence of Statism edited by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Click here to order from Amazon. Click here to order from Barnes & Noble. From the back cover: In 1944 economist F.A. Hayek published his groundbreaking warning about the dangers of statism, The Road to Serfdom. Now, with the statist menace reemerging in force, bestselling author Thomas… Read More
Rollback
Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Listen to a free chapter! Click here to order from Amazon. Click here to order from B&N. Click here for the Kindle version. Click here for the Nook version. Click here for the audiobook. Click here to order a signed copy ($20 postpaid): “Time after time, I found myself saying as I read Woods’ book, ‘I didn’t know that.’ Finally, I had repeated ‘I… Read More