The Tom Woods Show

Comedian, podcaster and television personality Dave Smith offers another perspective on my "leftists are hopeless" position.

Show notes for Ep. 848

Direct download: woods_2017_02_14.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 1:28pm EDT

Of all the books Thomas Sowell wrote, A Conflict of Visions was his favorite. There he discusses the fundamental ideas, the competing visions of man and the world that constitute the roots of where our political debates come from. Michael Malice and I discuss these ideas.

Show notes for Ep. 847

Direct download: woods_2017_02_13.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 7:29am EDT

Nathan Bond, co-founder and CEO of Rifle Paper Company, made the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015, and has had explosive success since the company's opening in late 2009. How'd he do it?

Show notes for Ep. 846

Direct download: woods_2017_02_12.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 8:20pm EDT

There are a bunch of unambiguously good things a secretary of education can do (including, of course, setting her agency up for abolition). We discuss a bunch of them today.

Show notes for Ep. 845

Direct download: woods_2017_02_10.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 1:48pm EDT

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, I thought it might be worthwhile to discuss the present (and future?) state of the Libertarian Party with a member of the Party's Radical Caucus, Caryn Ann Harlos.

Show notes for Ep. 844

Direct download: woods_2017_02_09.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 1:23pm EDT

This one's a must-listen, both for the topic and also for the guest: the brilliant Angelo Codevilla. What are the true origins of political correctness? Codevilla traces them to sources you'll find chilling -- but when you hear his explanation, everything starts to make sense.

Show notes for Ep. 843

Direct download: woods_2017_02_08.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 2:23pm EDT

Is there anything to be gained by pointing out leftist hypocrisy -- that suddenly they favor limited government, or that they're outraged by Trump Action A, and said nothing in the face of Obama Action B? Shouldn't we just be conciliatory and let bygones be bygones? Bob Murphy and I discuss.

Show notes for Ep. 842

Direct download: woods_2017_02_07.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 1:28pm EDT

#1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Ringer discusses going from zero to having the best-selling book in the country, plus the hackneyed success advice from the "experts," tips for advertising and for life, and more.

Show notes for Ep. 841

Direct download: woods_2017_02_06.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 5:36pm EDT

In the wake of the violent protests at (and cancellation of) the Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of California at Berkeley, Daily Caller deputy editor Scott Greer joins me to assess what's gone wrong in the universities and what might be done.

Show notes for Ep. 840

Direct download: woods_2017_02_03.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 5:07pm EDT

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suffered tremendously at the hands of the Soviet regime, and suffered exile twice after his release from the gulag. How many people in the rising generation know about him? A new book seeks to fix that.

Show notes for Ep. 839

Direct download: woods_2017_02_02.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 1:35pm EDT