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Fri, 4 August 2017

Ep. 968 Why Liberty Is So Hard to Sell -- And Can We Do Anything About It?

You'd think "I want to free you" would be an easy message to sell -- and yet it isn't. Why is that?

This episode is the talk I gave at LibertyFest 2014 in Brooklyn, New York.

Show notes for Ep. 968

Direct download: woods_2017_08_04.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 6:47pm EDT

Thu, 3 August 2017

Ep. 967 The Failure in Iraq: A Whistleblowing Eyewitness to the "Reconstruction" of Iraq

Peter van Buren, a 24-year veteran of the State Department, spent a year in Iraq as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams. When you hear what the U.S. government -- which had destroyed much of the country and completely undermined its civil society -- expected him to do, you won't know whether to laugh or cry.

To make things worse, the State Department came after him when he released We Meant Well, the book we discuss in this episode.

Show notes for Ep. 967

Direct download: woods_2017_08_03.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 1:35pm EDT

Wed, 2 August 2017

Ep. 966 Left-Libertarians and Their Endless Moral Outrage

Mises Institute president Jeff Deist, who was Ron Paul's last chief of staff, delivered an excellent and well-received talk at the Corax libertarian conference in Malta last week.

As usual, though, emotional hypochondria got the better of a small group of left- and establishment libertarians, who are denouncing the speech in hysterical terms.

The speech is so commonsensical, and the reaction on the part of this crowd so perverse and bizarre, that I can't let this episode pass. It's part and parcel of the "Ron Paul is a racist" libertarians who have resented Ron and affiliated institutions ever since being left in the dust after 2007.

So I'm going to play it for you, followed by my commentary. You need to hear it, so you can see for yourself the lengths such folks will go to in order to pretend to be outraged.

Show notes for Ep. 966

Direct download: woods_2017_08_02.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 6:11pm EDT

Tue, 1 August 2017

Ep. 965 Take Off That Che Guevara Shirt (Plus: Venezuela)

It somehow became fashionable among young people to wear shirts depicting a murderer. One supposes the same indulgence would not be extended to shirts depicting non-leftist murderers (if such shirts existed, which they don't). Federico Fernandez is behind an effort to take down the statue of Che Guevara in the latter's home town in Argentina, and to spread the truth about the man.

We also discuss the ongoing fiasco in Venezuela.

Show notes for Ep. 965

Direct download: woods_2017_08_01.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 5:06pm EDT