The Tom Woods Show

Inequality is the battering ram the left is using these days to justify all kinds of programs of intervention. In this episode we drive a stake through its heart.

Show notes for Ep. 876

Direct download: woods_2017_03_24.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 7:37pm EDT

Philosopher Philip Goff argues that you have no moral claim to the money you earn on the market, because its distribution of money is arbitrary. We hit back.

Show notes for Ep. 875

Direct download: woods_2017_03_23.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 11:36am EDT

Zack Rofer (the pen name of the author of the book being discussed today) joins me to deal with a bunch of the most common questions libertarians are asked. This episode will lift a weight from your shoulders.

Show notes for Ep. 874

Direct download: woods_2017_03_22.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 3:36pm EDT

Some people -- known popularly these days as Greenbackers -- oppose the Federal Reserve for all the wrong reasons: it doesn't inflate enough (!), the bankers will wind up with all the money thanks to compound interest, there isn't enough money created to pay all the principal and interest of all the loans in the economy, etc. They want the Fed to be abolished so the U.S. government can issue the money directly. Not exactly a fundamental disagreement with the Fed! I take them on in this episode.

Show notes for Ep. 873

Direct download: woods_2017_03_21.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 8:13pm EDT

With several options on the table on a complicated issue full of technical details, I thought it was a good time to bring on an expert who could explain them all to us -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Show notes for Ep. 872

Direct download: woods_2017_03_20.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 6:40pm EDT

We know the government snoops on email and other electronic communications, and yet most of us do nothing about it: we figure we'd have to be full-time techies even to begin to figure out how to protect ourselves. DigitalSafe CEO Alain Ghiai joins me today to discuss why privacy matters, and how regular people can reclaim their email and file-sharing privacy.

Show notes for Ep. 871

Direct download: woods_2017_03_17.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 11:31am EDT

Harvard University's library system just released a guide to "fake news" and propaganda websites. Guess who's on there? So's LewRockwell.com, Antiwar.com, and even Wikileaks. Lew Rockwell joins me to discuss what we should make of this.

Show notes for Ep. 870

Direct download: woods_2017_03_16.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 12:44pm EDT

The federal government has extended its authority into so many areas, and employed statutory language so vague, that ordinary people have found themselves criminals without having done anything they believed to be unlawful. Harvey Silverglate has observed this trend firsthand over the course of his long career in the law, and he joins me to discuss how bad it is, and what we can do.

Show notes for Ep. 869

Direct download: woods_2017_03_14.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 12:22pm EDT

Hillsdale College's Brad Birzer discusses libertarian themes in some of the great works of science fiction.

Show notes for Ep. 868

Direct download: woods_2017_03_13.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 10:19am EDT

Historians will be discussing and debating the election of 2016 for a long time to come. Doug Wead's new book takes us through the history of the Clintons and the Trumps, all the way through the election season and its unlikely outcome. You'll enjoy this conversation.

Show notes for Ep. 867

Direct download: woods_2017_03_12.mp3
Category:Talk Radio -- posted at: 11:18am EDT