The Tom Woods Show

David Stockman, who headed the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, joins us to discuss the Trump economic record, both in terms of policy and results.

Book Discussed: Trump's War on Capitalism

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Show notes for Ep. 2434

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Gabriel Custodiet urges us not to make compromises for the sake of convenience.

Guest's Book: The Watchman Guide to Privacy: Reclaim Your Digital, Financial, and Lifestyle Freedom

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Show notes for Ep. 2433

Direct download: woods_2023_12_21.mp3
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Jim Bovard is rightly a hero among libertarians for his outstanding journalistic work. In this episode we discuss everything from police dogs to the TSA to Section 8 housing and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Book Discussed: Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

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Show notes for Ep. 2432

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Alex Dresser lost two jobs and a potential spouse thanks to the Covid measures, and that's just for starters. The crazies used to accuse us of being grandma killers, but they themselves killed Alex's grandmother. He joins us to tell the kinds of stories the media and much of the public refused to hear.

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Show notes for Ep. 2431

 

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Chris Maidment declared the endorsement of Nikki Haley by Americans for Prosperity as a betrayal of the organization's stated principles, and was promptly dismissed.

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Show notes for Ep. 2430

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Scott Horton talks to Tom about Tom's new book, Diary of a Psychosis, and revisits some of the idiotic remarks and failed predictions by the so-called experts.

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Show notes for Ep. 2429

Direct download: woods_2023_12_12.mp3
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The Heritage Foundation's Peter St. Onge joins us to discuss the problem of financial insecurity, as well as whether the national debt will ever really be a problem, whether rising prices are (as Joe Biden insists) caused by "price gouging," and more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2428

Direct download: woods_2023_12_08.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Not everything has to be about politics but libertarians notice more and ask the right questions when traveling the world. Andrew Corbley joins us.

Book Discussed: On the Face of It: A Traveler on His World

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Show notes for Ep. 2427

Direct download: woods_2023_12_07.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Should speech the authorities deem to be "misinformation" be regulated or banned during emergency situations? To this day we hear some people saying yes -- even though yesterday's "misinformation" can quickly become today's consensus, and so much of the official guidance itself had to be abandoned as misinformation. Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya joins us.

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Show notes for Ep. 2426

Direct download: woods_2023_12_06.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina with a pugilistic, populist style and a hardcore libertarian message. I discuss this startling development with attorney and author of Libertarianism Today Jacob Huebert, and Argentinian university student Octavio Bermudez, who has written extensively on the Milei phenomenon.

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Show notes for Ep. 2425

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The provocative James Delingpole joins us to discuss what the elites are up to, why they thrive on chaos, the political class as servants of the devil (metaphorically or otherwise), and plenty of other topics.

Show notes for Ep. 2424

 

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Now that the dust has finally settled, we have the leisure to return to the panicked days of early 2020 and reexamine what really happened. And it may not be quite what we think. Nick Hudson and Jonathan Engler join us.

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Show notes for Ep. 2423

 

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Despite the atrocious condition of California, Governor Gavin Newsom has ambitions for higher office. Larry Elder discusses the real Newsom record, what's really happening in California, and what a sensible person might do to turn things around -- for California and for the country.

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Show notes for Ep. 2422

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Gene Epstein and I discuss things we're thankful for, but nothing too sentimental. It's mostly the kinds of nerdy things that, if we're being honest, are what power the Tom Woods Show.

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Show notes for Ep. 2421

 

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Peter Schiff assesses the true condition of an economy Paul Krugman says is great but whose greatness the rubes are too dumb to recognize.

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Show notes for Ep. 2420

 

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Wherever we turn, people who despise us are making our lives more difficult, whether that takes the form of higher energy prices, higher prices in general, vax mandates, a war for our children's minds -- the grim list goes on and on. Is the correct approach despair, indifference, political action, or something else? Kevin Dolan of Exit, and entrepreneur Kevin Stokes, join me to discuss.

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Show notes for Ep. 2419

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Author and retired economics professor Tom DiLorenzo, recently chosen to be the new president of the Mises Institute, discusses a variety of topics: how government agencies manipulate the public for bigger budgets, the problem with the "big business" chapter in your American history book, institutional rivalry in the libertarian world, and plenty more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2418

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Clint Russell of Liberty Lockdown talks to me about Israel/Palestine, Vivek Ramaswamy, war and veterans, the Ron Paul legacy, problems in the libertarian world, whether Trump could win as a convicted felon, and plenty more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2417

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Architect Dino Marcantonio joins me to review the scourge of ugliness and what traditional architecture can do about it.

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Show notes for Ep. 2416

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China is the one exception even for self-described noninterventionists. The threat from China must be countered. But how real is this threat? Joseph Solis-Mullen joins us to discuss.

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Show notes for Ep. 2415

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Vivek Ramaswamy joins us to discuss avoiding World War III, as well as his recent clash with other GOP candidates over free speech.

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Show notes for Ep. 2414

Direct download: woods_2023_11_07.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Millions of American Christians have come to believe in a heterodox theology according to which the physical return of the Jewish people to their ancestral lands is necessary to bring about the return of Christ and the end of the world. Furthermore, during the tribulation that will ensue, believers in this theology will be "raptured" into heaven and spared the unspeakable terrors that will then afflict the human race. This theological opinion would have been news to Augustine and St. Thomas, not to mention Martin Luther and the Protestant movement. Brent McGuire, senior pastor at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Dallas, sets the record straight.

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Show notes for Ep. 2413

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John Staddon, professor emeritus of psychology at Duke University, discusses the significance of the "replication crisis" (when it was learned that a vast number of research papers had generated results that nobody could replicate), the problem with "peer review," the role of state funding in deforming science, and much more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2412

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Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute joins us to discuss the various calls for further U.S. intervention in the Middle East, and what a plausible answer might be to this seemingly intractable conflict. Also, I do my best to steelman the Israeli position to get Daniel's response.

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Show notes for Ep. 2411

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:00pm EDT

Dan McCarthy, vice president for the Collegiate Network at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and editor of Modern Age, joins us to discuss a wide array of issues: how the Middle East affects the dynamics within the Democratic and Republican parties, the likely outcome of the DeSantis/Newsom debate, the issues that are hurting Joe Biden the most, and plenty more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2410

Direct download: woods_2023_10_27.mp3
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About 200,000 new books are released every year. You have very limited time. Which ones should you read? Glenn Corey has done his homework: he's read a zillion of them and written up one hundred of them to help guide you in becoming informed as efficiently as possible.

Book Discussed:

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Show notes for Ep. 2409

Direct download: woods_2023_10_26.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Alan Futerman, co-author of The Classical Liberal Case for Israel, and Jeremy R. Hammond, author of Obstacle to Peace: The U.S. Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, square off in a fruitful debate over the most contentious issue of the present moment.

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Show notes for Ep. 2408

Guests' Books:
- The Classical Liberal Case for Israel, by Walter Block and Alan Futerman
- Obstacle to Peace, by Jeremy R. Hammond
 
Previous Debates:
 
Related Articles:
- Walter Block and Alan Futerman, "The Moral Duty to Destroy Hamas"
- Alan Futerman, Walter Block, and Rafi Farber, "The True Nature of the BDS Movement"
Direct download: woods_2023_10_25.mp3
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For years, Dr. Miriam Grossman has resisted the direction of her profession, which has adopted novel gender theories wholesale, and instead been a source of consolation and common sense for people and families caught up in transgender propaganda.

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Show notes for Ep. 2407

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Absolutely nobody asked for a Central Bank Digital Currency, but the central banks of the world seem determined to give them to us anyway. The great Dominic Frisby joins us to discuss their dangers, as well as to review what we need to know about gold and Bitcoin.

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Show notes for Ep. 2406

Direct download: woods_2023_10_19.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Scott Horton joins us to discuss the horrific Hamas attacks on Israel, but alongside commentary that might upset Ben Shapiro.

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Show notes for Ep. 2405

Direct download: woods_2023_10_17.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Michael Rectenwald discusses his journey into and out of Marxism, where social justice nuttiness comes from, and the lure of military intervention.

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Show notes for Ep. 2404

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Carrie Gress returns to review feminism's record, and it isn't pretty.

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Show notes for Ep. 2403

Direct download: woods_2023_10_12.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Matthew Lysiak discusses the various interests that combined to substitute cheap, fake food for the real food Americans used to eat. A key driving force: trying to conceal the effects of inflation on food prices by persuading Americans to consume cheap -- and, it turns out, unhealthy -- alternatives.

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Show notes for Ep. 2402

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

So-called "Social Justice Warriors" believe a series of things that are demonstrably untrue, but they believe them with a religious fervor. The Libertarian Institute's Keith Knight and I are heretics here to smash those ideas.

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Show notes for Ep. 2401

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In one of the strongest episodes of this show ever, Terence Kealey, professor emeritus at Buckingham University and a research fellow of the Cato Institute, makes a stunningly powerful case for the separation of science and state.

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Show notes for Ep. 2400

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The Free State Project's Carla Gericke joins us with updates: RFK, Jr., on secession, bold moves in the New Hampshire legislature, the fate of the "Crypto 6," and plenty more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2399

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David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, walks us through current stupidities, his conclusions after studying 20th-century American economic history, and how he ended up working in the Reagan Administration.

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Show notes for Ep. 2398

Direct download: woods_2023_09_28.mp3
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I invited Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republican Club, and Steve Deace, host of The Steve Deace Show on The Blaze, to hash it out.

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Show notes for Ep. 2397

Direct download: woods_2023_09_27.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

The singer who goes by the name Oliver Anthony took America by storm with his unexpected hit "Rich Men North of Richmond." He correctly identified the villains in America -- not rich people as a class, but a specific group of unjustly rich people. At the same time, the powers that be are not shaking in their boots that someone singing "Ain't Got a Dollar" is popular among the masses; that's exactly the mentality they want the masses to have. John Bush joins us to talk this all through, as well as to discuss his personal story of going from borderline desperation to success.

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Show notes for Ep. 2396

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Typically when people seek the origins of woke ideology, they point to this or that philosopher or philosophical movement. Richard Hanania says the answer is far more mundane: it is a direct result of the idiosyncratic twists and turns of civil rights law. Thus wokeism is in fact a creature of the state.

Book Discussed: The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics

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Show notes for Ep. 2395

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Paul Gottfried joins me to discuss the Anti-Defamation League, which has garnered quite a bit of additional attention because of its ongoing feud with Elon Musk.

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Show notes for Ep. 2394

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Joseph Ladapo, surgeon general of Florida, holds his MD from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2019 he was entirely within the so-called mainstream of medicine, but the way Covid was handled opened his eyes to some grim truths about his field.

Book Discussed:

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Show notes for Ep. 2393

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Alex Epstein warns of what a "climate emergency" would mean, and pours cold water on the hysteria.

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Show notes for Ep. 2392

Direct download: woods_2023_09_14.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Journalist Rav Arora, who hosts the Illusion of Consensus podcast with Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya, discusses being shut out of outlets that once published him because during Covid he took being a dissident a little too far for them.

Guest's Substack (with Jay Bhattacharya):
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Show notes for Ep. 2391

Direct download: woods_2023_09_13.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

In mental health people talk about "cognitive distortions" that must be overcome for the person's mental condition to improve. CJ Killmer of the Dangerous History Podcast contends that many cognitive distortions accurately describe the effects that propagandists seek to induce in the minds of their subjects.

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Show notes for Ep. 2390

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

The great Wanjiru Njoya of the University of Exeter joins us to discuss "antiracism," whether Boers should worry about people singing "Kill the Boer," and the development of "hate studies" as a discipline.

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Show notes for Ep. 2389

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

We often hear it said that feminism had noble origins that mysteriously degenerated into the more absurd forms it takes today. Is it possible that something was rotten about it from the start? Carrie Gress joins us to discuss several early feminist thinkers and the biographical and intellectual details that the usual story excludes.

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Show notes for Ep. 2388

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Comedian and podcaster Dave Smith, fresh from his tenth appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, joins us to discuss the craft of comedy, plus the uncertain and oddball 2020 race.

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Show notes for Ep. 2387

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

John Lott, who runs the Crime Prevention Research Center, discusses the multiple fabrications contained in a single presidential Tweet.

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Show notes for Ep. 2386

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

The Mises Institute's Tho Bishop joins us for a look at last week's clash of non-Trump GOP candidates and what it means for 2024 and beyond.

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Show notes for Ep. 2385

Direct download: woods_2023_08_29.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Scott discusses the China/Taiwan issue, a little bit about Ukraine, his forthcoming book, and a specific thing we can all do for the cause.

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Show notes for Ep. 2384

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Perry Metzger argues that AI will prove to be an immense boon to mankind, and that the apocalyptic warnings are misplaced.

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Show notes for Ep. 2383

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Larken Rose discusses his new film, Jones Plantation, and how the ruling powers throughout history have manipulated people into thinking they're free.

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Show notes for Ep. 2382

Direct download: woods_2023_08_23.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT

Tom Mullen makes use of his experience in the health insurance industry as well his personal experience as a caretaker for family members to conclude that the unscientific approach of mainstream medicine is nothing new.

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Show notes for Ep. 2381

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Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Mikkel Thorup, host of the Expat Money Show, has lived all over the world and traveled widely. He's an expert on the various issues involved with becoming an expat, as well as measures short of expatriation (second passports, international banking, etc.). We discuss some of those issues, including the value of having a Plan B in case the SHTF.

Guest's Event: Expat Money Summit

Show notes for Ep. 2380

Direct download: woods_2023_08_15.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Dr. Pierre Kory of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance discusses the Ivermectin controversy, why the critics are all wet, the sad state of medical research, and what could be causing all those excess deaths.

Book Discussed: The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine That Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic

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Show notes for Ep. 2379

Direct download: woods_2023_08_14.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Laurie Calhoun joins me to discuss what we should have learned over the past three years.

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Show notes for Ep. 2378

Direct download: woods_2023_08_11.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Paul Gottfried joins me to discuss a new book by neoconservative Matthew Continetti that the establishment loves. It's a history of American conservatism told in a way that will please the media: the history of American conservatism is a history of respectable people trying to push away people whose opinions are outside the allowable range.

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Book Discussed: The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, by Matthew Continetti

Show notes for Ep. 2377

Direct download: woods_2023_08_10.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

David Hathaway was elected sheriff of Santa Cruz County in Arizona by a landslide, after alleged experts warned him that his opposition to Covid restrictions would cost him the election. In this episode we catch up with him on how things have been going.

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Show notes for Ep. 2376

Direct download: woods_2023_08_08.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Gary Chartier joins me to make a vigorous case against the naive confidence in the state, and the reflexive assumption that the state is necessary to foster the common good, that we hear from all too many Christian thinkers.

Book Discussed: Christianity and the Nation State: A Study in Political Theology

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Show notes for Ep. 2375

Direct download: woods_2023_08_04.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

The federal government won't outright ban internal combustion engine vehicles; it will simply set mileage standards that no such car can meet. And that's what's happening. Eric Peters discusses the situation, the drawbacks to electric cars (though he is fine with people who prefer them) and whether there's any jumping off this train.

Article Discussed: https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2023/07/28/burning-love/

Special Message: The Tom Woods Mastermind

Show notes for Ep. 2374

Direct download: woods_2023_08_02.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Jennifer Sey was brand manager at Levi's and in line to become the company's first-ever female CEO when her dissident views on Covid began the process of her departure from the company. We discuss her background as a champion gymnast, her work in pre-woke corporate America, and what comes next.

Book Discussed: Levi's Unbuttoned: The Woke Mob Took My Job But Gave Me My Voice

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Show notes for Ep. 2373

Direct download: woods_2023_08_01.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Within a month, both Nigel Farage in the UK and Joseph Mercola in the United States had their bank accounts closed for obviously ideological reasons. Dominic Frisby joins us to discuss what it all means.

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Show notes for Ep. 2372

Direct download: woods_2023_07_28.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

In this discussion with Michael Rectenwald, we cover a wide variety of topics: RFK, Jr., the Ayn Rand Institute, Ayn Rand herself, the useless Covid mitigation measures, the forgotten stories of people who suffered during lockdown, what we can do apart from complaining and woe-is-meing, and my strategy for productivity.

Show notes for Ep. 2371

Direct download: woods_2023_07_27.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Josh Hammer, host of the Josh Hammer Show and senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, joins me to discuss cracks in the DEI edifice and where we should be heading.

Show notes for Ep. 2370

Direct download: woods_2023_07_25.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

The demographic implosion will have wide-ranging and devastating consequences around the world. Kevin Dolan joins us to discuss.

Guest's Conference: Natalism.org 

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Show notes for Ep. 2369

Direct download: woods_2023_07_20.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

We've heard plenty about the condition of many American cities, suffering under the consequences of crippling interventions. What if we could try a free city here and there, and see if its good example can do some good? Reason's Zach Weissmueller gives us an example from Honduras of precisely that.

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Show notes for Ep. 2368

Direct download: woods_2023_07_19.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Eric July thought there were major problems with the major comic book companies. When he started his own -- Rippaverse -- the naysayers said it was impossible. Until he generated seven figures in about a day. Today he joins us to discuss how he did it.

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Show notes for Ep. 2367

Direct download: woods_2023_07_18.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Conservatives complain about the extremes to which the civil rights revolution has been taken, but almost none of them dare to go to the root. In the traditional American conservative way, they eventually come to celebrate the very thing they once deplored, and then wonder why they keep losing. Jesse Merriam joins me to discuss the true ramifications of Brown vs. Board of Education. This is a discussion you cannot have in mainstream America today because you would be engaged in serious thought and constitutional analysis and the other side would be screaming slogans at you. But the conversation has to take place somewhere.

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Show notes for Ep. 2366

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Tho Bishop joins us to look at what's going on, primarily between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, in the Republican Party, where people who just six months ago were fans of both men, have come to despise each other.

Show notes for Ep. 2365

Direct download: woods_2023_07_13.mp3
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Gene Epstein discusses themes covered in his recent debate with David Friedman on the merits of the nonaggression principle, and whether libertarianism can and should do without it.

Show notes for Ep. 2364

Direct download: woods_2023_07_12.mp3
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Investigative journalist Tracy Beanz joins me to review Missouri v. Biden, where the Biden White House is being taken to task for ordering the suppression of dissident ideas.

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Show notes for Ep. 2363

Direct download: woods_2023_07_11.mp3
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A conversation about how to resist evil in an American context takes unexpected turns.

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Show notes for Ep. 2362

Direct download: woods_2023_07_07.mp3
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Connor Boyack and Elijah Stanfield discuss the pitiful state of knowledge of U.S. history and what can be done about it.

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Show notes for Ep. 2361

Direct download: woods_2023_07_05.mp3
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Entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy discusses the Supreme Court's smackdown of our alma mater, along with his views of the Espionage Act, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Ross Ulbricht, and other issues.

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Show notes for Ep. 2360

Direct download: woods_2023_07_03.mp3
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The convoluted array of rules and regulations and requirements that runs through the various pieces of civil rights legislation, executive orders, and the 14th Amendment, have alternatively required and now prohibited quotas in college admissions.

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Show notes for Ep. 2359

Direct download: woods_2023_06_30.mp3
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Jim Bovard, referred to by the Wall Street Journal as "the roving inspector general of the modern state," discusses the various accusations against the Bidens and the various efforts to cover them up.

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Show notes for Ep. 2358

Direct download: woods_2023_06_29.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Jacob Huebert, president of the Liberty Justice Center, a public-interest law firm, joins us to discuss his work against the crazy law in California that muzzles doctors who dissent from whatever the consensus is on Covid, as well as against the Covid mandates themselves.

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Show notes for Ep. 2357

Direct download: woods_2023_06_28.mp3
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The Libertarian Institute's Keith Knight joins me to revisit some of the tall tales we learned in school (or in the newspapers).

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Show notes for Ep. 2356

Direct download: woods_2023_06_27.mp3
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In this potpourri episode covering a bunch of current topics I talk about the RFK Jr. candidacy and the reaction to it.

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Show notes for Ep. 2355

Direct download: woods_2023_06_23.mp3
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Kevin Duffy joins us to discuss whether this is a passing issue or a serious problem.

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Show notes for Ep. 2354

Direct download: woods_2023_06_22.mp3
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Gerard Casey, professor emeritus at University College, Dublin, answers this common criticism of libertarianism.

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Show notes for Ep. 2353

Direct download: woods_2023_06_21.mp3
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Comedian and Family Feud host Steve Harvey calls my guest, Henry Bingaman, the "best damn writer I've ever worked with." Today Henry joins us to talk about a strategy that more and more people are following (and for good reason) for surviving and thriving even in today's economy.

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Show notes for Ep. 2352

Direct download: woods_2023_06_20.mp3
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Saifedean returns today so we can discuss more issues, including the economics of energy, how genuine free-market economists handle "externalities," and what capitalism is really all about.

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Show notes for Ep. 2351

Direct download: woods_2023_06_16.mp3
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The great Saifedean Ammous joins us to discuss his most recent work, Principles of Economics, which in the course of teaching this venerable discipline eviscerates the bad guys.

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Show notes for Ep. 2350

Direct download: woods_2023_06_15.mp3
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Dan McCarthy joins us to discuss Trump's legal troubles, the state of the two major parties, the right and wrong way to look at the war in Ukraine, and more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2349

Direct download: woods_2023_06_14.mp3
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The great Brad Birzer, Russell Amos Kirk professor of American studies at Hillsdale College, joins us for an outstanding discussion of some of the great works of modern literature and film (and even music), and why your spirit needs them.

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Show notes for Ep. 2348

Direct download: woods_2023_06_13.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Ryan McMaken, executive editor at Mises.org, joins me to discuss three issues in the news.

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Show notes for Ep. 2347

Direct download: woods_2023_06_09.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

If they tell you they had nothing to do with the 2008 financial crisis, be assured it was actually their fault. If they say they mitigated the effects of Covid, be confident that they worsened them. I discuss this and other issues -- including the idea behind my forthcoming book, my first in nine years -- with my friend Alan Mosley.

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Show notes for Ep. 2346

Direct download: woods_2023_06_08.mp3
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Libertarian Danny Hudson discusses how the COVID lockdowns led him to start his own company, the regulatory hurdles he faced, and the success he's had.

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Show notes for Ep. 2345

Direct download: woods_2023_06_07.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

Gene Epstein just appeared in a debate in which he defended principled libertarianism against charges of greed and disdain for the week. It was a crushing victory. We walk through his arguments.

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Show notes for Ep. 2344

Direct download: woods_2023_06_06.mp3
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The Reagan Administration's David Stockman joins me to discuss the continuing failure to deal with spending and debt, and what he would have done differently in Kevin McCarthy shoes.

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Show notes for Ep. 2343

Direct download: woods_2023_06_02.mp3
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Naomi Brockwell get specific in discussing the why and how of Internet privacy, whether it's email, your browser, using a VPN, you name it.

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Show notes for Ep. 2342

Direct download: woods_2023_06_01.mp3
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Gerard Casey, professor emeritus of philosophy at University College Dublin, joins me for a wide-ranging discussion of what libertarians should do when states already exist, whether "the consent of the people" means anything, and a lot more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2341

Direct download: woods_2023_05_31.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:55pm EDT

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will be speaking at the Free State Project's Porcfest event this year and has asked for no guns in the audience for his talk. Should libertarians object? The Free State Project's Carla Gericke joins me to discuss that and other controversies as she and her fellow Free Staters strive to create a freer society in the here and now.

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Show notes for Ep. 2340

Direct download: woods_2023_05_30.mp3
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The brilliant Stephen Wolfram joins us to explain the inner workings of ChatGPT and then to discuss the prospects of AI in general.

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Show notes for Ep. 2339

Direct download: woods_2023_05_26.mp3
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Paul Gottfried joins me for a wide-ranging discussion of the central principles of conservatism and libertarianism, whether libertarianism is equipped for the present moment, what the role of "natural law" is, and plenty more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2338

Direct download: woods_2023_05_25.mp3
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Auron MacIntyre joins me to analyze Trump and DeSantis, as well as RFK, Jr., and how much of the electorate is voting left no matter how bad the candidate is.

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Show notes for Ep. 2337

Direct download: woods_2023_05_24.mp3
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Germinal G. Van returns to discuss the sweeping changes to American society and economy during the 1930s and 1960s.

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Show notes for Ep. 2336

Direct download: woods_2023_05_23.mp3
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Entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy discusses his influences, the public health establishment, the drug war, the FBI, affirmative action, and much more.

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Show notes for Ep. 2335

Direct download: woods_2023_05_19.mp3
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