The Tom Woods Show

Jay Richards, co-author of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot, talks Tolkien and liberty.

Tom talks to Gary Chartier about his book Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Bob Murphy joins Tom to discuss the Keynesian disaster in Japan.

Tom discusses the libertarian/conservative divide, plus politics, self-publishing, podcasting, and more as a guest on Matt Lewis and the News.

Randall Holcombe discusses his most recent book, Advanced Introduction to Austrian Economics. Plus, Tom offers a surprise giveaway.

Judge Andrew Napolitano returns to the show to discuss his new book, released just today: Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Assault on Civil Liberties.

Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight and author of The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security, corrects fashionable myths about military funding. Check out his article "The War Against Austerity."

George Reisman, author of Capitalism, refutes common errors.

Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress discusses his new book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

Independent investigative journalist Ben Swann returns to the show to discuss some key stories he's working on.

Murray Polner, co-author with Tom of We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, talks war and foreign policy.

Jim Grant, Ron Paul's choice for Fed chairman, discusses his new book The Forgotten Depression -- 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself.

Michael Malice returns to the show to make an unusual claim: libertarians should welcome a Hillary presidency. Tom responds.

Burt Folsom, author of FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America, talks about issues on the home front that are rarely discussed.

Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center joins Tom to review ballot initiatives on behalf of nullification and the Tenth Amendment from yesterday's election.

Tom addresses some common pro-government arguments.

Tom shares a great discussion from the Robert Wenzel Show. Check out EconomicPolicyJournal.com and TargetLiberty.com.

Linda Rottenberg, author of Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags, talks about the urgency -- and possibility -- of becoming entrepreneurial.

David Beito, co-author of Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, discusses a forgotten figure of the civil-rights era.

Jim Tobin of Taxpayers United of America recalls the Chicago Tax Strike of 1977, chronicled by Murray Rothbard, and discusses his 400 other successful battles against tax increases.