Synopsis
Join New York Times bestselling author Tom Woods for your daily serving of liberty education! Guests include Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, David Stockman, and hundreds more, with topics like war, the Federal Reserve, net neutrality, the FDA, Austrian economics, and many other subjects of interest to libertarians. Join us!
Episodes
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Ep. 190 State of the Nullification Movement
01/07/2014 Duration: 27minMichael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center returns for an update on nullification initiatives, plus his anti-NSA work with Greenpeace. Check out his new report, "The State of the Nullification Movement 2014."
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Ep. 189 The American Revolution: The Real Issue
30/06/2014 Duration: 24minKevin Gutzman, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, James Madison and the Making of America, and (with Tom) Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama, explains the real issues at stake in the War for Independence.
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Ep. 188 Iraq: The Chickens Come Home to Roost
27/06/2014 Duration: 27minScott Horton discusses what's happening in Iraq, and who's to blame.
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Ep. 187 Forgotten Conservatives and Libertarians
26/06/2014 Duration: 29minBrion McClanahan, co-author of Forgotten Conservatives in American History as well as The Founding Fathers' Guide to the Constitution and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, discusses curiously forgotten thinkers.
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Ep. 186 Human Scale
25/06/2014 Duration: 28minJeff Taylor, author of Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism, fills in some holes in the standard tale of U.S. history.
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Ep. 185 Stockman on War and the Fed
24/06/2014 Duration: 24minDavid Stockman, author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of American Capitalism, talks about war and the Fed, plus his impressions of Ronald Reagan, his conversion from leftism, and the current economic picture. Check out David Stockman's Contra Corner, David's indispensable website and blog.
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Ep. 184 Self-Ownership: Against a Critic
23/06/2014 Duration: 35minTom responds to a critic of the libertarian idea of self-ownership.
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Ep. 183 Private Defense?
20/06/2014 Duration: 30minEconomist Robert P. Murphy joins Tom to talk "Private Defense," the second of two essays in his book Chaos Theory. (You can also read that book online.)
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Ep. 182 The Ten Commandments for Patriots
19/06/2014 Duration: 33minSteve Deace, host of the Steve Deace Show, columnist for the Washington Times, and the author of the book, "Rules for Patriots", joins Tom.
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Ep. 181 Drones: The Good Kind?
17/06/2014 Duration: 25minTim Ravich, lawyer and professor, discusses the direction the law is likely to take regarding unmanned aerial vehicles for commercial use.
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Ep. 180 Rockwell on the State, the Military, and Propaganda
16/06/2014 Duration: 38minLew Rockwell, author of the new book Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto, returns to discuss still more state crimes.
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Ep. 179 The Late Scholastics: Christians for Freedom
13/06/2014 Duration: 34minAlejandro Chafuen of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation discusses his book Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics.
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Ep. 178 Current Events: Cantor and Bergdahl
12/06/2014 Duration: 27minJustin Raimondo of Antiwar.com discusses the defeat of Eric Cantor and the controversy over the Bowe Bergdahl/Gitmo swap. Check out Justin's books Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement and An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard.
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Ep. 177 Militants Take Key Iraqi Cities
11/06/2014 Duration: 22minDaniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity discusses militant victories in Mosul and Tikrit -- plus Libya, Hillary Clinton, and more.
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Ep. 176 The Calamity of Anti-Capitalism
10/06/2014 Duration: 49minTom talks about anti-capitalist thought and the disasters that flow from it.
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Ep. 175 On Fracking
09/06/2014 Duration: 30minDan Simmons of the Institute for Energy Research talks about hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," and the case for and against.
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Ep. 174 Net Neutrality: A Libertarian View
06/06/2014 Duration: 30minBerin Szoka of TechFreedom.org explains net neutrality and why we should be skeptical of government regulation.
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Ep. 173 Freedom From Choice
05/06/2014 Duration: 24minTim Delmastro joins Tom to discuss his upcoming film Freedom From Choice (click here for the trailer), which discusses the state's inroads on food freedom, medical freedom, financial freedom, and more. Help out Tim's project at FreedomFromChoiceFilm.com.
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Ep. 172 The Fallacies of GDP
04/06/2014 Duration: 23minMark Skousen and Jeff Herbener explain the problems with GDP as a measurement of the health of an economy.
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Ep. 171 Ron Paul's Chief of Staff
03/06/2014 Duration: 26minJeff Deist, Ron Paul's last chief of staff and now the president of the Mises Institute, joins Tom to discuss liberty's past and future.