The Tom Woods Show

The great lawyer and online personality Viva Frei joins us to discuss what's going wrong, what's going right, the true nature of the regimes that rule is, and whether we can have legitimate hope.

Larry Lepard became known among libertarians in 2008, when he spent $200,000 of his own money on full-page ads in major newspapers for Ron Paul. Today he joins us to discuss how to think about investing in an age of financial lunacy. Larry Lepard became known among libertarians in 2008, when he spent $200,000 of his own money on full-page ads in major newspapers for Ron Paul. Today he joins us to discuss how to think about investing in an age of financial lunacy.

Carla Gericke, former president of the Free State Project, joins us to discuss the recent discussion of secession in New Hampshire, and the response of critics who are appalled that anyone would dare discuss such a forbidden topic.

Eric Peters joins us to discuss the fanatical movement toward electric cars, what the drawbacks are, and whether it can be stopped.

Almost everyone in academia, including even some libertarians, is convinced that labor has suffered a declining share of national income over time. Then predictably, come the various government interventions proposed to reverse this. But as Gene Epstein shows, they're misreading the data.

So much damage is done because people have a frankly juvenile understanding of the economy: what it is and how it works. Per Bylund has provided us with the antidote.

Gene Epstein joins us to discuss the economics of the partial cancellation of college loans.

Over the past few years I've been thrilled to see Doc Dixon's star begin to rise within the libertarian world. He's a solid libertarian in our tradition, and an extremely talented magician, who fooled Penn and Teller on their "Fool Us" television program. Today we talk a bit about magic and a bit about libertarianism, and how we might do a better job reaching the normies. Special Offer: Happily date box: Take 50% off your first date at

A revival of the Broadway musical 1776, featuring female, trans, and nonbinary cast members portraying the Founding Fathers, has reignited the usual attacks on the Founders, so I look at the matter more closely. Sponsor: Liquid IV - Take 15% off your entire order at

National divorce is urgently and obviously necessary, but among the blue-pilled in our movement it's a betrayal of libertarian principles that must be rejected. I take this on.

Yes, we are ruled by bad guys, but as Rothbard explained, sometimes the bad guys have rivalries among themselves, and these rivalries can go a long way toward explaining current events. Tom Luongo joins us to explain.

Vivek Ramaswamy, founder of Strive Asset Management, is leading a heroic charge against the ESG-driven politicization of investing and capital allocation.

Jeff Deist joins me to discuss the FBI raid on Trump, the benefits of national divorce, and more. Sponsor: The Expat Money Summit, hosted by our friend Mikkel Thorup, is the expat event of the year. From the comfort of your own home, learn everything you need to know about the expat life: migration, residencies, citizenship, investment, the expat lifestyle and more! For a limited time you can still access a free ticket to the event at .

The great Tom DiLorenzo, who spent 41 years as an economics professor, joins me for a takedown of anti-market arguments and a defense of freedom.

Mikkel Thorup, who runs the Expat Money Summit and has himself visited over 100 countries (and lived in nine), joins us to discuss international options for freedom lovers.

Jeremy Kauffman, a creator of LBRY.com and a board member of the Free State Project, is running for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, but not exactly following the "make commercials in the style of Mitt Romney" strategy.

Matt Kibbe joins me to discuss the Alex Jones situation, the perennial "are they stupid or evil" debate," and other items in the news.

You can still find people to this day who try to claim Mao Tse-Tung was an agrarian reformer and that the deaths were caused by bad weather, but in this episode my guest Jason Jewell gives us the truth, while also spending some time on communism in eastern Europe.

Jason Jewell of Faulkner University joins us to discuss communism (theory and history) and the realities of life under Lenin and Stalin. Sponsor: Liquid IV - Take 15% off your entire order at

In this episode I discuss the damages of COVID fanaticism that can't be captured in statistics, and the insistence that only violent revolution can solve our problems.