The Tom Woods Show

University of Colorado at Boulder philosophy professor Michael Huemer, author of Progressive Myths, joins us to smash some. (I didn't actually count how many we covered, but it's at least six.) Sponsors: Blinkist & CrowdHealth Book Discussed: Progressive Myths Show notes for Ep. 2560

CJ Killmer, host of the Dangerous History Podcast, discusses the suspiciously CIA-ish group where Kamala Harris spent time as a young woman, as well as CIA influence on culture in general.   Sponsors: Persist SEO & OneBuckTrial.com   Guest's Twitter:  @KillmerCJ   Guest's Podcast: The Dangerous History Podcast   Guest's Patreon: CJ Killmer   Show notes for Ep. 2559

Meltdown, my New York Times bestseller on the 2008 financial crisis, turns 15 this year. There is a slight chance the world has not studied it enough. Keith Knight and I discuss the myths and realities of what the SOBs did to us. Special Offer: Get Tom's US history courses for free at WoodsHistory.com Book Discussed: Meltdown: The Classic Free Market Analysis of the 2008 Financial Crisis Guest's Website: The Libertarian Institute Contribute to their fund drive here: https://libertarianinstitute.org/donate  Guest's Podcast: Don't Tread on Anyone Guest's Book: Domestic Imperialism: 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism Guest's Twitter: @an_capitalist Show notes for Ep. 2558

Auron MacIntyre joins us to discuss Kamala Harris as plagiarist, Why you'll be disappointed to expect pure rationality from voters, and what's wrong with the dumb term "woke right" that liberals posing as conservatives invented. Sponsors: Persist SEO & SupportingListeners.com Guest's Book: The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies Guest's Twitter: @AuronMacIntyre Guest's Podcast: The Auron MacIntyre Show Show notes for Ep. 2557

If someone favors U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, I can also generally predict where that person stands on gender theory. Why is that? What do those things have to do with each other? And why won't people listen even when you have all the evidence? Andrew Heaton joins us.   Book Discussed: Tribalism Is Dumb: Where It Came From, How It Got So Bad, and What to Do About It Sponsors: Factor: Code: Woods50 & Bank on Yourself Guest's Podcast: The Political Orphanage   Guest's Twitter: @MightyHeaton   Show notes for Ep. 2556

Actor Clifton Duncan discusses his important Sowell project and the state of the arts in America. Sponsors: Persist SEO & WoodsHistory.com Show notes for Ep. 2555

Justin Folk, director of the Matt Walsh film Am I Racist, joins us to discuss the making of the film, the message, and the various crazies who comprise the "anti-racist" movement. Sponsors: Blinkist & Crowdhealth Film Website: AmIRacist.com Show notes for Ep. 2554

Schenck v. United States was an important decision in U.S. history, related to the subject of freedom of speech, particularly in wartime. It turns out that so-called progressives have a pretty lousy record on this issue, as historian CJ Killmer explains in this episode. Sponsors: WoodsHistory.com & SupportingListeners.com Guest's Twitter: @KillmerCJ   Guest's Podcast: The Dangerous History Podcast   Guest's Patreon: CJ Killmer Show notes for Ep. 2553

Tom Luongo joins us to note that the bad guys we face aren't a single, undifferentiated blob, but that they are divided against themselves, and to explain why that matters. Sponsors: Persist SEO & Supporting Listeners Guest's Website: Tom Luongo   Guest's Twitter: @TFL1728 Show notes for Ep. 2552

Dr. Jonathan Engler argues that the evidence (particularly in New York and Italy, early sites of reported heavy fatalities) is not consistent with the idea of a novel pathogen gradually spreading and causing a novel illness. "Any and all harms observed and reported," Engler argues, "can be explained by a combination of: mistreatment, maltreatment, non-treatment, neglect, abuse and data fraud." Sponsors: CrowdHealth & WoodsHistory.com Guest's Substack: Sanity Unleashed Guest's Twitter: @jengleruk Show notes for Ep. 2551

Candice Jackson served in the Trump administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education, and the Office's Acting Assistant Secretary from April 2017 to July 2018. She discusses the politics of campus sexual assault, the issue of racially disparate disciplinary action, and the invasion of the classroom by "gender theory." Sponsors: Expat Money Summit & Persist SEO Free Book Mentioned: Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About Gender Guest's Twitter: @CEJacksonLaw Show notes for Ep. 2550

Scott Horton, fresh from (just about completing) his new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, joins us to discuss that as well as to discuss the Kamala Harris disaster and why Donald Trump isn't trouncing her in the polls. Sponsors: Expat Money Summit & Federated Computer: Coupon Code: WOODS Support the Libertarian Institute: libertarianinstitute.org/donate  Scott's other Websites: scotthorton.org  antiwar.com  Show notes for Ep. 2549

Marc Tancer, owner of Taggart Trading, discusses the significance of gold, gold's recent rise, why gold still matters in the age of Bitcoin -- but also the rise of gold scams, and how to spot and avoid them. Sponsors: Policy Genius & Federated Computer: Coupon Code: WOODS Guest's Website: TaggartTrading.com  Show notes for Ep. 2548

Dan McCarthy, syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate and a vice president at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, joins us for a general political discussion that includes thinking the unthinkable. Sponsors: Expat Money Summit & Persist SEO Guest's Website: Modern Age Guest's Twitter: @ToryAnarchist Show notes for Ep. 2547

Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University joins us to discuss what happens when a prematurely formed consensus shuts down alternative ways of thinking. Sponsors: Expat Money Summit & Blinkist Book Discussed: Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health   Guest's Twitter: @MartyMakary Show notes for Ep. 2546

Erick Brimen, CEO of Prospera, discusses his ambition for free private cities as a mechanism for attaining more liberty. Sponsors: CrowdHealth & SuperBeets: Code: WOODS Guest's Website: prospera.co  Guest's Twitter: @erickbrimen Show notes for Ep. 2545

Darryl Cooper, denounced by the White House for his appearance with Tucker Carlson (you'll never guess: the Winston Churchill and World War II segment made them unhappy), joins us to discuss the regime's rules about what you can say and think without being misrepresented, denounced, and smeared. Sponsors: Expat Money Summit & Federated Computer: Coupon Code: WOODS Guest's Substack: Martyr Made   Guest's Twitter: @martyrmade Show notes for Ep. 2544

Ken McCarthy is widely known as the godfather of internet marketing, but he is also a dissident content creator, and in today's episode we discuss the recent unpleasantness (we dare not say its name here, for obvious reasons) and what nurses were reporting about what was happening in the hospitals. We also cover what Anthony Fauci was up to in the 1980s, long before his recent celebrity. Sponsors: Expat Money Summit & Bank on Yourself Guest's Websites: What the Nurses Saw Fauci's First Fraud KenMcCarthy.com Show notes for Ep. 2543

We've overlooked some of the key reasons housing is so expensive. If we took these head on, argues Bryan Caplan, we could well see a 50% reduction in house prices. Sponsors: Factor: Code: WOODS50 & CrowdHealth Book Discussed: Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation Guest's Website: bcaplan.com  Show notes for Ep. 2542

Clint Russell and I discuss all kinds of interesting things, but in particular the ongoing problem of the suppression of unpopular opinions -- the kinds you and I hold, dear listener. Sponsors: Expat Money Summit & Blinkist Guest's Podcast: Liberty Lockdown Guest's Twitter: @LibertyLockPod Show notes for Ep. 2541