The Tom Woods Show

By Tom Woods

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Ep. 1893 The Red Pill Talk

05.11.2021

What you learned in fifth grade about government employees being wise public servants innocently pursuing the common good is a fairy tale, and once you see that, you never look at the world the same way again. C-SPAN covered this ...

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05.12.2021 Ep. 1894 Why the Economy Goes Up and Down -- Explained for a Teenager, a 5-Year-Old, and a Grad Stduent In this unique episode, Professor Jeff Herbener and I explain why the economy goes up and down in boom-bust cycles (hint: it's not the fault of "capitalism"), but we describe it in three ways: how we would explain it to ...
05.11.2021 Ep. 1893 The Red Pill Talk What you learned in fifth grade about government employees being wise public servants innocently pursuing the common good is a fairy tale, and once you see that, you never look at the world the same way again. C-SPAN covered this ...
05.08.2021 Ep. 1892 The Voice of the Ron Paul Revolution If you were part of the Ron Paul Revolution in 2008 and/or 2012, you'll remember the great Jordan Page, who opened for so many Ron Paul events. We're going to walk down memory lane a bit and revisit those amazing ...
05.07.2021 Ep. 1891 The Demonization of Non-Lefists Tho Bishop of the Mises Institute discusses the treatment of dissident voices and what our correct strategy should be. Sponsor: If you're interested in investing in crypto but it all seems like Greek to you, you'll love John Bush's course ...
05.06.2021 Ep. 1890 Glorious: Vile Libertarians Driven From Office Some of the most vile so-called libertarians imaginable ran the Libertarian Party of Nevada for years. During 2020 they didn't think it was worth bothering speaking about the lockdowns -- why, we can't contradict Dr. Fauci! Why, he's an expert, ...
05.05.2021 Ep. 1889 The Forbidden John C. Calhoun, and More Southern historian Brion McClanahan joins me to discuss John C. Calhoun, the American historical figure everyone is supposed to hate, along with D.C. statehood and court packing.
05.04.2021 Ep. 1888 Woods Takes the Gloves Off I spend some time on (and name representatives of) milquetoast libertarianism, and also cover "cancel culture," what libertarians ought to think of COVID/Fauci, and a lot more juicy stuff. Thanks to Reed Coverdale of the Naturalist Capitalist. Sponsor: If you're ...
05.01.2021 Ep. 1887 COVID Madness -- and Sanity -- in Trudeau's Canada Adam Schneider, eCommerce consultant to the Libertarian Party's Mises Caucus, reports on the ongoing severity of Canadian lockdowns, along with high-profile cases of resistance. Sponsor: If you're interested in investing in crypto but it all seems like Greek to you, ...
04.30.2021 Ep. 1886 The Forgotten Quality That Makes You Human, and Wicked People Less Than F.H. Buckley, a professor at George Mason University's law school, joins us to discuss curiosity -- a topic that may itself appear curious, and yet turns out to be at the heart of so much that's wrong with the world, ...
04.29.2021 Ep. 1885 Join Us for the Ultimate Anti-Fauci Project In recent episodes I have called on documentary filmmakers to embark on the ultimate anti-Fauci project: a documentary covering COVID and the absurd response. And although it should include the charts that tell the story, it should also tell real ...
04.28.2021 Ep. 1884 The Truth About the Supreme Court My friend and co-author Kevin Gutzman joins us to discuss the original function of the Supreme Court and what has happened since, including the Democrats' latest attempt at court packing.
04.27.2021 Ep. 1883 It's Happening: A YouTube Alternative Is Taking Off Instead of just complaining about YouTube's arbitrariness, Jeremy Kauffman created a better platform: Odysee.
04.24.2021 Ep 1882 Sheriff Resists COVID Crazies Sheriff David Hathaway of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, joins me to discuss what it has been like being sheriff since late last year. Sponsor: If you're tired of doom and gloom in your financial analysis, Merk Research offers a balanced, ...
04.23.2021 Ep. 1881 Track Coach Fired Over Masks Track coach Brad Keyes of New Hampshire's Pembroke Academy was fired recently for refusing to force his athletes to use masks while racing outdoors, citing (among other arguments) the virtually unanimous opinion these days that outdoor mask wearing is unnecessary.
04.21.2021 Ep. 1880 Is Progressivism Dying? I recently read an editorial in Modern Age by editor Dan McCarthy arguing that progressivism's strength is only apparent, and in fact its prospects are not nearly as great as we think. I'd love to believe this. I talk through ...
04.20.2021 Ep. 1879 Free Market Economists Aren't All the Same: How the Chicago and Austrian Schools Differ The Chicago School of Milton Friedman and the Austrian School of Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek differ in important ways, and although individuals from both schools have made important contributions to the free society, it's important that we recognize ...
04.18.2021 Ep. 1878 Jay Bhattacharya on Variants, Vaccine Passports, and the Future Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya covers a wide range of issues in this episode: asymptomatic transmission and how common (or otherwise) it is, how concerned people should be about the variants, what the prospects are for fall and winter, YouTube censorship, what ...
04.16.2021 Ep. 1877 Bitcoin for Beginners John Bush joins us for an overview of the importance of Bitcoin and his recommendations for beginners.
04.16.2021 Ep. 1876 Charity Without Coercion Jeff Perry and Logan Davies of Voluntaryism in Action join us to discuss private solutions to poverty and distress. Sponsor: If you're tired of doom and gloom in your financial analysis, Merk Research offers a balanced, unbiased approach to the ...
04.14.2021 Ep. 1875 Michael Malice on How to Make Radical Ideas Approachable Michael Malice joins us to exchange strategies for introducing ideas (like ours) that will likely shock people who have never encountered them before. It's a great discussion as usual.
04.13.2021 Ep. 1874 Eric July on Liberty, P.C. Comics, and the Fate of Live Music The multitalented Eric July, who's a successful musician and libertarian content creator, joins us for a potpourri episode on SJWs in the comic book world (including a recent matter involving Jordan Peterson), music in COVID times, and how he built ...
04.11.2021 Ep. 1873 The Scourge of Cowardice in 2021 We face a paradox: the most cowardly people in our society constantly trumpet their alleged bravery. The bravest people, meanwhile, are the ones held in the most contempt. Let's sort this out.
04.10.2021 Ep. 1872 Time to Build Our Own With things getting crazier and more disturbing by the day, we need to think seriously about building our own institutions. In this episode I give Liberty Classroom, my educational subscription website, as an example. But the time may come for ...
04.08.2021 Ep. 1871 The Economic Fallout of 2020 Our old friend John Tamny of RealClearMarkets.com joins us to discuss the economic folly that accompanied the coronavirus panic.
04.07.2021 Ep. 1870 Saifedean Ammous on Bitcoin, Present and Future The great Saifedean Ammous joins us to discuss current trends in Bitcoin, whether it's in a "bubble," what its advantages are, what the future may hold, and why all of this should matter to libertarians.
04.06.2021 Ep. 1869 The Tom Woods Secrets In this episode, podcaster James Jenneman (of ) draws out quite a bit from ol' Woods about my books and work, the virus craziness (not too much about that, though), my productivity, mindset advice, my secret business adviser, the problem ...
04.02.2021 Ep. 1868 Dave Smith on Vaccine Passports Dave Smith, host of Part of the Problem, joins us to discuss vaccine passports and the response from the Libertarian Party and two of its state affiliates.
04.01.2021 Ep. 1867 How Poor Countries Become Rich What is the process by which countries develop economically? It used to be assumed that government-to-government transfers were indispensable. That view has fallen somewhat out of favor, but there are still plenty of errors in the way some economists think ...
03.31.2021 Ep. 1866 The Anthony Fauci Phenomenon Anthony Fauci, although perhaps known to public health specialists and an advisor to numerous White Houses, was largely unknown to the American public until early 2020. Since then, his stature has been elevated to the point that many people equate ...
03.30.2021 Ep. 1865 The Twenty-Five Minute Case Against the on 2020 (and 2021) Insanity The heroic Nick Hudson of (Pandemics -- Data and Analytics) recently spoke at an investment conference held by South Africa's and laid out the point-by-point case against the insanity.
03.27.2021 Ep. 1864 Gene Epstein on More Bad Arguments for the Minimum Wage Gene Epstein joins us to refute a Dean Baker article claiming that another reason to raise the minimum wage is that it has not kept pace with increases in productivity. Gene has the numbers, as usual. Sponsor: If you're tired ...
03.27.2021 Ep. 1863 Amazing Innovations -- Stymied by Regulators Patrick Reasonover joins me to discuss They Say It Can't Be Done, a documentary about four extraordinary innovations -- for example, a 3D printing technology with the potential to eliminate the organ waitlist -- that have run into a common ...
03.26.2021 Ep. 1862 Ivor Cummins Answers Forbidden COVID Questions The brilliant and heroic Ivor Cummins, whose COVID work has been outstanding and thorough, returns to deliver more truth.
03.25.2021 Ep. 1861 The Green New Deal: Worse Than You Think Marc Morano returns to the show to discuss the craziness of the Green New Deal, which turns out to be even worse than you thought.
03.23.2021 Ep. 1860 Kathryn Huwig Smashes COVID Pseudoscience at State House Kathryn Huwig has been providing excellent COVID analytics pretty much from the beginning, and her work has laid bare the science-free hysteria of Ohio COVID policy. Her recent remarks before the Ohio state house, where she challenged the Ohio public ...
03.20.2021 Ep. 1859 What Is Friendship (and Should Politics Interfere)? Gary Chartier, who has written on the subject of friendship from a philosophical and theological perspective, joins me to delve into what friendship means, and whether we can or should be friends with people whose opinions we strongly oppose.
03.19.2021 Ep. 1858 Christianity and the State We're familiar with the arguments regarding why Christians should view the state in a positive light. Are there countervailing arguments? (You know the answer!) Gary Chartier joins me to discuss.
03.18.2021 Ep. 1857 Christianity and the Market Economy: Friends or Foes? Gary Chartier and I discuss why it's incorrect to claim that the market economy is opposed to Christian ethics.
03.17.2021 Ep. 1856 What Is Left-Libertarianism? The term "left-libertarian" is sometimes used colloquially to refer to libertarians who favor cultural trends that are generally described as left wing, but it has a more precise and interesting meaning. Gary Chartier, my favorite left-libertarian, joins us to discuss ...
03.16.2021 Ep. 1855 The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Libertarian Gary Chartier is a polymath who has made contributions to theology, philosophy, business ethics, and legal theory. He joins me this week to delve into some of these topics. This first episode deals with Gary's own ideological journey (which included ...
03.13.2021 Ep. 1854 Telling Biden to Pound Sand, Jefferson Style The story of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws goes almost completely untold in most textbooks. If a sliver of it is told, it is told only in caricature and in a completely uncomprehending way. I literally wrote the book ...
03.13.2021 Ep. 1853 How to Bring Health Care Costs Way Down, Right Now John Osterhoudt of Reason TV joins me to discuss the important direct primary care movement among physicians, which has brought price transparency and much lower costs to American health care.
03.12.2021 Ep. 1852 COVID SCHMOVID: How to Succeed Even When the Politicos Are Kneecapping You Pedro Adao went from nothing to having an 8-figure business in under two years, during COVID, and he did it using the kind of technique that was available to no one even a generation ago. It's the kind of technique ...
03.10.2021 Ep. 1851 The Charts That Tell the COVID Story Ian Miller's heroic charts tell the story of the failure of the fashionable motivation measures against COVID, so I'm glad to have a chance to talk to him in today's episode.
03.09.2021 Ep. 1850 When COVID Became a Religion I think this one is self-explanatory, but let me add this: this episode begins with reference to three academic papers that make preposterous, blue-pilled claims about COVID, and which were funded by a major libertarian organization. Let's shine a light ...
03.06.2021 Ep. 1849 My Speakeasy Talk in California: COVID and the Two Americas This week I spoke in southern California to a group of people who capable of reading charts, and who are determined to be normal and live lives worthy of human beings. I laid out the roots of the division between ...
03.05.2021 Ep. 1848 Professor Tom DiLorenzo on "America's Stalinist Universities" Tom DiLorenzo, recently retired as a professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland, recently wrote an article called "America's Stalinist Universities" that looked at the uniformity of thought and the hostility toward dissident voices to be found on most American ...
03.04.2021 Ep. 1847 The Truth About the Great Depression Economist Bob Murphy joins me for a discussion of what really caused the Great Depression (it wasn't "capitalism") and bad explanations for what cured it.
03.02.2021 Ep. 1846 Against Woke Propaganda for Toddlers It's getting crazy out there, folks. Connor Boyack, creator of the Tuttle Twins children's book series, joins me to discuss how intense the ideological battle is getting, and how we can equip young people with the intellectual tools to resist ...
02.27.2021 Ep. 1845 The Disastrous $15 Minimum Wage Andrew Heaton joins us to discuss a popular recent proposal and the harms -- many of which are unknown to its proponents -- that it will surely cause. Sponsor: If you're tired of doom and gloom in your financial analysis, ...

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