The Tom Woods Show

Erik Voorhees joins Tom to discuss recent developments surrounding Bitcoin, and replies to objections to Bitcoin. Check out Erik's article "Bitcoin: The Libertarian Introduction," and follow him on Twitter.

Tom asks veteran journalist Eric Margolis for an overview of the Afghanistan situation, from 2001 to today. Visit Eric at his website, and check out his most recent book American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World.

Tom talks to Mike Maharrey about the NullifyNSA campaign.Tom talks to the Tenth Amendment Center's Mike Maharrey, author of Our Last Hope: Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty, about the NullifyNSA campaign. Visit the campaign's site at Offnow.org.

Tom talks about the economic passages in Evangelii Gaudium of Pope Francis. On this topic check out Tom's book The Church and the Market, which won first place in the books category of the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.

What did people do before the welfare state? David Beito, professor of history at the University of Alabama and author of From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967, joins Tom to offer an answer.