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J.D. Vance heads toward 2028 carrying a real problem: he's polling 12 points underwater on favorability. Tom Woods breaks down why the "not crazy" candidate — the one who reads a lot, speaks well, and leaves a decent impression — still enters the race with that deficit, and what it would actually take to climb out of it.

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Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin were "Never Trumpers" — yet now they shower Trump with over-the-top praise, from Levin's arm around him to Shapiro's literal "A-plus" in foreign policy.

Watch TWS #2789: Why the Campaign Against JD Vance?

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Tom Woods responds to Ibram X. Kendi after the closure of his Antiracist Research & Policy Center at Boston University. Kendi wrote that being a prominent anti-racist scholar means being "a target almost totally surrounded by resentments," facing attacks that "come like a lynch mob." Tom Woods isn't having it — calling Kendi a "contemptible charlatan" who, "despite producing nothing of value," has built his career on the guilt of others.

Watch: 2788: Biggest Academic Charlatan of Our Time, Celebrated

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There are numerous reasons someone might oppose or be skeptical of JD Vance. None of them account for the neocon campaign against him. Dan McCarthy, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation, discusses what's really going on.

Dan and Tom dig into:

Why Vance's actual polling (+62 favorability among Republicans) contradicts the civil-war narrative you see on X/Twitter

The organized effort by neoconservatives and "Beltway libertarians" to rebrand classical liberalism as the litmus test for conservatism — and purge anyone who doesn't pass it

Why JD Vance, not Trump, has become the acceptable target for intra-coalition attacks

The succession problem: why Vance winning in 2028 would make MAGA-era changes permanent in a way a one-off Trump presidency never could

Marco Rubio's evolution, his 2016 courtship by pro-Israel donors, and what Dan does and doesn't worry about with him

Ron Paul, Joe Kent, and the difference between running to educate vs. running to win

Mark Levin's "red line" on Tucker Carlson, and why Mike Cernovich keeps reminding him of his own 2016 record

The generational and personnel battle inside the conservative movement that matters more than any single 2028 primary

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(Ep. 2789 of the Tom Woods Show)

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The UN Secretary General wants you to know that indigenous peoples deserve dignity, cultural integrity, and protection from outside pressures. Tom Woods noticed something odd: that principle seems to apply to everyone… except certain groups.

In this clip from The Tom Woods Show, Tom breaks down the glaring double standard embedded in mainstream Western discourse — where some peoples are celebrated as sacred and untouchable, while others are quietly expected to dissolve.

Watch: 2787: Liberalism Destroys Irreplaceable Things (like Europe), with Darryl Cooper

For generations, ethnic neighborhoods across America functioned as living, breathing communities — people born, raised, and buried among those who shared their culture, their language, their identity. It wasn't segregation. It was equilibrium.

Then it ended. And Tom Woods argues it didn't end by accident.

In this clip from The Tom Woods Show, Tom makes the case that the deliberate destruction of these tight-knit communities was the goal — not a byproduct of progress, not a side effect of policy. Something far more sinister.

Watch: 2787: Liberalism Destroys Irreplaceable Things (like Europe), with Darryl Cooper

Tom Woods doesn't hold back: a plagiarist with "zero scholarly merit" was handed a full professorship at one of the world's most prestigious institutions at age 37 — while thousands of more qualified academics can't even find full-time work. This isn't an isolated incident. It's a system. And the people running it are starting to sweat.

Watch: 2786: Jason Arday and Our Embarrassing Academic Elite

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For weeks, Cambridge University called the mounting evidence against Jason Arday a "vile campaign to undermine his credibility." Progressive academics rallied around him. The institution stood firm.

Then came The Times. And suddenly, Cambridge's hands weren't tied anymore.

Tom Woods breaks down the only thing that actually changed their minds — and it had nothing to do with standards, truth, or academic integrity.

Watch: 2786: Jason Arday and Our Embarrassing Academic Elite

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Darryl Cooper discusses how the organic communities and peoples of the West are being destroyed, and what steps we can take.

Tom Woods and Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) continue the conversation Cooper began on The Tucker Carlson Show — this time going deeper. They open with Wendell Berry's description of the "ancient norm" of a good life: perceiving your calling, making a home, raising a family, growing old among neighbors, and dying surrounded by loved ones. It sounds obvious — yet it's precisely what modern society now treats as quaint, and the subject of the conversation is why.

Cooper argues that for all of human history, people found meaning by plugging themselves into lasting things — family, community, church, a people — things that outlive the individual. In roughly the last sixty years, that entire project of communal life has been dismantled, replaced by atomized individuals chasing fleeting public attention. Tom and Darryl trace the mechanics: how the state deliberately broke up self-governing ethnic neighborhoods and parishes, why a people's culture is truly irreplaceable once lost, and what Ireland — a colonized nation with no colonial guilt — reveals about what's happening across the West.

The conversation closes on the only realistic answer: you cannot elect your way out of this. Meaning is rebuilt at the local level, face-to-face — knowing your neighbors, going to church, and being the one who takes the initiative. Electing the right people won't fix it; only you will.

(Ep. 2787 of the Tom Woods Show)

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The Jason Arday plagiarism and all-around weirdo and liar scandal told us something not only about the University of Cambridge but also about the whole higher-education racket: a great many left-liberal academics defended an obvious charlatan down to the very last moment even though his plagiarism and other problems were obvious to everyone.

In this episode, Tom breaks down:

How Arday went from a PhD at Liverpool John Moores to a full professorship at Cambridge by age 37 — and why his dissertation prose alone should have disqualified him

The extensive, side-by-side plagiarism in his published articles, and the "corrections" journals quietly issued rather than retracting his work

The fabricated claims: a fictitious visiting scholar post at Ohio State, a phantom book deal with Palgrave Macmillan, inflated marathon and fundraising claims, and the wilder personal mythology (a mugging that "gave him epilepsy," a coma, a Brazilian shaman's prophecy) that a major publisher was reportedly still planning to print

How Arday responded to scrutiny — including contacting the Metropolitan Police over a professor's simple request for clarification

Why Cambridge only moved once the scandal threatened to embarrass the broader progressive project, not because the scholarship itself was fraudulent

The hard numbers from the Compact article "The Statistics Behind the Jason Arday Scandal" comparing publication records by race and rank across top sociology departments — and what they reveal about hiring standards

Two more cases in the same pattern: University of Maryland Eastern Shore president Heidi Anderson's plagiarized 1986 dissertation, and historian Kerry Greenidge's award-winning (and now unraveling) book "The Grimkes"

Why Tom's own Columbia dissertation — "Ever Ancient, Ever New: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era" — has nothing to fear from this kind of scrutiny, and what that says about what a dissertation is actually supposed to be

(Ep. 2786 of the Tom Woods Show)

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