The Tom Woods Show, episode 158.

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Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here.

All right, so one of the justifications for the state is that we make lousy decisions.

We need people overseeing our activities. We need people

maybe correcting what we might want to do. We need people who are going to supervise us,

who are going to give us advice, who are going to nudge us in the right direction, or who are,

in one way or another, are going to force us to do what they think is best for us. Well, joining us today is our old friend Christopher Snowden, who's got a brand new book, Killjoys, a critique of paternalism, where he takes all this stuff on.

Christopher Snowden is the director of lifestyle economics and a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and has written

widely on libertarian topics. Chris, welcome back.

Good to be back.

Interesting book. I've just got done reading it. Let's start off with paternalism, and it takes

different forms. You have a chapter actually on hard paternalism.

So can you start off just by giving an overview of what paternalism is and the different kinds of it that we see out there?

There's nudging, which is different from what a hard paternalist would want.

Can you just give us the lay of the land of the sorts of things people in the paternalist camp have advocated?

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