The Tom Woods Show, episode 163.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Folks, one of my favorite libertarian podcasts out there is Lions of Liberty, hosted by the great Mark

Claire.

There really is no other libertarian podcasts quite like it. I've been a guest twice. Check it out at lionsofliberty.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods

here. Just a reminder, as usual, I'm taking a little time off at Christmas time, as I have

every year since starting the podcast.

So this coming Friday, so that is to say episode 1066, that will be the last one until January 3rd of 2018.

So catch up on old episodes or start listening to Contra Krugman over at contra Krugman.com.

Plenty of stuff for you to do while you're waiting, but that is my plan. But joining me today,

once again, is Gene Epstein, formerly of Barron's, and a guy whose insights I always value and cherish. He is the creator of the Soho Forum. We're

going to get into that in a minute, which is a tremendous debating society in New York City.

We'll talk about that. But what we want to talk about today is an interesting topic. It's about

Nat Turner, the slave who led, of course, Nat Turner's rebellion,

but what we're talking about primarily is a novel, a historical novel from 1967 by William

Styron called The Confessions of Nat Turner. And the tremendous controversy that arose because

a white southerner was writing a first-person account

from in other words from the point of view of nat turner himself how dare he very very interesting

because of what it says about our society then and now jean welcome back uh pleasure to be back tom

i you know i just looked myself up, and there's a landmark for me.

I've done, I will have done a dozen episodes on the Tom Woods show, starting back

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