Ep. 1073 How a Historian Saw the Light
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Historian Brion McClanahan and I begin by discussing the conservative movement's wary and sometimes hostile reception of his book criticizing Alexander Hamilton. From there, we trace out how Brion went from conventional conservative to Old Right/libertarian. (We love these stories, don't we?)
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1773. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Folks, everybody always thinks the current U.S. President must be the worst, |
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| 0:29.0 | Everybody, Tom Woods here. Brian McClanahan joins us once again today. You know Brian. He is the |
| 0:34.3 | author of many books. Most recently, How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America. He holds a PhD in history is the author of many books, most recently How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America. |
| 0:39.6 | He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of South Carolina. And you can find him over at |
| 0:45.4 | Brian McClanahan.com. Brian with an O. Brian McClanaghan.com. That's where you can also find |
| 0:51.3 | his podcast, the Brian McClanahan show. Lots of great Brian McClanahan stuff over there. |
| 0:56.0 | Brian, welcome back. |
| 0:57.3 | Thanks for having me, Tom. |
| 0:58.0 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:58.9 | All right. |
| 0:59.3 | We're going to have some fun talking about a variety of different things. |
| 1:01.7 | We're first going to talk about the experience you had with your book, how Alexander |
| 1:06.1 | Hamilton screwed up America, and what that was like. |
| 1:09.2 | We'll get to that in a minute. We're also going to |
| 1:11.1 | talk about your own evolution from neoconism to where you are now. And I just never tire of |
| 1:20.4 | hearing stories like that. People's philosophical evolution. And I am pretty certain that |
| 1:26.2 | people in the listening audience feel the same way. And I think a lot of people in the listening audience feel the same way. |
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