The Tom Woods Show, episode 183.

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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here.

Another great episode for you today with Professor Jared Casey, who is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

at University College Dublin.

He also teaches at my libertyclassroom.com. He's very prolific.

His most recent work is astonishing in its scope, its breadth and its depth. It's called

Freedom's Progress, question mark, a history of political thought. Absolutely amazing.

We've done a number of episodes on different sections and chapters.

And today we're going to talk about the period surrounding the English Civil War, because a lot of

important ideas came out of that period. So I'm very glad to welcome him back to the show.

Thanks so much, Professor Casey. Welcome back. Thank you very much, Tom. Good to be back.

So we've chosen another period to talk about in terms of the history of political thought.

We want to talk about the English Civil War and more broadly the period from about 1640 to 1660.

And it turns out that this is a period maybe overlooked by a lot of libertarians in which a lot of the ideas that we stand for today

are more and more in evidence and are beginning to develop. So I think I was going to ask you,

why are we focusing on this period? I think I already gave the answer. So let's go from there.

And let's start with a little bit of a discussion of a group known as the Levelers.

I made reference to the Levelers with Gary Chartier a couple of weeks ago,

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