Ep. 1096 Are Our Choices Really Hillary or Mitt? How One Historian Avoided Both
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Professor Kevin Gutzman is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books on American history. He's politically on the right while nevertheless holding much of the "conservative movement" in contempt. His views aren't boilerplate Rush Limbaugh. Therefore, he's part of the Tom Woods Tell-Me-Your-Story project. How does someone -- a historian, no less -- come to adopt views more or less like ours, without getting caught up in the conventional Hillary-or-Mitt spectrum?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1096. |
| 0:03.3 | 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, |
| 0:18.6 | but man is their competition for that title. Check out our free |
| 0:22.6 | course on the presidents and their crimes against liberty at freehistorycourse.com. |
| 0:29.1 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. All right, this episode is just going to be all over the place, |
| 0:32.8 | all right, but wherever it goes, it's going to be fun. All right, we're going to get to some fun places. |
| 0:37.6 | We're going to talk about Nancy McLean. |
| 0:40.4 | We'll talk about who she is and all that. |
| 0:43.1 | But just in general, bad academics. |
| 0:45.8 | We'll have some good times talking about that. |
| 0:48.5 | We'll talk about the time Mark Levins stole my guest's idea. |
| 0:52.4 | I mean, flat out stole it. |
| 0:53.7 | There's no question about, and we know he stole it because he used to make fun of my guest for precisely having these ideas. |
| 1:00.9 | So he knew about them. He knew who came up with them. Then he writes a book touting them and makes millions of dollars. |
| 1:07.7 | I mean, this is not normal. So we're going to talk about that, the conservative |
| 1:11.4 | movement, a lot of different things. Now, the guest, of course, is Kevin Goetzman. And Kevin and I have |
| 1:16.6 | been friends for a long time. We wrote a book together called Who Killed the Constitution back in, |
| 1:20.6 | I think, 2008. And, I mean, he's been a guest on the show a number of times, and we've spoken at events together. |
| 1:30.0 | And I would say, Kevin, it's hard to classify him. |
| 1:32.4 | He definitely describes himself as a Jeffersonian. |
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