The Tom Woods Show, episode 1115.

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Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Hey, everybody, big news we have just announced the details of the Contra Cruise for 2018.

That's right, this is the Liberty event of the year that Bob Murphy and I co-host.

It's a seven-day cruise.

It is the most fun you can possibly imagine.

Plenty of special guests to be announced in the coming days and weeks, but comedian and

podcaster Dave Smith will be

joining us once again on the Contra Cruise, which this year is taking place along the Mexican

Riviera, October 21st through 28, 2018. Check it out at contracruz.com. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.

Talking today to Klaus Rinn, who is a professor of politics

at Catholic University of America. He's also the director of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship

there, and the author of many books, including his 2010 volume, America the Virtuous, the Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire.

And I wanted to talk to him about an article he just had published over at the American

conservative.com called Where is Real Statesmanship when we need it most?

Professor Rinn, welcome back to the show.

It's my pleasure to be with you.

I just last week read your article in the American Conservative about the state of statesmanship

in the United States. There's so much to say about this. You could talk about it historically,

which indeed you do to some degree. You could talk about the contrast between what we might hope for and what we

have. And to me, it seems as if it's not just a matter of there's been a degradation in the

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