Ep. 1132 Conservatives Who Yield Everything to the Other Side, Example #43,366
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Tom Woods
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🗓️ 10 April 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Historian Kevin Gutzman joins me to take on a recent article by a conventional conservative in favor of "originalism" in constitutional interpretation. Fair enough, but as with most conservative discussions of the Constitution, it comes down on the centralist, Marshallian side of the key issues -- and then conservatives scratch their heads about what could have gone wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1132. |
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| 0:31.7 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. You know, once in a while we just take an article and go through it and critique it, and that's sometimes fun. |
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| 0:43.2 | Well, today, the article is by a guy you probably have not heard of, Carson Holloway, |
| 0:48.8 | but he is a visiting scholar at the Heritage Foundation, in addition to being a professor |
| 0:53.2 | at the University of Nebraska, |
| 0:55.4 | Omaha. And he's got an article at the Witherspoon Institute on originalism. It's called |
| 1:02.3 | in defense of originalism. And Kevin Gutzman and I are going to look at this article, |
| 1:07.4 | and you may think, why would you go after a guy who is at least sort of on the right track? |
| 1:13.2 | He's probably right of center when there are so many people who are so far away you could go after. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, okay, well, we do that too. We're very ecumenical in the people we go after here. |
| 1:23.0 | But also, I think it needs to be said when there are people who are a little bit right or their instinct is taking them partly down the right path, but they screw it up badly and they mislead a lot of people. |
| 1:36.7 | I don't care if 95% of what you're giving me is a wonderful bottle of wine if 5% of it is cyanide. So I want to focus on these big |
| 1:48.6 | mistakes that they're making. And in particular, this Carson Holloway just takes for granted that |
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