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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1140 The Progressive Era Was a Scam

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Newman, who recently edited a brand new Rothbard book out of the archives, joins me for a bird's-eye overview of one of the least understood periods of American history.

Show notes for Ep. 1140

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1140.

0:02.9

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.7

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

0:14.2

Folks, Bob Murphy and I are doing it again. Contra Cruz, 2018. You know you want to join us.

0:19.9

You've seen how much fun it is. Everybody who's joined us absolutely raves about it. It is the vacation of a lifetime. Check it out at contracruise.com.

0:31.3

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Very exciting today because we're going to be talking about a book by Murray Rothbard. But what's interesting about this

0:37.7

book is that it's brand new. It really just came out a matter of months ago, whereas Rothbard

0:42.5

died in January 1995. New material from Rothbard has emerged from the archives pretty

0:49.1

consistently in the decades following his death, and it is quite an extraordinary phenomenon.

0:55.3

But this is the book I've been waiting for.

0:57.8

It's called The Progressive Era.

0:59.9

Edited by Patrick Newman, our guest today,

1:02.7

and it contains a lot of brand new, never-before-seen material

1:06.6

on such a critical episode in American history.

1:10.1

Rothbard, as most of you know, was known as Mr. Libertarian in his day, was extraordinarily

1:15.5

prolific to the point that he can continue to release books even after passing on.

1:20.9

It's quite extraordinary.

1:21.9

So Patrick Newman joins us once again.

1:24.0

He is a professor of economics at Florida Southern College.

1:27.3

Patrick, welcome back.

1:28.7

Thanks for having me on, Tom. So you put together this brand new Murray Rothbard book.

1:35.3

This is the year – did it come out last year, 2017? Yeah, fall of 2017. Yeah, so 2017,

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