Ep. 115 Brutal: Contra Krugman Takes on Krugman's P.C. List of America's Sins
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In one of the most heated episodes ever, Bob and Tom take apart Krugman's apologies for not fully appreciating the extent of his "white privilege," and for the things he says he once appreciated about America that are now disappearing: toleration (no, he's not criticizing people who shout down speakers), environmental protection, respect for truth and evidence, respect for intellectuals, etc. It's brutal.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 115. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.2 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krookman. |
| 0:16.1 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:20.1 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:24.1 | Folks, check out the titles of these intriguing books. 14 hard questions for libertarians |
| 0:31.0 | answered. Education without the state. Your Facebook friends are wrong about health care, |
| 0:40.1 | and Bernie Sanders is wrong. |
| 0:46.2 | What do these books have in common? They're all free at tom's freebooks.com. |
| 0:52.4 | Hello everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. Oh boy, folks, we have a Thanksgiving-related column, and here we are in December, but you're going to be thankful that we took this thing on, all right? Because this thing, I think I could actually devote an entire podcast. I don't mean an entire podcast episode, which is how sometimes people misuse the word podcast. I think I could devote a whole podcast to |
| 1:12.1 | this column. It's that terrible. And Bob, I want to thank you and congratulate you on picking out |
| 1:19.5 | something this terrible. Excellent work, Bob. Well, thank you. Should we explain, the problem, |
| 1:25.6 | folks, is that the other columns are just all about the Republican tax plan, which Krugman doesn't entirely endorse in case he hadn't made that clear. |
| 1:34.6 | Not entirely. He's weighing the pros and cons. Well, this column is called On Feeling Thankful, but Fearful.. November 23, 2017, |
| 1:46.1 | linked at contra Krugman.com slash 115. |
| 1:49.6 | If for some reason you wanted to follow along |
| 1:53.0 | while I summarize it for you. |
| 1:55.3 | Oh, Bob, this one, I need a raise on this one. |
| 1:58.5 | Just the prospect of having to summarize this thing is oppressive. |
| 2:02.4 | It really is oppressive. |
| 2:03.9 | What's the percentage increase of zero? |
| 2:06.1 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a good point. |
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