The Tom Woods Show, episode 1159.

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

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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Hop on that list and get a free e-book at the same time over at tom's freebooks.com. Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Today we're taking on an

unusual topic, but one that I think is of general interest, and that is this question of whether

racism and white supremacy are responsible for the victory of Trump?

It turns out that the numbers, when you look at them, about who actually voted for him and in what

numbers and where, just don't hold up if you're going to maintain that thesis. The evidence just is not there. It's just a bunch of

anecdotal stuff. But in terms of the hard evidence, it is not there. But the social science

literature is full of all kinds of confidence statements to the effect that racism and

white supremacy were the driving factors behind the Trump victory. Now, frankly,

as you know, on this show, I hardly ever talk about U.S. presidents. I didn't talk about

Obama really at all in the first couple of years of the podcast. And I've talked about Trump

primarily to criticize his foreign policy. But otherwise, everybody else is talking about

presidential policy. So I talk about other things. So I'm not, it's not like I have any

particular dog in this hunt. I don't really talk about presidents all that much. I talk

about old presidents because I'm a historian. But current events, I'd rather talk about other

things. But on this, the politicization of academia is a perennial issue of importance, whether Trump is president or anybody else.

And I think it needs to be addressed and looked at. And joining us to talk through this is Musa Al Garby, who is the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University.

He is widely published. He's also a member and research associate of Heterodox Academy.

I'm sure we'll find a moment to talk about that. I'm going to link to his work on this subject at tomwoods.com slash 1159. We'll also link to his website. Musa,

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