Ep. 1200 Walter Block on His Life With Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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The prolific libertarian scholar Walter Block joins me for a fascinating look at his life in the libertarian world, from his days as a social democrat through libertarianism and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1200. |
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| 0:28.1 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:29.7 | Sitting across from Walter Block here at the Mezes Institute as we start to wrap up the |
| 0:34.1 | Mezes University week-long summer program. |
| 0:37.1 | Walter is well known to listeners of this show. |
| 0:40.0 | He is a professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans. He's the author of many books, |
| 0:45.5 | most notoriously defending the Undefendable One and Two. Is there a three? |
| 0:50.0 | There is a three, but it's not yet published. I'm still working on it. |
| 0:53.3 | All right. So a three is coming. He's the author of numerous books on all kinds of interesting and challenging topics. |
| 0:58.7 | Over 500 peer-reviewed articles. He was converted to libertarianism by Ein Rand herself. |
| 1:04.7 | Quite an interesting story. Walter, very glad to talk to you. |
| 1:08.2 | Always good to be with you, Tom. |
| 1:09.5 | You know, somebody in my private group, I opened up a thread about questions to ask you. |
| 1:15.3 | And I did this with the judge earlier this week. |
| 1:18.0 | I have a private Facebook group. |
| 1:19.8 | Supportinglisteners.com is how you get in it. |
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