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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1263 Reason's Matt Welch on Libertarianism, Foreign Policy, Journalism, and Michael Malice

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Matt Welch, editor-at-large of Reason magazine, joins me to discuss his background, how his views evolved, the state of the Libertarian Party, his experiences in eastern Europe, and a lot more.

Show notes for Ep. 1263

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1263.

0:03.4

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0:08.0

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

0:14.5

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0:28.4

Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. I'm talking today to Matt Welch, who is editor at large

0:33.2

of Reason Magazine. And I'd like to just situate this discussion a bit by giving you a little bit

0:39.7

of background. Some time ago, not too terribly long ago, Matt and I both appeared at the same time

0:46.6

on Michael Malice's program, You're Welcome. And we were all in studio and we had a very frank

0:53.7

discussion because, well, let me just say it.

0:57.4

There are different wings of the libertarian movement and they don't always get along so well.

1:04.0

I mean, let's just be open and honest about that.

1:07.2

And Michael just thought that in the case of Matt and me, because he's friends with both of us, there's no reason that there should be any problems.

1:15.8

Now, I don't think Matt and I had ever really interacted one way or the other in the past, and I certainly didn't bear him in particular any ill will.

1:24.6

So I was certainly willing to go and have a nice conversation.

1:28.7

That's precisely what we did.

1:36.4

And at that time, we each agreed when Michael asked if we would be willing to host the other on each other's programs, we both said yes. And Reason TV indeed followed up with me. And we had a very, very

1:42.4

productive conversation. I'm going to link to that.

1:45.0

You really, really should watch that. If you haven't done so, it's a really, really great interview.

1:50.5

I'm linking to it on today's show notes page, which is tomwoods.com slash 1263. Well, I'd like to

1:56.1

reciprocate here and get to know Matt a little bit better and introduce him to my audience, and that's

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