Ep. 1274 Major Discovery: Previously Lost Works by Lysander Spooner

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Lysander Spooner, the great 19th-century individualist anarchist, evidently wrote on banking and currency competition, but those works had been lost until now. Phil Magness, through some clever detective work, tracked them down and they're now available, published via the American Institute for Economic Research! (They also shed light on whether Spooner sympathized with socialism or left-libertarianism.)

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 1274.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.0	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.2	Folks, in school, we got a sanitized upside-down version of the history of the U.S. presidents.
0:20.0	Well, I'm going to bring you the real history.
0:22.7	Check it out at freehistorycourse.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Very interesting discovery has
0:29.6	recently been made by my guest today, Phil Magnus, who is an economic historian who holds a PhD from the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
0:41.1	I've had him on a couple of times before, but this is on a completely unrelated topic.
0:46.5	He has uncovered two works of Lysander Spooner.
0:52.2	Nobody has read in over 100 years, and that we more or less assumed
0:56.4	had been lost forever. And it's very interesting how he managed to track them down. We'll talk in a minute
1:01.6	about who Lysander Spooner is, but let it suffice to say for the moment that he's a very
1:06.7	significant figure in the history of libertarianism. So to stumble upon unknown works like this,
1:13.7	well, this is tremendous for all concerned. So I want to talk about those. We'll link to them
1:20.4	the way you can get them at tomwoods.com slash 1274. But let's let's dive right into this. Phil, welcome back.
1:29.3	Yeah, thanks for having me again. Well, how about this? We very rarely get to have a treat like this,
1:34.6	somebody whose work we assumed we knew and we had complete, and then we turn around and we have
1:40.4	two substantial new essays. How is it possible that did we just stumble across them somewhere?
1:47.1	How did this happen?
1:48.4	Yeah, it's been a multi-year process of trying to track these down.
1:53.2	So when Spooner died, his kind of protege and airs, Benjamin Tucker, the editor of Liberty
2:00.0	magazine, published an obituary of him
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