Ep. 1286 Can Murray Rothbard Be Explained to Children?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
You know you've really mastered a topic if you can explain it to a complete beginner and be understood. You've truly mastered it if you can convey the basic idea even to a child. And that's precisely what the Tuttle Twins book series accomplishes. The most recent volume in the series takes Murray Rothbard's classic essay "The Anatomy of the State" and presents its basic ideas to a young audience.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1286. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey folks, it's my job to equip you with the strongest arguments for the libertarian position on issue after issue where you tend to get |
| 0:23.0 | cornered by your friends. Well, deregulation caused the financial crisis is still a big one |
| 0:29.1 | ten years later as people reflect on those terrible times. Very, very important to smash this one |
| 0:36.4 | with a baseball bat. And I've got just the baseball bat for you. |
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| 0:48.3 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Connor Boyack is with me today. Connor has done so many things in the Liberty world. He runs a excellent |
| 0:56.8 | state think tank in Utah called the Libertas Institute. He happens to be my tech guy. He doesn't |
| 1:03.4 | really have the time to do that anymore. He's just a generous guy who keeps me on as a client, |
| 1:08.9 | even though I'm sure he'd like to let me go at this point. |
| 1:11.6 | But we've been working together for so long. I don't know what I'd do without him. |
| 1:15.8 | But he helped set up, well, a number of my websites. |
| 1:20.3 | He's been indispensable for me. |
| 1:22.0 | But he's also the creator of the Tuttle Twins' Children's Book series, now in its ninth volume. |
| 1:29.3 | And each of these books take some classic text from the libertarian world and develops a |
| 1:36.2 | children's story around it. And it's very, very well done, beautifully illustrated. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm sure many of you have heard of the series or seen these books before. |
| 1:45.3 | They're absolutely excellent. So I cannot recommend them to you highly enough. And in particular, |
| 1:50.8 | I want to talk, we actually have a bunch of things to talk about today. But I want to start by |
| 1:54.4 | talking about the most recent entry in the series, which is the Tuttle Twins and the Fate of the Future, which is based on a text by |
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