The Tom Woods Show, episode 1317.

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

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

Folks, the 2019 Contra Cruise is going to be coming up before you know it.

It is the libertarian event of the year.

Naomi Brockwell, a guest on the show, recently said it was the best event she had ever been to. We're going to be joined by special

guest, Gene Epstein and Brad and Deidre Berzer this year. Join Bob Murphy and me and a ton of

wonderful, genial folks for the adventure of a lifetime as we set sail for Alaska

July 5th through the 12th, 2019. Get the details at contracruise.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

Alan Mendenhall is back with us again. Alan is an associate dean at the law school at

Faulkner University. He's executive director of the Blackstone and Burke Center for Law and Liberty.

He was previously assistant attorney general for the state of Alabama. He's taught at several universities.

He holds a Ph.D. in English from Auburn University. He's the author of numerous books, and we're going to be talking today about his book, Literature and Liberty,

essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism. Alan, welcome back. Thank you, Tom. Thank you very much for having

me back. You got a tremendous response to the last time you were on, and I had been saying that I wanted

to talk to you about your book, Literature and Liberty. So here we are.

Literature and Liberty, essays in libertarian literary criticism.

All right.

Well, before we get into any examples of that, I think we ought to set the stage by having you talk about what libertarian literary criticism means.

Well, that's a good question.

I mean, what I was trying to do in that book

and in other work is mainly counter the predominantly Marxist economic paradigms in English departments

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