The Tom Woods Show, episode 1337.

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.

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special guests 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

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. I'm always delighted to be able to talk to Walter Block.

And as you know, Walter is a very, very prolific libertarian scholar indeed. As a matter of fact,

one of the times we had him on the program, it was to celebrate a tremendous milestone in his

career, 500 peer-reviewed articles. And if you're not familiar with the workings of academia,

one-tenth of that number is considered a successful and distinguished career.

Then we did an episode with Walter in which he reached another milestone.

100 peer-reviewed articles published that he co-authored with students of his.

Now, that just shows he's a great guy.

He's actually helping his undergraduate students get a scholarly article under their belt. That's an amazing thing. I've never even

heard of a professor trying to do that, much less actually reaching anything like a hundred

co-authored articles with students. And these are just in peer-reviewed publications. Walter has

many thousands of articles in other publications. He's the author of many books, including perhaps

most notoriously, his book Defending the Undefendable. He holds the Harold E. Worth eminent

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