The Tom Woods Show, episode 1340.

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

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

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here. Today I am joined by Ben Lewis, who is a contributing editor over at Austrolibertarian.com, where you can read a lot of interesting pieces online, as well as in their brand new print publication, Austro Libertarian. And we're going to talk today about a figure, I don't know, maybe one-third to one-half of my listeners will have heard of, would be my rough estimate.

And that is a guy named Frank Meyer.

And we'll talk about his background in a bit.

But what he became known for was an attempt to show that there really wasn't as big of a gap between conservatives,

at least American conservatives, and libertarians, as some people on both sides tried to make it seem.

He became associated with an idea called fusionism, but he didn't particularly care for that term because he wasn't

looking to fuse things together. He was looking to demonstrate that they weren't all that far

apart to begin with. Now, this obviously has some relevance for us today, and I thought,

you know what, it's useful to revisit some of these old questions from time to time and to introduce

people to listeners who may not have heard of them before. So this seemed like a good topic,

and Ben has a good article on the subject, and I will, of course, link to it on the show notes

page, which is tomwoods.com slash 1,340. Ben, welcome.

Thanks, Tom. I think in this case we're doing a little bit of,

let's say, movement history, which is kind of important. Frank Myers is a tricky guy to classify.

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