Ep. 1350 Remember When Conservatives Didn't Make You Pull Your Hair Out?
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Tom Woods
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🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Remember when conservatives used to be antiwar, opposed centralized power, and actually wanted to eliminate government agencies rather than just take them over? Yes, such people once existed. Robert Nisbet, whom you'll never hear mentioned on right-wing radio, but who was one of the great thinkers of that tradition, was one of them. I resurrect him -- not literally, so don't get your hopes up -- in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1350. |
| 0:03.2 | 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, Bob Murphy is going to have to be carried out on a stretcher after I am done with him aboard the 2019 Contra Cruise. We are debating |
| 0:22.6 | pacifism. Bob in favor, me opposed. With Gene Epstein moderating, it's going to be a great time, |
| 0:30.2 | but it's going to make my demolition of Michael Malice in the Hamilton debate look like a picnic. |
| 0:35.7 | This debate is for Contra Cruisers only. So make sure and |
| 0:39.4 | grab your cabin right away at ContraCruise.com for the libertarian event of the year. That's |
| 0:47.1 | contracruise.com. Oh, and don't forget, bring some dark clothing for Bob's funeral. |
| 0:54.4 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. I did an episode back in, I don't remember when it was, |
| 0:59.5 | but episode 1,30 with Ben Lewis. And in that episode, we talked about some people who were |
| 1:06.3 | kind of significant in 20th century conservatism and a little bit in libertarianism. And I got some |
| 1:12.5 | nice feedback about it because I think some people agree with me that it is good to look back at our |
| 1:17.6 | own history because that conversation, even if you don't think of yourself as a conservative, |
| 1:22.4 | nevertheless was about the general question of what is or ought to be the relationship between conservatives and libertarians. |
| 1:30.6 | Is there a natural affinity there or are the two polar opposites or how should we think about this? |
| 1:37.8 | And as we were pointing out at the time, let's say in the 1950s and 60s, there were some people who thought, we've got nothing to do with these people, that Russell Kirk felt that way about libertarians. |
| 1:50.6 | But on the other hand, there were people like Frank Meyer who were very interested in libertarianism and who thought that the chasm was not really as wide as people thought. |
| 2:00.6 | So in the course of that |
| 2:01.7 | conversation, a guy came up named Robert Nisbet, and I have always listed in my top 10 books |
| 2:08.7 | people should read, his book, The Quest for Community. And I mentioned on that episode, that is |
| 2:14.2 | just, isn't that the worst title for a book you've ever heard? I mean, it does not make you think, I have to rush out, go over to Amazon and get that thing immediately. |
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