The Tom Woods Show, episode 1353.

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Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. I was looking over the list of episodes recently, and I was surprised

at how little attention I've devoted on the show to the New Deal,

which is a very, very important moment in American history and very important for libertarians to get

right, because almost everybody gets that period wrong. So I thought, I've got to rectify this

somehow. Now, I did have Bert Folsom on to talk about his great book, New Deal or Raw Deal.

So I'll link to that and whatever else I've done on the New Deal on the show notes page, Tomwoods.com slash 1353.

But what I decided to do today, particularly because last night, I was traveling all day, and I got back and had the worst headache, and I never have headaches.

And just no matter what I did, it wouldn't go away, and I just had to go to sleep.

So I'm going to share with you, this will be fun, excerpts from the Ron Paul curriculum, my government course.

I've done about 400 video and audio files for the Ron Paul curriculum.

Western civilization pretty much from the ancient Hebrews and then ancient Greece and Rome.

So that includes discussion of Plato, Aristotle, the main thinkers, the culture, the political history, all that stuff, all the way up to the present. That was quite a project.

So I'm going to draw from the New Deal material there. And bear in mind that in this,

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