The Tom Woods Show, episode 1364.

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Pick it up at wrongaboutguns.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Alex Salter is our guest today.

He's an assistant professor in the Rawls College of Business

at Texas Tech University. A young whippersnapper, he is, and he's the author of an article over at

the American conservative.com called Why True Conservatism Means Anarchy, that is the sort of article

that makes heads explode. That's my favorite kind of article.

And as soon as I read this, I thought I am going to have this guy on the show. We're going to hash this out and see where it takes us.

So, Alex, welcome. All right, Tom. I'm very happy to be here.

That's a pretty provocative title you got there. As I told people, I'm linking to it on the show notes page.

It's going to be hard to justify that for a lot of people.

And I'll throw a couple objections at you just for fun.

Sure.

But you are echoing the exact thoughts I've had for so long in this piece.

So when I saw this, I thought, well, I have to get this younger,

more energetic version of me on the show to talk about this. So let's explain how it's

possible then for a conservative to be expected to consider the possibility of, well,

we could say anarchism. That's going to be a scary word for them. I will say a couple of weeks ago, I had a fellow on, and we talked about a guy

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