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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1381 I've Been Wrong About Right and Left

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

I felt uneasy after my recent episode with Michael Malice on the meaning of political left and right, and now I know why: I've been wrong about a major piece of the puzzle. The brilliant Paul Gottfried joins me to walk through the issue: is there really a "left-right spectrum"? What do the terms mean? Has there been a "right" in America? Is "fascism" really resurgent? What books does he recommend? Plenty of provocative stuff here, including Gottfried's contention that politics is not "downstream of culture," but rather that it's the other way around: to a considerable extent, culture flows from politics.

Show notes for Ep. 1381

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1381.

0:03.4

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.

0:14.5

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through ronpaulhomeschool.com. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Paul Gottfried is back with us again.

0:51.1

We're going to talk a little further about this whole left-right thing because I realize

0:55.1

that I've really made a major mistake in the way I've been looking at this. And I need somebody

0:59.8

to walk me through this realization and what its implications are. But also, it's just, it's fun to

1:07.0

pick Paul's brain because he knows so darn much. Paul holds a PhD in history from Yale

1:12.2

University. He's a Guggenheim recipient, retired now from Elizabethtown College, author of

1:18.5

800 million books. Well, I'm going to ask him about his books and one's, maybe one he recommends

1:26.1

in particular, especially for people who aren't intellectual historians,

1:30.8

because Paul can write at a very, very high level at times.

1:35.3

But I've just got a bunch of things that I want to run by Paul and get his feedback on,

1:40.2

and it's going to be a fun conversation.

1:43.5

It always is with Paul Gottfried.

1:44.9

Welcome back, Paul.

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