The Tom Woods Show, episode 1382.

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

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

Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.

Lou Rockwell is back by popular demand.

And for all you newbies out there, Lou is a person of very, very great

significance in the libertarian world. He's the founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, which is

the best place in the world. Let's just be blunt about it. It's the best place in the world.

You can visit the website, which is full of resources, at mezes.org. That's, of course,

M-I-S-E-S-D-org. He also publishes loo-rockwell.com, which we all read every day. And he was the first

chief of staff to Ron Paul. There are many other things we can say about Lou. His books, his

public speaking, his influence is enormous,

and we are all very, very much in his debt. And I just thought we'd talk about some current

events and some maybe a little bit of libertarian history and just have a nice conversation together.

Lou, welcome back. Tom, great to be with you, as always. I told the folks in my

supporting listeners group that you were coming back and I wanted to solicit some questions and

they were just beside themselves with joy. Oh, these are some of our favorite episodes. Thank

goodness we're going to hear from Lou again. So you good folks, if you want to be in that supporting

listeners group where all the cool, smart, no nonsense libertarians are to be found.

Supportinglisteners.com is how to get in there.

So I want to start with a fun question, and then we're going to get into the depressing questions

like the state of the Democratic Party.

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