Ep. 1383 How Phony "Rights" Empower the State, and Other Libertarian Topics
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode covers a wide array of foundational libertarian topics: positive vs. negative rights, Locke vs. Hobbes, constitutional interpretation, slavery and the U.S. Constitution, subsidiarity, the social contract, and a lot more. It comes from my recent appearance on the Western Canon Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1383. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:46.9 | Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. I've got a bit of a sore throat today, and I think I just want |
| 0:51.7 | to take it easy on my voice. So what I'm doing is sharing with you an |
| 0:55.5 | appearance I made recently on the Western Canon podcast, which you can follow at Western Canon Podcast. |
| 1:03.6 | Of course, that's canon with just one middle N. The topics are varied. We talk a lot about |
| 1:10.2 | libertarianism, obviously, but from a lot of different angles. |
| 1:14.6 | So we talk about rights and different kinds of categories of rights, talk about the Libertarian Party. |
| 1:20.7 | There's plenty of stuff covered here that I think you'll find interesting. |
| 1:24.7 | Some of you, more advanced folks, will know all this stuff, but from time to time, |
| 1:29.1 | I like to do a foundational episode. I'm always bringing new listeners on, and I don't like |
| 1:33.3 | the podcast to proceed on the assumption that everybody already gets all this, or everybody |
| 1:37.6 | knows all the lingo or all the concepts. From time to time, even for the advanced student, |
| 1:42.1 | it is good to get back to first principles, and that's the kind of question that I'm going to be asked again and again in this particular episode. |
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