The Tom Woods Show, episode 1395.

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

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

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about a tweet today, but I'm going to take this tweet and make a whole episode out of it, which is not

hard to do, by the way, because a lot of times when somebody says something that's not right,

the not right statement is one or two sentences long, but a really effective refutation takes

half an hour. And that, unfortunately, is the nature of the world we live in,

that half the time the truth is kind of complicated and takes a little while to explain,

but falsehoods can be fit onto a bumper sticker. So we're up against that. Now, where am I going

with this? What topic am I going to be talking to you about today on the basis of a tweet?

Well, in order to get to that tweet, I have to tell you something that you may know already.

If you listen to Contra Krugman, which of course is the podcast I do every week with Bob Murphy,

or if you're on my libertarian email list, either of those outlets, or you follow me on Twitter,

you know by now that Paul Krugman acknowledged Bob Murphy and me the other day. It was actually

kind of funny because, as you know, Bob and I co-host a cruise every year. We've been doing it for

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