The Tom Woods Show, episode 14001.

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

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

Folks, the great and heroic Bob Murphy has a brand new bookout, Contra Krugman,

smashing the errors of America's most famous Keynesian. This thing is

going to give you a ton of intellectual ammunition. Plus, throw Bob a Bone here. I mean, before I

crush him in the debate we're doing aboard the ContraCruz, at least let him get a book sale or two.

Check it out at contra Krugmanbook.com. And I am the narrator of the audiobook version. How about that? You can get that for free through the audible offer at Tom Woods Audio.com. At any rate, get all the details at contra Krugmanbook.com.

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Gene Epstein is with me today. And we're going to be talking about a brand new book by Baskar Sunkara, who's the editor of Jacobin magazine.

And the book is called The Socialist Manifesto, the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality.

Now, we did try to get Baskar to join us here on the program, but he declined.

So in his absence, Gene and I will discuss the book, but it won't be so much Gene and I discussing the book.

It's going to be Gene Unleashed.

Okay, this is going to be the Gene Epstein show for the most part.

I do want to start off by talking a little bit about his Soho Forum,

where Gene is the director, thesohoforum.org, the greatest debating society in the history of the

world with some very, very interesting and exciting debates coming up that you folks listening

will want to know about. So we may go a little overboard at the beginning, chit-chatting, but the good

stuff is coming. You know, Gene, of course, was with Barron's for many years as the economics and

book review editor, and now he's just doing such great work, writing, speaking, and running the Soho

forum. So couldn't be happier to have Gene back on the show. Gene, welcome back.

Pleasure to be back, Tom, and looking forward to seeing you, I guess, in New York on the 26th for

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