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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 141 The Once and Future King

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Law professor F.H. Buckley, author of The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America, discusses the evolution of the presidency from the eighteenth century to today..

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0:00.0

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:09.9

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:14.9

Now's not that time.

0:16.5

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

0:18.3

Oh, why everything?

0:19.7

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

0:21.9

And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

0:25.9

Don't be afraid. I'll feel free, dad.

0:28.3

Prepare to unshackle your mind.

0:31.3

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

0:36.9

Your professor has arrived.

0:41.1

Tom Woods.

0:46.8

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:52.3

The Tom Woods Show.

0:55.0

Welcome everybody. It's Monday, April 21st, 2014.

1:00.0

The Once and Future King, the Rise of Crown Government in America.

1:06.0

That's the new book by F. H. Buckley, who's a professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he has

1:12.8

taught since 1989. Before then, he was a visiting Olin Fellow of the University of Chicago Law School.

1:20.0

He's a frequent contributor to and senior editor of The American Spectator. And it's my pleasure

1:25.8

right now to welcome to the program, Professor F. H. Buckley.

1:29.3

Thanks for being here, Professor Buckley.

1:31.3

Thank you, and please call me, Frank.

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