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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1435 WaPo Gets History Wrong; We Smash, Hard

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne manages to get pretty much every aspect of American economic history wrong as he lectures us on the wickedness of laissez-faire. Peter Klein joins me for the smash.

Show notes for Ep. 1435

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1435.

0:03.2

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

0:08.0

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0:14.1

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0:39.5

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. I've got an article we got to smash today. It has to be done.

0:43.5

Washington Post, E.J. Dion, I've taken on before. He had an article called,

0:48.8

We don't usually put moral and economics in the same sentence. It's time we started.

0:53.9

And of course, it's a column on

0:55.4

who else, Elizabeth Warren. So I'll link to it at tomwoods.com slash 1435. And joining me to talk about

1:02.7

this article is our old friend Peter Klein, who is chair and professor of entrepreneurship and

1:09.1

corporate innovation at the business school at Baylor

1:12.3

University, where he is director of Baylor's entrepreneurship PhD program. And he also happens to

1:19.4

hold a PhD in economics from University of California at Berkeley, widely published, and

1:25.8

all-around great guy. Peter, welcome back to the show.

1:28.6

Hi, Tom. Great to be here again. Well, I sure need you because if I do this on my own,

1:34.9

I'm going to start breaking things and I need somebody to keep me on an even keel. I need to be

1:41.7

of sound mind as I do this here. What I think I'll do is run through the column

1:47.5

and do a summary a la Contra Krugman, which is what we do for the Krugman columns we analyze on that

1:53.8

podcast. I just run through and do a dispassionate summary. Even though every bone in my body

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