Ep. 1440 A Foe of the Empire: Antiwar.com's Justin Raimondo, 1951-2019
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
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🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Justin Raimondo, who died last week, had been the soul of Antiwar.com since its creation in 1995, and wrote over 3,000 columns during his tenure. The great libertarian foreign-policy expert Scott Horton joins me to discuss Justin's life, work, and views.
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| 0:32.5 | Woods during checkout. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Scott Horton is with us today. We have the good fortune of |
| 0:39.1 | having Scott Horton two weeks in a row. He's going to be coming back again next week. But today he's |
| 0:43.9 | here for a sad occasion, namely the passing of Justin Ramondo, who was the lead columnist at |
| 0:51.3 | anti-war.com. And he had really been the soul of anti-war.com since its creation |
| 0:57.3 | all the way back in 1995. He was the author of a couple of important books and of apparently at least |
| 1:05.6 | 3,000 columns. He had been a radical libertarian for his pretty much his whole life and devoted |
| 1:13.4 | these past two decades plus specifically to the topic of the empire, war, foreign policy, |
| 1:22.0 | the national security state, all of that stuff. And he was just tremendous. And to lose him at age 67 is, it's very sad for all of us. |
| 1:31.3 | I was very, very sad to hear this news. I first met Justin back in 1993 and have followed him |
| 1:38.8 | ever since. But to help us assess the legacy and importance of Justin and to talk foreign policy here, |
| 1:45.5 | because you can't talk Justin Ramonda without talking foreign policy, is who else, Scott Horton, |
| 1:50.6 | who is editorial director at anti-war.com. |
| 1:53.8 | He is, you'll also find him over at the Libertarian Institute, Libertarian Institute.org. |
| 1:59.9 | Scott Horton.org is Scott's website. He hosts the Scott Horton show, where he has recently passed an absolutely astonishing milestone. Five thousand interviews he's done over his career. I don't even know what to say about that. There is a small handful of people in the world who make me feel like a |
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