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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1465 Is There Anything Valuable in the Southern Tradition?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Well, here's the question nobody is allowed to ask, since even to ask it is to invite anti-intellectual, third-grade-level responses. But presumably a region that generated Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, George Mason, James Monroe, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Walker Percy might have something to be said for it. So as Brion McClanahan Week continues, we take a look at this question.

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1465.

0:03.3

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

0:07.9

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0:14.1

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0:18.3

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0:32.1

through me? Head over to Ron Paul homeschool.com. Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here, Very glad to be carrying on with Brian McClanahan Week.

0:40.9

Brian is the author of many books, as I've told you this week, holds a PhD in history

0:45.8

from the University of South Carolina, very knowledgeable.

0:48.7

Right off the bat, I knew I wanted him teaching for me at Liberty Classroom.com, where you

0:53.7

can learn the history and

0:55.1

economics they didn't teach you. And today we're going to be talking about the South. This is the

1:00.2

forbidden topic. If you are interested in the South, you probably support slavery and segregation.

1:04.7

That is the level of discourse you can expect even in parts of the libertarian movement,

1:10.4

where there are parts of the libertarian movement, where there are parts of the

1:11.4

libertarian movement where I fully expect to hear the leftist conventional wisdom repeated

1:16.7

without irony and without any skepticism. So I thought today we would talk about this.

1:22.6

I mean, after all, Liberty Fund, which is the great organization that holds academic

1:27.0

symposia and also helps to keep a lot of

1:30.2

great and important libertarian and liberty-related works in print in inexpensive editions.

1:37.0

One of the books they published was called The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver.

1:41.0

They didn't think to themselves, oh, it's not libertarian to release a book about the South,

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