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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1466 Think Locally, Act Locally

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Brion McClanahan's podcast tagline is "think locally, act locally." We take a deep dive into what this means, including the federalist/decentralist tradition in America, plus: what about issues that seem to require cooperation beyond the local level?

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Show notes for Ep. 1466

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1466.

0:03.2

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

0:08.0

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

0:14.2

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0:19.9

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0:21.5

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0:25.5

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:26.6

Brian McClanahan Week continues.

0:28.6

Brian is a historian, the author of many books, including the Founding Fathers Guide to

0:32.4

the Constitution, and numerous others.

0:34.8

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina.

0:37.0

He's the host of the

0:37.6

Brian McClanahan.com is the website. That's Brian B-R-I-O-N. Brian McClan-Han.com. You want to check out

0:45.4

the stuff that he's doing. Today I thought we would talk about the tagline of his podcast,

0:49.0

which is think locally and act locally. So what does that mean? And how do we do that? And how is that a defensible thing to say?

0:56.4

Brian, welcome back. Thanks for having me, Tom. Appreciate it. The tagline of your podcast is think locally,

1:01.9

act locally. And that is just going to horrify a lot of people. Because of course, we all know it's,

1:07.6

it's think globally, act locally. So you're supposed to be thinking about big ideas and implementing them in your own backyard,

1:16.0

that sort of thing.

1:17.4

All right.

1:18.3

Well, that does sound pretty sensible to a lot of people because we have some global problems,

1:23.6

some problems that have global scope.

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