Ep. 1552 The Most Implausible Libertarian Conversion of All Time

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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As Gene Epstein week continues, I ask Gene to discuss how he moved away from leftism and toward libertarianism. His answer, although honest, is also quite preposterous, and serves to highlight the unique qualities for which we love Gene. Show notes for Ep. 1552 -

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 1552, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.8	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.3	The Tom Wood Show.
0:13.3	A lot of our people complain that the Pentagon spends and wastes a lot of money, but the
0:18.2	damage it does to the American economy and to American society is much greater than
0:23.4	just that.
0:24.4	It deforms the economy in ways most people don't even realize.
0:28.6	Get the full story in my brand new free ebook, The Pentagon versus the economy.
0:34.1	Pick it up at militaryeconomy.com.
0:35.6	Everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:38.7	I cannot believe in yesterday's episode in the introductory portion.
0:42.6	I did not mention what Jean does today.
0:45.2	I did mention his career at Barons, a very distinguished career, but I did not mention
0:50.0	that he runs the Soho Forum.
0:52.8	He's the director of the Soho Forum in New York City, which is an amazing debate series
0:58.4	that covers extremely important and contentious issues that are of interest to libertarians.
1:05.0	They are civil by and large.
1:06.7	They're really, really thought provoking.
1:09.8	It's not just a lot of heat.
1:11.3	There's a lot of light shed in these debates.
1:14.5	Thus Soho Forum.org, absolutely indispensable, because even if you don't live in New York City,
1:19.2	you can get the podcast version and listen to the debates or watch them at your leisure.
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