Ep. 1576 When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice

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Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Princeton University Press published my guest's book When All Else Fails, on the subject of whether and under what circumstances it is morally legitimate to resist the state with physical force. Not the kind of topic you might expect from an Ivy League university press, but Brennan makes his case persuasively and provocatively, as indeed he likewise does in today's episode.

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0:32.2	Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:34.0	Well, we've got rather a provocative topic today
0:37.1	with our guest Jason Brennan.
0:38.5	He is the author, among other books,
0:40.9	of when all else fails, the ethics of resistance
0:45.2	to state injustice.
0:47.3	And we're going to be talking about precisely that,
0:50.6	about resisting the state using force.
0:54.1	And when that's justified and talking about all kinds
0:57.2	of interesting moral questions and interesting practical
1:01.2	situations, but without giving practical advice, again,
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