Ep. 1592 Walter Block: I Lost a Debate to Ayn Rand

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Walter Block must be the most prolific living libertarian, with over 600 peer-reviewed articles, more than 30 books, and thousands of popular articles to his credit. In this first episode of Walter Block week, we get into Walter's own history, from his high school years with classmate Bernie Sanders to his conversion to economic liberty by none other than Ayn Rand herself.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, Episode 1592.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.9	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
0:13.5	Folks, if you're like me,
0:15.3	one of the most demoralizing things is when someone
0:17.9	utters the truth and then lamely apologizes.
0:20.8	Well, not these folks.
0:22.2	I've got a free e-book of stories from heroic professors
0:25.6	who told the PC mob to go pound sand.
0:28.5	Stories from Jordan Peterson, Michael Reckton Wald, and others.
0:32.1	Check it out at againstthemob.com.
0:35.7	Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:36.9	We are starting another one of these theme weeks
0:40.0	on the Tom Wood Show.
0:40.8	In this week, it's Walter Block Week.
0:43.2	Now, many of you know Walter already.
0:45.1	He may well be the most prolific libertarian alive.
0:49.8	In fact, I'm not sure there's anybody who's even in the running
0:52.8	for that distinction, given the sheer amount of articles
0:57.0	that Walter has written.
0:58.0	And I don't just mean peer-reviewed articles.
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