The Tom Woods Show Episode 1746.

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

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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Our old friend Dan McCarthy is back with us again. He has an

excellent article over at Modern Age. That is ModernAgeJournal.com. And it's called Why Not

Anarchy. And it's a very interesting piece. Kind of like what conservatives might be able to learn

from anarchy and maybe what anarchists ought to learn from conservatives. But it's worth talking

about, which is why we're going to do exactly that today. And it's worth reading. So I'll have

the article itself on the show notes page Tom Woods.com slash 1746. Dan, welcome back.

Thanks Tom, delighted to be here. I thought your article was very interesting and it raises

issues that I've thought about quite a bit. But it also gave me an opportunity to

pick your brain a bit because we talk every once in a while. But I don't see you that much. And

I think the last time we had a meal together was like years and years at this point. So I haven't

really tracked the full evolution of your thinking over time. And I think it has changed from that

first time I met you when we were both real youngsters at the Meez's Institute. I think you're

a somewhat different Dan McCarthy now than you were then. So let's start first with your

Twitter handle because you do actually talk a little bit about this in the article. What's the

origin and the thinking behind Tory anarchist as your as your handle? I wanted to handle it was

not easy to pin down as sort of conventionally conservative, especially in a way that people might

think was neo-conservative. Because I picked this Twitter handle back in the 2000s, back during

the Bush era. And so I was worried about that. I didn't want something that was so ordinarily

conservative that it would sound like could be misidentified as being aligned with the neo-cons

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