Ep. 1791 Walter Williams, Hero of Liberty, RIP

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Walter Williams, the brilliant economist and syndicated columnist, died this week. With Thomas Sowell he hammered away for decades against the myths about race and economics peddled by the mainstream and by alleged civil-rights organizations. He had enormous influence on a great many people through his books, columns, and public addresses. Tom DiLorenzo, Walter's former colleague, joins me to pay tribute and to discuss the man's ideas.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show Episode 1791.
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.
0:14.5	Hi, everybody.
0:15.0	Tom Woods here.
0:15.8	Well, you may know, either from my email newsletter
0:18.8	or from some other source that we lost Walter Williams this week.
0:22.3	He was the great economist, professor, public speaker,
0:26.7	syndicated columnist, author, just all around amazing person.
0:31.6	Such a persuasive person.
0:33.8	He had such influence on so many people.
0:37.1	And the topics he discussed almost couldn't have been more controversial.
0:41.4	And yet he never backed down.
0:43.5	He never compromised.
0:45.0	He's a great example for all of us.
0:47.0	And joining me to pay tribute to him and his ideas today is Tom D. Lorenzo,
0:52.3	who was a colleague of Professor Williams for some time, Neum, for probably close to 40 years.
0:59.7	Tom himself is recently retired as a professor of economics at Loyola University in Maryland.
1:06.4	And he's the author of numerous books, including How Capitalism Saved America.
1:10.6	And some books on Lincoln that I'm sure will come up in the course of the conversation
1:14.3	because they're related to Walter Williams.
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