Ep. 1886 The Forgotten Quality That Makes You Human, and Wicked People Less Than

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Tom Woods

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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F.H. Buckley, a professor at George Mason University's law school, joins us to discuss curiosity -- a topic that may itself appear curious, and yet turns out to be at the heart of so much that's wrong with the world, and with ourselves. Sponsor: If you're tired of doom and gloom in your financial analysis, Merk Research offers a balanced, unbiased approach to the market and economy. Get a three-month free trial of their material at

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, Episode 1886.
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 Woods Show.
0:14.5	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:16.0	Well, our guest today has written a book
0:18.9	on the unlikeliest of topics.
0:21.1	And that topic is curiosity.
0:23.9	And the book is called curiosity and it's 12 rules for life.
0:27.8	And at first I thought there's just no way you can pull off a book like this.
0:31.1	But then as you read it, you realize that people who are incurious
0:36.2	really are the problem.
0:37.6	And that the distinction between the curious and the incurious
0:41.2	is actually at the heart of so many important things
0:44.8	that go into making us humans.
0:46.6	So I thought, what the heck, we got to talk to this guy.
0:48.6	And of course, it's our old friend Frank Buckley,
0:50.8	who's a professor at George Mason University Scalia School of Law.
0:54.9	We've had him on before, he's the author of American Session,
0:58.7	The Looming Threat of a National Breakup, numerous other books.
1:02.3	He's senior editor at the American Spectator,
1:04.3	columnist for the New York Post, and has written all over the place
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