The Tom Woods Show Episode 1905.

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

Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here. The Tom Woods Show.

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Michael Malis is back on the show today, and I'm sure you know

Michael Malis. He is a very successful celebrity ghost writer and a successful author in his own

right. And of course, he's the host of Your Welcome with Michael Malis. His great podcast.

What I want to talk about today is his brand new book, The Anarchist Handbook, which has spent

several days as the number one nonfiction book on all of Amazon, which is an astonishing achievement.

And really, as two people who have been involved in book publishing for a very long time,

we're going to talk today about just this phenomenon. This defies every expectation, every strategy

that a consultant would give you with regard to promoting a book and having success with it.

It's an amazing feat. And as I say, it defies all expectations. So this is going to be an episode

where we get into that aspect of things. And then in the future, we'll have episodes where we

talk about the content of the book. Now, in case I have some listeners who are scandalized by

the subject matter who say, well, I'm not against government per se. I just want government kept

within certain limits and just keep it confined to the constitution and all that.

Okay, I mean, I'm not going to spend the rest of my life arguing with you about that. I used to

hold that view also. And we can still be friends if we have a difference of opinion on that.

But by and large, the kind of anarchism we're talking about is not the left wing property is theft

style of anarchism. But rather the free market version, which says, we don't need a state because

the market provides everything in a superior way. And if that seems like it's a little bit too much

for you to take, well, just think of it this way. Think of the COVID fiasco where the state is

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