The Tom Wood Show, Episode 1906.

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The Tom Wood Show.

Hey folks, Tom Woods here.

Today we're going to discuss a brand new book called The Enduring Tension,

Capitalism and the Moral Order by our guest, Donald Devine.

He's been a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland.

He's also taught at Bellevue University and in 1981 he was appointed by Ronald Reagan

as director of the US Office of Personnel Management.

And in the book The Enduring Tension, he takes on many of the arguments that have been

leveled against capitalism over the years and well, frankly, he levels them.

Don Devine, welcome to the show.

Well, thanks for having me, Tom. I appreciate it.

All right, let's stick into this because this book, The Enduring Tension,

deals with some issues that I've dealt with for quite some time and I have a book, The Church

of the Market, from 16 years ago, that may not be clear to the average reader.

But I intended that book actually not as a corrective to, let's say, social democrats

or even outright socialists in the Catholic Church, but I was actually aiming that book

at traditionalists. I considered myself to be one because I was concerned about some of the

arguments that people on the right were making about the market economy. I thought they were,

I understood where they were coming from, but I thought by and large the, the arguments either

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