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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2057 The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Libertarian Movement?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Samuel Goldman wrote an interesting article days ago for The Week in which he made the case for precisely this. It's actually a respectful article about us, which is rare, but where would be the fun without a critique by Woods?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Wood Show, Episode 2057, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.6

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. The Tom Wood Show.

0:14.2

Folks, I don't know about you, but I am running into a lot of progressive saying,

0:17.6

look, police, fire, schools, these are all great examples of socialism.

0:22.5

Well, let's focus on that school example. I've got a free ebook called Education Without the State

0:28.1

that makes a pretty darn good case for a stateless approach to education. Pick it up at

0:34.0

nostateeducation.com. Everybody, Tom Woods here, I just finished recording an episode of the

0:40.7

Robert Scott Bell Show. I've known Robert for quite a long time and he and I have been good friends.

0:47.3

In the course of doing so, was told by his producer about an interesting article that appeared

0:52.1

in the week and it was about the resurgence of libertarianism. I thought, I don't know. I have to

0:59.1

read this one first because I've seen too many articles like this and then I turn to it and they're

1:03.8

celebrating all the worst parts of libertarianism, all the worst corners of it. So let me wait and see.

1:09.9

And it actually turns out to be a pretty decent article. So I'm going to get to that a minute,

1:14.2

but before I do that, I want to let those of you in the New York City area know that there is a

1:19.9

so-ho form debate coming up and you can attend it in effect without having to comply with the

1:27.7

vaccine requirement by doing the following. First of all, let me give you the details.

1:31.6

The subject of the resolution being debated is as follows, the federal government should increase

1:38.0

its efforts to reduce the harms caused by social media. That's what's being debated,

1:43.1

February 17th, 2022. So on the one hand, you have Jonathan Height, who's a professor at New

1:49.3

York University. And then on the other side, you have Robbie Suave, who's a senior editor at Reason

1:55.0

Magazine. And he's the author of Tech Panic, why we shouldn't fear Facebook and the future.

2:01.1

So you can either attend the event in person or to avoid all the craziness. You can go to Gene

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