Ep. 214 A Curmudgeon's Dos and Don'ts

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Charles Murray discusses his new book A Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life.

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0:00.0	I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.
0:09.9	In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.
0:14.9	Now's not that time.
0:16.4	Daddy, what do taxes pay for?
0:18.2	Oh, why everything?
0:19.7	Policemen, trees, sunshine.
0:21.9	Let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.
0:25.9	Don't be afraid. I'll be afraid. I'll be afraid out of it.
0:28.3	Prepare to unshackle your mind.
0:31.2	An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.
0:36.9	Your professor has arrived.
0:41.0	Tom Woods.
0:42.5	Well, his mind is not for rent to any government.
0:47.1	Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.
0:51.9	The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It's Tuesday, August 5th,
0:59.1	2014, and we are talking to Charles Murray today. Many of you know Charles Murray,
1:05.8	who wrote the book, Losing Ground, American Social Policy, 1950 to 1980,
1:12.2	in which he argued that the stagnation in the poverty numbers
1:16.6	was occurring not despite the federal government's war on poverty,
1:22.1	but rather because of it.
1:24.8	Well, you can imagine that was just what the social science community wanted to hear,
1:29.4	right? But that book became very, very influential. There was a 10th anniversary edition 10 years
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