Ep. 2252 The Military Can't Win the War on Drugs, and Other Lessons from U.S. Foreign Policy
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Christopher Coyne joins us again to discuss further problems with and failures of the American empire.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Wood Show, Episode 2252. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. |
| 0:11.3 | The Tom Wood Show. |
| 0:14.4 | Folks, I don't know about you, but I am running into a lot of progressive saying, |
| 0:17.7 | look, police, fire, schools, these are all great examples of socialism. |
| 0:22.6 | Well, let's focus on that school example. |
| 0:24.8 | I've got a free ebook called Education Without the State |
| 0:28.2 | that makes a pretty darn good case for a stateless approach to education. |
| 0:33.3 | Pick it up at nostateeducation.com. |
| 0:37.2 | Hey folks, Tom Woods here. I got Chris Coinback for us. |
| 0:40.7 | By popular demand, he is the author of the book we've been discussing. |
| 0:44.9 | We discussed a little bit last week in search of monsters to destroy. |
| 0:48.8 | The folly of American Empire and the path to peace. |
| 0:52.4 | He's a professor of economics at George Mason University. Welcome back, Chris. |
| 0:56.3 | Thank you for having me back. I appreciate it. |
| 0:58.5 | Well, we talked a little bit in the discussion last time about |
| 1:02.9 | cronyism and how the defense establishment exemplifies it. |
| 1:08.0 | But I'd like to get into a little bit more detail on that because you do have a chapter on it. |
| 1:11.9 | And you use the expression state capitalism. Can you explain, first of all, what that is? |
| 1:18.0 | Sure. So if we think about a capitalist system as being defined by one of private ownership |
| 1:25.1 | over the means of production, economic freedom in that individuals who have property rights over |
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