Ep. 2366 The Civil Rights Revolution Gave Us a New Constitution

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Conservatives complain about the extremes to which the civil rights revolution has been taken, but almost none of them dare to go to the root. In the traditional American conservative way, they eventually come to celebrate the very thing they once deplored, and then wonder why they keep losing. Jesse Merriam joins me to discuss the true ramifications of Brown vs. Board of Education. This is a discussion you cannot have in mainstream America today because you would be engaged in serious thought and constitutional analysis and the other side would be screaming slogans at you. But the conversation has to take place somewhere. Learn a Language:

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 2366.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.1	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.6	The Tom Woods Show.
0:13.5	Everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:15.6	I'm really delighted to be talking for the first time ever to Jesse Merriam, who is the
0:20.8	author of something more than just an article here on a topic of the utmost importance.
0:27.0	He's a professor at Patrick Henry College.
0:29.4	And the piece we're talking about is called How We Got Our Anti-Racist Constitution, Canonizing
0:35.8	Brown vs. Board of Education in Courts and Mines.
0:40.3	And Jesse, I read the PDF of this, but given the length, we're talking about not just an
0:45.5	article, but it looks like, does the Claremont Institute have a series called Provocations?
0:50.3	We do, yeah.
0:52.1	So I, in addition to being a professor at Patrick Henry College and a research fellow at
0:58.3	Tom Woods Center for the American Way of White and got research center in Washington,
1:04.0	B.C.
1:05.0	I've been releasing a series of booklets and this is one in that series.
1:10.2	Okay, well let me say that in years and years gone by, I had my issues with the Claremont
1:15.9	Institute and I don't think I was the most popular person on earth with them.
1:20.4	And then things started to thaw.
1:22.3	They gave me a very nice, very generous review of my book Meltdown saying that some of my
1:27.7	analysis made them have to rethink some of their Hamiltonian convictions.
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