Ep. 2699 Seven Bad Arguments for the State
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
A certain naïvete about the state has been creeping in on the right, so it's an opportune moment to do this episode, in which Keith Knight of the Libertarian Institute Interviews me about my book The Church and the Market, which observes its 20th anniversary this year. This is an episode not about religion per se, but about prosperity and human flourishing.
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know. |
| 0:08.9 | You're listening to the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:18.6 | Everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2699 of the Tom Woods show. And we're joined today by our old friend Keith Knight, managing editor over at the Libertarian Institute, author of Domestic Imperialism. And then it's the subtitle, Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism. It is, yes. And congratulations on getting my title right. That's the first time. |
| 0:40.0 | You've done an excellent job. Oh, thank you. I'm already totally satisfied. Thanks, thanks. It's a great |
| 0:45.1 | book. You can read it in no time at all. But also, Keith is like me in that when he writes a book, |
| 0:50.8 | he doesn't write it to pad it or fill it with fluff to make sure it hits 300 pages or |
| 0:56.5 | whatever every single page it's like i don't know it's like laser beams right into your eyeballs or |
| 1:03.7 | something like everything is packed with information he does not waste your time which i like and i dare |
| 1:09.8 | say this episode will not be a waste of your time. |
| 1:13.4 | It doesn't matter, and I think it'll become obvious early on. It doesn't matter what your religious |
| 1:19.3 | allegiances are, if any. That's secondary to what we're driving at in this particular episode. |
| 1:24.6 | But what we're going to do is something we've done before. |
| 1:30.7 | And we've done it with Keith in the past a couple of times. |
| 1:36.1 | And that's because only Keith has had the guts to ask me if he could do this. |
| 1:37.5 | No one else has asked me. |
| 1:40.8 | So it just goes to show, you know, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. |
| 1:47.9 | So Keith said, what if I interview you about X or Y? And X or Y is usually one of my books, typically a book celebrating an anniversary. And so Keith, what have you decided to do this |
| 1:54.6 | time around? When I came across this article at the New York Post saying that a number of Catholic |
| 2:00.5 | churches are seeing |
| 2:01.6 | a 30% increase in converts, I was really surprised and I thought, well, what is a discussion I could have |
| 2:09.3 | on Catholicism? And I said, well, there's a book celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, |
| 2:14.7 | the church and the market, written by you. So I thought you and I would go over |
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