Ep. 349 Rothbard on What Happened to the Old Right
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Murray Rothbard was so productive that new books of his continued to appear even after his death. I had the privilege of writing the introduction to one of them, and I discuss it in today’s episode.
Book Discussed
The Betrayal of the American Right, by Murray N. Rothbard (edited with an introduction by Tom Woods)
Introduction
Click here to read my introduction to this book.
Articles Mentioned
“A Strategy for the Right,” by Murray N. Rothbard (my own introduction to Rothbard’s work)
“Rothbard’s Time on the Left,” by John Payne (PDF)
Related Episodes
Ep. 242: Murray Rothbard: His Life and Work (Lew Rockwell)
Ep. 41: How Murray Rothbard Changed My Mind on War
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.1 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 349, on February 27, 2015. |
| 0:41.8 | I've returned from my travel. |
| 0:43.7 | Two days ago, I was speaking at Florida Atlantic University. |
| 0:46.8 | Then the next day I spoke to a class at the Law School at Florida International University. |
| 0:52.7 | And now I'm back after that travel and then the trip I took |
| 0:55.9 | before that. It's been really, really busy around here. So I'm a little bit late getting |
| 1:00.3 | this particular episode out. I'll do another episode tomorrow so that this week we will have |
| 1:05.4 | had our five episodes. And then by next week I'll have some fresh guests on. I've got some |
| 1:10.6 | interesting topics to |
| 1:11.6 | cover. Of course, we have to revisit the subject of government and the internet in light of the |
| 1:16.1 | FCC's actions. So plenty to talk about next week. What I want to do today, first of all, |
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