Ep. 450 Noam Chomsky Led Me to Libertarianism, Says Guest
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The outstanding economist and libertarian writer Gene Epstein describes his unlikely journey to libertarianism. If you don't know Gene yet, you're in for a real treat.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 450. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:31.4 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I know how much people enjoy hearing stories about how other people went from whatever views they used |
| 0:40.0 | to hold to today, where they, of course, agree with us. A lot of people find these interesting. |
| 0:45.6 | I find them interesting, and we've got a really interesting one for you today because I think |
| 0:50.3 | it's a highly unusual route to libertarianism via Nome Chomsky of all people. |
| 0:56.7 | Joining us to share his story today, and I hope this is the beginning of a long and friendly |
| 1:02.9 | relationship on the show is Gene Epstein. |
| 1:07.4 | Our old friend, Gene Epstein, well, he's my old friend. |
| 1:09.5 | I don't know about you guys. But Gene Epstein is |
| 1:11.4 | economics editor and book review editor for Barron's, perhaps the nation's premier financial periodical. |
| 1:19.2 | He is the author of Econo Spinning, How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers. |
| 1:27.0 | And Gene joins us from Manhattan today to talk |
| 1:29.9 | about this story of his, which I'm sure you'll find interesting because it involves |
| 1:34.2 | Noam Chomsky, Murray Rothbard, the Vietnam War, and so much more. Gene, welcome to the show. |
| 1:41.8 | Happy to be here, Tom, and an honor to be on a show that does as well as you as |
| 1:49.6 | being a place for libertarians to discuss important ideas. |
| 1:53.9 | Well, I appreciate that, and I am going to let you make your announcement since it involves |
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