The Tom Woods Show, episode 467.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

Delighted to be joined once again by Larry Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education.

He's the editor of a new book with the delicious title, Excuse Me, Professor,

challenging the myths of progressivism.

The book appears just in time for Back to School.

I wonder if Regnery was thinking about that when they released it, but it's

just great. The timing, the content, it's all great, it's easily absorbed and digested. It's a whole

bunch of tiny little chapters, but that are filled with great arguments and valuable information.

Larry, welcome back to the show. Hey, thank you very much, Tom. It's a pleasure.

I love the title of this book. Excuse me, Professor, as the main title of the book. And that's just

fantastic. I love it. And I hope, as we said before we went on, that there will be a bunch of

students who will indeed say, excuse me, professor,

after reading this book. Before we get into the meat of it, tell me, is this an outgrowth of the old

classic by fee, first cliches of socialism and then cliches of politics? Yes, it is. Those were

two influential books. I loved them. In fact, the first one Those were two influential books.

I loved them.

In fact, the first one, cliches of socialism, came out in 1962, and it was one of the first things I read when I got involved in the Movement for Liberty.

And in fact, I've drawn several chapters for this new book from those two earlier ones.

They've required a little bit of updating, but the principles are still there.

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