Ep. 468 Rand Paul: Yes or No? Walter Block and Scott Horton Debate
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Should libertarians support Rand Paul? This question continues to divide the libertarian world. Two important figures from that world hash it out in this exciting debate!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 468. |
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| 0:35.4 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:37.0 | It is the episode you have been waiting for. |
| 0:39.9 | It's the cage match between Walter Block and Scott Horton on the subject of Rand Paul. |
| 0:46.5 | Should a libertarian support Senator Rand Paul in the 2016 race for the White House? |
| 0:54.3 | And arguing in the affirmative is Professor Walter Block. |
| 0:58.1 | Both of these gentlemen have been repeat guests on the show. |
| 1:01.6 | Walter Block holds an endowed chair in economics at Loyola University, New Orleans. |
| 1:06.9 | He is the author of approaching 500 peer-reviewed scholarly articles. He's the author of |
| 1:16.1 | many books, most famously defending the undefendable, and you can find out more about |
| 1:21.4 | Walter at walterblock.com. Also joining us today, arguing in The Negative, is Scott Horton, host of the Scott Horton |
| 1:30.3 | show on the Liberty Radio Network Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 2 p.m. Eastern Time at |
| 1:36.3 | LRN.fm. You can also hear him on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, and you can find out about him at Scott Horton.org. All right, gentlemen, |
| 1:49.3 | thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me. Hi, Walter. All right, we've got Scott Horton, |
| 1:54.7 | we got Walter Block. These are two quite congenial fellows, and they both respect each other's work, and there's no |
| 2:02.9 | animosity here at all. This is a friendly discussion of a strategic issue among fellow libertarians. |
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