Ep. 496 Wilsonianism: The Legacy That Won't Die
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A century later, Woodrow Wilson's international crusading lives on, both in the establishment left and the neoconservative right. Paul Gottfried and I paint a picture of Wilson that's a bit different from what we all learned in school.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 496. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.3 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey, everybody, there's an excellent case to be made for buying gold for the long haul, |
| 0:19.0 | but we shouldn't forget about silver, according to |
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| 0:30.8 | Welcome to the Tom Woods show. Today we are talking about Wilsonianism, because I read an article |
| 0:37.4 | by Paul Gottfried in the Journal of Libertarian |
| 0:39.8 | Studies not long ago. And I thought, hey, you know, come on, for heaven's sake, we've got to talk to Paul |
| 0:44.7 | about this. This is a 25-year anniversary of this article. And it's great. And I love talking to Paul, |
| 0:51.1 | so two and two made four. And here we are talking to Paul Gottfried, |
| 0:54.6 | who is a historian who holds a Ph.D. from Yale University. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities |
| 1:01.3 | at Elizabethtown College. He's the author of numerous books, including multiculturalism and the |
| 1:08.2 | politics of guilt, Leo Strauss and the conservative movement in America, |
| 1:13.2 | the strange death of Marxism, and conservatism in America. |
| 1:18.7 | Before I bring Paul back on, I want to tell you, folks, I realize I hadn't done this yet, |
| 1:23.8 | that the website for Contra Krugman is up. The website, or at least a landing page, is up at |
| 1:29.8 | contra Krugman.com. Those of you have been listening for a while will know that's the podcast. |
| 1:34.2 | Bob Murphy and I are starting very, very soon, where every single week, it'll be a weekly |
| 1:39.9 | podcast. We will critique Paul Krugman's New York Times column, and we're just going to keep on doing it. |
| 1:44.9 | We're going to teach economics by refuting Paul Krugman week after week. So do check that out. |
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