The Tom Woods Show, episode 497.

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

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jasonstapleton.com. Welcome to episode 497. Today, as you can tell from the episode title,

I'm going to be taking on an article that appeared in

Fortune magazine that was directed entirely at me. There was a whole article in Fortune about me,

and it's not the most hostile criticism I've ever received, certainly. If only all the criticisms

could be like this, I'd be, I'd feel a lot better. But all the same,

it is a criticism. It's a criticism of my book, The Church and the Market, obviously with

Pope Francis in the United States. These sorts of issues are on the front burner now. So,

the author who was Chris Matthews, not the guy on MSNBC, that would have made it a lot more interesting,

is implying, or maybe not implying, coming right out and saying that my project in that book is really implausible.

So I'm going to tell you about my project in that book, and we're going to talk about the free market and the Austrian school,

which are sort of attacked,

let's say, in this article, and I want to defend those good things.

Before I do that, I want to tell you that I am giving away, I mean, you know I give away free e-books

all the time, but now I'm taking one of the books you normally have to pay for, and I'm giving

that away.

So let me just let you know about that

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