Ep. 50 The Conservative Mind
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2013
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College, talks about Russell Kirk, a central thinker of postwar conservatism, including his relationship with libertarianism. See Birzer's recent article "Seven Conservative Minds." Professor Birzer is the author of J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth, American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll, and Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson. He is co-founder of The Imaginative Conservative.
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.5 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I'll feel free to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.3 | An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:46.8 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show welcome everybody it is |
| 0:57.9 | Monday December 2nd 2013 hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving and I hope |
| 1:03.0 | you used the Woods family turkey recipe we're getting great testimonials |
| 1:09.6 | emailed to us about that so I'm glad that worked out for so many of you. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't want to spend too much time on my initial banter here because what a program we have for you today. |
| 1:19.6 | I cannot get over how good this program is. I had a chance to talk to Brad Berzer, our guest, a few days ago, and you'll notice those of you listening |
| 1:29.3 | to this as a podcast that this is a substantially longer episode than we've had up to now, |
| 1:34.6 | because I just couldn't stop talking to him. It was just fantastic. The content was great. |
| 1:40.2 | The dynamics were great. I've never spoken to Brad Berzer before, and yet it was like we were old friends of 20 years. So you're really going to enjoy this program today. But we'll get to that in just a minute. I do want to point out a couple quick things. I'm going to be hosting the Peter Schiff Show this week on Thursday, December 5th. And that's nine, well, I'm sorry, I'm talking about central time. That's 10 a.m. until noon, |
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