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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 505 Liberty: Some Highlights and Lowlights of the Past 500 Years

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today I cover a huge array of topics in a lively, fast-moving discussion with Richard Emmons of the Ron Paul Homeschooling Podcast. Some people had said I should do something like this for my 500th episode. Well, episode 505 is pretty close! The discussion is based on my 165-lesson Ron Paul Curriculum course Western Civilization from 1493 (more on which below).

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 505.

0:03.2

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0:08.1

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0:45.9

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 5005. I'm talking about history again. I can't stop myself.

0:56.9

Actually, this is a conversation I had with Richard Emmons of the Ron Paul homeschooling podcast. Here I'm going to take history from 1493 up to

1:03.5

the present in the next hour. Actually, I'm going to let him feed me topics, and I am going to give

1:09.8

you some history. We're going to be talking about,

1:13.0

well, everything from the Protestant Reformation to the English Civil War, to early libertarian thought,

1:19.7

to the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the reign of terror, the Industrial Revolution,

1:24.6

and that's just to get things started. So make sure you listen through to the whole

1:29.6

thing. Eventually, we're going to get somewhere near the present, and we're going to be talking

1:34.8

in particular about my course for the Ron Paul curriculum, which is, well, the one we're talking

1:40.1

about today is Western Civilization from 1493. And if this episode peaks your interest

1:46.2

in that course, on today's show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 505, I will show you the three ways

1:53.2

to get that course. You can get it on its own at tomwoodshomeschool.com. You can get it as part of the

2:00.2

Ron Paul curriculum at Ron Paul homeschool.comcom. You can get it as part of the Ron Paul curriculum at Ron Paul Homeschool.com.

2:03.4

Or you can get it as a gold or platinum-level supporter of the show at SupportingListeners.com.

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