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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 534 Would Conservatism's Founder Recognize Conservatism Today? The Life

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Brad Birzer has written an outstanding biography of one of the most important figures in the history of American conservatism. We discuss Kirk's sometimes rocky relationship with libertarianism, and his even rockier relationship with neoconservatism. Plus, key ideas, colorful personalities, and more.

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 534.

0:03.4

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

0:08.1

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.1

If you're like me, sometimes you feel like you don't have time for anything.

0:18.1

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0:21.6

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0:27.2

tomwoods.com slash rocket. Welcome to the Tom Woods show. It's no secret that one of my favorite

0:33.8

people in the world is our guest today, Brad Burser. And Brad has a brand new book

0:39.3

that it's going to be a lot of fun to talk about. I'm going to tell you about it in just a minute.

0:43.9

I just want to remind you who Brad Berser is. He's a professor of history at Hillsdale College.

0:48.9

He's the author of several books. We've talked about at least one of them in the past.

0:54.1

And he's also a progressive

0:55.6

rock lover like me, so we talk about obscure music that's awesome from time to time. He is the co-founder

1:04.1

of the imaginative conservative.org, and just an all-around great guy, a gentleman, a scholar. I don't know what more to say

1:13.4

about him when I had him for one of the live sessions at Liberty Classroom. Everybody just loved

1:18.3

him. He was just fantastic. They loved the course that he produced for us. He's producing more

1:22.4

courses for Liberty Classroom.com. But today we're going to talk about his book, brand new,

1:27.1

just out, Russell Kirk, just out, Russell Kirk,

1:29.4

American Conservative. Russell Kirk has as good acclaim as anybody to be the architect of

1:36.1

modern American conservatism if you can say there's one person and if you can call him the

1:40.5

architect. But certainly he's somebody who helped to define what conservatives

1:45.5

believe or are supposed to believe. So when you talk about Russell Kirk, so many things

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