Ep. 544 Where Do Liberal and Conservative Skepticism of Liberty Come From?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Some libertarians describe themselves as "fiscally conservative and socially liberal." This is a completely wrongheaded way to think about libertarianism. In today's episode, author Tom Mullen discusses what precisely it is that both groups get wrong that leads them off the liberty path. We are not a combination of the two, but something entirely distinct.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 544. |
| 0:03.3 | 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. |
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| 0:41.9 | Hello and welcome to another week of episodes. I am so glad to be talking to Tom Mullen today. |
| 0:47.9 | And let me tell you something before I talk to Tom. What a tremendous weekend I had. |
| 0:52.4 | Thanks to my wonderful friends in the Free State Project. |
| 0:55.7 | I went to two different gatherings of freestaters, one on Thanksgiving Day itself, and one the following day. |
| 1:03.0 | And then I spent some time in Massachusetts at my 25-year high school reunion, and it just couldn't have been better. |
| 1:12.7 | And it's funny, you look back on your high school years, and everybody knew that you belong to a certain group and other people |
| 1:17.9 | belong to other groups, and the groups don't mix. You don't talk to those people. You have no |
| 1:21.9 | interaction with them. But it's interesting that 25 years just melts that all away. Nobody cares anymore. And we all genuinely are happy about each other's successes. It really is great. And it was funny, I actually met somebody who is now doing marketing for Proctor and Gamble. And so I just, I talked about A, B, split testing. And I love this stuff. You know, the stuff I try to bore some of you guys with. |
| 1:46.0 | I love that stuff these days. |
| 1:48.2 | Entrepreneurship and marketing fascinates me. |
| 1:50.9 | So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:52.1 | What a great weekend. |
| 1:53.1 | Anyway, enough of that sentimental stuff. |
| 1:55.0 | It was great. |
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