Ep. 560 Does Capitalism Destroy Culture? Literature and the Market
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Doesn't the market lead to vulgar outcomes, and undermine high culture? Paul Cantor, a member of Ludwig von Mises' NYU seminar, joins us to discuss this and more -- including topics in popular culture, including The X Files and Breaking Bad.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 560. |
| 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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| 0:29.7 | tomwoods.com slash ebates. Hello and welcome to the second to last episode of 2015. Oh my goodness, where has the time gone? But what a |
| 0:41.6 | terrific episode it is. It's almost criminal that I saved this one for the second to last episode |
| 0:48.3 | of the year. It's with Professor Paul Cantor, who is currently the Clifton-Waller-Barritt |
| 0:53.8 | professor at the University of Virginia. |
| 0:56.7 | He holds his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and he focuses on literature and liberty. |
| 1:04.2 | And he associates himself with the Austrian school, and as a matter of fact, and I'm going to ask him about this, |
| 1:08.9 | he even attended Ludwig von Meese's private seminar at New York University in the early 1960s. |
| 1:15.0 | So quite an interesting person to talk to. He's the author of numerous books on both high culture and what we might call popular culture. |
| 1:23.4 | Gilligan Unbound, pop culture in the Age of Globalization, Literature and the Economics of Liberty. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm going to link to these, remember, on the show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 560. |
| 1:34.9 | That one you can get for free, as a matter of fact, and several other volumes as well. |
| 1:40.0 | So let's talk to him. |
| 1:41.6 | Before we do that, let me point out that once again, this is a totally different day that I'm recording this one, but it so happens that Elizabeth Woods is sitting here with me once again and might want to say hi to everybody. Do you want to say hi? Hi, guys. How are you doing today, Elizabeth? Good. |
| 2:00.2 | It's just before Christmas, right? Yes, I'm very |
| 2:03.4 | excited. You're very excited. Yeah, me too. We're going to have a lot of fun this Christmas, right? Yes. |
| 2:08.5 | We sure are. All right, well, that's Elizabeth Woods, and now we're going to talk to Paul Cantor. Professor Cantor, |
| 2:14.3 | welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on. |
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