The Tom Woods Show, episode 5774.

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Today we are talking about the neo-conservatives. In particular, we're talking about a column by

Jonah Goldberg, who writes for National Review. He's a very, very well-known

commentator. And he's saying we shouldn't use the term neocons anymore. This is what the neocons

have been saying for a long time. Sometimes they claim they don't even exist. There are no

neocons. We made this up. It's a terrible slur that we invented, even though it's what the neocons themselves used to tell us we should call them. Now they don't want us to call them that. They're pretending that they never told us to call them that, but they did. So I'm talking to Paul Gottfried about this because I don't know anybody who is filled with more loathing of the neocons than Paul Gottfried, but he's so scholarly and great, and he's so incisive and wonderful.

I just, I got to talk to him. When I see Jonah Goldberg write something like this, got to talk to Paul Gottfried, who's been a guest on the show several times in the past.

He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at

Elizabethtown College. He's the author of many books, several of which I have reviewed over the years.

He has a brand new book on fascism coming out. We'll say a little something about that,

probably toward the end of our conversation, and I'll definitely have him back on and talk about

that. But this is going to be a lot of fun. How could this not be fun? Paul, welcome back to the show.

Thank you for having me. I saw your column at Lou Rockwell.com, and it was in response to a column by Jonah Goldberg, one of your favorite people in the world. And he had written a column about the term neoconservative.

And he says the term neoconservative has served its purpose.

In fact, his column is called the term neocon has run its course.

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