Ep. 614 Rothbard: The Genius and the Man, and How to Approach His Work
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Murray Rothbard's work, more than anything else, is responsible for making me into a libertarian. I continue to learn so much from that vast body of scholarship, spanning several disciplines. He was unforgettable, too, for his infectious enthusiasm and lively personality. On the occasion of the release of a new collection of Rothbard's work, we revisit his legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 614. |
| 0:03.5 | 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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| 1:01.1 | Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking about Murray Rothbard today. Now, I am getting |
| 1:05.7 | so many new listeners, and when I say new listeners, I mean people who are new to both to the show and |
| 1:11.6 | new to all these ideas in general that I no longer want to take for granted that people |
| 1:16.8 | know the name Murray Rothbard or some of the ideas that we talk about. I want to be a little bit |
| 1:21.7 | more careful to explain them because we got people jumping on board all the time and that's |
| 1:26.0 | just great. Murray Rothbard, I don't even know how I'd describe him to you, but he played such an important |
| 1:32.0 | role in making me who I am in terms of the ideas that I believe in, that I talk about on the show, |
| 1:38.4 | that I write about, that I defend, that I speak about. |
| 1:40.9 | This guy, well, I'd like to say he's the most productive person I've ever |
| 1:44.2 | heard of. There are a couple people, I think, are slightly more productive, but they were insane. |
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