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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 646 How to Debate a Socialist

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

My guest today has had tremendous success as a debater and recently debated a university socialist group. As an Australian, John Hajek also lets us in on what's happening at Australian universities. It's almost enough to make you feel good about American campuses.

Show notes for Ep. 646

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 646.

0:03.9

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

0:08.5

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

0:14.7

Hey, everybody, I got another great libertarian podcast for you.

0:18.0

It's a podcast I've been featured on, and I liked it so much, I made it

0:22.6

into an episode of my own show, and that's Lions of Liberty. Check it out at lionsofliberty.com.

0:29.6

Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. This is a fun episode right here. We're talking to another young-ish

0:35.4

person. Remember we talked to Lauren Southern a few weeks ago and talked about all the things that she's been up to?

0:41.1

Well, I have another youngster guest who is a college undergraduate all the way in Australia at the University of Melbourne.

0:50.6

His name is John. Well, we'll get into his last name in a minute because there's a bit of a controversy around that.

0:56.3

But he is a debating champion.

0:59.2

And I thought I'd have him come on and talk a little bit about that because he was recently involved in a debate on capitalism versus socialism.

1:07.5

And I'm going to link on the show notes page to that.

1:12.6

I'll have the exact timestamp when he starts, if you want to listen to just his portion from this recent

1:17.3

debates. I'll link to that at tomwoods.com slash 646. Our guest, John, is a 20-year-old who is

1:23.7

studying economics, French, and Russian at the University of Melbourne, where he is president of the Melbourne University Freedom Society, which is a libertarian pro-freedom club on campus.

1:36.9

And a lot of things we can talk about.

1:38.7

Because if you think that universities are crazy in the United States, This episode is going to make you feel a lot

1:44.2

better about the United States. I'll just put it that way. John, welcome to the show.

1:48.5

Thanks, Tom. It's a pleasure to be here. I want you to straighten out the situation with your last name.

1:52.8

Tell me how it should be pronounced and then tell me how because of concessions to fall in human

1:58.4

nature, it has to be pronounced typically. Right. Well,

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