The Tom Woods Show, episode 649.

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Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. I'm talking to James Calb today, whom I knew a long time ago, and then I just fell out of contact with him,

and now here we are talking again. Jim and I don't agree on everything. We see a lot of the same

problems, but I thought it would make for an interesting discussion. He's a good guy. He's a really

smart guy, and he's worth reading, even if you do disagree with him.

Jim is a lawyer and an independent scholar in Brooklyn, New York. We're going to be talking about

his book, The Tyranny of Liberalism, Understanding and Overcoming, Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial

Tolerance, and Equality by Command. Jim is also the author of Against Inclusiveness,

how the diversity regime is flattening America and the West and what to do about it.

I'm going to link to those books and to Jim's blog and Twitter on the show notes page for today,

which is tomwoods.com slash 649.

Jim, welcome to the show.

Good to be here.

I'm so pleased to have you here.

I was just talking to Chilton Williamson at a wedding recently, and he mentioned that he saw you from time to time.

And I thought, Jim Calb, this guy has no idea how the role he played, even though I saw you only once a week during that time when you were running that dinner discussion group, away on the other side of Manhattan, I had no one at Columbia who even remotely saw eye to eye with me. And just to be able to sit and hash out ideas, even though it took me forever on the subway to get there. It was a real

lifeline for me. And now you've written these books that are, you know, I read the tyranny

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