The Tom Woods Show, episode 684.

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

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

Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here.

I'm especially delighted to welcome you to this particular episode because there's been so much

chatter about it. This past Friday night, we held a debate that I moderated between Bob

Murphy and Vox Day on the subject of free trade. And I'll be introducing those two gentlemen

to you in just a moment. But we held the event live, and now, for those of you

who were not able to attend the live event, we present to you the audio. Now, for some reason,

my computer was having all kinds of problems that particular night, and although I still sound

like I'm in control and everything's fine. I'm actually battling problem after problem

while I'm talking. So it's a miracle that it went as well as it did. Actually, it went really,

really well. Everybody was happy with it. Everybody thought it was a productive debate. Both sides

respect each other. It's a very, very rare thing. And I was entrusted with the moderator job,

even though, of course, I do host a podcast with Bob Murphy, Contra Krugman, over at contra

krugman.com. But I think I did a pretty good job staying neutral in the debate, but I'm definitely

going to have these two guys on sometime in the future to continue to hash this out because Vox presents such a detailed and extensive critique in his opening

statement that it seemed almost ridiculous to offer just a few-minute response. So we'll definitely

hash this out a little bit further. Anyway, in the debate itself,

you'll hear me introduce these two men, so I won't do that now. And without any further ado,

here's the debate. I hope you enjoy it. All right. Hello, everybody. I'd like to welcome you to

this debate between Bob Murphy and Vox Day. I am Tom Woods, your moderator from tom

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