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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 695 Thomas Sowell, Robert Nozick, and Richard Epstein: The Good and Bad in Three Fellow Travelers

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A listener wrote to ask if I might do a show covering a few names who will be familiar to many listeners as sympathizers but not quite Austro-libertarians, and take a look at the good and the bad. David Gordon joins me to discuss Sowell, Nozick, and Epstein. Enjoy!

Show notes for Ep. 695

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 695.

0:03.5

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0:08.2

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0:59.1

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. This episode, the idea for this episode came from a listener who just

1:05.2

wrote to me and said, what about people like Thomas Sowell or Richard Epstein or, and then I supplied this one,

1:13.4

Robert Nozik. Actually, no, I didn't come to think about it. One of the supporting listeners

1:16.8

in the private Facebook group supplied the name Robert Nozik. And I thought, okay, yeah,

1:21.8

that's another one. People who are really darn close to our point of view, but who diverge in some areas. And this person was saying,

1:29.9

why don't we look more closely at what these people say and let's find out what the good is and

1:34.6

maybe what the differences are? And the result will be just better understanding all around.

1:40.4

I thought that sounds like a pretty good topic. So who'd be a good person to discuss it with?

1:44.7

So I thought, well, how about somebody I know for a fact? We'll know everything there is to know

1:49.2

about all three people because he knows everything there is to know about everything. And that's

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