The Tom Woods Show, episode 696.

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

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

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and today in particular because today is the release date of his brand new book, The Problem

with Socialism.

What a thrill to be able to feature a conversation with Tom on this special day.

You can check out The Problem with Social socialism, his brand new book at tomwoods.com slash socialism.

That'll redirect you to the Amazon page nice and quick.

Tom, of course, as you know, is the author of many books, most notoriously perhaps the real Lincoln, also Lincoln unmasked,

How Capitalism Saved America, and Hamilton's Curse, among many others.

Tom, of course, also is a professor of economics at Loyola University in Maryland.

Tom, welcome back to the show.

Please be with you, Tom.

Today is the release date for your brand new book, The Problem with Socialism.

This is so exciting. You did this. It breakneck speed. And when I got my PDF copy anyway,

and I flipped through it, I thought, this is so much more even if you had just

delivered what the title promised, that would have been great. But it covers so many topics and so

many areas, like, for example, public education, which is basically run on socialist lines. So why

not include that? It really blew me away. So why now,

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