Ep. 731 By Popular Demand: Libertarianism 101
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Todd Seavey, author of Libertarianism for Beginners, joins me for a discussion that beginners and advanced students alike will enjoy. We go from the foundations, to real-world applications, to problems for libertarianism, to left and right and libertarians. Much to learn from and enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 731. |
| 0:03.6 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.2 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.5 | Folks, if you're like me, you get more email than you can cope with, and you frankly don't |
| 0:19.2 | know what to do about it. |
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| 0:30.2 | slash Woods. Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're doing an episode that I'm sure a lot of |
| 0:36.9 | beginners will appreciate, but I'm telling |
| 0:38.9 | you it's not just for beginners. It's going to be an interesting conversation with Todd Sevy, |
| 0:44.3 | author of the new book, Libertarianism for Beginners. So let's jump right into it. Todd, welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.1 | Thanks. All right, you have this new book, Libertarianism for Beginners. I would have been interested to talk about this book anyway, but I've actually had several people write to me just in the past week saying you really should do a Libertarianism 101 episode. And I have a lot of people coming, listening to the show who are really new to all this, |
| 1:12.0 | and sometimes on the show it may sound like I'm talking inside baseball. I'm throwing out names |
| 1:17.4 | that I assume everybody knows. I'm throwing out concepts and acronyms, and it can be a little bit |
| 1:23.4 | much for people to grasp. So at the same time, people who are advanced at it can stand |
| 1:29.1 | to have a refresher from time to time. And I thought your book gives me an opportunity to do that. |
| 1:34.9 | And yet, at the same time, your book could give us an opportunity to talk about all the factions |
| 1:39.1 | and the movement and all these super detailed things that, you know, geeks like us are interested in. |
| 1:44.7 | And I'm sorry, I don't mean to call you a geek. Oh, no, that's okay. I also answer to nerd. Okay, yeah, me too, me too. |
| 1:50.6 | That's all right. So if we were to talk about the basics of libertarianism, what I'd want to do is talk |
| 1:56.7 | about the foundations of it, like where does, what are the basic ideas, where do they come from, |
| 2:01.8 | how it can be applied in easy to grasp cases, how it can be applied in trickier cases, and then |
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