The Tom Woods Show, episode 736.

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 doing a bit of a Po-Pourri episode today.

I think I called yesterday a Poe-PPri episode, but that's not really true.

There was a pretty obvious theme running through yesterday, but today, it's just a bunch of things I got.

Let's see what sticks here. I'm going to play you in a little while, an excerpt, well, not an

excerpt, I guess I want to play you the whole thing. An interview I did at the end of the Mises University program in July of this year, 2016,

with an attendee, and you have to bear in mind, I was pretty tired.

It had been a very intense week, and this was quite literally the very last thing I did at Mises University.

But I just happened to find it the other day on YouTube,

so I thought, oh, what the heck? I don't even remember what I said, so I hope it wasn't too terribly

embarrassing because I'm going to just play it for you in a little while. But before I do that,

let's cover a few other things. First of all, today I was thinking of doing an episode on left and right. What do the terms mean?

Because I get a lot of people saying it's not helpful to divide people into left and right.

There's no such thing as left and right. I'm sick of the left-right paradigm and this and that.

And to some degree, I get that. Because I do think to some degree the left-right paradigms, I hate that stupid term,

has obscured a lot, and it has divided people in a fairly cartoonish way in a lot in a lot of cases

in modern America. But that doesn't mean that the terms left and right have never been

useful or couldn't continue to be useful. I actually do believe there are such things as modern America, but that doesn't mean that the terms left and right have never been useful

or couldn't continue to be useful. I actually do believe there are such things as left and

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