Ep. 759 The Paleos: When Rothbard Rejoined the Right in the 1990s

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🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In the 1990s, Murray Rothbard thought an opportune moment had arisen to reach out again to the American right wing. With the Cold War over, a number of interesting and impressive conservative thinkers were concluding that it was time to stop the global interventionism and return to being a normal country again. This meeting of the minds, between paleoconservatives (so named to distinguish themselves from neoconservatives) and paleolibertarians bore considerable fruit. Jason Jewell walks through this important history.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 759.
0:03.8	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.4	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.9	Folks, I've just released another free e-book, this one called Education Without the State.
0:26.6	Grab your copy at no-stateeducation.com or by texting the word educate to 33444. Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. I've been broadcasting all week, even though I'm
0:34.6	really out of town. I'm on the Contra Cruise, so I actually recorded a bunch of
0:39.0	episodes in advance, of course. Well, for today's episode, I'm going to do something I've never
0:43.5	done before. I'm in effect going to let somebody guest host the show for me. Not really,
0:50.5	but sort of. What I'd like to do is play for you a talk by my friend Jason Jewell, who is professor and chairman of the Department of Humanities at Faulkner University, and a great guy. He blogs at western tradition. wordpress.com. The subject of this talk, it's taken from my libertyclassroom.com
1:14.0	website, is the paleos. This is from Jason's course on the history of conservatism and libertarianism.
1:20.7	And there's a lot of interest in what's going on in the American right wing because of the whole Trump phenomenon.
1:26.9	It's in a bit of disarray. And the stuff from the
1:30.9	1990s is interesting and perhaps relevant. And the paleo phenomenon, which is something Jason's
1:36.8	going to talk about, is something that was taking shape right around the time that I was beginning
1:41.8	to come of age intellectually, so to speak,
1:52.0	and it's weird for me to hear this presented as history when I kind of lived it. I pretty much knew everybody, except Emmy Bradford, I knew everybody Jason is talking about. And I still know
1:59.7	those of them who are still alive, I still know them.
2:02.6	So it's odd to hear this presented as history. But you're going to hear a lot of names that are
2:07.2	familiar to you and some that will be less familiar. But Hans Hoppa, Murray Rothbard, Pat Buchanan,
2:14.5	Lou Rockwell, Clyde Wilson, Emmy Bradford, and others will be mentioned.
2:21.3	See, was there another one I'm trying to think?
2:23.6	I can't remember.
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