Ep. 816 Liberty Lost a Great Historian in 2016 -- Plus, Nullification and Listener Questions Answered
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We lost Ralph Raico, a great libertarian historian, in December 2016. I spent the first part of this episode discussing his work; see also the link to one of his books below. I also answer several interesting listener questions, then offer to do an escape room with people in two U.S. cities. How could you not listen to this one?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 816. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:16.3 | Happy New Year, back for 2017. |
| 0:19.3 | If you're on my email list, you know that I decided to resume the show today and take yesterday off. |
| 0:26.1 | So I did that and spent some time with the kids and had lots of fun. And I was out of town for a week with them. |
| 0:34.0 | And we all had a great time aboard the independence of the seas because that's something |
| 0:39.1 | I like to do is go on cruises with the family. We did that. Had a wonderful time. But now I am |
| 0:44.4 | back and ready to go. Got some excellent guests and topics lined up for this week. What I thought |
| 0:49.8 | I do today is just cover a few miscellaneous topics that are on my mind and that are answering |
| 0:54.4 | some listener questions and also talk about what to my mind was the greatest loss of |
| 0:59.6 | 2016. There's been a lot of talk about celebrity deaths in 2016. Well, all I can say is the death |
| 1:09.1 | that left the greatest impact, had the greatest impact on me, |
| 1:13.8 | was the death of Ralph Raco, the libertarian historian. He was 80 years old. I got to know him all the way back in 1992. |
| 1:23.6 | I met him at a week-long seminar put on by the Institute for Humane Studies, and then I got to know him a little bit better at events hosted by the Mises Institute. |
| 1:33.8 | Ralph Raco was a brilliant guy, and I just wish he had written more. |
| 1:39.8 | In fact, I remember probably about 10 years ago, I said to him, you owe it to mankind to write more. |
| 1:46.3 | And his response was, I loathe mankind. |
| 1:49.7 | Well, how are you going to argue with that? |
| 1:51.4 | But he was a longtime friend of Murray Rothbard, whom he got to know in the 1950s. |
| 1:57.7 | He attended Ludwig von Mises's New York University graduate seminar that George |
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