4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Paul Gottfried takes delight in skewering the historical profession and the biases that lurk beneath their pretensions to impartiality. We cover Otto von Bismarck, World War I, Germanophobia, and a lot more in this punchy episode.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 889. |
0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
0:07.9 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
0:14.4 | Hey, all you shavers out there, Harry's wants to send you a free trial set, |
0:18.7 | razor handle, five-blade cartridge, and shaving gel. |
0:21.9 | Best shave you ever had, just pay for shipping. |
0:24.9 | Check it out at harries.com slash woods. |
0:28.6 | Everybody, Tom Woods here. |
0:29.8 | Always fun talking to Paul Godfried, who is formerly professor of humanities at |
0:34.1 | Elizabethtown College. |
0:35.6 | He's the author of many books. |
0:37.4 | I've profited from every |
0:38.6 | Paul Gottfried book I've read. And in particular, I want to talk today about revisions and |
0:45.2 | dissents, which is a series of essays on various historical topics. And with a bit of current |
0:51.8 | events thrown in at the very end, we'll say, but an outstanding book, |
0:56.3 | Paul holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale. We'll try not to hold that against him. Paul, welcome to |
1:01.9 | the show. Thank you for having me again. All right. So the book is revisions and dissents. I want you, |
1:07.8 | even though it's a variety of topics that's covered, tell me if there's a thread |
1:11.8 | running through these revisions and dissents. |
1:14.4 | Yes, indeed, there is a thread, and it is this, that most of the people who are featured |
1:21.3 | as important historians by the American Historical Association, the Association of Modern Historians, whatever they're called, |
1:31.2 | the ones who are written up in New York Review of Books, the New York Times, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tom Woods, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Tom Woods and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.