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🗓️ 6 June 2017
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Brad Birzer joins us to discuss themes in his latest course for LibertyClassroom.com, on the golden age of science fiction -- which is full of ideas libertarians will find congenial.
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0:31.6 | Hello everybody. Tom Woods here. Brad Berzer's back with us once again. We're going to talk |
0:35.3 | science fiction and liberty because he has the second in a series of courses on that very subject just out at Liberty Classroom.com. |
0:45.5 | That's course number 19 for us in all kinds of areas, U.S. history, European history, logic, political thought, economics, economic thought, |
0:57.3 | all kinds of courses we have for you at Liberty Classroom.com. So if you have not checked that out |
1:02.3 | yet, you're definitely going to want to do that. And the fact that Brad Berzer is on our faculty |
1:07.4 | is one of the great selling points of that whole product. Brad, of course, |
1:12.0 | is a professor at Hillsdale College. He's the author of several books, including Russell Kirk, |
1:17.5 | American Conservative, which is the winner of the Paolucci Book Award last year. He's a great |
1:22.8 | guy all around, and he has excellent taste in music. I say that because his taste in music and mine, |
1:28.9 | they're pretty much identical. So, Brad, welcome back to the show. Thanks, Tom. I'm always happy |
1:33.9 | to talk to you. Much appreciated. Everybody loves this topic. I mean, libertarians and science fiction. |
1:39.7 | You know, come on. If this ain't fish in a barrel, I don't know what is. It was definitely a dream course and I had a great time doing it, yeah, very much so. |
1:49.0 | Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it because we're enjoying the content. |
1:52.1 | And I got McClanahan working on another course for us. |
1:55.3 | I've got to get more econ. |
1:56.6 | I got Murphy's doing his next history of economic thought course. |
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