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🗓️ 9 June 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Intstitute, on what libertarians (and even progressives and conservatives) ought to aim for, and why handing out U.S. Constitutions in Iraq might not be the most effective strategy.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 928. |
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0:28.9 | Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Jeff Diced is back on the show. Jeff is former chief of staff to Ron |
0:34.5 | Paul and the current president of the Meases Institute. If you haven't visited |
0:38.9 | the Mezes Institute's website, you really ought to do that at meases.org, M-I-S-E-S-D-org. Jeff wrote an |
0:45.9 | interesting article about where libertarianism ought to go in terms of how it brands itself and the kinds of |
0:53.0 | things we talk about, the way we package what it is that we're asking for. |
0:57.6 | Should we be flying around the world handing out U.S. constitutions in foreign countries? |
1:03.1 | Is that our priority? |
1:04.6 | Or is there another way to think about what we really ought to be doing? |
1:07.9 | So the question involves universalism and self-determination. Very, very important. I like |
1:13.9 | his article on this. I'm going to link to all this stuff on the show notes page, of course, |
1:18.8 | but let's bring Jeff on now to hash this out. Jeff, welcome back. Tom, it's great to talk to you. |
1:24.4 | All right. Let's dive into what we want to talk about today, and in particular, |
1:28.8 | we're inspired, or I'm inspired, by your recent article that generated a bit of heat, but to my |
1:36.3 | mind generated far more light, and it's very important. We're really talking about, |
1:41.7 | much as I dislike this word, a kind of rebranding of libertarianism, |
1:46.1 | or we might say a rethinking of what we're really here for, what the whole thing is really all about. |
1:51.8 | And I'd like to hear you explain what it is your bringing to the table with this particular article. |
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