Ep. 933 Now James Madison Is Targeted by the Iconoclasts
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Now James Madison is under attack, because slavery. We're going to have to rename an awful lot of places if this catches fire. Madison biographer Kevin Gutzman joins me for some background into Madison and his achievements, and what we should think about the effort to erase him.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 933. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.2 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:30.8 | slash Woods. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Talking to Kevin Goodsman today because James Madison has been in the news a little bit recently because of a controversy we'll talk about here in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:45.5 | And, well, who better to talk about Madison? |
| 0:48.6 | And also this whole iconoclastic tendency than Kevin Gutzman, who is the author of numerous books, most recently, Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary, a radicals struggle to remake America. |
| 1:03.3 | He's also the author of James Madison and The Making of America, as well as other books. |
| 1:09.3 | You can find out more about Kevin at Kevin Gootsman.com |
| 1:11.9 | and at Tom Woods.com slash 933. Kevin is also a professor of history at Western Connecticut State |
| 1:18.7 | University. Kevin, welcome back. Happy to be here, Tom. All right, tell me about what's going on in Madison, |
| 1:24.2 | Wisconsin with James Madison High School? |
| 1:31.6 | Well, there's actually a high school in Madison called James Madison Memorial High School, and a senior there, Maya Barry, decided that she wanted to rename James Madison |
| 1:38.1 | Memorial High School. So she created a petition, which hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of |
| 1:43.7 | people signed, saying, |
| 1:45.6 | we want to rename this school. |
| 1:47.1 | And why is that? |
| 1:48.1 | Well, she says, with all the injustice I and others face in James Madison Memorial High School, |
| 1:54.3 | do you truly think it's appropriate to glorify a man that enslaved my ancestors? |
| 1:58.6 | With the education disparity between black and white students being a huge concern in the |
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