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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 939 Do We Need the State for Defense?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bob Murphy joins me once again, fresh from our discussion of private law in episode 938, to cover whether it's possible to imagine even defense services being provided without the state.

Show notes for Ep. 939

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 939.

0:03.7

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.3

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.5

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0:39.1

Hello everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:46.1

All right. Now we've done private law with Bob Murphy yesterday. And guess who the guest is for today? Yes, that's right. You never would have guessed it from what I said last time. It's Bob

0:51.4

Murphy once again. He is once again joining me. Once again, we're going to talk about

0:56.2

something that's tricky and difficult, this time, private defense. Oh, man. Are you kidding me? What kind of

1:02.8

crazy topic is this? Well, we're going to hash this out, right? We're going to try and figure out,

1:07.5

can the market provide even defense services? So, who better to talk about that,

1:14.4

given that Murray Rothbard is no longer with us, who better to talk about that than Bob Murphy?

1:19.3

And I introduced him to you yesterday. A lot of you listened to the show for a while.

1:23.1

Know Bob very well, as indeed you should. He has been in the wake of the financial crisis. He

1:28.4

almost single-handedly defended the Austrian school interpretation, just writing article after

1:34.9

article after article at the time. He's an absolute hero. Follow him at his blog at consulting by

1:41.0

RPM.com. He does eight million things, including co-hosting contra khrugman our weekly

1:48.4

podcast against paul krugman uh that you can visit at contra krugman dot com author of many books i'll have

1:55.0

some of them listed and linked to at tom woods dot com slash nine 939. Welcome back, Bob.

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