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Ep. 940 The Inside Scoop on the Neoconservatives and the Straussians

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today Jason Jewell explains the phenomenon of the neoconservatives and their close cousins, the Straussians. Call this a backgrounder episode.

Show notes for Ep. 940

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 940.

0:03.4

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

0:08.0

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

0:14.3

Folks, I don't know what your problems are, but I can't imagine you have any that couldn't be solved by a free e-book from me.

0:22.2

These books help you win debates, and they're fun to read. Check them out at tom's freebooks.com. Hello everybody. Tom Woods here.

0:28.2

You know, last year when I was on the Contra Cruise, which is the annual cruise I co-host with

0:34.6

Bob Murphy, I was actually just before the Contra Cruise.

0:38.6

I was in the hotel room the night before, and I was preparing some episodes.

0:44.2

And I remember I prepared an episode where I took a lecture from my LibertyClastroom.com website,

0:51.4

and I made that into an episode of the show because I had so many episodes

0:55.9

to cover while I was gone. Well, I'm out of town right now, and I've recorded about the last,

1:01.4

oh, I don't know, 817 episodes or something in advance so that I could go out of town.

1:07.1

But I'm running out of energy here. I'm running out of steam. So I'm going to treat you to another

1:12.6

free sample from Liberty Classroom. This is a really good one, though, because this has got some

1:17.0

terms in there that a lot of people here thrown around, but they're not so sure they could

1:20.8

really define if they had to. And what we're going to do here is I'm going to have Jason

1:25.8

Jewel, who's been on this show before, walk you through part of his course on the history of conservatism and libertarianism at Liberty Classroom.

1:35.5

He's going to walk you through the terms neoconservatism, which is, you know, a lot of people say, all right, I've heard the term.

1:42.5

I roughly know what a neocon is, but that's about all I know. And also Strausianism. Now, you may be less likely to have heard of the Strausians, but the Strausians also are important to know. They're also everywhere and extremely annoying. So they're good to know to watch out for. So he's going to

2:03.1

talk about in his usual restrained and scholarly way that I very much envy, Jason will talk to you

2:10.2

about these very important aspects of the intellectual history of the American right, let's say.

2:16.6

Jason is the chairman of the Department

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