Ep. 957 The Frederic Bastiat You Never Knew: The Incredible Life and Extraordinary Work of a Great Classical Liberal
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A great many libertarians have read at least some of Frederic Bastiat's work, but it's usually one or two of the same writings. Bastiat's output was vastly greater than what most of us are familiar with, and his life was extraordinarily eventful and exciting. David Hart, an expert on Bastiat, joins us for another look at a most underrated thinker and man.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 957. |
| 0:03.5 | 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. |
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| 0:30.9 | What do these books have in common? |
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| 0:37.0 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:38.4 | Frederick Bostiod is our topic of discussion today. |
| 0:42.5 | He was, of course, one of the great French classical liberals of the 19th century. |
| 0:47.2 | A great many of you, no doubt, have read at least some of his work. |
| 0:51.2 | He is tremendous. |
| 0:52.6 | A wonderful writer, masterful thinker. But it turns out he also |
| 0:56.3 | had a very eventful life. He was a multifaceted person. He's a very interesting guy to learn |
| 1:02.6 | about. And we're going to talk about him today. You might want to listen to this episode in |
| 1:07.0 | tandem with episode 469, all the way back back there where I spent some time talking about the |
| 1:13.8 | content of Bacias thought. And of course, we're going to do some of that today. But this is a |
| 1:19.0 | companion episode, I suppose, to that. And I'm really glad to be joined today in this task by |
| 1:25.3 | David Hart, who is a historian and the online library director at Liberty Fund, |
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