Ep. 96 Long Ago, Weren't Conservatives Better Than They Are Now?
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On his blog, Krugman responds to fellow columnist Bret Stephens, who argues that the conservative movement has fallen a long way since the days of William F. Buckley. Krugman responds that the conservative movement was never any good, and never had any kind of golden age.
Believe it or not, we get more worked up in this episode than probably any episode thus far. You won't want to skip this one.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 96. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. Join us as Tom |
| 0:11.0 | Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:16.0 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:24.1 | Folks, if you're like me, you were a victim of educational malpractice when you were in school. |
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| 0:40.5 | LibertyClassroom.com slash coupons. Attention listeners. If you're not subscribing to the Lara Murphy |
| 0:47.6 | Report, I don't know what's wrong with you. This is the outlet that I use when I really want to |
| 0:52.1 | dive into a topic. I just wrapped up a 14-page article talking about the claim that Obamacare saves lives |
| 0:58.1 | and that the Oregon Medicaid expansion shows how great it is. |
| 1:02.0 | For more information, go to contra Krugman.com slash LMR. |
| 1:08.1 | Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with yet another episode of Contra Krugman. And we've got a fun one this week. |
| 1:14.2 | Are we going to the blog for this one? It's not a regular column, right? We are going to the |
| 1:18.9 | blog because on the column, you won't believe it. Crueman was writing about health care. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah, I was going to have the listeners guess, but... Oh, geez. Yeah. |
| 1:28.8 | So much for that. |
| 1:29.6 | But all right. |
| 1:31.4 | So, yeah, yeah, it's health care this week. You ruin everything, Bob. |
| 1:33.1 | But look, you know, come on now. |
| 1:35.7 | Enough's enough on health care. |
| 1:37.4 | So let's talk instead about this one, which is, when was the golden age of conservative intellectuals, a blog post from July 9th, |
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