The Tom Woods Show, episode 977.

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

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

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out my coupon page, Libertyclassroom.com slash coupons. Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. Paul Gottfried's

with us again. Just want to talk, just see where

the conversation goes about what's going on in America today in the wake of Charlottesville,

but in particular about the left, the right, conservatives, the fractured right, the alt-right,

just whatever, whatever comes up, I just thought,

we're just going to get Paul Gottfried on. I'm going to start talking to him, and we'll just see

where this goes. Paul has been on the show a number of times up to now. He holds a PhD in history

from Yale University. He's the author of many books. I'll have several of them linked at tomwoods.com

slash 977. He's also a Guggenheim recipient and professor emeritus of humanities at

Elizabethtown College. Paul, welcome back. Thank you for having me again. You bear a tremendous

responsibility, Paul. You are the person I go to for sanity in crazy times.

Well, thank you. All right. So, I don't, you know, the whole situation right now is very volatile, and I'm not super optimistic about really anything. I'm not optimistic about any aspect of the right right now,

which is a complete mess. The left is much better organized. And the right, white nationalism

is not about to take over the right. If you're going to so-called unite the right, it's not going to be

on that principle. That is just a fact. Even though the hysterics on the left think that's on the

verge of happening,

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