Ep. 986 Lew Rockwell: Will There Be a "Private Sector" Assault on Dissidents?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
With various websites (not all "white nationalist") seeing various Internet services withdrawn from them, and given that our media and political classes are not exactly known for their ability to make fine distinctions, could ever more sites and groups, more or less innocuous, find themselves subjected to this kind of treatment? Lew Rockwell and I discuss this and a heck of a lot else, including the controversy about libertarians and fascism.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 986. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
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| 0:36.8 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:38.0 | Lou Rockwell is with me once again. |
| 0:40.8 | Lou is just a tremendous guy. |
| 0:42.9 | He's almost my litmus test. |
| 0:45.8 | If you like Lou Rockwell, you're okay by me. |
| 0:48.1 | But you have a problem with Lou Rockwell. |
| 0:49.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:50.2 | You've got rocks in your head or something. |
| 0:51.5 | This guy is such an incredible benefactor to all of us by founding the Mezes Institute. Look around at mezes.org. Look at all the resources, all the books going back hundreds of years in the libertarian tradition, entire print runs of outstanding academic journals. The Journal of Libertarian Studies, every libertarian worth his salt, published scholarly articles in that thing. |
| 1:13.8 | Get all of those at Mises.org, not to mention courses taught by the likes of Robert Higgs and Paul Cantor from the University of Virginia who studied at Mises Seminar. |
| 1:24.6 | It's an incredible array of resources available for free for you, thanks to this one-man Lou Rockwell, who founded the Meese's Institute with Margaret von Meese's help. Also with the help of Henry Haslett, other great luminaries, Ron Paul, for whom Lou served as chief of staff. |
| 1:45.8 | Lou also, of course, edits and publishes Lou Rockwell.com, which I read every day. |
| 1:51.8 | And he's been a personal benefactor of mine, even during very dark times when bad, bad people thought attacking me was a way of getting at the Mises Institute. He stood by me |
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