Unregistered 241: Walter Block

Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell

Thaddeus Russell

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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I was joined by Walter Block, who has been a leading intellectual in the modern libertarian movement since his encounters with Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard in the 1960s, to talk about the history of American libertarianism and some of its intellectual problems.

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0:00.0	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:07.0	This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:15.0	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician,
0:23.1	a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say
0:29.3	or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, I'll
0:37.2	interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a
0:40.9	journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just be an ordinary
0:46.9	person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society. I'm not interested
0:53.4	in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.
0:56.2	I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought
0:59.5	and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.
1:04.2	I'm interested in people who make me think. I've never identified as a libertarian, and I probably never will.
1:24.4	This is my interview with Walter Block. I am joined from New Orleans, Louisiana, by Walter Block.
1:33.9	Someone I have known about and read and heard about for many years, it started when I became
1:40.7	interested in libertarianism, which was not that long ago. I'm sort of unusual. I'm a very old guy to come to libertarianism. I, and I'm not a libertarian. I still don't identify
1:49.5	as one, and I have some reservations about libertarianism, and I'd like to explore some of those
1:55.2	issues in this interview. But I've read you, I guess, for about six or seven years. And when I began doing
2:03.1	my own work, many people immediately, many people immediately compared my work, Renegate History
2:07.3	of the United States to your classic work, defending the Undefendable, which is a libertarian
2:12.7	classic published originally in 1976. Turns out they're not at all similar, the two works,
2:20.9	although I don't disagree with anything that you say, but we come at these issues of
2:25.3	defending the so-called immoral in society of just in different ways, and we will get into that.
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