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The Tom Woods shoW:
The InTervIeWs 2013
Contents
A Special Note from Tom Woods (Please Don’t Skip This!) 1
Please Check Out What I Am Spending Hours and Hours and Hours Doing 3
The Heroic Tenth Amendment Center (Michael Boldin) 19
Ben Swann and Independent Journalism (Ben Swann) 25
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson (Ian Anderson) 32
The DUI Racket (Warren Redlich) 37
Why Nonintervention? (Daniel McAdams) 45
Guns 101 (Larry Pratt) 52
Murphy Answers Questions I (Robert P. Murphy) 59
States’ Rights and the Founding (Kevin Gutzman) 66
The Primal Blueprint (Mark Sisson) 73
Libertarianism 101 (Walter Block) 81
The Neocons: Who They Are (Daniel McCarthy) 90
The Future of Bitcoin (Erik Voorhees) 97
Is Sweden a Good Model? (Per Bylund) 103
Fix the Economy: End the Fed (Hunter Lewis) 109
Lew Rockwell Remembers (Lew Rockwell) 115
Murphy Answers Questions II (Robert P. Murphy) 123
The Crony Capitalists (Hunter Lewis) 131
The Recycling Scam (Floy Lilley) 137
Keynes and His Errors (G.P. Manish) 143
Do We Need the State? (Gary Chartier ) 149
WWE’s Kane: Libertarian (Glenn Jacobs (Kane)) 156
Ron Paul Continues the Fight for Freedom (Ron Paul) 164
The American Police State (John Whitehead) 170
The Paleo Solution (Robb Wolf) 177
But…Somalia! (Ben Powell) 184
Be Prepared (Jack Spirko) 190
The World’s Happiest Country? (Christian Bjørnskov) 198
That Australian Minimum Wage (Ben O’Neill) 204
The Skyscraper Curse (Mark Thornton) 210
The Revolution of 1913 (Tom DiLorenzo) 216
What’s Up With Iran? (Daniel McAdams) 223
Murphy Takes on MMT (Robert P. Murphy) 230
David Friedman on Statelessness (David Friedman) 238
Will Robots Take All Our Jobs? (George Reisman) 245
The Gettysburg Address (Richard Gamble) 253
The Not So Wild, Wild West (P.J. Hill) 260
The Free State Project (Carla Gericke) 266
How to Do Economics (Danny Sanchez) 271
Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? (Enrico Gnaulati) 277
Foolproof Thanksgiving Turkey (Heather Woods) 283
What’s Wrong With the Economy? (Robert P. Murphy) 289
Mind Your Own Business (Phil Giraldi) 298
The Conservative Mind (Brad Birzer) 304
The Paramilitary Police (Will Grigg) 317
Before the Welfare State? (David T. Beito) 326
Nullify the NSA! (Mike Maharrey) 333
Bitcoin: Objections and Replies (Erik Voorhees) 342
Foreign Policy Briefing (Daniel McAdams) 349
Against the State (Robert Higgs) 357
The Poverty Cure (Michael Matheson Miller) 365
Separating School and State (Sheldon Richman) 374
Doug Casey on the World (Doug Casey) 381
Want to Lose Weight? Don’t Count Calories (Jonathan Bailor) 388
How to Be Tom’s Best Friend—and Get Transcripts of All Episodes, Forever 396
Appendix: Tom’s Solo Programs, 2014 397
A Special Note from Tom Woods
(Please Don’t Skip This!)
I launched the Tom Woods Show as a Monday-through-Friday podcast toward the end of September
2013. Ever since I’d started filling in as a guest host on the Peter Schiff Show in 2011, people had been
asking when I’d have my own show. I was flattered, but I was also pretty busy.
Fast forward to late 2013, and the idea seemed more and more attractive. The main reason was this:
the work I was doing for Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum was so time-consuming that I could no
longer do the writing and blogging I once did. If I had a daily program, though, I could still address the
issues of the day, and still feel like I was contributing to the cause, even while my homeschool work
was otherwise consuming me.
And incidentally, although I’ll discuss Ron’s homeschool program in the next chapter, let me give you an
idea of what’s involved. Each full-year course in this K-12 curriculum runs 36 weeks, with five lessons
per week. That’s 180 video lessons per course. Plus edits, finding readings, formulating, assignments,
etc. Now multiply all this by three and a half courses, which is what I am creating, and you are at 630
videos on history, economics, and government. It is exhausting.
So the podcast was a way I could continue to help spread knowledge and information, while still pouring
most of my energy into this unbelievable workload.
But as I look at this book, and look back on what was covered on the program in 2013 alone, when I was
still getting my feet wet as a podcast host, I am quite pleased with what we accomplished. Thanks to my
many great guests, we were able to cover an enormous variety of topics, such that this free e-book you
now own is a veritable primer on liberty.
One of my favorite compliments has been that although many of my guests are not widely known within
what we might call the liberty community, listeners love them. They are pleased to know that the intel-
lectual heft of our movement is even greater than they thought.
The transcripts you’ll find in this book have been edited for clarity. People rarely speak in paragraphs, and
reading the unfiltered spoken word can be difficult and unpleasant. We’ve polished the text just enough
to make it easily readable, but without eliminating the texture of the spoken word.
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These transcripts are only of the interviews I did in 2013. They don’t include my opening and closing
banter. They also don’t include the shows I did without a guest. It’s just too much work to take 30 min-
utes of straight talking and edit it into readability. Those programs, listed with dates in the Appendix,
you’ll just have to listen to.
I’m giving this book away, though if you enjoy it and would like to chip in toward the expenses asso-
ciated with putting it together—transcriptions, editing, e-book formatting, cover design, etc.—I accept
donations gratefully at TomWoodsRadio.com, via my Supporting Listener program. But more important
is that you enjoy the book.
We broadcast the program for the first time every weekday at noon Eastern at TomWoodsRadio.com,
and then it’s available as a podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or any other podcatcher.
Before we get to the program transcripts, I want to take just a moment to let you know what I’m up to
these days. Will you take a moment to have a look at the next chapter? Then it’s on to the awesomeness.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening.
Tom Woods
April 2014
Please Check Out What I Am Spending Hours
and Hours and Hours Doing
– and It’s Not the Tom Woods Show
Even if you have no interest either in homeschooling or in adult enrichment, I implore you to read this
as a favor to me.
Ron Paul has been wanting to create a homeschool program since at least 2008, when he first raised the
idea with me. Now that he’s out of Congress, it can be done.
Dr. Paul is convinced that a homeschool program is not just an effective way to carry on the ideas he has
promoted all his life. It is indispensable. If the tradition of thought that Dr. Paul represents is not handed
on and cultivated, it will wither away.
As parents, though, we’re interested in more than just advancing ideas. We want our children to get the
best education they can.
When students complete the program at RonPaulHomeschool.com, they will know an enormous amount
about the freedom philosophy -- because, unlike the traditional classroom setting, we also present the
other side of the story.
How many times have you read something by Ron Paul or a Ron Paulian scholar about history,
or economics, or government, that you didn’t learn in school? How many great thinkers have you
discovered in adulthood who were never introduced to you as a student?
Students in this program won’t have the same problem. They’ll learn real history and economics
(among many other subjects), and they’ll learn it the right way, the first time through. The people, events
and perspectives left out of the usual presentations of this material will actually be taught to them.
Put simply, they’ll graduate knowing who Ludwig von Mises and Frederic Bastiat were, which is more
than we can say for more than 99 percent of high school (and even college) graduates today.
In addition to getting an education in which the freedom perspective is systematically incorporated rather
than ignored or presented in caricature, students will also:
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• learn how to speak in public with confidence;
• become a good writer -- a skill few adults share;
• learn (with your permission) how to run a blog and a YouTube channel;
• learn how to start a home business.
Our students won’t just have a lot of valuable knowledge, in other words. Our students will be effective
communicators in speech and in print, will have a leg up on their peers in promoting themselves and
their work online, and will have absorbed a healthy entrepreneurial spirit.
The program comes with a money-back guarantee. To join the site and its Q&A forums, it’s $250 per
family, no matter how many children are in the family. After that, individual courses are $50 per full-
year course per child.
Each of those $50 courses consists of 180 video lessons, plus reading and writing assignments. I am pre-
paring four courses: three full-year courses, and one half-year course. My courses also include an audio
file for each lesson so parents, too, can listen during their commutes to what their students are learning.
I’d like you to see the titles of the lessons. Let’s start with my half-year course, Government 1B, for ninth
graders (though none of my courses are taught at a level that would insult the intelligence of an adult
learner who wants to learn as well). I’ll leave out the subheadings that organize the various parts of the
course; trust me, therefore, that there’s an overall coherence to the order of the lessons.
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Natural Rights Theories I (High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics)
Lesson 3: Natural Rights Theories II (Locke)
Lesson 4: Natural Rights Theories III (more recent theories)
Lesson 5: Week 1 Review
Lesson 6: Locke and Spooner on Consent
Lesson 7: The Tale of the Slave
Lesson 8: Human Rights and Property Rights
Lesson 9: Negative Rights and Positive Rights
Lesson 10: Week 2 Review
Lesson 11: Critics of Liberalism: Rousseau and the General Will
Lesson 12: Critics of Liberalism: John Rawls and Egalitarianism
Lesson 13: Critics of Liberalism: Thomas Nagel and Ronald Dworkin
Lesson 14: Critics of Liberalism: G.A. Cohen
Lesson 15: Week 3 Review
Lesson 16: Public Goods
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Lesson 17: The Standard of Living
Lesson 18: Poverty
Lesson 19: Monopoly
Lesson 20: Week 4 Review
Lesson 21: Science
Lesson 22: Inequality
Lesson 23: Development Aid
Lesson 24: Discrimination
Lesson 25: Week 5 Review
Lesson 26: The Socialist Calculation Problem
Lesson 27: Working Conditions
Lesson 28: Child Labor
Lesson 29: Labor and Unions
Lesson 30: Week 6 Review
Lesson 31: Health Care
Lesson 32: Antitrust
Lesson 33: Farm Programs
Lesson 34: War and the Economy
Lesson 35: Week 7 Review
Lesson 36: Business Cycles
Lesson 37: Industrial Policy
Lesson 38: Government, the Market, and the Environment
Lesson 39: Prohibition
Lesson 40: Week 8 Review
Lesson 41: Taxation
Lesson 42: Government Spending
Lesson 43: The Welfare State: Theoretical Issues
Lesson 44: The Welfare State: Practical Issues
Lesson 45: Week 9 Review
Lesson 46: Price Controls
Lesson 47: Government and Money, Part I
Lesson 48: Government and Money, Part II
Lesson 49: Midterm Review
Lesson 50: Week 10 Review
Lesson 51: The Theory of the Modern State
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Lesson 52: American Federalism and the Compact Theory
Lesson 53: Can Political Bodies Be Too Large?
Lesson 54: Decentralization
Lesson 55: Week 11 Review
Lesson 56: Constitutionalism: Purpose
Lesson 57: American Case: Self-Government and the Tenth Amendment
Lesson 58: American Case: Progressives and the “Living, Breathing Document”
Lesson 59: The American States and the Federal Government
Lesson 60: Week 12 Review
Lesson 61: Monarchy
Lesson 62: Social Democracy
Lesson 63: Fascism I
Lesson 64: Fascism II
Lesson 65: Week 13 Review
Lesson 66: Marx I
Lesson 67: Marx II
Lesson 68: Communism I
Lesson 69: Communism II
Lesson 70: Week 14 Review
Lesson 71: Miscellaneous Interventionism: Postwar African Nationalism
Lesson 72: Public Choice I
Lesson 73: Public Choice II
Lesson 74: Miscellaneous Intervention
Lesson 75: Week 15 Review
Lesson 76: Industrial Revolution
Lesson 77: New Deal I
Lesson 78: New Deal II
Lesson 79: The Housing Bust of 2008
Lesson 80: Week 16 Review
Lesson 81: Are Voters Informed?
Lesson 82: Is Political Representation Meaningful?
Lesson 83: The Myth of the Rule of Law
Lesson 84: The Incentives of Democracy
Lesson 85: Week 17 Review
Lesson 86: The Sweeping Critique: LeFevre