The Tom Woods Show

Carla Gericke of the Free State Project discusses her courtroom vindication after an unjust arrest in 2010, and also talks about growing up in South Africa.

Tom discusses themes from his new book, Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion. Get the Kindle version as a supporting listener of the show, and click here for the free audiobook version!

David Friedman, whose book The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, is now available in a third edition, takes on some of the hard libertarian questions.

Dan McCarthy of The American Conservative magazine joins Tom to discuss what the political terms Left and Right really mean.

Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the Middlebury Institute and author of Human Scale, among many other books, talks left, right, freedom, and secession.

Michael Scheuer, former director of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, explains why U.S. foreign policy plays into the hands of ISIS. Check our Scheuer's books, among them Imperial Hubris and Osama bin Laden.

Eric Peters of EricPetersAutos.com returns to the show to answer listener questions.

Amity Shlaes, author of (among other books) the New York Times bestsellers The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and Coolidge, discusses the life and policies of President Calvin Coolidge.

Tom talks to Jeff Herbener, who's just completed a course for LibertyClassroom.com subjecting a popular college economics textbook to a systematic Austrian critique. You can get this course at LibertyClassroom.com or as a Silver, Gold, or Platinum supporter of the Tom Woods Show!

Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute's Economics21 discusses the economics of the fast-food protests and the minimum wage, as well as who was really behind all the demonstrations.

Emmy nominee David Angelo joins Tom to discuss his hilarious, and free-market, eEconomics YouTube series. Check out the videos on Financial Regulation and Trickle-Down Economics.

Documentary filmmaker Colin Gunn discusses his outstanding new documentary Wait Till It's Free.

Economist Robert Murphy returns to the show to answer listener questions. Check out Bob's book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal. See also the Friedman/Murphy debate.

Larry Reed, president of the iconic Foundation for Economic Education, recalls some libertarian history and discusses the challenges ahead.

Professor Mateusz Machaj returns to the show to discuss Polish life under communism, how the transition came about, and what happened next.

Tom joins Ron Paul at Voices of Liberty to discuss critics of libertarianism, as well as why a noninterventionist foreign policy is the wisest course.

Tom discusses inflation during the American Revolution.

Tom discusses child labor, working-hours legislation, the minimum wage, and how to tell your kids their textbooks are screwy.

Mateusz Machaj of the University of Wrocław dismantles the fashionable "Taylor Rule" for guiding Fed policy.

Scott Horton explains why the campaign against ISIS is counterproductive and makes no sense.