The Tom Woods Show

If things are ever going to improve, we need to overcome the very powerful status quo bias that exists among the American population. Most people assume that the way things are is the way they must be, and the best possible way they can be. So even if you live in neither Oregon nor Idaho, you will want to hear my guest, Matt McCaw, discuss the Greater Idaho movement. Here is a case in which one simple change would make virtually everybody involved better off, and the only thing standing in the way is status quo bias. Sponsor: Persist SEO Show notes for Ep. 2221

Paddy Weeks, chairman of DonorSee, joins me to discuss transparent, effective ways to help the world's poorest without government involvement. And of course we tip our hat to the late Gret Glyer, who got the whole thing started and who left us too soon. Sponsor: BetterHelp Show notes for Ep. 2220

The great Robert Barnes joins me to run through all the irregularities in the Alex Jones trial, and what they mean for the rest of us. Sponsors: Policy Genius & Persist SEO Show notes for Ep. 2219

Jack Phillips made news ten years ago when he declined to bake a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex marriage and the couple involved attempted to use state violence to force him to bake it. Phillips is back in the news because the forces of love and tolerance and understanding need to destroy him. Sponsor: Blinkist Show notes for Ep. 2218

At the Mises Institute's supporters summit I paid tribute to a great benefactor of our movement, who has (of course) been attacked by pygmies his whole life. Sponsor: The Expat Money Show with Mikkel Thorup is the #1 resource for anyone considering the expat lifestyle or offshore investments! Check it out at ExpatMoney.com Show notes for Ep. 2217

Peter Klein, professor of entrepreneurship at Baylor University, explains why the current fad of flattening hierarchies in the workplace is unlikely to deliver good results. Sponsor: BetterHelp Show notes for Ep. 2216

Gerard Casey, professor emeritus of philosophy at University College, Dublin, joins us to discuss the transgender movement, which has ossified into orthodoxy in record time. Sponsor: The Expat Money Show with Mikkel Thorup is the #1 resource for anyone considering the expat lifestyle or offshore investments! Check it out at ExpatMoney.com Show notes for Ep. 2215

Longtime Vatican observer and book and magazine publisher Roger McCaffrey joins us to discuss what we can expect after the Francis pontificate comes to an end. Sponsor: CrowdHealth Show notes for Ep. 2214

Melinda Cooper, who teaches "gender, sexuality, and culture" at Australian National University, tries to take on Murray Rothbard in an academic journal. As usual for a progressive, even though she finds him far more principled, antiwar, and pro-civil liberties than his neoconservative and establishment counterparts, she'll take Mitt Romney any day. Sponsor: Persist SEO Show notes for Ep. 2213

Language can evolve organically, or it can change from the top down to serve a political agenda. We've had plenty of the latter in our day. Jeff Deist joins us to discuss it and explain why it matters. Sponsor: Bittrust IRA Show notes for Ep. 2212

Covid changed a lot of minds on schooling, and suddenly the school choice movement has attracted a lot of attention, and is finding success. We discuss these, plus libertarian criticisms of school choice. Sponsor: Blinkist Show notes for Ep. 2211

How is someone supposed to navigate an economy like the one our ruling class has given us? Joel Bein of Career Hackers has some ideas. Show notes for Ep. 2210

Dr. Pierre Kory, president of Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, joins me to answer the question you'd think the whole world would be asking, but which nobody dares to. Sponsor: BetterHelp Show notes for Ep. 2209

Dan McCarthy, editor of the venerable Modern Age, joins me for a discussion of Willmoore Kendall's 1963 classic, The Conservative Affirmation, which has just reappeared in print with an interesting and learned foreword by Dan himself. Sponsor: Persist SEO Show notes for Ep. 2208

The great Paul Gottfried walks us through the state of the American Right. Sponsor: The Expat Money Show with Mikkel Thorup is the #1 resource for anyone considering the expat lifestyle or offshore investments! Check it out at ExpatMoney.com Show notes for Ep. 2207

Today we discuss Benjamin Abelow's new book, How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe. Sponsor: BetterHelp Show notes for Ep. 2206

I discuss favorable trends -- if you can believe it -- along with the grim realities of the fight ahead of us. This episode is taken from my recent appearance on the Pete Quinones Show. Sponsors: Blinkist and Policy Genius Show notes for Ep. 2205

Jon Wolfenbarger, founder and CEO of Bull and Bear Profits, sorts it out for us. Sponsor: BetterHelp Show notes for Ep. 2204

Allen Mendenhall, associate dean of the business school at Troy University, joins me to discuss their new program aimed at wokeness in the business world. Sponsor: BitTrust IRA Show notes for Ep. 2203

Scott Horton joins us to discuss the true nature of NATO as well as the real prospect of permanently ending the horrors in Yemen. Link Discussed: 833StopWar.com Show notes for Ep. 2202