The Tom Woods Show

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 fin

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

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 cho

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.

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.

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 an

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 in

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.

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:  and

Jon Wolfenbarger, founder and CEO of Bull and Bear Profits, sorts it out for us.

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.

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:

Commentator Auron MacIntyre joins me to discuss the rapidly increasing evil of the American ruling class.

Comedian Lou Perez discusses his new book, .

Dan McCarthy joins us to warn that a Ron DeSantis presidential candidacy could wind up backfiring. Sponsor: The Expat Money Show with Mikkel Thorup is the #1 resource for anyone considering the expat

Jeremy R. Hammond joins us today to discuss the Big Tech situation and in particular the problem with "fact checkers," who are merely enforcers of the establishment's narrative. Sponsor: CrowdHealth -

The great lawyer and online personality Viva Frei joins us to discuss what's going wrong, what's going right, the true nature of the regimes that rule is, and whether we can have legitimate hope.

Larry Lepard became known among libertarians in 2008, when he spent $200,000 of his own money on full-page ads in major newspapers for Ron Paul. Today he joins us to discuss how to think about investi

Carla Gericke, former president of the Free State Project, joins us to discuss the recent discussion of secession in New Hampshire, and the response of critics who are appalled that anyone would dare

Eric Peters joins us to discuss the fanatical movement toward electric cars, what the drawbacks are, and whether it can be stopped.

Almost everyone in academia, including even some libertarians, is convinced that labor has suffered a declining share of national income over time. Then predictably, come the various government interv

So much damage is done because people have a frankly juvenile understanding of the economy: what it is and how it works. Per Bylund has provided us with the antidote.

Gene Epstein joins us to discuss the economics of the partial cancellation of college loans.

Over the past few years I've been thrilled to see Doc Dixon's star begin to rise within the libertarian world. He's a solid libertarian in our tradition, and an extremely talented magician, who fooled

A revival of the Broadway musical 1776, featuring female, trans, and nonbinary cast members portraying the Founding Fathers, has reignited the usual attacks on the Founders, so I look at the matter mo

National divorce is urgently and obviously necessary, but among the blue-pilled in our movement it's a betrayal of libertarian principles that must be rejected. I take this on.

Yes, we are ruled by bad guys, but as Rothbard explained, sometimes the bad guys have rivalries among themselves, and these rivalries can go a long way toward explaining current events. Tom Luongo joi

Vivek Ramaswamy, founder of Strive Asset Management, is leading a heroic charge against the ESG-driven politicization of investing and capital allocation.

Jeff Deist joins me to discuss the FBI raid on Trump, the benefits of national divorce, and more. Sponsor: The Expat Money Summit, hosted by our friend Mikkel Thorup, is the expat event of the year. F

The great Tom DiLorenzo, who spent 41 years as an economics professor, joins me for a takedown of anti-market arguments and a defense of freedom.

Mikkel Thorup, who runs the Expat Money Summit and has himself visited over 100 countries (and lived in nine), joins us to discuss international options for freedom lovers.

Jeremy Kauffman, a creator of LBRY.com and a board member of the Free State Project, is running for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, but not exactly following the "make commercials in the style of Mitt

Matt Kibbe joins me to discuss the Alex Jones situation, the perennial "are they stupid or evil" debate," and other items in the news.

You can still find people to this day who try to claim Mao Tse-Tung was an agrarian reformer and that the deaths were caused by bad weather, but in this episode my guest Jason Jewell gives us the trut

Jason Jewell of Faulkner University joins us to discuss communism (theory and history) and the realities of life under Lenin and Stalin. Sponsor: Liquid IV - Take 15% off your entire order at

In this episode I discuss the damages of COVID fanaticism that can't be captured in statistics, and the insistence that only violent revolution can solve our problems.

The prolific Germinal G. Van joins us to discuss his latest book, a study of poverty, inequality, and economic policy. Special Offer: Happily date box: Take 50% off your first date at

The founder of the Beef Initiative joins me to discuss what ranchers and consumers alike can do to ensure the uninterrupted consumption of nourishing food.

Matthew Sercely is a tax advisor who shares your values, so he's part of an exclusive elite. Today we discuss all manner of tax questions. Matthew began his business in 2020, under the pressure of the

People have been debating that question for thousands of years. In this episode we explore Hellenistic philosophy, and what it means for man to live according to his nature -- a subject that forms the

The word "equality" sure sounds nice, but it's been used on behalf of plenty of evil causes. Is there any sense in which it is unambiguously good? Tom Mullen joins me to discuss the issue, with emphas

The great jack-of-all-trades Dominic Frisby joins me to compare lunacies between the UK and the US these days, and then discusses his latest project: a dramatic production based on the actual stories

Richard Hanania joins us for a potpourri episode: Ukraine/Russia, wokeism, what non-progressives can learn from progressives, and more.

Dan McCarthy, editor of Modern Age, joins me to discuss the political implications of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe and of the January 6 hearings, what it means for November elections and a possi

The great ex-Marxist Michael Rectenwald joins us to discuss what our elites are up to, and what steps we can take to insulate ourselves against their schemes. Special Offer: Happily date box: Take 50%

David Moore, who recently sold his healthcare business and has been leading entrepreneur groups and masterminds to help people escape the machine, joins me to discuss an approach that's been helping a

Henry Bingaman is a master with words: his words have sold $300 million in goods and services for his clients (of whom I am one). He's also a libertarian and a Supporting Listener of the Tom Woods Sho

Michael Malice says the Paul Graham essay "What You Can't Say" is one of the most important things he's read, so I'm discussing it in today's episode.

It used to be that you could just grin and bear it through the college-industrial complex. But academia has become so farcical and absurd that it probably needs to be avoided in as many cases as possi

In my review of the news today I notice some odd details left out of major headlines: like the latest BLM celebrity who (the headline doesn't mention) was shooting at a mother and her children, or a w