Thomas Woods
November 30th, 2014
Great conversation today with Jay Richards, co-author of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that Tolkien Got and the West Forgot, about Tolkien as a writer and thinker, about themes in his work, about his views...
October 1st, 2014
How did eastern Europe transition away from communism? What were conditions like on the eve of the transformation? What factors contributed to it? What happened to all the property owned by the state? Today I discussed the...
August 26th, 2014
Will Grigg, an outstanding writer and journalist on police and civil liberties issues (and much else), joined me the other day to give a libertarian overview of the situation in Ferguson, Missouri. Have a listen!Get a...
August 5th, 2014
I talked to Columbia Business School’s Charles Calomiris, who argues that government regulations have had the general effect of making the banking system more, rather than less, crisis prone. We discussed his new book...
July 16th, 2014
This week I talked to Sean Parnell, author of The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Health Care Choices in the Age of Obamacare. Have a listen below!
June 9th, 2014
I talked to Berin Szoka of TechFreedom.org on my program today. Have a listen!Subscribe to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher so you don’t miss an episode — I produce a new episode every weekday, on all kinds of topics...
April 20th, 2014
How would private law function? Bob Murphy joined me this week to discuss his provocative book Chaos Theory: Two Essays in Market Anarchy. Bob is strikingly original on this topic, and well worth listening to. Of course,...
April 1st, 2014
Very often libertarians have to be speculative in describing how the voluntary sector might solve this or that problem. Today I talked to Prof. Ed Stringham, author of the forthcoming Private Governance (Oxford University...
March 10th, 2014
I discuss this and other issues — the war on drugs and Obamacare — with the Mises Institute‘s Mark Thornton. Subscribe to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher!
December 1st, 2013
I explore this and other questions about capitalism with George Reisman, professor emeritus of economics at Pepperdine University and author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics.To listen, click here.
October 6th, 2014
This week I spoke to Diana Furchtgott-Roth of Economics 21 about the economics of the minimum wage and specifically about who was behind the fast-food protests. Do people spontaneously strike for 100% wage increases?
August 28th, 2014
What a great conversation with Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center and Off Now, about the Off Now initiative and handbook. Have a listen!
August 14th, 2014
I talked to Ron Paul on my show today and asked him some of the questions you guys raised when I solicited them on my Facebook page. Have a listen!And remember, I can promise you a commute-sized portion of liberty education...
July 27th, 2014
The Mises Institute’s week-long Mises University instructional program for students was the most significant academic event of my life as a student when I first attended it in 1993. It’s still going strong even today, and...
July 8th, 2014
With our recent celebration of Independence Day, I talked to Kevin Gutzman, author of (among other titles) James Madison and the Making of America, about the American Revolution. We subscribe to the out-of-fashion...
April 25th, 2014
I talked to Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of FreedomWorks, on the Tom Woods Show today. We discussed his new book, Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto. Check it out! Subscribe to the show on...
April 14th, 2014
Yuri Maltsev, an adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev’s government, tells the story of his defection to the U.S., and relates stories from his life in the Soviet Union.While at Moscow State University, he received special permission...
March 21st, 2014
What’s the real truth about Common Core? I talked to James Pesta of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on my podcast today. Listen below. (If you prefer, here’s an audio link.) And remember, subscribe to the Tom Woods Show...
January 31st, 2014
On my podcast the other day I took a few minutes to discuss the New York Times, the recent hit piece on Ron/Rand and the Mises Institute, and how to handle a New York Times reporter if you choose to let one...
October 23rd, 2013
A fun little chat with Brion McClanahan, author of The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution. (Next month, incidentally, I’ve been asked to speak on secession at St. Louis University School of Law.)