From the Tom Woods Letter:
Naturally the misleading crap and the outright lies have to multiply while I’m recovering from pneumonia (which I continue to do very nicely, by the way, and thanks to all of you for more well wishes than I could possibly answer!).
What’s happened with the virus and government policy over the past year and a half has confirmed what libertarians have long thought and feared.
But it’s also been a red-pill moment for plenty of normies who never for a minute could have imagined their governments getting up to anything like this.
So being me, I’ve been trying to take this opportunity, via the Tom Woods Show and to a lesser extent this newsletter, and connect some dots.
For instance:
According to Keynesian economics, the free-market economy — in other words, what exists when you and I are allowed to interact freely, without interference from our overlords — tends naturally toward unemployment or underemployment of resources (including labor). Therefore, the economy requires expert management for our own good.
Is that starting to make more sense, and be less surprising, in light of the “expert management” we’ve supposedly needed because of the virus?
Or:
Is it surprising to you that the historical narrative the regime expects us to accept is that the state has been our great protector against economic downturn and foreign enemies, and that without them we’d be utterly lost?
I spent my late teens and 20s at two elite universities, where I learned a lot of the truth — by having access to huge libraries where the truth-telling books were just sitting there collecting dust.
No, I can’t fix all the hopeless history and economics departments.
But I can go over their heads and give you the truth directly.
Something tells me you’re also the truth-telling sort on issues other than just viruses.
On my birthday, I’m taking 50% off the Master (lifetime) membership to Liberty Classroom, my dashboard university that teaches the history and economics they kept from you.
Grab while you can:
