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Did the Supreme Court Really Rule Against Free Speech?

by Tom Woods | Jul 9, 2024 | Featured Articles

The Supreme Court just ruled in the case of Murthy v. Missouri, in which plaintiffs (including Jay Bhattacharya, who wrote the foreword to my Diary of a Psychosis) argued that the federal government unconstitutionally outsourced restrictions on speech to third parties, namely Twitter and Facebook, and prevented dissenting views on Covid from receiving a fair hearing. The Court ruled that the plaintiffs lacked "standing" to sue, so the merits of the case took a back seat. Jenin Younes, an attorney who has argued her share of COVID cases and has appeared on the Tom Woods Show, offered her...

Conservatives Against ‘Hate Speech’

by Tom Woods | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics

It's pretty sad watching conservatives argue like leftists, but it's all over the place now. Not so long ago they rightly ridiculed and dismissed the idea of "hate speech," but now that "anti-Semitism" is said to be the problem, all of a sudden the idea of hate speech is A-OK. In fact, remember when the left used to say "hate speech" wasn't "free speech"? Looks like some Republicans have decided they were right after all; in Oklahoma the Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, just gave us the old "We're all about free speech in Oklahoma. But hate speech isn't going to be tolerated." Remember how...

The ‘Enemy of the People’ Is At It Again

by Tom Woods | Apr 2, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles

My old friend Michael Malice just shared an AP headline on Twitter that read: "Who wouldn't like prices to start falling? Careful what you wish for, economists say." Malice's commentary: "The corporate press is the enemy of the people." He's right, of course. If they wanted to, these reporters could find other economists who say there's nothing wrong with falling prices, but since they're lackeys for the status quo, they don't want us entertaining the possibility of prices that trend downward rather than upward, because then maybe we'll start questioning the regime under which we live. The...

Trump Railroaded: Will Investors Flee?

by Tom Woods | Feb 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics

You've surely heard about Justice Arthur Engoron in New York imposing a ludicrous $455 million in fines and interest on Donald Trump and his corporation. Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, obviously approves of the decision, but somehow wants to punish Trump in this way without spooking all New York real estate investors. The best she's been able to do is to assure them that they "have nothing to worry about"—presumably because their names are not Donald Trump. But who wants to invest in a climate in which your name and/or your lack of popularity among the state's political elite can...

Dumb Republicans Hand Power to Biden

by Tom Woods | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles

If I were to describe Joe Biden as a hypocrite, I rather doubt anyone reading would be shocked. But if you spend any time on Twitter you've surely seen a clip of Biden warning that Trump may start a war with Iran, and that of course he would need congressional approval before initiating hostilities. You know how this works: now that Biden is calling the shots, all those niceties about congressional approval have gone out the window. However, you can always count on neoconservatives and other confused people to defend the president at a time like this. Years ago I had a public exchange with...

The Least Curious Profession

by Tom Woods | Jan 25, 2024 | Blog

My friend Isaac Morehouse just posted this: "I think the greatest failing of the bureaucratic cartelized medical machine is its complete destruction of curiosity. How many mainstream medical practitioners are passionately curious? I've not met one. Least curious profession I can think of. Should be the most!" Isn't that the truth? Four years later, I am in disbelief that I am still reporting on this. But what you're about to read, from someone still fighting the madness, arrived in my inbox just yesterday. Not two years ago. Yesterday: The audiobook release [of Diary of a Psychosis] was very...

The World Doesn’t Owe You a Thing

by Tom Woods | Jan 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

A huge drawback to social media is this: I'm not sure I really want everybody's opinions on every last thing, and it's frankly demoralizing to realize just how far gone so many people are. For example, one of my own Twitter followers wrote this: "The idea of having to 'earn a living' implies that, by default, you don't actually deserve to be alive." He thinks this is profound. I don't even know what it means to say somebody "deserves" to be alive. What I know is this: Nature doesn't care what you "deserve." Nature alone doesn't simply hand you things to sustain you. You have to go out and...

Why Can’t the Neocons Leave Us Alone?

by Tom Woods | Jan 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

First of all, happy new year to all you good folks who enjoy reading what I write. Now, for the obvious: not every kind of email will float everyone's boat. Maybe today's won't do anything for you. But doggone it, I like it. John Podhoretz is editor of Commentary magazine, which was founded by his father, Norman, the well-known neoconservative. John hasn't had quite the career or following his father did, and he's not nearly as bright, as you'll see from his third-grade Tweet about Tucker Carlson hating America. (It boggles the mind that people don't feel stupid talking like that, doesn't...

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