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Thomas Ernest Woods Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American author, podcast host, and

Austrian School of economics,[5] Woods hosts a daily podcast, The Tom Woods Show, and formerly co-hosted the weekly podcast Contra Krugman.[4][6][7]

Woods'

Western civilization and government called The Liberty Homeschooler as part of the Ron Paul Curriculum.[12]

In 1994, Woods was a founding member of the League of the South,[13] but he no longer associates with it.

Education

Woods holds a

PhD from Columbia (2000), all in history. His thesis[14] became The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era,[15] which he says "has nothing to do with libertarianism."[16]

Career and views

Woods is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and is on the editorial board for the institute's Libertarian Papers.[17] He was a founding member of the League of the South (see § Affiliation with League of the South,[18][19] which he has since denounced. Woods was a Richard M. Weaver Fellow at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in 1995 and 1996.[20] In August 2020, Woods joined the advisory board of the Mises Caucus political action committee[21] where he continues advising as of April 10, 2022.[22]

Woods is the author of 20 books. Two of his books, Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown were on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2005 and 2009, respectively.[23][24] At the time he wrote Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, he was teaching at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, New York.[10]

Woods' articles have appeared in publications including

Woods is a Rothbardian libertarian and anarcho-capitalist.[26]

Libertarianism

Woods in 2011

Tom Woods ascribes to the libertarian strain of thought known as the

precious metals),[29] and political activism[30] to reduce state power.[need quotation to verify][time needed
]

U.S. Constitution

Woods co-authored Who Killed the Constitution? with

Obama administration.[31] Woods has promoted the views of Lysander Spooner, who argued that the Constitution holds no authority because the public has not explicitly consented to it and because the Federal Government in his view has not followed its obligations and limits.[32][33][34][35]

Woods advocates the

check the powers of the federal government. As such, Woods is a supporter of the Tenth Amendment Center,[38][39] which aims to resist what it views as federal overreach through state action.[third-party source needed
]

Woods views the Bill of Rights as a limitation solely on federal power, and not on the power of the states. In an article for the Southern Partisan magazine in 1997 Woods writes: "The Bill of Rights, moreover, erroneously invoked by modern Civil Libertarians, was never intended to protect individuals from the state governments. Jefferson is far from alone in insisting that only the federal government is restricted from regulating the press, church-state relations, and so forth. The states may do as they wish in these areas."[40]

Conservatism

Tom Woods at CPAC in February 2010.

In a 2011 interview, Woods said that he entered Harvard as a "middle-of-the-road

traditional conservative.[41]

Woods'

far-right dogma, circa 1939" that is "incorrect in more than just its politics" and that "would be tedious to debunk."[44] Judge James Haley, by contrast, praised the book in the conservative Weekly Standard as "a compelling rebuttal to the liberal sentiment encrusted upon current history texts."[45]

Anti-Immigration

Woods

open borders to infringe on the property rights of homeowners.[46]

Economics

Woods has been an advocate of

Woods believes that the gender pay gap results because "women often intend to leave the labor force for extended periods of time in order to have children, they do not consider certain high-paying fields where their knowledge would be obsolete after so long an absence."[50]

Woods has been highly critical of

Austrian economics and said it taught economics "by uncovering and dissecting the errors of Krugman."[6][7]

Affiliation with League of the South

In 1994, Woods was a founding member of the

neo-Confederate organization, stating his views meant he was not a libertarian. The author also noted his frequent writing in the group's magazine, The Southern Patriot, up through 1997 and received a quote from Woods stating that he didn't disagree with most of the views he made in said publications.[53] An article in the same year by a member of the League of the South published in The American Conservative praised Woods' background in the group, his book, and the views expressed within, especially those concerning the Confederacy and how its defeat was the "defining moment when the United States took its steps towards the abyss of the monstrous centralised state, rootless society and decadent culture that we have today."[54]

In 2013, an article by the non-profit

neo-Confederate events throughout the 1990s and since then, along with contributing to the American Secession Project started in 2000. The authors noted that a 1997 article written by Woods in the neo-confederate Southern Partisan magazine had him include in the author byline that he was a "founding member of the League of the South."[55] An article from 2014 in Alan Keyes' Renew America organization criticized Woods for his "secessionist libertarianism" and his ongoing involvement with members of "the white supremacist League of the South", though pointed out that it was likely he was naive in his viewpoints, but not racist.[56]

Woods contended in 2018 that the League was founded as a "decentralist" organization and then later took a "dramatic" and "vicious" turn toward racism and anti-semitism. Woods argued: "To show that the organization has undergone a dramatic change, I don't exactly need to hire a private detective. The League’s president himself wrote of having made a 'conscious change' to the League, such that 'we have radicalized by openly and directly addressing the Negro Question and the Jew Question.' Here is express admission of what was already obvious to anyone of good will: this is not the League Jeffrey Tucker and I joined in 1994. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what he’s talking about. This in fact is why all the PhDs present at the League’s founding, including one of the world’s top David Hume scholars, by all accounts, are long gone – as even the Southern Poverty Law Center now concedes."[52] In an interview with Reason TV's Matt Welch, Woods stated, "Anyone who knows or listens to me, knows I would not be involved with anything sinister. The problem is I will not apologize because the group I joined were a bunch of nerdy academics like me and there was nothing wrong with that group. I could save myself an enormous amount of grief if I would apologize but I will not apologize for this because I am sick and tired of cowards who give in to this type of pressure."[57][third-party source needed]

COVID-19

During the

non-pharmaceutical interventions were labeled misleading and rebutted by Health Feedback (a member of WHO's Vaccine Safety Net),[60] which Woods disputed.[61] YouTube removed the Mises Institute's upload of the video for violating the website's policy on medical misinformation.[62] On April 6, 2022, Woods called for "a full-blown book-length demolition of what public health has been up to for the past half century."[63]

The Tom Woods Show

Woods conducts interviews on economic topics, foreign policy, and history in his daily podcast, The Tom Woods Show, since September 2013.[6]

Awards

Woods received the 2019 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna[64] and awards from the Independent Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.[65] Between 1995 and 2005, he was awarded $8,000 from the Earhart Foundation.[10] His book The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (2005) won the $50,000 first prize in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.[66]

Personal life

Woods is

Roman Catholic. In 1994, he married his first wife Heather, with whom he had two daughters.[67] In 2020 he announced his engagement to Jenna Laino, and the two were married in 2022.[68]

Bibliography

As author

As editor

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  70. ^ Also on audio book Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, as read by the author Thomas Woods.

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