Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Tom Woods, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, is the author of a dozen books, most recently Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown (on the financial crisis, featuring a foreword by Ron Paul). His book The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy, won the $50,000 first prize in the Templeton Enterprise Awards.

Tom’s articles have appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, and his books have been translated into a dozen languages.

Tom hosts the Tom Woods Show, a libertarian podcast that releases a new episode every weekday. With Bob Murphy, he co-hosts Contra Krugman, a weekly podcast that refutes Paul Krugman’s New York Times column.

Articles

The Seen and the Unseen of Covid-19

10/28/2020 Mises Wire Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

[From the 2020 Supporters Summit, presented at the historic Jekyll Island Club Resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia, on October 9, 2020. Read and see the full lecture.] This is the intellectual level of...

The Misplaced Fear of “Monopoly”

08/11/2020 Mises Wire Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Those of us who get drawn, often against our better judgment, into Internet debates soon discover that the case against the market economy in...

The Libertarian Face of New Media

11/03/2018 The Austrian Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

JEFF DEIST: Tom, you grew up in Boston. Your dad was a blue collar guy and also a Teamster. So, tell us a little bit about him and your childhood. TOM WOODS: He was a Teamster for 18 years, and worked...

Publications

When Mainstream Economics Was Wrong, Mark Thornton Was Right

08/11/2018 Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

[ Foreword to Mark Thornton’s new book The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2018).] In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the economics

Rollback

01/11/2016 Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Rollback takes on both liberal and conservative conventions and their habits of mind. The objective of the work is dramatically ambitious. Woods writes with relentless precision, like an intellectual surgeon, to convince the reader that the

Back on the Road to Serfdom

01/11/2016 Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has seized on the economic crisis to radically expand its power—through bailouts, “stimulus” packages, a trillion-dollar health care plan, “jobs bills,” massive expansions of the

Media

Our Enemy, Public Health

10/17/2024 Thomas E. Woods, Jr.