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 government is not what it says (the source of security, prosperity, peace, justice, health) it is but is rather the opposite and thereby we can and should do without it precisely in the name of promoting security, prosperity, peace justice, and health.
He strives to completely lift the veil that covers the state, and he does so not through rhetorical bombast or libertarian theorizing but through careful, fact-filled argumentation on the issues that most people think about.
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Tom Woods, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, received the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award, given in Vienna by the Hayek Institute and the Austrian Economics Center, in 2019. He is the author of 13 books, most recently Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania.
Tom hosts the Tom Woods Show, a libertarian podcast with thousands of episodes, and he created hundreds of videos in history for the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum.
Tom Woods offers a critical analysis of the COVID-19 policy response, while underscoring the Mises Institute’s principled opposition to prevailing narratives.
The right dismisses economics at its peril.
We can run society according to the rules of private property and freedom, or we can run it by bureaucratic decree, and the covid episode reminded us of just how important that choice is.
