Is this the best they can do?

02/05/2005 Mises Wire Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Joe Lockard, a professor of American literature at Arizona State University, is the latest entrant in the hate-Tom-Woods parade. According to Lockard, I’m just dead wrong from page one. Here is my full response to his sweeping attack.

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