Lew Rockwell and I Discuss Commie Cowboys

Ryan McMaken on the Lew Rockwell Show, 2013

09/11/2020 Power & Market Ryan McMaken

A reader recently reminded me of this great old podcast from 2013. Lew Rockwell and I talk for half an hour about my little book Commie Cowboys, the politics of the Western genre, and why the anti-Westerns were better than those old John Wayne ones.

We cover lots of stuff about the frontier, war, pop culture, and more. Lew cracks some great jokes in here.

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