• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

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    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

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    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

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    -Peter Schiff

Cognitive Dissonance

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Anonymous

    I always give these long-winded replies in defense of deregulation and I honestly think this comic beats them all. It’s Bastiat-like in its incisiveness. 

  • Df

    Wow, never thought a short comic strip could explain why the free market is so much more desirable.

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    The cartoon is intended to get people to think a teensy bit beyond the third-grade level at which we are trained to think about these things, with our wise overlords innocently looking out for us via well crafted regulation.

  • Billy Bublitz

    lol funny and informative.

  • Anonymous

    There’s a similar case of cognitive dissonance when it comes to “the environment.” I’m always amazed that people want one of the largest polluters in the world, the US government, to “regulate” private enterprise all the while that same government is largely exempt from the very laws it enacts and enforces on everyone else.

  • Anonymous

    The left can be defined for their meticulous refusal to differentiate between crony capitalism and laissez faire.

  • Matt

    I wish you’d write a full length article that explains this in detail; preferably along with some historic examples. (see link) Regulation is no substitute for blind justice and equal protection of natural rights.
    Cognitive dissonance as well as eleutherophobia are pandemic. Case study in Environmentalism

    The Cuyahoga River

    http://www.perc.org/articles/article364.php

    “Most important for our
    understanding of environmental problems, the fire came about because political
    control replaced the emerging common law rule of strict liability. Had that
    doctrine been allowed to hold sway, there would probably not have been a fire
    in 1969.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1725570458 Rich Sturtevant

    I think you’re right, but I think the right can be defined that way too ;)

  • Anonymous

    Funny and accurate comic.