Live Q&A Tonight | Tom Woods

Blogging is light right now because I’m facing a Friday deadline on a difficult project. I noted in the comments that I’m also recuperating from a procedure I had done on Monday (nothing to worry about) that involved general anesthesia and pain medication, and I am not recovering quite as fast as I thought I would.

At any rate, in order to reach as many of my Liberty Classroom members as I can, I’m posting on this site a reminder about our live session tonight. We have live Q&A sessions that complement our courses (which in turn can be viewed or listened to at leisure). At 9:30pm ET I’ll be joined by Jason Jewell, who blogs at The Western Tradition and who prepared 84 lectures on Western civilization for us. If you’re a member, sign in around that time and join us. If not, think about it.

Anonymous

You always seem to do these when I am working nights. Doh!
ilovetomwoods

man tom you gotta give this guy a few tips on public speaking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkeifZG4P64
J Fournier

I took two classes at Mises Academy and this guy was involved both times. I’m restraining myself in saying I have no idea why he has a job at Mises. He seems like a totally incompetant person. Happy to have libertyclassroom instead.
ilovetomwoods

if he has a job there it should be obvious, he’s very bright.

oh well he’ll look back at this and get 100X better at it

i already admire him just for having the guts to get up there and doing it
Anonymous

Danny is a pretty reserved and quiet guy from what I’ve heard. Not everybody can be great when they’re up there behind a podium with a full audience before them, especially if they aren’t accustomed to it. Shoot, even great speakers have bad days, but Danny at least got up there and did it. Danny, I think, doesn’t have much practice in public speaking, he’s more of a behind the scenes guy, but he can get better with practice. His primary job has been to take over the administrative “reins” after Jeffrey Tucker’s departure, which are indeed very big shoes to fill.

I don’t think that he would have been chosen for his position if he was “incompetent”. Surely, there is more value in him than what you are seeing in his presentation. I mean, he’s essentially running the entire front-end of LvMI by himself.
devo

checked out the link, and this guy does seem very out of place. maybe its just his style, but its like he doesn’t know the crowd he’s speaking to. just an observation
J Fournier

Looking back at this comment I made, it was more harsh than it should have been. He is an Austrian afterall. My criticism is mainly based on the major technical problems that persisted over dozens of weeks of classes. After the first week of Mises Academy when the recording of Murphy’s lecture was screwed up and Murphy had to completely re-record it, you’d think that errors would be fixed. However, lots of stuff like this persisted throughout. It did not make a good impression on me. Mises has such good talent and they deserved better. Again, sorry for being critical, but I filled out my course evaluation and am still miffed.
Anonymous

I’m having some problems accessing the recording of the event, it may be because of vockle’s recording service is down, but I can still access earlier events. Gonna wait a few hours and try again.
ilovetomwoods

yikes these people are scary, not sure if it’s supposed to a joke or something..
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109669/eight-more-years-the-case-removing-term-limits
ilovetomwoods

Tom you should make a video called “what have you done for liberty today?” i notice us libertarians/ancaps preach about changing people’s minds but very few actually engage with the public.

i tried doing something like that on the mises site
http://mises.org/community/forums/t/32451.aspx

encourage people to debate, link to our favorite sites (tomwoods.com of course) I’m not sure but i feel if anyone can put the right words together it’s you my friend.

hope you get well and ready to kick some statist ass!
Jim

Why did Jeff leave the Mises Institute? Are he and Lew still on good terms?
Anonymous

I don’t know, but if I were to guess, I would say that he saw a challenge to rekindle an old legacy, and possibly (due to how great he is at his job) he got a better deal. Plus, LFB is less focused on just Austro-libertarian thought and has a more varied approach to the philosophy of freedom, something that I know that Jeffrey would be attracted to (he doesn’t like to be cornered under a single banner). In the end, only Jeffrey can answer that question, if he wants to. I doubt that he and Lew are on bad terms, but that is only my opinion (I have no idea).

I do shoot emails back and forth with a few of the guys affiliated with LvMI (probably more than I should, they’re pretty busy), or maybe chat with them on FB, but I’m just as random as anybody else. I certainly don’t have any inside scoop, and if I did I wouldn’t talk about it.
Anonymous

It’s all good. I completely understand what you’re saying, and you aren’t necessarily wrong. I’ve found that I often give the benefit of the doubt far more strongly than I should, even when presented evidence to the contrary, hopefully this is not the case with Danny. I don’t think that it is (the case), but time will tell. There are always certain feelings or impressions that people will have when things change, but it is often best to let it play out to see what happens.