• "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

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -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)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

Ron Paul, Tom Woods, and the Jesuit Conspiracy to Take Over the World

This post cites me as evidence that Ron Paul is a tool of the Jesuits. It says I graduated from “Campion Jesuit High School” in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1960.

That would make me 70 years old.

Actually, I graduated from North Andover High School in Massachusetts in 1990.

Then it is said that I have spoken at “Jesuit Education Facilities.” Wheeling Jesuit University, where I have indeed spoken, is cited. Not mentioned is that I spoke at WJU’s Center for the Study of Capitalism and Morality, an institution the university and its Jesuits despise.

Also not mentioned, ever, by the Jesuits-run-the-world so-called researchers (we can see the caliber of their research in the above), is that for more than 40 years the Jesuits, with a handful of exceptions, have been hard leftists who despise the free market. I can think of precisely one Jesuit who supports Ron Paul.

Oh, and I am referred to as a Jesuit throughout the post, probably because I supposedly went to a Jesuit high school — an invention of the writer. You’d think glancing at my YouTubes, which the writer has indeed done — he actually embeds one — might indicate that I’m a teensy bit younger than 70. Either that or I’m aging faster than I thought!

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Samgeoghegan

    How au fait.

    Clearly cranks. You demand more accuracy from the internet. The press on the other hand…

  • tomshag

    Maybe you’ve made a Dorian Gray-ish deal with the devil! Those crafty jesuits!

    Man, why did I click on the link. Also, why did I keep reading such brain-rotting stuff.

  • Jordan Viray

    Obviously the truth is that you really are 70 years old and kept in a state of perpetual juvenility through transfusions of reptilian blood. I know because I’m also a Zionist-Jesuit-Skull and Bones-Trilateral Commission-Council on Foreign Relations-Club of Rome-Bilderberger-38th degree Mechamason.

    Sorry I missed you at the last HAARP meetup. I know running those FEMA camps is hard work.

  • brian perz

    Stupid things like this make me wish I was a statist so I could send them to the goulag

  • Greg

    i was told that Jesuits were some kind of a DARPA (military research and dev.) of the catholics.  i thought they only care about science.

  • Gregory Webb

    Just because the Jesuits helped build Western Civ doesn’t mean they run it…

  • Sammy’s Mojo

    That’s just what a Jesuit WOULD say…

    BTW: On your Liberty University videos I think I saw that you had “Tom Woods’s Liberty University whereas I think it would be correct to have the apostrophe after the single ‘s’. “Tom Woods’ Liberty U.”

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    Not so; see the FAQ at Liberty Classroom.

  • Ken

    I went to Jesuit high school in Sacramento, CA.  It was the best education I ever received (it made college look like preschool).  I am a libertarian and supporter of Ron Paul. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23903272 Ryan Olson

    The classmates .com link takes you to a Thomas Woods, class of 1970. Clearly that post was written by a 12yr old.

  • Jordan

     So there is a Thomas Woods who graduated from Campion Jesuit High School?  Clearly that’s all the proof this article’s author requires.

  • Cjohnston27

    clearly you’re a shapeshifting reptile used as controlled opposition to lead us to a free society in order to send us into the laissez faires hell paul krugman warns us of

  • http://www.facebook.com/dusan.petrovski Dušan Petrovski

    Welcome to the Big Time, Dr. Woods!

  • JQ

    It seems to be a historical charge that a Jesuit trained popish person needs to be feared.  Charles Carroll’s life comes to mind.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/MSKPEWGIA7LIZJDMQMPLDGDWPE carlton

    It must be the primal food…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23903272 Ryan Olson

     Apparently.

  • Brian

    Nut-job sites like that are all over the place and always have the most ridiculous ”evidence” to support their claims.  Honestly, Mr. Woods, I’m actually a little surprised that you wasted your time defending yourself against them.

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    I wanted to embarrass this idiot.

  • OptimisticPessimist

    Did I see you at the last conference at Area 51?

  • Jordan

    He’s done a fairly good job of that on his own.  But, any embarrassment you can add to that is most welcome.

  • Rwgoble

    Wait till they find out that we’re all reptilians. It’s going to be awkward.

  • Anonymous

    Wow? Is this person for real? Check out their last comment on the forum:

    “That Thomas Woods looks incredibly spry for someone who graduated in 1960…”

    Duhhh! Must be that magic primal diet…

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    That person is not being serious; he is pointing out the absurdity of the original author’s argument.

  • http://www.facebook.com/elijah.stanfield Elijah Stanfield

    Where do I join these Jesuits. I would love a NWO designed by Ron Paul and Tom Woods.

  • Max

     Tom, I would suggest you do the same to Jack Chick. Why? He has sold over 500 million tracts (at least by his claim). Here is his website:

    http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractByKeyword.asp?Subject=Catholicism

    You’d be surprised how many hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of people take that guy seriously. He blames the Jesuits for almost every evil imaginable.

  • Brutus

    Thank you for taking the time to defend yourself from this nut job. You have given me a good laugh.

  • Mike

    Just read the entire thread from the link you posted Tom. Dang, those people are seriously paranoid!

  • Kristen Lumbato

     Wow. Epic reply.

  • Gregory Webb

    Unfortunately those who hold these views usually can only grasp comic book forms of argumentation (if you can call it that).

  • http://bastiatscorner.blogspot.in/ Daniel

    It makes me crazy when Austrians are rolled up with these nutballs and branded “conspiracy theorists”.  The fallacy they make is not believing that there is a conspiracy, but rather, believing it without any evidence or without doing any research as you have so clearly displayed with this post.  

  • Grand Master…..Flex

    It’s messed up – my dad was a Past Master and before he died right before 9/11 he told me not to join the army.  He said it was a bad time to join after I got out of high school.  I really miss my father.

  • Max
  • Max

    Hey Tom, you want to see another silly Jesuit conspiracy theory? Take a look at this:

    http://www.chick.com/catalog/comics/0251.asp

    It alleges that Abraham Lincoln, tyrant extraordinaire, was actually a good Protestant Christian man that was simply trying to protect us from the nasty southerners. You see, in Chick’s view the Southern States were actually part of a Jesuit plot to attack the northern states and forcibly convert everyone to Catholicism.

    Apparently, John Wilkes Boothe was a Jesuit assassin or something. LOL!

    I’m sure Thomas J. DiLorenzo would get a good laugh out of it.

    Again Tom, you’d be surprised how many people believe Jack Chick’s paranoid screeds.

  • jaffi411

    LOL.  Because Tom is probably one of the rarest first names in the history of man, and to be honest, I have never actually heard such a surname as Woods before.  Put them together and you just may have one of the rarest names to ever exist in human history.  I wonder why Tom Woods doesn’t play this up more.

  • Peter

    I’m at Boston College, a Jesuit university, and let me tell you – Jesuits are far, far from being free market, libertarians

  • http://twitter.com/NaDobes Edward Niedoba

    I currently attend a Jesuit high school in Cleveland, OH, and I started a libertarian club at my high school. At the very least they let me start my club. (Besides of course the wonderful education.)

  • Andrew Roberson

    wouldn’t be surprised if you were a reptilian jesuit. yes, i’m serious. no, i’m not joking.