• "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

Trust Your Officials, Citizen

John Yoo, the executive supremacist who tailored the apologias for Bush-era exercises of executive power, now says targeted assassination is A-OK, assuring us that executive branch officials “may commit errors, but there is no reason to think they act in bad faith or for careerist purposes.” (Thanks to Carl.)

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Anonymous

    I’m amazed the house hasn’t done a thing about this. Actually, I guess I’m not because they’re all on the same side. This issue makes watergate look like a Sunday picnic. And yet no one will touch Obama.

  • kirk

    the imperial presidency has reached full bloom.

  • Frank Koza

    John Yoo will either be one of the very first useful idiots that Yuri Bezmenov warned will be executed upon completion of a full Marxist/Leninist takeover or he will be in the core of the coming totalitarian regime.

    It’s the same pattern pattern used everywhere, aptly illustrated by the Khmer Rouge takeover in Cambodia bringing on the killing fields.

    This interview of Mr Bezmenov from 1984 with G. Edward Griffin is ominous and well worth watching:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cDGALhzro&list=PL4CDAB99FAB5980BA

    Sadly, the ideological subversion of America appears to be nearly complete.