• "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

Woods Sightings

Not much activity around here lately because we have been (and indeed still are) in the midst of moving to a new house, so here’s a quick update.  (1) I recently replied to a critic of nullification on a major Iowa GOP website, who tried arguing that the federal government, after all, created 37 of the states.  (2) I’ll be on Freedom Watch this weekend on the FOX Business Network, 10am and 8pm ET Saturday, 7pm and 11pm Sunday.  (3) I made this neat promo video for the online course on the New Deal I’m teaching this fall, and which all the cool people are taking.  The course will be very interactive, and after questions and answers we’ll open things up to whatever additional topic, unrelated to the course, anyone would like to discuss.

  • Chris

    I look forward to all your future classes at the Mises Institute!

  • Don

    Your book “Nullification” could no0t be more timely — or more enlightening. Based on information I learned in Mises Daily and elsewhere I recently wrote a letter to the editor of a local newspaper about “the real dollar” and sent copies to my state senator and state representative.

    Here’s a wrinkle that connects to nullification. Given that the Constitution forbids the states to declare anything other than gold or silver as legal tender, what would happen if the states began to enforce that constitutional limitation vigorously? What would that do to Ben Bernanke’s just-announced plans to monetize the debt?

    The federal government has taken the country off the gold standard. Does not the Constitution require the states to refuse the federal fiat money? If the states take away the federal power to inflate the currency (currently wildly abused) imagine the blow that would be dealt to federal authority generally!

  • William Hare

    Thank you Thomas Woods. You are my mentor. I have been telling people for a year now that Americas “fork in the road” is straight ahead. One path brings us back to a Jeffersonian America with a LIMITED Federal government, States rights as well as protection of individual rights. President Obama is our current tour guide leading us down the alternate path. That direction leads to a stronger Federal government with a concurrent inverse decrease of our individual liberties. The States, with the power of nullification, are our ONLY realistic chance for any meaningful reduction of Federal power. Thank you Thomas Woods for your massive contributions towards that end and I am looking forward to all your future appearances as well as classes at Mises.