• "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 vs. Block: The Video

Someone made a YouTube of the Woods/Block match from earlier this week.

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Gregory Webb

    I play the King’s Gambit all the time and salivate when I see F6 in accepted lines. What a perfect opening for Tom Woods – classical yet contrarian and snickered at by many in the (chess) establishment.

  • Luke Sunderland

    I love the top rated comment on this video’s YouTube page….

    “Its too bad that Tom Woods got away with his white pieces initiating
    force against Walter Block’s pieces. Block couldn’t defend the
    undefendable and Woods forced Block’s line to meltdown and rollback.”

    I wish I had thought of that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jaffijoe Joseph Fetz

    He certainly kept you on your toes with that bishop move. You were correct to get your queen out of harms way and then castle.

    There was a day when I could probably give the both of you a run for your money, but I haven’t played in years. Perhaps I should start playing my computer to brush up.

  • http://twitter.com/NateForLiberty Nathan Diehl

    That was fun to watch. I was carefully watching the game and the bishop takes rook still knocked my socks off.

  • http://TheInterventionistParadox.wordpress.com/ Bharat

    oh were you white? For some reason I thought you were black the whole time, and I was like ‘what how does Woods pull this one off??”

  • BrunoT

    Now I know why people watch golf on TV. It’s more exciting than chess!

  • Phil Kearny

    I would just like to mention that my comment was just a variation of a joke that Dr. Woods told (his wife made it up apparently) regarding the chess match of the year before.

  • Jonathan Newman

    “Someone”? Ha!

  • Robert Renk

    Since most people viewing this site are interested in Austrian Economics, there is a Austrian Defense to the Queens Gambit that goes 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5.

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