Thomas Woods

For other people named Thomas Woods, see Thomas Woods (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Thomas Wood.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Austrian School
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Woods in February 2011.
Born (1972-08-01) August 1, 1972 (age 40)
Melrose, Massachusetts
Alma mater Harvard University (B.A.)
Columbia University (M.Phil., Ph.D.)
Influences Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, Ralph Raico, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ron Paul, Robert Nisbet, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Thomas E. "Tom" Woods, Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American historian, political analyst, and New York Times-bestselling author.[1] He has written extensively on the subjects of American history, contemporary politics, and economics. Woods considers himself a libertarian and a proponent of the Austrian school of economics. He operates LibertyClassroom.com, a pay-for-access educational website which offers audio and video content on topics in history, economics, and philosophy.[2]

Education and affiliations

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Woods holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, both in History. He is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and a member of the editorial board for the Institute's Libertarian Papers.[3] Woods is also an associate scholar of the Abbeville Institute, in McClellanville, South Carolina. The Abbeville Institute promotes the cultural inheritance of the American Southern tradition as "a valuable intellectual and spiritual resource for exposing and correcting the errors of American modernity," as opposed to "colleges and universities [which] have come to be dominated by the ideologies of multiculturalism and political correctness.[4]

Woods was an ISI Richard M. Weaver Fellow in 1995–96.[5] Woods was also the recipient of the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and of an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003. He has additionally been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.[6] His 2005 book The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy won the $50,000 first prize in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.[7]

Woods is co-editor of an eleven-volume collection of articles Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877.

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Catholicism, history, and political incorrectness

Woods' best-selling 2004 book

Woods is a convert to the Roman Catholic Church from Lutheranism[8] and author of How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. For eleven years, he was associate editor of The Latin Mass Magazine, which advocates traditional Catholicism. As a traditional Catholic,[9][10] he advocates the Extraordinary Form of the Mass and cultural conservatism.[11][12]

Woods's writing has appeared in numerous popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily, Modern Age, American Studies, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, The Freeman, Independent Review, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, AD2000, Crisis, Human Rights Review, Catholic Historical Review, and the Catholic Social Science Review and The American Conservative.[13]

Woods wrote the 2004 New York Times bestseller[1]The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery Publishing, 2004). He is also the author of the 2009 New York Times bestseller[14]Meltdown (Regnery Publishing, 2009).

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Views on conservatism

Tom Woods at CPAC in February 2010.

In articles he has written dealing with the political spectrum of Americans, Woods makes a sharp distinction between paleoconservative thinkers with whom he sympathizes, and neoconservative thinkers. In articles, lectures and interviews Woods traces the intellectual and political distinction between the older conservative, or paleoconservative, school of thought and the neoconservative school of thought. Of the latter he writes:

The conservative's traditional sympathy for the American South and its people and heritage, evident in the works of such great American conservatives as Richard M. Weaver and Russell Kirk, began to disappear.... [T]he neocons are heavily influenced by Woodrow Wilson, with perhaps a hint of Theodore Roosevelt.... They believe in an aggressive U.S. presence practically everywhere, and in the spread of democracy around the world, by force if necessary.... Neoconservatives tend to want more efficient government agencies; paleoconservatives want fewer government agencies. They generally admire President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his heavily interventionist New Deal policies. Neoconservatives have not exactly been known for their budget consciousness, and you won’t hear them talking about making any serious inroads into the federal apparatus.[15]
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Bibliography

As author

As editor

  • Choate, Rufus (2002). The Political Writings of Rufus Choate. Gateway Editions. ISBN 0-89526-154-5. 
  • Brownson, Orestes (2003, reprint of 1875 edition). The American Republic. Gateway Editions. ISBN 0-89526-072-7. 
  • Rothbard, Murray (2007). The Betrayal of the American Right. Ludwig von Mises Institute. ISBN 978-1-933550-13-8. 
  • We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now. Basic Books. 2007. ISBN 1-56858-385-0.  (Co-edited with Murray Polner.)
  • Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence of Statism. ISI. 2010. ISBN 978-1-935191-90-2. 
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Notes

  1. ^ a b New York Times "Bestseller List" (Paperback non-fiction), January 9, 2005 [1]
  2. ^ "Liberty Classroom". 
  3. ^ "Editorial Board at Libertarian Papers". Libertarianpapers.org. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
  4. ^ Abbeville Institute website [2]
  5. ^ "First Principles - Banana Republic, U.S.A". Firstprinciplesjournal.com. 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
  6. ^ Inferno New Media. "About Tom Woods | Tom Woods". Thomasewoods.com. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
  7. ^ "ISI Announces 2006 Templeton Enterprise Award Winners". 
  8. ^ Woods, Thomas E. (Presenter) (2008). The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization (Television production). Episode 8: "Catholic Charity". Eternal Word Television Network. ASIN B00C30D3NG. Retrieved 2013-05-21. "My personal favorite in this list is Martin Luther because I, myself, am a former Lutheran." 
  9. ^ "A Profound Philosophical Commonality by Anthony Flood". Lewrockwell.com. 1987-11-22. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
  10. ^ "Sacred Then and Sacred Now : The Return of the Old Latin Mass". BooksForCatholics.com. 2007-09-14. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
  11. ^ "History and Truth: An Interview With Thomas E. Woods, Jr. by Bernard Chapin". Lewrockwell.com. 2005-07-23. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
  12. ^ "Up From Conservatism - Mises Media". Mises.org. Retrieved 2011-08-10. 
  13. ^ tomwoods.com bio
  14. ^ New York Times "Bestseller List" (Paperback non-fiction), March 08, 2009 [3]
  15. ^ "The Split on the Right", interview of Thomas Woods by Die Tagespost
  16. ^ On Woods' association with Ferrara, see "On Chris Ferrara"
  17. ^ Also on audio book, as read by the author Thomas Woods.
  18. ^ [4] English translation of Polish title is In defense of common sense.
  19. ^ Woods, Thomas E. "Beyond Distributism". Acton Institute. October 2008.
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