Tuesday, April 28, 2026

The institution that hates you the most

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After this weekend's successful Ron Paul Institute conference, which you may have heard about on social media, I found myself marveling at the achievements of Dr. Paul -- who turns 91 this year.

In particular, he allowed people to break free from the artificial constraints of the past, according to which tough-guy right-wingers love war, and wimpy, peacenik left-wingers hate it. It's incredible to me that anyone ever fell for that: you think Mao Tse-Tung hated war? Sure he did.

As I've said before, mainstream left-liberals overwhelmingly supported nearly all the major American wars from the Spanish-American War to the present, and we've memory-holed the Old Right of the 1950s and the Buchananite right of the 1990s and 2000s that warned against war.

But the intellectual liberation the Ron Paul movement launched went much further than that.

Dr. Paul told me more than once that he considered his homeschool curriculum to be one of his most important contributions, because it would help form the minds of bright young people for many decades to come.

The media will portray the Ron Paul Curriculum as pushing a point of view, as opposed to what they laughingly insist is the neutral, just-the-facts approach taken in the government's schools.

Whatever is being taught in the schools, neutral it certainly ain't.

For over a dozen years, young people sit in classrooms dominated by people who despise everything their parents stand for, and from whom those young people will assuredly be taught outright parodies of the truth.

As I run through the basic narrative of U.S. history in my head, I'm imagining how the standard classroom teacher would cover it.

The American War for Independence will be portrayed as having been fought over the snore-inducing principle of "no taxation without representation," thereby leaving kids with the impression that now that they have taxation with representation, the Founders would be perfectly happy.

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 will not be mentioned, even though the Kentucky Resolutions have been described as the most systematic exposition of the Jeffersonian "compact" theory of the Union.

The mainstream discussion of nullification and secession during the first decades of the republic will not be mentioned.

Andrew Jackson will be portrayed as an egalitarian (even the dope Arthur Schlesinger tried to make Jackson out to be a proto-New Dealer) because he ran on "equal rights"; the teacher doesn't realize, or doesn't care, that for Jackson "equal rights" meant that nobody got special privileges from the federal government -- everyone "equally" got no government benefit. Not exactly FDR!

None of the stuff about the separation of bank and state put forth by Jacksonian laissez-fairists like William Gouge and William Leggett will be mentioned -- the kids' teachers know nothing about it, and if they did, they'd be so horrified they'd want to keep quiet about it.

Abraham Lincoln will be portrayed as a cartoon character, fighting those southern devils out of a devotion to racial egalitarianism (a position he in reality opposed). None of the constitutional arguments advanced in support of secession will be mentioned, much less evaluated, since 19th-century southerners have no arguments an 8th-grade teacher feels obligated to take seriously.

In the later decades of the 19th century, no distinction will be made between entrepreneurs who made their fortunes by offering goods at lower prices, and entrepreneurs who owed at least some of their success to government privilege. They will all be portrayed as exploiters, even though (1) consumers enjoyed consistently falling prices during this period, and (2) workers saw real wages rising consistently.

I could go on, but stop and reflect that the classroom portrayal of these issues is actually much worse than I've described it here, because I left the wokery out.

Well, as we approach the end of the current school year, it's time to prepare for the next. I devoted two years of my life to creating hundreds of videos on history for the K-12 Ron Paul Curriculum (my courses are designed for high schoolers), and I can assure you that your students will get an intellectual formation that you and I would have given our right arms for.

Check it out, and if you decide to enroll your family, be sure to do so through my link below, because only through my link do you get my $160 worth of free goodies:
 

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Monday, April 27, 2026

You’re getting attention!

High school bestie? Class crush? Old teammate?
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

👋 Bryan, people have been checking you out 👀

The people you went through it with are still here...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

The Trump poll numbers problem

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One of the most interesting people I've gotten to know in recent months on the Tom Woods Show has been Rich Baris, who chairs the National Association of Independent Pollsters. 

Rich, himself a Trump voter, has been tracking Trump's declining numbers in recent months and commenting on the seemingly ceaseless stream of unforced errors on the President's part that have squandered so much of his political capital for no obvious return.

At any rate, we discussed the "Trump has 100 percent support among his base" poll -- as absurd, Rich says, as the Quinnipiac poll that tried to claim that zero percent of black Americans supported Trump -- as well as recent high-profile polls about Tucker Carlson, the war in Iran, and other topics, and assessed the claim that the war is in fact very popular and not the cause of Trump's fall in the polls.

A lot of people were surprised that Trump beat expectations in terms of support among Hispanic and black Americans in 2024. But Baris points out the interesting caveat here: the young tend to be more nonwhite. Trump's performance among those groups, then, was a function of his popularity among the young in general. He did do well among Hispanics -- under 50.

So with the young swinging so hard against Trump right now, that is a significant loss.

(Rich happens to be co-author of the forthcoming book Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want.)

You'll certainly find our conversation interesting:


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If you decide to join, use code TOM (instead of the usual WOODS) and I'll send you my quick-start guide where you'll see right into my app (and some of our crazy pregnancy bills -- the whole thing came to about $200,000).

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Tom Woods






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