No joke: how to get anything you want
Published: Tue, 10/31/23
How to Analyze People on Sight -- now that's a great book title. That was what struck me when I first heard about Elsie Lincoln Benedict, a popular…
The Happy Earner
I send out value-packed emails about earning income online, which I've been doing with great success since 2010. I would have saved myself a lot of agony and frustration if I'd had the information people on this email list receive every day!
My discovery in the Columbia Univ library
Published: Mon, 10/30/23
In the late 1990s, while I was working on my Ph.D. at Columbia, I happened to be looking around inside the stacks and came upon a mysterious bo . When…
The war on the past continues
Published: Thu, 10/26/23
We just spent a beautiful day in lovely Newport, Rhode Island, which I had never visited before. I highly recommend it. I couldn't help noticing,…
Woods chastened, chided by readers
Published: Wed, 10/25/23
Yesterday I sent out my case against old movies. As I e pected, old-movie aficionados wrote to me. As I did not e pect, at least one of them has me…
Old movies are terrible
Published: Tue, 10/24/23
Three-quarters of you will be angry. You will try to change my mind. It cannot be done. Now look: I occasionally enjoy an old movie. We watched some…
Let's ignore 21st-century pap. Deal?
Published: Mon, 10/23/23
In a recent episode of the Tom Woods Show I mentioned an epiphany I had while flying to New York a couple of months ago. I was reading about a…
The only good author is a dead author
Published: Fri, 10/20/23
So much wisdom is lost because we assume newer is better. In almost every area of life, novelty is pushed on us at the e pense of tradition. Now some…
Hooray for airport security
Published: Mon, 10/16/23
I'm happy to report that I'm typing this note to you on the computer I stupidly left at the airport when leaving Iceland a couple of weeks ago. It…
Evil elites and good elites
Published: Sun, 10/15/23
When I use the word "elite," I usually mean it in a disparaging way. The elite that governs us, for e ample, is a bunch of embarrassing mediocrities…
My embarrassing speech incident
Published: Fri, 10/13/23
I won't say the name of the organization, but a couple of months ago I was invited to give a speech. The letter said they could pay me $25,000. I…