16 Facts About Tom Woods

Tom Woods's subsequent writing has focused on promoting libertarianism and libertarian leaning political figures such as former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Tom Woods teaches homeschooling courses on Western civilization and government called The Liberty Homeschooler as part of the Ron Paul Curriculum.

In 1994, Tom Woods was a founding member of the League of the South, but he no longer associates with it.

Tom Woods holds a BA from Harvard and an MPhil and PhD from Columbia, all in history.

Tom Woods is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and is on the editorial board for the institute's Libertarian Papers.

Tom Woods has promoted the views of Lysander Spooner, who argued that the Constitution holds no authority because the public has not explicitly consented to it and because the Federal Government in his view has not followed its obligations and limits.

Tom Woods goes on to suggest nullification as a tool that states can use to check the powers of the federal government.

Boot accused Woods of being overly sympathetic with Southerners such as John C Calhoun and their belief in a state's right to secede and in state nullification, while exaggerating the militarism of Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and Bill Clinton.

Tom Woods argued in a 1995 The Freeman article "Liberty and Immigration" that libertarians have made a mistake to welcome immigration, because he views open borders to infringe on the property rights of homeowners.

Tom Woods has been an advocate of hard money, and is critical of the Federal Reserve and other central banks which he views as responsible for unnatural inflation and the business cycle.

In 1994, Tom Woods was a founding member of the League of the South, for which he has been criticized.

Tom Woods has argued that the League has changed its politics and was not racist or antisemitic in 1994.

The author noted his frequent writing in the group's magazine, The Southern Patriot, up through 1997 and received a quote from Tom Woods stating that he didn't disagree with most of the views he made in said publications.

In 2013, an article by the non-profit Political Research Associates, which studies right-wing white supremacist and extremist groups, noted that Tom Woods was a frequent speaker at neo-Confederate events throughout the 1990s and since then, along with contributing to the American Secession Project started in 2000.

Woods conducts interviews on economic topics, foreign policy, and history in his daily podcast, The Tom Woods Show, since September 2013.

Tom Woods received the 2019 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna and awards from the Independent Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.