Tom Woods just delivered his first Mises Academy live session (for his online course The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law) and the student consensus in the public chat is clear: as one student wrote, “great first class!!!” First, Woods gave an outstanding lecture on the origins of the 1929 crash (see his informative slides here). Then he answered topical questions at length. After he finished with the curricular questions, he stuck around and chatted with the students about anything they wanted to talk about! The conversation ranged from medieval history to life on the lecture circuit to Ayn Rand. After over two and a half hours of the wit and wisdom of Tom Woods, one student posted in the “Water Cooler” forum a new thread entitled, “Wasn’t that fun?”
It sure was!
Dear reader, if you’d like to join the fun, you can enroll now, watch the recording of the first live session, and then be there for the second one!
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Unfortunately, these classes are out of my budget so I have no personal experience, but it seems to me that Thomas Woods would be the one to lead one of the better classes (not to detract merit from other professors, who are very good speakers [Murphy, for example, is amongst my favorite lecturers]). My point is that this particular class must honestly be off the hook, because Woods is a top notch lecturer and speaker.
Combine fun learning with the whole truth and all of the sudden the promulgators of half-truths are in trouble!
Dr. Woods did a great job last night. It was very enjoyable.
This is my third class with the Mises Academy, two with Robert Murphy, and I couldn’t be more impressed. I can’t stress enough how valuable their instruction is. For example, I asked Robert Murphy a question, in my current class with him, and he brought to light a solution to a problem I had been thinking about for a long time. He at first was coming to my basic conclusion but the more he talked, he started to work through the problem until he found a solution. By the end of answering the question he had solved a problem for me that I couldn’t find an answer to anywhere. Thomas Woods class was amazing too, he is a true class act. We still had about 70 people shooting the shit with him nearly 3 hours after he started. Highly recommend anyone wanting to be taught by the Aristotle’s of our time to sign up for a class.
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