Today’s program is hosted by Kerby Anderson. Kerby’s first guest is Tom Gilson, senior editor of The Stream. They’ll be talking about Tom’s new book, “Too Good to be False.” Then Kerby welcomes Iain Murray. Iain is director of the Center for Economic Freedom at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He will share his new book: “The Socialist Temptation.”
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Tom lives near Dayton, Ohio with his wife, Sara. They’re the proud grandparents of two grand-dogs, a grand-cat and a grand-bunny, by way of their twenty-something son and daughter and their respective spouses. He received a B.Mus. in Music Education with a specialty in performance from Michigan State University and an M.S. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida. When he’s not writing he loves drinking coffee, canoeing, walking in the woods, and playing his trombones.
A former civil servant in the United Kingdom, where he helped to privatize the railroad industry, Murray has lived in the United States since 1997 but remains a British citizen. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of London and an M.A. from the University of Oxford.
An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away—and socialism has come back with a vengeance.