Thomas E. Woods, Jr., a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His eleven books include the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown (a free-market look at the financial crisis), and most recently Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century and Rollback: Repealing Big Government before the Coming Fiscal Collapse. Woods’s books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, German, Czech, Portuguese, Croatian, Slovak, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.
Woods’ writing has appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Investor’s Business Daily, Catholic Historical Review, Intercollegiate Review, Catholic Social Science Review, Economic Affairs (U.K.), Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Inside the Vatican, Human Events, New Oxford Review, and Catholic World Report. For eleven years he served as associate editor of the Latin Mass magazine; he is presently a contributing editor of the American Conservative magazine. A contributor to six encyclopedias, Woods is coeditor of Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877, an eleven-volume encyclopedia.
Woods won the first prize in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards for his book The Church and the Market. He was the recipient of the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and of an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003. He has also been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and a Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Woods has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, C-SPAN, and Bloomberg Television, among other outlets, and has been a guest on hundreds of radio programs, including National Public Radio, the Dennis Miller Show, the Michael Reagan Show, the Dennis Prager Show, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, and the Michael Medved Show. He is a regular fill-in host on the Peter Schiff Show.
Woods offers courses in Western civilization, U.S. history, and economics at Tom Woods’s Liberty Classroom (LibertyClassroom.com). He lives in Topeka, Kansas, with his wife and four daughters.