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Radio Free Acton: Partying with Hobbits and Jonathan Witt
Radio Free Acton: Partying with Hobbits and Jonathan Witt
Dec 19, 2025 8:23 PM

On this edition of Radio Free Acton, your humble hostbravely battles a late-spring cold to bring you an interview with Jonathan Witt, Managing Editor at TheStream.org, and author of The Hobbit Party: The Vision ofFreedom that Tolkien Got and The West Forgot. Was Frodo a small-government type? Was Tolkien a card-carrying member of the local Republican party? Or were the hobbits short-statured hippies who really enjoyed their pipe weed and the free healthcare provided by the Shire’s smooth-running, benevolent bureaucracy? Find out on Radio Free Acton!

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