Delightful Books I’ve Read Recently
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I found Fooled by Randomness interesting and provocative (even when scoring points…
Books
Rand-o-Rama
A nicely done video on the enduring legacy of Ayn Rand. I’m not a follower (I’m more eclectic in my views), but I find much to admire in her work,…
The Poverty of Rhetoric
It’s astonishing how poorly equipped many people are today to handle the art of rhetoric, as indicated by the puerile attempts to put down my friend Vero for being French….
Realizing Freedom Reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The FAZ, one of the most influential newspapers in Europe, reviewed my book Realizing Freedom and Detmar Doering’s very good Traktat über die Freiheit. The reviewer, Professor Michael Zöller, is…
A Delight to Behold
I have just received the PDF of the Dari (the Persian spoken in Afghanistan) version of the book Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity, by…
Escaping from the State….and other Literary Excursions
I’ve finished a careful reading of James C. Scott’s really fascinating, deeply insightful (and occasionally oddly not-very-insightful) book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast…
An Amusing Example of “If you say it often enough, someone might believe it.”
Peter Klein, “On the Term ‘Religion’“
End the Drug War.
Two former officials in the government of Vicente Fox have come out in favor of ending the drug war, which is causing enormous harm in Mexico. Their book, El Narco:…
Realizing Freedom en Français
I’m expecting the sales of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice in la Francophonie to shoot up! It was reviewed at Contrepoints (in French). Alex Korbel posted a shorter,…
An Ayn Rand Era?
David Boaz has an interesting post at Cato@Liberty: “Ayn Rand Is In“