The audio book — which has been recorded by an outstanding professional and sounds great — is still on its way, too.
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From the category archives:
Libertarianism Today
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I just now saw that George Leef, book review editor for The Freeman, made a list of the top books reviewed in that publication in 2011.
Number one: Libertarianism Today.
By the way, the audio book is coming next month, read by a professional who has done a great job with it.
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In Libertarianism Today, I mention that Charles and David Koch are “to this day” the Cato Institute’s “foremost patrons.” This obviously isn’t true now that the Kochs are suing the Cato Institute to take control of it, and apparently it hasn’t been true for a while. According to Cato scholar Jerry Taylor, the Kochs gave no money to Cato last year and have contributed only about four percent of Cato’s revenues over the past decade.
So a correction is in order, and there you have it.
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Another full chapter of Libertarianism Today is now online for free — this one on why libertarianism is antiwar. This is my favorite chapter of the book, so I’m especially glad I could make it available through Antiwar.com.
Other parts of the book you can read for free online:
- Reagan: No Revolution
- When All Drugs Were Legal
- The Drug War’s Dubious Foundations
- What Is Libertarianism? (full chapter)
- The Fight Against Intellectual Property (full chapter)
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In Policy, a magazine published by Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies, Alex Willemyns has a favorable review of Libertarianism Today.
Here’s a sample:
Indeed, although the author could not possibly provide a complete introduction to an ideology as unorthodox and contested as libertarianism in such a short volume, Huebert’s attempt is the most engaging and incisive currently available. Further, its unabashedly radical nature is a welcome surprise for a book that could just as easily have been meandering and equivocal in its case for libertarianism. With an abundance of suggestions for further reading throughout, it should appeal to all readers, from the most well-informed libertarian to those new to the radical theory.
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Mises.org has made an entire chapter of Libertarianism Today, “The Fight Against Intellectual Property,” available online for free. Read about why more and more libertarians reject patents and copyrights as enemies of freedom and prosperity.
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An earlier excerpt from Libertarianism Today discussed what life was like when all drugs were legal in the United States — and showed that things really weren’t all that bad.
So why were narcotics, cocaine, marijuana, and the like outlawed? A newly available excerpt explains the drug war’s dubious foundations.
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In a review for the Canadian C2C Journal, Fergus Hodgson says — among other favorable things — that my Libertarianism Today is an “accessible yet rigorous explanation of libertarianism and its political movement.”
But he criticizes me a little bit for focusing on U.S. issues while ignoring Canada entirely.
I had a pretty good reason, though: Canada’s government — although I’m sure it perpetrates many evils — isn’t trying to run the world, isn’t killing hundreds of thousands of people in other countries, isn’t imposing IP tyranny on the rest of the world, and isn’t wrecking the world economy. In other words, the Canadian government never did anything to me. The U.S. government, on the other hand, is the world’s largest, most powerful government and does endless bad things to countless people who don’t even live here.
I long for the day when my government isn’t worth mentioning in a book about the evils of the state!
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