Ideas Having Sex

Matt Zwolinski reviews 200 years of libertarian intellectual history.

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Today’s book: The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

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Matt’s Recommendations:

The Elements of Justice by David Schmidtz

The Structure of Liberty by Randy Barnett

Individualism and Economic Order by F.A. Hayek

Free Market Fairness by John Tomasi

Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jason Brennan

Radicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty

The Debates of Liberty by Wendy McElroy

Dan Moller makes a novel case for libertarianism.

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Today’s book: Governing Least: A New England Libertarianism

Dan’s new book, The Way of Bach, and other info can be found at his website.

Dan’s recommendations: Anarchy, State, and Utopia, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, and The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

William Nelson describes how the common law shaped early America.

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Today’s Book: E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776

William Nelson’s Recommendation: Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution by Gordon Wood

Other works by William Nelson

Fernanda Pirie shares her encyclopedic knowledge of law throughout history and around the world.

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Today’s book: The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

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Recommended book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Robert Bryce explains how important electricity is to modern life.

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Today’s Book: A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations

Find Robert Bryce: Twitter, Author Page, Substack, Power Hungry Podcast

Recommended Works: How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil, Renewable and Nuclear Heresies by Jesse Ausubel

Tibor Rutar analyzes the costs and benefits of capitalism using a straightforward and empirical framework.

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Today’s book: Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy

Recommended and Discussed Books: Social Democratic Capitalism; Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?; In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty

Mike Rinder talks Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, and his own role in the highest ranks of the church.

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Mike Rinder’s book: A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Mike’s blog, Twitter, and YouTube

Mike’s recommendations: The Sociopath Next Door, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology, Counterfeit Dreams, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

If you are seeking help leaving Scientology: The Aftermath Foundation

Jonathan Rauch describes the social norms and institutions that generate knowledge.

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Today’s book: The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

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Braver Angels

Recommended works: The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper; The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt; Politics and the English language by George Orwell; Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama; HATE by Nadine Strossen

Jason Brennan argues for less democracy and less politics.

Today’s Book: Debating Democracy: Do We Need More or Less?

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Other books by Jason

Jason’s upcoming book: Democracy: A Guided Tour

Other discussed works: Uncivil Agreement; Democracy for Realists; Neither Liberal nor Conservative; The Case Against Education; I, Pencil

Jonathan Katz describes the economic motivations behind US interventions around the world.

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Today’s book: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

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Jonathan Katz’s recommendations: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump; and The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Other books discussed: War is a Racket, by Smedley Butler; Overthrow; and The True Flag

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