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Thu, Aug 19 2010 12:48 PM

libertarian fiction

In the last few weeks I've read a few of the more famous "libertarian fiction" works—Henry Hazlitt's Time Will Run Back , and Garet Garrett's The Cinder Buggy and The Driver . Hazlitt may have been a good writer, but he had...
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Wed, May 26 2010 8:00 AM

robber barons?

Just finished reading Burton Folson's The Myth of the Robber Barons . It's a quick read (the third edition comes to 134 pages outside of notes), and contains the eye-opening stories of true capitalists like Vanderbilt , Hill , and Rockefeller...
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Wed, Oct 7 2009 8:00 AM

conflicted conscience

Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative is, sadly, just another politician's manifesto, making sweeping statements in support of individual rights in one breath and in the next sacrificing them at the altar of government. He believes...
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