Reviews

Introducing Prometheus Unbound

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 25, 2010

Last week I launched a new website called Prometheus Unbound.  I aim for it to be a sort of online “magazine,” a libertarian review of fiction and literature. The site will feature reviews, news commentary, articles and editorials, and eventually (I hope) interviews, from a libertarian perspective. I’m entertaining the possibility of publishing original fiction [...]

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Hunter S. Thompson’s Last Stand

by Ryan McMaken November 20, 2010

Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Last Gonzo Campaign Ghost Road Press, 2010 by Matthew L. Moseley Reviewed by Ryan McMaken Hunter S. Thompson was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary social critics, and one of the most anti-authoritarian. In the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken, Thompson never [...]

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Article: What Is To Be Done? — A Comment on Angelo Codevilla’s “Ruling Class”

by Editor November 7, 2010

In his paper “America’s Ruling Class – and the Perils of Revolution” Professor Angelo Codevilla offers an excellent analysis of the causes and forms of government encroachment into the basic traditional liberties of Americans, and a very good sketch of the reasons why big government ideology succeeded in imposing its tenets upon the country, despite overwhelming [...]

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A Short Defense of Punishment

by Gil Guillory October 21, 2010

It is particularly prevalent among libertarians and practitioners of Restorative Justice to favor restitution and reject punishment, or to at least reject retribution (private punishment “owed” to the victim / “just deserts” / “getting even”). I find this brief argument, from Getting Even: Revenge as a Form of Justice by Charles K. B. Barton, p. [...]

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“Human Action” Review of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today

by Stephan Kinsella October 1, 2010

The site “Human Action” has a nice review by “freeman” of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today, pasted below (mine was here: The Best Introduction to Libertarianism Ever). Libertarianism Today by Jacob H. Huebert (2010 Praeger) 255 page paperback; $25.00 Buy this book It is not easy to strike a balance between being informative and entertaining, covering all the relevant [...]

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eBook: Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed

by Akiva September 29, 2010

Understanding basic economics is crucial for all libertarians.  No other field offers as clear and irrefutable a case for liberty.  Indeed, statism draws much of its support from the public’s flawed understanding of economics.  Even libertarians are occasionally led astray by flawed economic reasoning.  A friend recently brought a book designed to combat such flaws [...]

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Therapeutic Market Nihilism

by Isaac Bergman September 28, 2010

Over this past summer I read William M. Johnston’s ‘The Austrian Mind‘. This scholarly work amply demonstrates Johnston’s vast erudition in the intellectual history of the Austrian-Hungarian empire during the Victorian era, or better yet, the Franz-Josephian era. I wanted to highlight  a comparison that Johnston draws between the attitudes of that era’s medical establishments focus [...]

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