A few months ago I discovered Frédéric Bastiat’s work “Economic Sophisms”. Much like his other work The Law, Economic Sophisms provides compelling arguments for free market principles. However, unlike The Law, Economic Sophisms uses biting wit, rhetoric, as well as the sort logical precision in order to reduce each argument against a the free market [...]

Today I listened to the Librivox recording of Anthem by Ayn Rand (1st edition). In it a dystopian future where most traces of individualism have been eradicated from the world and replaced by a heavy-handed collectivism. Anthem is clearly a warning against the aggressive, yeasty, and dangerous nature of forced collectivism (i.e. through the state). [...]

This classic piece of fiction by CS Lewis is clever, funny, and thought provoking.

The other day I listened to Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law” (originally published in 1850) which I downloaded from Free Audio.org. The Law presents a series of compelling arguments for natural rights, liberty, and private property ownership in a manner that should make sense to the common man, politician, novelist, and even theologian. The author of [...]

Easily one of the most digestible works in Christian Apologetics ever written.

A title such as “Liberal Fascism” may seem like an oxymoron, but Jonah Goldberg makes a compelling case that fascism was not a phenomenon of the right, but of the left. As shocking of a presumption as this might be, Goldberg takes a well-researched approach to the facts and an explicit approach to his conclusions. [...]

A great book.

I listened to all three of the Atlas Shrugged audiobooks from eMusic and I appreciate Ayn Rand’s style, scope, and substance. (One slight nit: the tracks were of dubious quality, but otherwise the experience was worth it). As an advocate of Free Markets, liberty, and democracy I agree with many of Rand’s positions, however as [...]

A great book for anyone who is looking for a cogent economic analysis of the current “financial crisis” insofar as economic cogency is defined by the Austrian School of Economics.