Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Book reviews of all sorts, from all pints on the chart. Perhaps in literature we can agree, or if not, at least relax.

Liberty and Tyranny - A Great Read
by Ben, Sr. (libertarian)
Published: June 2, 2009
My own personal review of Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" - This is not an endorsement of his views, as I agree with some and disagree with others

Review: Canadian Poetry from World War I
by George Dance (libertarian)
Published: May 31, 2009
Today's readers may not appreciate the politics of this volume. But that is no reason for them to miss the poetry.

Book Review: Standoff At Tiananmen
by John Kusumi (centrist liberal)
Published: May 5, 2009
Just in time for 2009's 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square's student uprising and bloody suppression, there is released a new book, Standoff At Tiananmen, reviewed here.

Radicals for Capitalism
by Dan Clore (libertarian)
Published: March 31, 2009
Review of Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement by Brian Doherty. With a few caveats in mind, this voluminous tome can be highly recommended to all who have an interest in the Libertarian Right movement.

Unjust Deserts: Book Review
by Joel S. Hirschhorn (centrist liberal libertarian)
Published: November 22, 2008
Inherited knowledge, not personal efforts, mostly explains becoming rich.

RIP: Barrington J. Bayley
by Dan Clore (libertarian)
Published: October 23, 2008
Obscure but important science-fiction writer has died.

Book Review: No Innocent Bystanders
by Joel S. Hirschhorn (libertarian)
Published: October 2, 2008
You get to a fake democracy when there are too many bystanders.

Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy for Libertarians
by Dan Clore (libertarian)
Published: September 8, 2008
Many works of science fiction and fantasy portray libertarian societies or otherwise bear relevance to libertarians; this list names some of the works that I consider the most essential.

Bakunin the Ogre
by Dan Clore (libertarian)
Published: August 12, 2008
Brief review of Mark Leier's biography of Michael Bakunin, the nineteenth-century anarchist.

Review: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
by Michael Stahl (libertarian)
Published: May 17, 2008
A review of Heinlein's classic.