2\ The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms (Hoffer)
and
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Hoffer)
3\ The Myth of National Defense (Hoppe)
and
The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision (Changizi)
4\ 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less (Jones)
and
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Mann)
5\ A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Hoppe)
and
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Sabar)
6\ Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own (Jones)
and
Strength in What Remains (Kidder)
7\ The Birth and Death of the Sun: Stellar Evolution and Subatomic Energy (Gamow)
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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration (Caplan)
8\ A Planet Called Earth (Gamow)
and
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Crowley)
9\ The Founding Fish (McPhee)
and
Democracy: The God that Failed (Hoppe)
10\ The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years (White)
and
Charter Schools and Their Enemies (Sowell)
11\ The Norman Conquest (Morris)
and
Looking for a Ship (McPhee)
12\ The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone (Hazlett)
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How Innovation Works and Why it Flourishes in Freedom (Ridley)
13\ The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Mencken)
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America's Great Depression (Rothbard)
14\ Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic (Rothbard)
and
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Mencken)
15\ The Progressive Era (Rothbard)
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Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Human Nature and Other Essays (Rothbard)
16\ A Mencken Chrestomathy and Notes on Democracy (both Mencken)
and
Intelligence: All That Matters (Ritchie)
17\ Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War (Rothbard) and Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution (Rothbard)
and
The Soul of a New Machine (Kidder)
18\ Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: Salutary Neglect (Rothbard) and Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: The American Colonies in the 17th Century (Rothbard)
and
Socialism: The Failed Idea that Never Dies (Niemietz)
19\ For a New Liberty: A Libertarian Manifesto (Rothbard)
and
Autocracy (Tullock)
20\ What it Means to be a Libertarian (Murray)
and
The Ethics of Liberty (Rothbard)
21\ An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume 2: Classical Economics (Rothbard)
and
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume 1: Economic Thought before Adam Smith (Rothbard)
22\ Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles (Rothbard)
and
Power and Market: Government and the Economy (Rothbard)
and
Law, Legislation, and Liberty: Volume 1: Rules and Order
23\ An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy (Levinson)
and
We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s (Beck)
and
Law, Legislation, and Liberty: Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice (Hayek)
24\ Great Society: A New History (Shlaes)
and
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People's Temple (Guinn)
and
and Law, Legislation, and Liberty: Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People (Hayek)
25\ Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (Murray)
and
Globalizatoin (Boudreaux)
and
The Economics of Justice (Posner)
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3\ And who can forget Gavin Nuisance, gleefully presiding over the nation's longest and most severe lockdown, while breaking the law to dine at French Laundy
1\ Far from an original observation, but I keep thinking about what the advent of the "Gig economy" means for the value proposition of "citizenship"
2\ Under the old model, citizens (and particularly knowledge workers) were bound by financial and commercial ties to one city or country
Politicians used these monopolies to extract taxes, in exchange for which they provided sub-par services
It was a thinly disguised shakedown
3\ Now, hipster/bourgeois culture is global
You can land most places, take an Uber (or a local clone) to an AirBNB, use a food delivery app to order a poke bowl, find a date on Tinder, and then use the cloud to collaborate with co-workers in other countries