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Bastiat, Heinlein, Stephenson, Lovecraft, Niven, Lineham, Thoreau, Pratchett, Adams, Zelazny, et al
There might be the occasional drink prior to posting.
Bastiat, Heinlein, Stephenson, Lovecraft, Niven, Lineham, Thoreau, Pratchett, Adams, Zelazny, et al
There might be the occasional drink prior to posting.
What about Chesterton?
February 18, 2009 at 9:25 am
Honestly, I have only fully read “The Man Who Was Thursday”. I have been turned off by “distributism” which strikes me as only limited socialism.
February 19, 2009 at 5:44 pm
He wasn’t the libertarian anarchist ideal, to be sure. But he did oppose the socialism propagated by Shaw and Wells, detested the eugenics theories running rampant at the time, and was a raging Catholic in a sea of Protestants, all of which annoyed the British of his day, and God knows I love a good contrarian. But he’s so good that his work persuaded atheist (and anarchocapitalist) David Friedman to identify as a “Catholic without God,” when we all know the proper response upon hearing the word “Catholic” is to grab your rifle and start shooting at anything robed.
February 21, 2009 at 5:11 am
I should give him more of a try. God knows, my rifle fearing relatives would approve. I do have Human Action and the Road to Serfdom on my list at the moment which may take precedence.
February 21, 2009 at 6:37 am