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LIBERTARIAN: Short Answers to the Tough Questions
Dr. Mary J. Ruwart

SunStar Press, 1998

Anyone who's ever argued in favor of liberty has faced the tough questions. Mostly, they are practical objections to the idea of less government. Most go something like this: "How can we have (fill in the blank) without taxes and without government intervention?" Unless you can give a short, convincing answer to such questions, your libertarian beliefs will seem foolish and hopelessly naive to questioners. That's what makes this book so useful. ...

Short answers to the tough questions

1 review
Mary J Ruwart

SunStar Press, 1999

Uncompromising and consistent libertarian philosophy
_Short Answers to Tough Questions_ is a short book with large print, spiral bound and intended for Libertarian candidates to carry with them during debates and interviews, etc. Still, it's worth its weight in gold as the most concise, uncompromising, and consistent expression of hardcore libertarian philosophy in print. According to the great Dr. Ruwart, Libertarians can be either anarchists ...

Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression

16 reviews
Mary J. Ruwart, Frances Kendall, ...

Sunstar Press, 2003

THE best libertarian book out there.
I agree with the other viewer who said that this book is an overrall better introduction to libertarianism than all the others, even Murray N. Rothbard's "For A New Liberty". Many of the great libertarian writers started from some central axiom. Ludwig Von Mises said that "Man acts to achieve some goal subjectively desired by themself". Rothbard said "self-ownership." And Robert Higgs points ...

Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle

13 reviews
Mary J., Ph.D. Ruwart

Sunstar Press, 1993

Heal the world, you say?
I love this book. Really. Dr. Ruwart's political philosophy's foundation is about non-aggression. This is nothing new in the libertarian creed, and the difference is that instead of concentrating on arguments of property rights, she really drives home with the non-aggression principle. She avers that by using aggression (i.e. force) to solve our problems, we end up only worsening our lives. We ...