Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition2 reviews McFarland & Company, 2000 Great contribution to political (and anti-political) theory + Moral Culpability In a 1984 speech, Wendy McElroy -- a great individualist anarchist and co-editor of this collection -- said, "[I]t has become necessary for individualist anarchism to develop a comprehensive defense of anti-political theory in order to counter the grotesque spectacle of anarchists running for ...             Market for Liberty10 reviews Morris Tannehill, Linda Tannehill Fox & Wilkes, 1993 Instant classic + The most AMAZING read in years! + Seminal Libertarian Classic Must Be Read + An-archy is rules without _rulers_. + Changed my Life             The Left Hand of Darkness184 reviews Ursula K. LeGuin Ace, 1987 Revisit this Sci-Fi classic if you haven't read it since college + Le Guin's Masterpiece + Can't put it down The intriguing notion that our gender dictates not only our personal life, but the society we create and our political systems was quite a radical thought for me in the 1970s when I first read this book in college. I was immersed in an on-going sexual revolution and a feminist awakening. Ursula ...             The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority10 reviews Rose Wilder Lane Fox & Wilkes, 1993 Social Studies Primer In One Small Volume + Essential reading to understand the Promise of America + A book that helped me understand Amercia + A High School and College MUST READ + Discovery of Freedom also charts course of Saracen Muslims             The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology2 reviews F. A. Hayek University Of Chicago Press, 1999 Neglected masterpiece + Hayek's contribution to psychology (not merely a Nobel laureate in economics) Although Hayek's influence on economics and political science has been profound, his work in psychology, of which this book is the sole product, is still relatively unknown. This is unfortunate, not only because Hayek is a great psychologist, in the same league as Helmholtz, Fechner, and Freud, ...             Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)2 reviews F. A. Hayek University Of Chicago Press, 1995 The difference between fixed and circulating capital is fundamental + Good Overview of the Keynes-Hayek Episode This particular volume of Hayek's collected works covers the very important exchanges between Hayek and Keynes over Keynes's theories of investment and capital originally put forth in 1930 in the Treatise on Money(two volumes).Keynes's General Theory(1936) approaches to investment and capital are ...             Free Market Reader: Essays in the Economics of Liberty1 review Ludwig Von Mises Inst, 1988 Interesting and timely anthology of free-market thought... Lew Rockwell has compiled a fascinating collection of essays to add to the free-market apologia. Rockwell is the "dean" of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama, the fountainhead of paleolibertarianism. The Institute works to advance individual liberty and free-markets while promoting ...             We112 reviews Yevgeny Zamyatin, Mirra Ginsburg Eos, 1983 Forget 1984 or Brave New World + "We" is "1984"-lite (another reader's thoughts) + The square root of negative one + Minimalist masterpiece of real genius + We All Live in a Glasshouse             The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918 Randolph Bourne University of California Press, 1992 Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s and 1930s. This definitive collection, back in print at last, includes such noted essays as "The War and the Intellectuals," "The Fragment of the ...             Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle13 reviews Mary J., Ph.D. Ruwart Sunstar Press, 1993 Heal the world, you say? + This is one of the best books I've ever read + Fine book but fails on a couple of points + Should be on every legislator's mandatory reading list + Why liberty is a win-win proposition             Our Enemy, the State13 reviews Albert J. Nock Hallberg Pub Corp, 2001 Social Action and Thought vs. Political Imposition and Force + If the church is God's house, the state is the Devil's... + One of my favorite books + A trenchant analysis of State power vs social power             No Treason (Libertarian Broadsides Series : No 5)4 reviews Lysander Spooner AKPress, 1973 An Essay That Causes Readers to Think about the U.S. Constitution, the Common Law, and Natural Law + Best if read several times... + An essay of flaws underlying the basis of this Republic. + Critique of the constitution and social contract in America             Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World48 reviews Kevin Kelly Basic Books, 1995 Perhaps the most important book of the 90s + My all-time favorit book! + This Book Is Out of Control + Cyberpunk Fact             Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison38 reviews Michel Foucault Vintage, 1995 Excellent and thought-provoking. + Knowledge, power, and domination Other reviews have done a nice job of explaining the textual benefits of the book, so let me explain its practical benefit. I'll keep this short and sweet. This is an excellent text to trot out during a sociology or other social science class when you want to egomanically dominate the conversation ...             The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude6 reviews Etienne de la Botie Black Rose Books, 1997 An Astonishing Expose of Political Power + The Politics of Obedience + The Will to Bondage and the Refusal to Think + A Timeless Call to Resist Tyranny + Resolve To Serve No More             National Identification Systems: Essays in Opposition McFarland & Company, 2004 Throughout history, governments have sought more efficient ways to count, tax, allocate, monitor and order the activities of their citizens. Watner and McElroy have compiled a collection of essays that present the historical, religious, moral and practical arguments against government identification. The articles look at several government naming practices and the census and discuss how the ...             Market for Liberty10 reviews Morris Tannehill, Linda Tannehill Fox & Wilkes, 1993 Instant classic + The most AMAZING read in years! + Seminal Libertarian Classic Must Be Read + An-archy is rules without _rulers_. + Changed my Life             Free Market Reader: Essays in the Economics of Liberty1 review Ludwig Von Mises Inst, 1988 Interesting and timely anthology of free-market thought... Lew Rockwell has compiled a fascinating collection of essays to add to the free-market apologia. Rockwell is the "dean" of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama, the fountainhead of paleolibertarianism. The Institute works to advance individual liberty and free-markets while promoting ...             The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918 Randolph Bourne University of California Press, 1992 Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s and 1930s. This definitive collection, back in print at last, includes such noted essays as "The War and the Intellectuals," "The Fragment of the ...             Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)2 reviews F. A. Hayek University Of Chicago Press, 1995 The difference between fixed and circulating capital is fundamental + Good Overview of the Keynes-Hayek Episode This particular volume of Hayek's collected works covers the very important exchanges between Hayek and Keynes over Keynes's theories of investment and capital originally put forth in 1930 in the Treatise on Money(two volumes).Keynes's General Theory(1936) approaches to investment and capital are ...