Another full chapter of Libertarianism Today is now online for free — this one on why libertarianism is antiwar. This is my favorite chapter of the book, so I’m especially glad I could make it available through Antiwar.com.
Other parts of the book you can read for free online:
And if you want to read the whole thing, it’s on sale at a special low price for a limited time.
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Just in time for Christmas, my book, Libertarianism Today, is available for its lowest price ever: just $22.47 for the hardcover!
Get this price while you still can by ordering direct from the publisher online or by calling 800-368-6868. Sale ends January 15.
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Laurence M. Vance has kind words for Libertarianism Today in the April 2011 issue of Freedom Daily. The review isn’t online and probably won’t be for a while [UPDATE: now it is], but for now I can tell you that he says that it’s “the best introduction to libertarianism on the market.” And here’s how he concludes:
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Libertarianism Today is the most important book on libertarianism since Rothbard’s For a New Liberty. Not only does it stand in the Rothbardian tradition, it is a principled, uncompromising, iconoclastic, consistent, and unvarnished defense of libertarianism that Rothbard would be proud of.
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In Policy, a magazine published by Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies, Alex Willemyns has a favorable review of Libertarianism Today.
Here’s a sample:
Indeed, although the author could not possibly provide a complete introduction to an ideology as unorthodox and contested as libertarianism in such a short volume, Huebert’s attempt is the most engaging and incisive currently available. Further, its unabashedly radical nature is a welcome surprise for a book that could just as easily have been meandering and equivocal in its case for libertarianism. With an abundance of suggestions for further reading throughout, it should appeal to all readers, from the most well-informed libertarian to those new to the radical theory.
Read the rest here.
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In a review for the Canadian C2C Journal, Fergus Hodgson says — among other favorable things — that my Libertarianism Today is an “accessible yet rigorous explanation of libertarianism and its political movement.”
But he criticizes me a little bit for focusing on U.S. issues while ignoring Canada entirely.
I had a pretty good reason, though: Canada’s government — although I’m sure it perpetrates many evils — isn’t trying to run the world, isn’t killing hundreds of thousands of people in other countries, isn’t imposing IP tyranny on the rest of the world, and isn’t wrecking the world economy. In other words, the Canadian government never did anything to me. The U.S. government, on the other hand, is the world’s largest, most powerful government and does endless bad things to countless people who don’t even live here.
I long for the day when my government isn’t worth mentioning in a book about the evils of the state!
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For most of U.S. history, people took it for granted that you had a right to ingest whatever substances you want. Therefore, all drugs were legal — cocaine, heroin, all of them — and things were more or less fine.
A newly available excerpt from Libertarianism Today describes what life was like when all drugs were legal.
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I’m delighted to learn that someone has violated my so-called intellectual property rights and posted a Japanese translation of part of Libertarianism Today on YouTube. There’s a version with English audio (a decent computer voice) and Japanese subtitles and a version with what I can only assume is Japanese audio and Japanese subtitles.
The translation is of one of my favorite parts of the book, on “Why Libertarians Oppose War.”
UPDATE: I’m told that the title of the Japanese-audio version is “Under Any Circumstances Government is Criminal Enterprise! Watch Out!”
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Mises.org has made an entire chapter of Libertarianism Today, “
