Robert Murphy & -Politically Incorrect- books
Addendum:
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism is now available.
- Thomas Woods writes about The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South by Clint Johnson. Read it here.
- Entry mentioned on the LRC blog.
Robert Murphy has a book coming out next month. It is called The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism. After a Google search I found some highlights of the book at The Conservative Book Club website. According to it, the book even addresses the very much needed discussion of the privatization of the roads. Very radical. The book also has a fun quiz in it to see if you are a evillll capitalist pig. For more details click here. Definitely a book to look forward to.
There is a second thing I would like to mention now that I brought up Dr. Robert Murphy. He is producing a podcast on Austro-libertarianism. It is called "Easy Pieces in Austro-Libertarianism."
Podcast: http://mises.org/murphyRSS.xml
Podcast archive: http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=96
The first episode is out. I hope people that are unfamiliar with Austro-libertarianism give it a listen for at least a few episodes.
This is a great way to get the message out, if it is pushed at Podcast Alley and places similar.
One thing I learned, by the way, is that the capital “L” Libertarians are those that are the ones who support the Libertarian Party, whereas the small “l” libertarians just support the hard-core philosophy. I thought it was the other way around. Now I have heard and read it both ways.
The Politically Incorrect series of books seems to be generally pretty good. It is great that people like Thomas Woods (the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History) and Murphy are part of the authors of these books. It will expose people to more radical and Rothbardian-like ideas. Especially the young. I just think that is great.
One of the most unique Politically Incorrect books is The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor. In a few months I will most likely purchase it. Charles Goyette interviewed the author. It was actually a very interesting and fun interview. I also saw her on C-SPAN. It is not something I thought would have interested me much, but after hearing her on Goyette’s show and on C-SPAN it created an interest.
One of the things that came to mind when I saw her on C-SPAN is how left-liberalism and right-statism takes the meaning of words out into some jumble. It reminds me of some of the things (paleo)conservative Richard Weaver said in his book Ideas Have Consequences.
