Ep. 0250: 12 Writers Every Libertarian (Including Me) Should Read More
In this episode, CJ discusses 12 authors who (in his opinion) deserve to be more widely known & read among libertarian/anarchist/etc type people. Most of these authors would not actually identify as “libertarians” or “anarchists,” but all have a strong independent streak & have at least some views & attitudes that overlap with libertarianism and/or anarchism. Furthermore, all of them are great writers in their respective genres.
Join CJ as he discusses:
- Montesquieu
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
- John Dos Passos
- Jacques Ellul
- Jane Jacobs
- Gore Vidal
- Edward Abbey
- Mike Resnick
- James C. Scott
- Kirkpatrick Sale
- F. Paul Wilson
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Links
- “Anarchism and the Morality of Violence” by Edward Abbey (As of this recording, CJ hasn’t read this, but he very much intends to)
- “The meaning of Timothy McVeigh” by Gore Vidal (a very interesting article first published back in 2001)
- DHP Ep. 0087: Grain and the State (an old DHP episode that was very heavily influenced by the work of James C. Scott)
- DHP Ep. 0094: British Bric-a-brac (Audio version of CJ’s grad school research paper from the 2005 research seminar he took on modern propaganda, which is where he first encountered Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda & is when he first began studying propaganda in a systematic, scholarly fashion)
- DHP Ep. 0141: Draining the Swamp: The War on the Everglades (This episode, plus CJ’s Rise of the Cane Kingdom 2-part series, illustrate an environmental historical example of an attempt by government to impose artificial order on a natural system that had evolved under conditions of emergent order, and the disasters that resulted)
- DHP Ep. 0143: Rise of the Cane Kingdom, Part 1 (part 1 of a 2-part mini-series)
- DHP Ep. 0152: Discussing Mike Resnick’s Santiago in the Dusty Den
- DHP Ep. 0153: Mike Resnick (An interview with the late, great scifi author conducted just over 2 years before his death)
- DHP Ep. 0226: Emergent Order vs. Imposed Order (This Silver Bullet episode reflects the influence on CJ’s thinking of Jane Jacobs & James C. Scott, among others.)