01-07-2018, 10:08 PM
(01-07-2018, 12:23 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(01-07-2018, 05:43 AM)Galen Wrote:(01-06-2018, 11:51 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: I suggest of course Jefferson, Madison, J.S. Mill and a few others.
Definitely good choices but one should never leave out the works of Mr. Libertarian.
Rothbard is most likely beyond PBR's rather limited intellect.
Though I must admit I was rather pleased to find Hoppe in my son's bathroom literature when I was scrubbing toilets the other day. Yeah he probably should clean his own bathroom but neither he, nor my husband, nor my mother ever clean anything to my satisfaction. No I don't have OCD I just like the smell of bleach in a bathroom.
He either has or will get around to reading Rothbard since the modern libertarian movement pretty much started with Rothbard. You are probably right about PBR's intellectual limitations.
The Mises institute just released a new book on the Progressive Era. Rothbard has been dead since 1995 and he publishes more than most live authors. Just leave a copy of Anatomy of the State laying around and your son's curiosity should do the work for you.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises