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"Are We Good Enough for Liberty" by Lawrence W. Reed, including Leonard E. Read's classic essay, "I, Pencil".Reed's book establishes the indispensable connection between liberty and character and explains why, throughout history, "no people who lost their character kept their liberty." It is a book of stories and lessons from the past and from across the world. It instructs as well, noting that "If you do not govern yourself, you will be governed."

Are We Good Enough for Liberty?

Reed, Lawrence W.

There is no such thing as being 'undecided' about war. It is a binary choice. If you re not for it, you have to be against it. The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments for peace. The writers advance peace not merely as a moral ideal or even a desirable goal, but as an eminently practical objective. Too often peace activists have thought it sufficient merely to call for peace and to denounce war, without investigating the economic, social, political, and psychological conditions of peace. They may oppose this or that war, without considering what causes wars--for example, fallacies about clashes of civilizations, economic conflict, protectionism, and the zero-sum worldview--and then addressing those causes. Peace is not an impractical fantasy, nor is it something for which one must sacrifice prosperity or progress or freedom. In fact, peace, freedom, prosperity, and progress go hand-in-hand. The essays in this book appeal to the mind. They are anchored in sound history, economic reality, empirical psychology, political science, and hard-headed logic, as well as art and the aesthetic imagination. If the heart is to be engaged on behalf of peace, it should be engaged through the mind.

Peace, Love & Liberty

STEVEN PINKER

Tom G. Palmer

Emmanuel Martin

Erik Gartzke

Robert M. S. McDonald

Justin Logan

Radley Balko

Sarah Skwire

Cathy Reisenwitz

The libertarian philosophy is often associated only with economics or with resistance to social norms. 
 In this path-breaking new book, editor Tom Palmer weaves together a series of essays, theoretical and practical, showing how to live a happier life, be a better person, and enjoy the benefits of freedom and responsibility.
 Case studies with scientific, historical, and philosophical insights are offered to create a handbook for free people who want to live in free, prosperous, cooperative, peaceful, and just societies. 
 For those looking for alternatives to the Nanny State, the Prohibitionist State, and the Welfare State, this book is a good place to start.

Self-Control or State Control? You Decide

This opus illuminates the most significant and explosive issues that have engaged the energies of his fabled, and often frustrated, Baby Boom generation. Michael Medved, bestselling author of The American Miracle This provocative memoir is the ultimate insider guide to the often widely misunderstood history and nature of political conservatism in American politics, ever since its initial stirrings in the 1950s down to why today s Generation X has begun to turn against big government and also the political correctness regime. This is a far-reaching narrative about and far beyond New York, Washington, and California politics, with fascinating behind-the-scenes details and unique insights into the subtleties of campaigns and elections, strategy and polling, advertising and political journalism. Steinberg takes on sacred cows. He indicts crony capitalism; materialism trumping values; religious contradictions and sexual hypocrisy; the failed war on drugs and mass incarcerations; the governing class and income redistribution; politically correct victimization and racial spoils; and sixty years of immorally waged wars and failed nation building. The book details the rise of the 1960s student conservative movement and Barry Goldwater s 1960s challenge to the Eastern Republican establishment. He links the current revival of the intolerant 1960s campus New Left to a renaissance of collectivism, socialism, and anti-Semitism. The author explains the nuances and tensions within a conservative movement at war with itself following the Reagan years. He contrasts Donald Trump s nativist and nationalist appeal to Reagan s upbeat conservatism. Whether you re a postwar Baby Boomer, a Millennial, or from Generation X, this timely history clarifies the conservative puzzle. It contains intriguing flashbacks as it relates seemingly unrelated personalities and events from the past to American politics today. Equal parts political autobiography, how-to political primer, and political philosophy, this book has much more, including new information about famous billionaires, Hollywood personalities, foreign leaders and even the O.J. Simpson case!

Whiplash! From JFK to Donald Trump, a Political Odyssey

Arnold L. Steinberg

This is a very important book, not only for state and national legislators who try to represent citizens instead of special interests, but also for taxing and spending watchdogs in the press and those involved with good government citizen activist groups.
 Almost all governments have a real knack for wasting money and doing things badly, and that's what happened to what, on paper, promised to be the marvelous tax relief effort in Kansas promoted by its governor, Sam Brownback.
 What really happened was this: Kansas legislators increased spending as taxes were cut and then routinely set new spending records. The tax cuts received the blame for the financial crisis which followed.
 At the same time, Democrats and Republicans alike ignored the recommendations of an independent efficiency study, among other commonsense suggestions, which would have reduced state government costs by about $2 billion over several years. For example: (1) using bulk purchasing to reduce costs and (2) putting a reasonable cap on school district cash reserves. Kansas school districts had claimed to be underfunded while at the same time diverting money from classrooms into record-setting cash reserves.
 Why is this story of interest to anyone not living in Kansas? The answer is this: the failure of the Kansas tax reduction plan has been widely used -- as a poster child -- to intimidate tax-cutters in other states.
 This is the reason for this book: to correct the false narrative about Kansas and to show reform-minded legislators across the USA how to navigate a successful tax relief effort in their states -- through the shoals of politics-as-usual and the opposition from special interests -- by following both the blueprint and the history provided in this short guide.

What Was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan - The Undoing of a Good Idea

Dave Trabert & Denedri Herbert

Of the 484 free-market think tanks in ninety-two countries around the world, the Reason Foundation has become a world leader for its practical libertarian solutions to serious public policy problems at the local, state, and national levels.
 Unlike the caricature of libertarians as people too impractical and radical for the real world of American government, Reason has an unmatched record of implementing highly successful, often cost-saving, reforms to improve public services for the typical American.
 Based in California for most of its fifty years and with a satellite office in Washington, DC Reason now has a staff of more than seventy and an annual budget of over $13 million.
 Poole, a self-described MIT-educated nerdy young introvert engineer, was cofounder and long-time Reason Foundation CEO until stepping down in 2001 to focus on transportation infrastructure policy. He narrates the remarkable story of this uniquely American public policy center and the dramatic effect it continues to have on economic policy issues all around the world.
 The foundation s research and commentary reaches the general public and policymakers through its print magazine, Reason (first published in 1968 as a monthly for free minds and free markets ), and online at Reason.org and Reason.com, plus its television programming at Reason.tv each an outlet for alternatives to left- and right-wing policy positions.
As Poole writes, he developed a very results-oriented approach to policy change. Instead of measuring success by the number of media appearances . . . our real measure of success is policy ideas that get implemented. This work has led to a large array of changes in city and state services delivery, transportation infrastructure, school choice, public pension reform, and a number of other areas. For example, the foundation s impressive Pension Integrity Project has led to serious reforms adopted in Arizona, Michigan, and South Carolina states whose major reforms of their underfunded public pension systems many believed were politically impossible.
 In addition to its policy research, the foundation has trained many prominent scholars and journalists, including the op-ed page editor of the Wall Street Journal, as well as think-tank executives and noted authors.
Poole remains an optimist about the future of liberty here and abroad, but he also issues telling warnings about both populism and the growth of America s unaccountable national administrative state in this compelling and highly readable memoir.

A Think Tank for Liberty: A Personal History of Reason Foundation

Robert W. Poole

Libertarianism: John Hospers, the Libertarian Party’s 50th Anniversary, and Beyond

• C. Ronald Kimberling

• Stan Oliver

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