Tag: fiction
How gun control might be seen 100 years from now
June 1, 2023 | Post
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen was assigned to me during my senior year of high school. I still reflect on its lessons and have found them applicable not just to the past, but, in some cases, to the future. Here is how hypothetical, sweeping new gun control legislation might be seen 100 years from now…
In celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
March 10, 2017 | Post
She was literally born out of the Liberty Movement.
When Nazis were Nazis: Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night
February 10, 2017 | Post
Swastika Night is one of the first works of fiction to address the question, “What if the Nazis won the war?”
Lunar prisoners fight for freedom in Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
February 1, 2017 | Post
My message to you today is simple: don’t miss this book. There is a lot to be learned about liberty here.
Edgar Allan Poe’s hilarious, horrifying vision of the future
January 19, 2017 | Post
January 19, 2017 is the 208th birthday of literary great Edgar Allan Poe.
13 books every well-rounded libertarian should read
December 27, 2016 | Post
There are books that every libertarian should read and books every libertarian has read, but those circles don’t perfectly overlap. Here are 13 diverse book recommendations for well-rounded thinkers.
When fans become creators
December 9, 2016 | Post
When fans of Star Trek or Harry Potter write their own stories or make their own films or music set in those universes, are they hurting the original art or its creators? Or are they in fact making new art and adding something positive to the world?
The dystopian novel that foresaw the nightmares of socialism
October 27, 2016 | Post
Decades before the socialists gained power, Eugene Richter saw the writing on the wall.