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American political writer; vice president at the Niskanen Center, where he directs the Open Society Project; formerly vice president for research at the Cato Institute; author of The Age of Abundance (2007).
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On LibertyBook John Stuart Mill
But the reason I selected him is that there is a brief passage in On Liberty (in the second chapter on defending liberty of thought and discussion) where he lays forth what I think is the best concise explanation for why there is a left and a right – and why there always will be.
Five Books interview: the best books on Traditional and Liberal Conservatism
2010-08-15·fivebooks.com ↗
The Constitution of LibertyBook F.A. Hayek
So, by the time he was writing The Constitution of Liberty in 1960 he was already very much identified as one of American conservatism’s leading intellectual lights and he was rather uncomfortable with that.
Five Books interview: the best books on Traditional and Liberal Conservatism
2010-08-15·fivebooks.com ↗
Atlas ShruggedBook Ayn Rand
Chambers wrote a savage review of Atlas Shrugged in the National Review, ending with that quote ‘From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: “To a gas chamber – go!”.’ – saying it had a totalitarian sensibility behind it.
Five Books interview: the best books on Traditional and Liberal Conservatism
2010-08-15·fivebooks.com ↗
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