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So little time...

To read the Top 10 Libertarian books of the decade.

A pretty good compilation.

My review of the Elusive Quest is here.

So many books, so little time in a beautiful Vermont bookshop

The solitude of a rural used book store in Plainfield, Vermont. The Country Bookshop on Mill Street is a feast for the restive mind.

Here are some of the titles I picked up for a song this past weekend.

Michael Grant, Julius Ceasar

Luciana Ferrara, The Treasures of the Borghese Gallery

Charles Mackay, LL. D. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

James Bruce Ross & Mary Martin McLauglin, The Portable Medieval Reader

Ian Stewart, Nature's Numbers

and my favorite Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.

Sounds like a promising book

Paul E. Gottfried appears to be one of a kind -- moving from Nixon to Marcuse.

Hat tip: Instapundit.

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A small but vital treatise on reducing the technological-driven clutter, highlighting the meaningful and generating the rhythm of simplicity among the complexity that is inevitable in life.

The Ten Laws are as follows:

• Law 1: Reduce – The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
• Law 2: Organize – Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
• Law 3: Time – Savings in time feel like simplicity.
• Law 4: Learn – Knowledge makes everything simpler.
• Law 5: Differences – Simplicity and complexity need each other.
• Law 6: Context – What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.
• Law 7: Emotion – More emotions are better than less.
• Law 8: Trust – In simplicity we trust.
• Law 9: Failure – Some things can never be made simple.
• Law 10: The one – Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

Highly recommended.

More on the patron saint of the conservatives

Victor Navasky, former Nation editor. reviews Buckley's latest and more

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Here's a review from the Cato Journal that introduced me to the book.

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Having read Fooled by Randomness, I was quick to order Nassim Nicholas Taleb's new book. So far, so good.

Currently reading: Bart Kosko's NOISE

Having grown up with jet noise all around me, I can't wait to get deep into Bart Kosko's latest book. Can we ever eliminate noise, even the noise in the data? Probably not but this meditation on the nausea for the ears is going to open a few intellectual doors.