Some links to material covered in the episode:

* My essay: The most influential foundations of State legitimacy are quickly losing power.

* The full length feature film Jones Plantation, which shows how ruling over people using manipulation works better than by using brute force.

For the newbies

Since some may be new to libertarian perspectives, here is a short list of links you may find helpful. I’ve classified them based on the different ways people ponder issues:

Want to know how important things would get done without government?

* Reading material: “The Machinery of Freedom” by David Friedman; for private law specifically (rather than government law) try “Legal Foundations of a Free Society” by Stephan Kinsella

* Video: “The Case for Privatization, of Everything”

Want a comprehensive overview?

* Reading material: “The Voluntaryist Handbook” by Keith Knight

* Video: “The Philosophy of Liberty”

Want to get down to the root of it, without sugar coating?

* Reading material: “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard, “The Most Dangerous Superstition” by Larken Rose

* Video: “The fundamentals”, “The Whole Problem”, “The State is Too Dangerous to Tolerate”, “The Tiny Dot”

Want to focus on economics?

* Reading material: “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read, “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt

* Video: “The Attractiveness of Austrian Economics”

Want to focus on the absurdity of politics?

* Reading material: “The Problem of Political Authority” by Michael Huemer”

* Video: “Election Day”, “I’m Allowed to Rob You”, “If You Were King”, “The Jones Plantation”

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