In this episode, CJ discusses 12 authors who (in his opinion) deserve to be more widely known & read among libertarian/anarchist/etc type people. Most of these authors would not actually identify as "libertarians" or "anarchists," but all have a strong independent streak & have at least some views & attitudes that overlap with libertarianism and/or anarchism. Furthermore, all of them are great writers in their respective genres.Join CJ as he discusses:

Montesquieu

Alexis de Tocqueville

Jose Ortega y Gasset

John Dos Passos

Jacques Ellul

Jane Jacobs

Gore Vidal

Edward Abbey

Mike Resnick

James C. Scott

Kirkpatrick Sale

F. Paul Wilson

And stay tuned to the end of the episode for information about CJ's upcoming course at Renegade University!

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"Anarchism and the Morality of Violence" by Edward Abbey (As of this recording, CJ hasn't read this, but he very much intends to)

"The meaning of Timothy McVeigh" by Gore Vidal (a very interesting article first published back in 2001)

DHP Ep. 0087: Grain and the State (an old DHP episode that was very heavily influenced by the work of James C. Scott)

DHP Ep. 0094: British Bric-a-brac (Audio version of CJ's grad school research paper from the 2005 research seminar he took on modern propaganda, which is where he first encountered Jacques Ellul's Propaganda & is when he first began studying propaganda in a systematic, scholarly fashion)

DHP Ep. 0141: Draining the Swamp: The War on the Everglades (This episode, plus CJ's Rise of the Cane Kingdom 2-part series, illustrate an environmental historical example of an attempt by government to impose artificial order on a natural system that had evolved under conditions of emergent order, and the disasters that resulted)

DHP Ep. 0143: Rise of the Cane Kingdom, Part 1 (part 1 of a 2-part mini-series)

DHP Ep. 0152: Discussing Mike Resnick's Santiago in the Dusty Den

DHP Ep. 0153: Mike Resnick (An interview with the late, great scifi author conducted just over 2 years before his death)

DHP Ep. 0226: Emergent Order vs. Imposed Order (This Silver Bullet episode reflects the influence on CJ's thinking of Jane Jacobs & James C. Scott, among others.)

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