Oh Goodness, I’m Such A Geek For This Stuff
Seriously, I get all giddy about writing like this. And his sci-fi is even better!
Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief of Reason, has kindly sent me a review copy of Choice: the best of Reason magazine, published by BenBella Books. (Full disclosure: Reason once ran an interview with me.) It’s a book to dip into, and I’ve been dipping into it. I haven’t read all of it, so this isn’t a review.
First, though, the book looks good. The cover design is classy. The picture of the Statue of Liberty (obligatory under a little-known but grimly enforced Federal regulation of libertarian book covers) is cropped to hardly more than a nostril. In the text the font is easy on the eye. It all looks mainstream. The contrast with almost every other libertarian paperback I have on my shelves is striking: all but one of them have covers that holler of crank. (It isn’t a question of radicalism of content - the one exception is the fine Open Court second edition of The Machinery of Freedom, by David Friedman.) Choice is libertarianism you can bring home to mother.
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In other news, Alex is done working for the co-op. Which is good! I’m not far behind. On the downside, she left her iPod there and I said I’d pick it up tomorrow. Oh well.
Posted: March 16th, 2005 under Literature, Politics.