Last night, I returned to my friend Tom G. Palmer’s book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, And Practice, and read a few chapters all over again. I liked the book when I read it last summer, but I found some true comfort last night rereading chapters like “Why Socialism Collapsed in Eastern Europe,” or “Twenty Myths about Markets.” The twenty-myths chapter is a straightforward and persuasive piece of writing that contains many arguments that all of us can use in the current political debate.

Last but not least, Palmer is also a true gentleman, as you can see here and here.