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Scotch and Scholars — Walter Block: Libertarians for Trump? Mar 16, 2016

Prolific scholar Walter Block has founded Libertarians for Trump, with the goal of "mobilizing massive support for Donald Trump." In this interview, I attempt to convince Walter that supporting Trump is terribly unwise strategically. Walter concedes the point and then claims that by starting an organization entitled "Libertarians for Trump" he was only engaged in a thought experiment, not actually, you know, supporting Trump. We have a very friendly conversation, even though only one of us can be correct. What is the likely outcome of hitching a libertarian wagon to Trump? Is supporting Trump significantly better or worse than supporting...

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Fun Tonight on Liberty.me LIVE Feb 10, 2016

We have a delightfully diverse set of shows tonight on LIVE. First, at 8:00 pm Eastern, the bros from Unbiased America hang out with Julian Adorney — savvy political commentator, FEE author, and new admin of Americans For Capitalism. Next, at 9:30 on Between the Covers, liberty fictionista Tracy Lawson interviews novel author Linda Sittig Harris about immigration, women in liberty and business, plot hooks — and textiles? Then at 10:30 I'm up with Troy Lanigan on Scotch and Scholars. Troy is president and CEO of the Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation. We're going to talk about his new book: Fighting for...

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Jeff Riggenbach’s Libertarian Tradition Dec 18, 2015

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Why Is Our New Book Already #2 in Its Amazon Category? Oct 2, 2015

The Future of Freedom Foundation’s newest release is soaring through the Amazon charts. The book is Richard Ebeling’s Monetary Central Planning and the State, and we released it just yesterday. How did we do this — again? (The “we” here is FFF plus InvisibleOrder.com.) Well, it helps that there are hundreds or maybe thousands of readers who have been thrilled by this book already in its first incarnation as a series of 40 articles in FFF’s Freedom Daily years ago. So right out of the gate, this book starts with a great reputation. It also certainly helps that Ebeling is...

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What Is the Best Length for a Book? Sep 2, 2015

I recently had a conversation with an author (and Liberty.me member) who is planning on publishing a book of her short stories on Amazon.com. She wondered what the best length for a story and the best length for a whole book would be. My suggestion to her was that she experiment by releasing some of her short pieces as individual ebooks, as well as and before putting them together and releasing them as a big Kindle or print compilation. In fact, this is good advice for almost any author today, fiction or nonfiction. Why? The old physical constraints of paper...

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Refreshment for the Libertarian Mind Jun 15, 2015

Are you feeling tied down by the total state? Do you see the rusty chains of regulation everywhere you look? Do you have trouble remembering that there is joy and freedom today, now, in everyday things and in your own life? Well, Joseph Diedrich has the prescription for you! Joe Diedrich is one of the most uplifting and most insightful (and best dressed) writers in liberty today. He has an amazing way of seeing the world anew — of focusing on overlooked details and illuminating oft-forgotten truths with joy and humor. As anyone who has been in his presence —...

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Tell Stories to Sell Ideas Jun 11, 2015

How do you get people to buy your book? Today, three of my books are in Amazon's top 100 in their category (20th-century history). I'm prouder than lions to see them there, and I'm hungrier than jackals to get another book up the charts. But let me back up a moment and explain how this happened. When I say "my books," I mean that I'm the publishing consultant on all three. The books really belong to the Future of Freedom Foundation, and the authors are Jacob Hornberger and Douglas Horne. Jacob, Douglas, and FFF are the mothers of these excellent...

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Trolls Don’t Pay Tolls: The Liberty.me Success Story Jun 10, 2015

I want to share with you the strange, simple secret of the inner workings of Liberty.me: freedom isn’t free. When you put your hard-won ideas out there on the Internet on your own blog or via those other social networks, you know what’s going to happen. Every. Single. Time. You will just be getting started on a real exchange of ideas, and then you will be, without a doubt, every day of your Internet life, interrupted by those profanity-spewing ignoramuses who live to offend and disrupt  — the trolls. Well, guess what: we don’t have any trolls on Liberty.me. And...

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