At midnight last night I made the mistake of starting Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, an excellent history of a political movement I know well. I got through the fourth chapter, and read many of the endnotes. I read nearly half the book last night. Way past the wee hours. I'm sleepy now.

Two things:

1. Doherty's clear prose receives added sparkle from some uncommon words. I like this. Where is writing without scabrous and limn?




2. I guess I would have preferred to leave the word capitalism alone. I'm not a capitalist. I don't have much money. I'm a tradesman. My support for the extended order of several property and free markets governed by a rule of law with limited purview is by no means confined to markets alone.

But I guess that's not all that important.

Of the great libertarians of the past, I tend to think it would have been Albert Jay Nock I'd most like to have met. So far.

I think we may have had more than a few ideas in common; I think his stance in the world was not far from mine.

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