Occasional guest blogger and Free Agent George Donnelly has undertaken a new project that should be of interest to many of our readers. The Liberty Reading Group is a place for liberty-lovers everywhere to evolve collaboratively through reading, thinking and reasoned discussion.
“We have outlets for socializing and activism but we don’t have much for peer-to-peer spontaneous self-serve education,” said Donnelly. “We need to grow intellectually too. This is my way of finding like-minded folks to learn from.”
Donnelly is running the group at BookSprouts.com and they really do seem to have a pretty nifty setup for organizing book clubs.
In the blog post announcing the club Donnelly listed 8 reasons to join.
- It’s peer-to-peer education!
- New nuances to argue over will appear all around you.
- Your massive reading list will cringe in fear, instead of laughing maliciously at you.
- Send people who claim to get liberty but don’t here as the ultimate argument-ender.
- Expand your repertoire of liberty quotes for your facebook profile.
- Prospective evolutionaries can be referred here for remedial instruction.
- You’ll watch less TV.
- Minarchists everywhere will cower in intellectual fear.
This month’s book is la Boetie’s classic, The Politics Of Obedience: The Discourse Of Voluntary Servitude. Best of all the book is available to read freely online as a .pdf file or is available as an audiobook in four parts (including Murray Rothbard’s introduction).
J Nick Puglia has been a small 'l' libertarian since the mid-90s. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Nick can be found 
Thanks Nick.
A lot of people have signed up and I’m looking forward to learning not only from la Boetie but also from my fellow liberty lovers!
Me too!
Thanks for posting this Nick. My initial response was “Wow, but I have no time.” Then an IHS quote came to my mind — “Sleep less, think more!” — so I guess that’s what I’ll do. So yes, I’m signing up! Looking forward to it.