As part of my research for the book I’m writing with John Tomasi on the history of libertarian thought,I’m re-reading Murray Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty. It’s a thought-provoking book, and one that perhaps doesn’t get as much attention among movement libertarians as Rothbard’s other, more popular work. And it’s a book that contains a lot of ideas that are highly relevant to the BHL project, at least as an illustrative contrast.

So I thought I’d invite you all to read the book with me. I can’t promise posts on every chapter, but I’ll share what thoughts I do have as I go along, starting later this week with the introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

You can buy the book on Amazon here. Get the whole book in PDF from the Ludwig von Mises Institute here. Or listen to it as an audiobook narrated by Jeff Riggenbach here. Also check out the reading group that Bryan Caplan led on Rothbard’s For a New Liberty here.