Please share one timeless book or article that might belong in a “Freedom Library”.
Just post one link (rather than a long list) so you think deeply about the most important freedom related content you’ve ever come across.
Freedom should be the focus, but feel free to pull from the domain that you feel most strongly about (speech, money, food, human rights, etc…) so we end up with a comprehensive library of really incredible freedom content.
A Cypherpunks Manifesto should definitely be added.
https://cdn.nakamotoinstitute.org/docs/cypherpunk-manifesto.txt
Along with the Hacker Manifesto
This is great! Thanks for sharing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia
Great pick! That would also be my non-fiction choice.
Modern Science and Anarchy
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-modern-science-and-anarchy
I think Atlas Shrugged drives the point home as powerfully as any other written work, particularly the scene when the protagonist finally gets it. I can still remember it pretty vividly, many years later.
https://www.amazon.ca/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145
We can't leave this one out.
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
The Ethics Of Liberty - Rothbard [1]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81983.The_Ethics_of_Liberty
Not my first choice but because not everyone would choose this, I think it is useful because it explores questions around freedom and libertarian thought from the perspective of natural law: it tries to make sense of liberty. ↩
The Sovereign Individual
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereign_Individual
True Names, by Vernor Vinge. Has to be the most important piece of fiction (with all due respect to Gibson). This link included Marvin Minksy's afterword.
Atlas Shrugged was my first choice but someone mentioned it already so for a younger audience
Anthem by Ayn Rand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella)
And honestly Rand should have her own section in the freedom library
Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher was pretty cool
1 Peter 2 but particularly: “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”
1 Peter 2:16
Don Quixote - is the book #1
Cool
"yeare all so unpoetic like"
Left Handed Poems
‘Anarchy, State, and Utopia’ by Robert Nozick
1984 by George Orwell
“One book I’d add is The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg. It’s not just about money it’s about how technology shifts the balance of power between individuals and institutions. The sections on cryptography and the rise of digital currencies feel prophetic when read today in the Bitcoin era.
It’s a reminder that freedom isn’t given; it’s engineered sometimes in code, sometimes in culture. If we’re building a Freedom Library, this one belongs on the first shelf.”
For a deep dive into the very foundations of individual liberty and its limits, I'd propose John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. It's a timeless exploration of freedom of thought and discussion, and the role of society and government in relation to individual autonomy
+100 sats for the recommendation.
-90 sats for the AI slop formatting.
Yea! It does open the world to me. AI that is
A great start