Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Democracy, The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., 2001) This is a great book. Even so, it won't convince everyone who reads it, but it will influence many and it will change the lives, I expect, of quite a few. Why? Because it is the most carefully reasoned and scholarly set-out yet published of the paleo-libertarian or anarcho-capitalist proposition that all of what we call u201Cgovernmentu201D – all centralized government, but especially u201Cdemocraticu201D government – is inherently evil and tyrannical and quite beyond reform. It is, … Continue reading The Quiet Revolution