Foreword

Let's review The Probability Broach! (February 7, 2025)
Why I'm reviewing another libertarian novel.

Meet L. Neil Smith (February 14, 2025)
The author was a gun-obsessed libertarian who spent most of his time feuding with other libertarians.

Chapter 1

Peak oil (February 21, 2025)
TPB assumes that all problems can be blamed on government, so much so that it doesn't feel the need to spell out the causality.

Blaming capitalism on socialism (February 28, 2025)
People in this socialist dystopia seem to be completely on their own, but that's what happens in capitalist economies.

Corpus delicti (March 7, 2025)
How would an anarcho-libertarian world respond to a deadly pandemic?

Worthless yellow rocks (March 14, 2025)
Smith almost unconsciously idolizes gold, even though his own philosophy doesn't assign it any special importance.

Chapter 2

Soda pirates (March 21, 2025)
"Property rights, but no laws" is a contradiction in terms.

Anarchist standard time (March 28, 2025)
Standards make society run, but fractious, disagreeable anarchists could never have them.

Minarchists vs. anarchocapitalists (April 4, 2025)
Smith asserts the free market can solve problems like law enforcement, but it's a case of "tell, don't show".

Metal detectors cause terrorism (April 11, 2025)
Some parts of the author's worldview are almost reasonable, while others are way out there. And he doesn't know which is which.

Chapter 3

Free-market mafiosi (April 18, 2025)
Why anarchist societies are inherently unstable.

Superfluous villainy (April 25, 2025)
The bad guys are more evil than they have reason to be.