Sam is really big into making connections between her life and the books we read, as well as between books. It’s really exciting. For example, this morning, Grand-mère was reading Choo Choo (by Virginia Lee Burton) to Sam, and when they got to the part where the train escapes, Sam exclaimed: “Just like Camus does!” I …

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Who went to war with Iraq? Rothbard quotes Parker Thomas Moon, a historian writing in the 30s, on the way that collective nouns like “nation” or “society” mislead us into thinking that these are actual entities who think and choose and act. When one uses the simple monosyllable “France” one thinks of France as a unit, …

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I have a stack of non-fiction books that I’ve been meaning to get to for some time. Most of my pure-pleasure reading is fiction, and I usually curl up with these just before bedtime. Today, however, during Sam’s nap, I finally started the next book on the queue: Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty. It’s amazing. I’ve …

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Sammy and I have started to visit our local library every couple of weeks. She’s in this phase where she wants to read a particular book over and over until her mother would rather rip her eyebrows out rather than read it one more time and then suddenly– obsession over! No more of that book ever ever again, please. So …

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