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There are good sales, but you can always stock up on science fiction and beef jerky too!


Today is Amazon Prime Day! We're not saying you have to go buy anything, but if you were going to partake anyway, consider using our affiliate links so that Reason gets a cut. If you're not already a Prime subscriber, you can get a free trial and if you're in college you can get 50 percent off. And you nerds can try Twitch, too. All the deals kick in at 3:00 today and last for about 36 hours.
Lots of our readers do their Amazon shopping via Reason already, which lets you toss a few pennies to your favorite (?) magazine while you shop anytime, not just on Prime Day. A pleasingly large number of you, for instance, bought The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin last year.
And shoutout to the readers who bought The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason.
We helped some of your mourn with Anthony Bourdain's last book, Appetites. Some of you have found that you can't go wrong with some classic H.L. Mencken. Or heck, you can go all in on some John Stuart Mill.

And of course you can get all of your ordinary life stuff at Amazon Pantry too. Those family size packs of beef jerky aren't going to schlep themselves, friends.
(Don't worry, by the way: We don't know what specific readers buy, just what y'all buy in the aggregate.)
Whether you're picking up a new space cat shirt or Bruce Lee's memoir (both purchases your fellow Reason readers have made in past years), Reason gets a little piece of the pie if you start at our link.
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I'll add a recommendation to Mother American Night by John Perry Barlow.
It was discussed here some few weeks back and was a very enjoyable read.
No thanks.
"I ain't usin' any of them unpatriotic devil websites. If it ain't got servers made from Murican parts that ain't never felt a furner's hand, it ain't no good, I tell ya."
You always did seem rednecky Baculum.
I shop at Amazon all the time. I am just not going to give Reason credit for my shopping at Amazon.
Or heck, you can go all in on some John Stuart Mill.
I wonder how many of the current commentariat bought this book and of those how many read it and of those how many understood it.
He's the guy who pwns all the cucks, right?
PWNS CUCKS was the license plate on his carriage.
I don't know, he was pro-feminism and shit, that sounds like some CUCK shit to me. Am I right?
Consequentialism is a moral disease
Just Say'n invites Mo Tzu to gargle his balls.
Every moral system is consequentialist.
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That explains a lot of the comments.
and articles...
What articles?
Do they not post articles on this website?
I never use the redirect because I'm afraid Ms. Mangu-Ward will find out that I only buy and read the Communist Manifesto over and over again.
My favorite is the sequel, which has most of the same porn stars. Have you seen it? It's called Labor Theory of Value: Filling A Hole No One Wants Filled.
Reason-contributing editor and ex-privacy advocate Julian Sanchez is favorably retweeting former Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI)
Broken link.
The last time SIV broke a link, he ended up being followed everywhere by five baby chicks.
It's telling that principled anti-war people on the Left, such as Glenn Greenwald and Tracey, are pushing back on the new Cold War talk, while ostensibly "libertarian" commentators like Sanchez are repeating Bill Kristol talking points.
It's been a while since I read The Dispossessed, but I remember thinking it wasn't quite as friendly to libertarianism/anarchy as many seem to think. I liked the book, regardless.
Sometimes those stories can be sneaky that way.
Wasn't the video game series BioShock an anti-libertarian screed?
It's a criticism of Randian style. Kind of a dystopian Atlus Shrugged.
Someone should write a happy story about Libertopia.
There's a reason nobody reads Dante's Paradiso .
Very well. Atlas Shrugged II: The Wrath of the Objectivists.
Atlas Shrugged III: The Search for Locke
The Men In the Jungle
I love that Randian style video. That Korean guy can really dance.
"It's been a while since I read The Dispossessed, but I remember thinking it wasn't quite as friendly to libertarianism/anarchy as many seem to think. I liked the book, regardless.
It's not. LeGuin's politics, I strongly suspect, were of the standard left-wing/liberal variety.
Still a great book though by a great writer.
Fun irrelevant fact; Ursula K. Leguin and Philip K. Dick were in the same year at Berkely High School, though they didn't know each other at the time.
So they didn't know each other at the time, but they did later? There was knowing?
So they didn't know each other at the time, but they did later? There was knowing?
If you mean "knowing" in the ahem, physical/personal sense, no, but they were friends as authors and admired each other's work. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven" (also an excellent novel), is an homage to PKD.
The Lathe of Heaven was my first LeGuin novel. Liked it.
LeGuin was a first rate writer.
The Lathe of Heaven was my first LeGuin novel. Liked it.
I've read hundreds of SF novels and her novel The Left Hand of Darkness would be in my top ten list, maybe within the top five.
Her politics were of the standard lefty variety. A while back she signed her name to a stupid letter that was sent to the Justice Department requesting they take a look at Amazon's business model for authors claiming that Amazon was ruining it for writers and literature in general. A deeply silly letter whose arguments couldn't withstand a seconds ascrutiny.
Long ago I had to learn to separate the artist's politics from their work. I'm looking at you Steve Earle.
Oops
The Left Hand of Darkness was good. I can live with the politics if they aren't rubbed in my face.
That's pretty weird considering they had the same middle name.
Like the joke, but note that they both have weird middle names: Kroeber and Kindred.
ROFLMAO, look, it's a fucking commercial for one of the three or four richest men in America. Gee, I wonder why Reason would flack for Jeff Bezos? I'm sure it has absolutely nothing at all to do with him being one of the two or three lefty billionaires who now makes up almost the entire donor base for Reason.
Jeff Bezos can go fuck himself, just as all lying fake libertarians can go fuck themselves. I wouldn't give him the excess sweat from my ball bag!
Just for saying that I plan to make Jeff a little richer today.
While it's probably true that Jeff Bezos doesn't currently own the ball sweat of any angry retarded men, he's unlikely to ever ask for yours.
I think he's #1 now.
He is. Richest man in the world.
If I get that kind of money, I, too, will start my own space program.
When he was starting Amazon he asked some of his relatives if they wanted to invest the company, the amounts involved weren't much.
His parents did, some others did as well, some didn't.
All those that said yes are now multi-billionaires.
He is. Richest man in the world.
Jeff Bezos will become the world's first trillionaire.
Amazon has barely started...
When you said "Space Cat Shirt" I was hoping it was from the original children's book series.
(Don't worry, by the way: We don't know what specific readers buy, just what y'all buy in the aggregate.)
I only buy jerky to bait the Crusty traps near my dumpster
You know what works even better than jerky?
Why don't you remind people about smile.amazon.com and Reason Foundation? People can support reason year round!