Like most readers, when I open a book for the first time, I usually have some idea of what I may encounter. From the title or the cover design, from a dustjacket blurb or where I found the book on a library or bookseller’s shelf, I know something about it even before I start reading. When I first picked up a copy of Andrew Koppelman’s Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed last year, I thought I’d encounter a history of libertarian thought and politics in the twentieth-century United States—a history, I suspected from Read more