This is Monica Perez here today with the Henry Haslett Research Fellow from the Mises Institute.

You can read all of his credentials, his writings, his works, all at Mises.org. So I will leave that to you if you want to know all of

his credentials and background and economic bona fides. This is Dr. Jonathan Newman. Thank you so

much for being here. Yeah. Thanks so much for having me. I'm super excited because we just

finished my readers and listeners and I, it's so funny,

I never expected this to be a popular thing that I do, but I just like to read books usually

out of copyright, preferably, on the air and just like say what I think about them. And people

listen and we have a conversation and we're all getting a good

education and still it's fun and social, but we're all kind of hacking away at it. So I thought

we could get an expert in here to tell us the subject is the law by Frederick Bosteat. Oh, I have to tell

your story. So before we just went on air, Jonathan asked me, he said, well, how did you get

into this? And no one has ever asked me that. Like, what major libertarian? No one has ever asked

me that. And I didn't even tell him the story. It was the perfect opportunity for me to tell

him the story that I told when I started the law, which was this.

So my father died about 20 years ago, but his sister was kind of like-minded Aunt Margaret.

And one time, you know, probably around 20 years ago, I stumbled upon the law by Boston,ia, which is a small work, and I read it. And I was like, oh, my gosh, this is the greatest thing I've read in my life. Like, I love this so much. I've got to tell Aunt Margaret. So I called Aunt Margaret's like, oh, my gosh, and you would love this book. It's the law by Baciat. She's on the other end of the phone, she goes, Monica, my dear girl.

Daddy gave us each and every one of us a copy of the law for our 12th birthdays, and we were

expected to read it.

And I was like, and she grew up in the projects.

She just, like, became an English teacher and had all that like sounded like Catherine Hepburn.

But she, but it made me realize that the reason it resonated so much

was that it was my heritage.

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