The Call of the Tribe
A novelist's account of the seven liberal thinkers who turned him away from the left.
Mario Vargas Llosa writes essays on Adam Smith, Ortega y Gasset, Hayek, Popper, Isaiah Berlin and others, tracing how each shaped his move from youthful Marxism to liberalism. It is intellectual autobiography by way of other people’s books, and the individual chapters stand up on their own.
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Tyler Cowen
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Call of the Tribe. On the thinkers who have influenced him, including Adam Smith, Hayek, Berlin, Popper, and Ortega y Gasset, among others. All of the chapters I quite liked.
Source · February 2023
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