Sean Gabb is the author of more than thirty books and around a thousand essays and newspaper articles. He also appears on radio and television, and is a notable speaker at conferences and literary festivals in Britain, America, Europe and Asia.
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Under the name Richard Blake, he has written eight historical novels for Hodder & Stoughton. These have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian, Chinese and Indonesian. They have been praised by both The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Star. He has produced another four historical novels for Endeavour Press, and has written two horror novels for Caffeine Nights.
Under his own name, he has written four novels. His other books are mainly about culture and politics.
He also teaches, mostly at university level, though sometimes in schools and sixth form colleges. His subjects include: Latin, Greek, Classics, History, Law, and Economics. His first degree was in History. His PhD is in English History. From 2006 to 2017 he was Director of the Libertarian Alliance. He is currently an Honorary Vice-President of the Ludwig von Mises Centre UK, and is Director of the Centre for Ancient Studies.
He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.
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Introduction to Hans-Hermann Hoppe's "Getting Libertarianism Right" (2018), by Sean Gabb
Getting Libertarianism Right Hans-Hermann Hoppe The Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 2018 Free pdf Introduction by Sean Gabb (first posted here) The writings collected in this book are mostly addresses given in Bodrum to the Property and Freedom Society, of which Professor Hoppe is both Founder and President. I was fortunate to hear them read out to the gathering, and I am deeply honoured to have been asked to provide an Introduction to the published versions. I will divide my Introduction into three sections. First, I will give a brief overview of Hoppe’s early life and intellectual development. Second, I will write at greater length about the academic work that has placed him at the head of the international libertarian movement. Third, I will discuss the main theme or themes that… READ MORETheresa May: A Qualified Defence (2018), by Sean Gabb
Theresa May: A Qualified Defence Sean Gabb 15th September 2018 I am presently sat in a Turkish hotel, brooding over the e-mails I keep receiving from my Conservative friends. If some of them want Boris Johnson to replace her, and others Jacob Rees-Mogg, they all agree that Theresa May must go, and that this will somehow improve our departure from the European Union. I have no doubt she would make a better pole dancer than Prime Minister. But I am astonished that anyone with half a brain could want change from our existing state of affairs. It is not, I grant, the best possible state of affairs. It is, even so, the best available. We must thank our Jewish fellow-citizens for their attack on Jeremy Corbyn. Whether he really is… READ MOREThe Mediaeval Roman Empire: An Unlikely Emergence and Survival (2018), by Sean Gabb
The Mediaeval Roman Empire: An Unlikely Emergence and Survival Sean Gabb Speech Given to the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, 14th September 2018 As ever, I will begin by thanking Professor Hoppe and his wife Gulçin for their great kindness in asking me once again to speak to the Property and Freedom Society here in Bodrum. I will also thank them for the honour they have shown me, for the second year running, of asking me to speak first. On the face of it, the subject I have been given for this year is both obscure in itself and of little relevance to the overall purpose of an organisation set up to advance the restoration of a free and prosperous civilisation. I have been asked to speak about the Emergence… READ MOREJeremy Corbyn: A View from the Right (2018), by Sean Gabb
Jeremy Corbyn: A View from the Right by Sean Gabb 27th August 2018 Seen from my point of view, on the libertarian right, there are at least three ways of looking at the alleged or real anti-semitism of Jeremy Corbyn. The first is that it is very, very funny. Since the 1970s, he and his friends have been whining about the horrors of racial prejudice. Now, every time he opens his mouth, he says something that upsets Jews – and that may legitimately be of concern to them. You tell me it is uncharitable if I fail to keep a straight face. The second is that the scandal is a distraction from the real issue in British politics. Next March, we are supposed to leave the European Union. Whether we… READ MOREActivism in Daily Life: Casting Votes that Count
Activism in Daily Life: Casting Votes that Count by Sean Gabb 25th August 2018 The more raddled and droopy my face grows, the more inclined I am to agree with a proposition put to me by various friends since before I needed to shave. This is that political activism is a waste of time. Oh, writing about politics – analysis, denunciation, a general flying of the ideological flag – that is probably time well-spent. I have always enjoyed it, and may have done no harm to the causes thereby supported. The waste of time is electoral politics and involvement in campaign groups. The first means joining political parties over which we have no control, and that are led by people whose behaviour – and increasingly whose speech – reveals them… READ MORECorporate Censorship and How to Stop It (Sean Gabb Interview) August 2018
Sean Gabb on censorship…and how to stop it Listen HERE Sean Gabb is one of the UK’s leading libertarians. In his new article “State Censorship Corporate Censorship” he argues that even though the UK and US protect “speech about alleged matters of public fact,” these protections are inadequate and eroding. Though no fan of Alex Jones, Sean Gabb says that “his being swept from large areas of the Internet is worrying.” Perhaps the biggest threat to free speech, Gabb suggests, is corporate censorship. And while some libertarians join the apologists for censorship who argue that private corporations such as YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, and Google have the right to censor anyone they want, Sean Gabb disagrees. He argues persuasively that limited liability corporations are not private, but quasi-governmental entities, and should… READ MOREThe Golden Locket by Philippa Gabb
The Golden Locket Philippa Gabb Hampden Press, Deal, 2018 ISBN: 978-1717748508 Lily Furlong is eleven. Lily is a witch. She is off to study at the exclusive Tysings, a school for her sort. All is as normal as could be. New friends. Teachers. The excitements of school. But all is not well. Lily’s dreams continue to haunt her nights. Dreams of crumpled parchment. Dreams of a golden locket. Dreams of a nameless dread that colour her waking life. What happened to Lily’s parents? What secret has been kept from her? What unimaginable evil is seeking to use her for its return? What is the Golden Locket? An exciting adventure, for lovers young and old of the Harry Potter stories. Philippa Gabb is a year five school student. She lives in… READ MOREIn Praise of Jeff Bezos (2018), by Sean Gabb
In Praise of Jeff Bezos by Sean Gabb 21st July 2018 According to a report on the BBC website, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is the richest man in the world, with an alleged personal fortune of £113bn. The usual suspects have raised their arms in outrage at the news. Oxfam drew fresh attention to its report from 2017, in which it called “for a fundamental change in the way we manage our economies so that they work for all people, and not just a fortunate few.” A few weeks earlier, The Guardian had lamented: Amazon’s website is, in the west, the dominant platform for online retail sales…. This is bad for democracy. Commerce ought to reside in markets governed by regulations set by democratic political process not those… READ MOREAnti-Leftism: A Century of Failure (2018), by Sean Gabb
Anti-Leftism: A Century of Failure Sean Gabb 7th July 2018 I am currently preparing another book of essays by my late friend Chris R. Tame. He was an accomplished bibliographer, and I have been slowed down in publishing his book by the need to type in hundreds of references scribbled over the hard copy. This has reminded me of the immense body of literature produced on our side between about 1930 and 1990. University professors, university journals, policy institutes lavishly funded by big business, economists, historians, philosophers, historians, sociologists, political scientists, journalists – no criticism in this period that could be made of the managerial state was left unmade. In writing his essays, Chris ran over whole libraries of books and articles. I read many of them when I was… READ MORELast Exit to Albion Reviews The Churchill Memorandum
“The funny thing about homecomings is the momentary sense of being simultaneously in two different time streams. There’s the knowledge of everything said and done while away. There’s the feeling of having never been away…” Returning from the USA with an apparently innocuous case full of miscellaneous notes and records, renowned historian and Churchill biographer Anthony Markham is oblivious about the ordeal that will soon befall him. The year is 1959, but Eisenhower is nowhere in sight. Harry Anslinger is president. Gandhi did not survive his most fatal hunger strike, Hitler and Churchill died prematurely, Goring controls Germany, World War 2 never happened and the Nazis have made peace with the Jews. Within this alternate timeline, Markham is on the constant run from a cloak-and-dagger conspiracy intent on capturing him… READ MORENo tags for this post.
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