A batch of the best highlights from what Stefan's read, .
All of these additional claims are a distraction from the central principle: if you oppose the initiation of physical force, you are a libertarian. Period. Now how hard was that?
Against the Left: A Rothbardian Libertarianism
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The Chinese and Persians did not lack technological inventions such as steam engines (which could be freely copied or bought). They lacked the values, myths, judicial apparatus and sociopolitical structures that took centuries to form and mature in the West and which could not be copied and internalised rapidly.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Pure democracies can degenerate into autocracies. Republics are what you want.