Why You Should Read This Book

Teaser and praise for 'The Freedom Scale' (Read me first.)

Author’s note…

It might not be quite right to call The Freedom Scale a life’s work, but it’s close enough. The first kernel of an idea came to me so long ago that…well, I don’t even recall exactly when it was. Definitely before 2008.

It took a while to start writing, and once I did, I wrote very slowly—just nibbling at it in what free time I had, while raising a young child and running a political news magazine. As it turns out, however, all the delays were a very good thing.

I needed the time. To think. To explore. To read, listen, and learn. To work out the ideas. The result, in a sense, is three books in one.

Are you tired of being told that fascism and Nazism are “right-wing”? Sick of your rights being violated by an increasingly tyrannical government? Fed up with the lunacy of the left? Want to make sense of it all?

If so, this book is for you.

When I began writing The Freedom Scale, I was a comparatively mainstream conservative. Through the course of writing, as the principles began to crystalize, I grew increasingly libertarian. Both of those are reflected in the content, as is a general wariness about leftism, which I continue to hold to this day.

About six months after I finished writing, as I drew the principles out to their logical conclusions, I finally realized that there is a fundamental problem with just about every government humanity has ever had. (Do I dare call myself an anarchist?) That is not fully reflected in the work, though you will certainly see signs of how I got there.

Starting today, I will begin releasing installments of The Freedom Scale to Supporting Members, here on my Substack of the same name. To help convince you that it is worth it, here is a one-page description, along with testimonials from some of the book’s first readers.

Thanks,
Christopher Cook