Anne Fortier on the Case for Libertarian Novels

How
can a freedom-loving writer make the greatest impact for liberty in
the world today? That’s the question posed by novelist and
libertarian Anne Fortier. For her, the chosen path has always been
through fiction. Even as she pursued a doctorate in the history of
ideas in her native Denmark, she realized she had neither the
encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic—not to mention
the nerve—to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal
philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek,
and Milton Friedman.

So, for Fortier, the desire to explore themes of freedom and
human action led inescapably to the novel. And there is no question
that the novel has the potential to attract and influence scores of
readers who are not necessarily predisposed to agreeing with the
underlying philosophy.

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