Five Books to Change Conservatives' Minds

As the 2016 presidential election made clear, we live in the era of the echo chamber. To escape their own, progressives need to be reading the best conservative thought -- certainly Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, but also more contemporary figures such as Antonin Scalia and Robert Ellickson. The same is true for conservatives, if they hope to learn from progressives. Here are five books with which they might start.

1: “The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World,” by William Nordhaus. If a Nobel Prize is going to be awarded for environmental economics, Nordhaus may well be the leading candidate: With respect to science and economics, he’s unfailingly scrupulous; he also has a luminously clear mind. This book is the best available introduction to climate change, and it shows why all of us should be worried.

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