There are two other books on the reading list, though. I am interested in The Dirty Dozen, because I enjoyed the author's presentation at the Cato Institute (see here). He suggests in passing that the Ninth Amendment offers a quick way to distinguish a conservative from a libertarian. A conservative considers the notion of "unenumerated rights" an inkblot: you have no right to privacy, you have no right to grow food or medicinal plants for your own use, etc. I supposed from the title ("Dirty Dozen") that it would be some presentation of puzzling judgements without context such as might be found in a Readers' Digest rant about "activist judges", but from his discussion at Cato, I think it's actually substantive.

But between that, the mild humor, and Taleb's rich and peculiar personality, I do find nuggets of wisdom.