*You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism*

That is the new book by my colleague Bryan Caplan, collected largely from his previous blog writings.  Bryan emails to me:

I just released a new book of essays on Amazon, entitled *You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism*.  Emerson and Thoreau were right: Excessive conformity is a major impediment to living a full life in the modern world, and you really can improve a lot with modest effort.

For details, see my recent Substack.

…Like my other books of essays, You Will Not Stampede Me is divided into four parts.

• The first, echoing Milgram, is “Disobedience to Authority.” These pieces dissect the psychology and economics of being normal.
• The next section, “The World Is Wrong,” explores big, specific issues where the popular opinion sucks. Covid, of course, but also bioethics, trolling, the right of revenge, and more.
• I follow with “The Weird Is Right,” most notably with the essay, “A Non-Conformist’s Guide to Success in a Conformist World.” Yes, the world does punish non-conformists, but so sporadically and thoughtlessly than the crafty can usually defy the world with impunity.
• I close the book with “Non-Conformist Candor,” where I call a litany of hand-picked controversies just like I see them.

As usual with my books of essays, you can read them all for free in the Bet On It Archives. What you get for your $12 is curation, convenience, and coolness.

As you might expect, I like to troll Bryan by telling him he is a deeply conformist suburban Dad, in the good sense of course.  Read this book and find out if I am right or not.