For the record, Philip Pettit's current semi-libertarian book, Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World (March 2014), is utter intellectual drivel. It's repetitive, empty, fatuous, slow, dull-witted, and completely pointless. Why even write such crap? Not one person on the planet is impressed. Pettit is the author of many well-received and lofty books on philosophical and political theory, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and currently a distinguished professor at Princeton. As a non-fiction writer and intellectual analyst, he's also a massive dullard and complete moron.
No-one's as stupid as a college professor or established academic. As with so many other intellectuals, who are published authors at elite universities and august think-tanks, to follow along with Pettit's "thought" is to turn your brain to mush, while massively crushing your spirit. He's not quite Friedrich Hegel or Immanuel Kant, with his hyper-footnoted over-educated vacuity and erudite fatuosity -- but he goes pretty far in that direction. What's terrifying is evidently 95% of the leading and most prestigious intellectual and academic journals of today are filled with writers and "thinking" of his kind.
In comparison, the purely libertarian book Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins (September 2013) is far better. Altho' it lacks the tediousness, obscurity, pretension, and pseudo-high-minded style and tone of the academic tome above, their book is relatively intelligent and comprehensible, while actually saying something and developing an argument.
Of course...it has to be noted that Brook and Watkins are hopelessly malevolent clowns who are advocates of philosophical and psychological religiosity, as well as political conservatism (in the final chapter, and elsewhere). So, oddly -- while employing very different anti-reason techniques and motivations -- both books ultimately seek to destroy your mind and soul.