[ Deleting the State: Requiem for an Illusion by Aeon J. Skoble (Independent Institute, 2026; xiii +134pp.)] Deleting the State was originally published in 2008, and I reviewed it shortly thereafter, but its welcome reappearance offers me a chance to redress an injustice. In my earlier review, I concentrated on a difference of interpretation with Skoble over Robert Nozick’s derivation of the minimal state in Anarchy, State, and Utopia and as a result did not do justice to the book’s main arguments. (Skoble is kind enough to refer to that difference of interpretation in the “Afterword” to the