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Jeff Riggenbach
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[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Karl Hess and the Death of Politics.”] Karl Hess was born Carl Hess III in Washington DC, 87 years ago this month — on May 25, 1923, to be exact (and here on the Libertarian Tradition, we are nothing if not exact). Hess was the son of Carl Hess Jr., a wealthy Filipino