Brian Doherty

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Doherty is author of the books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006), Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007), Gun Control on Trial (Cato, 2008), and Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (HarperCollins/Broadside, 2012).

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Brian Doherty: Reporting the Revolution

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07/11/2014Audio/VideoJeff DeistBrian Doherty

Jeff Deist and Brian Doherty discuss Brian's role as both a participant in—and observer of—libertarian circles.

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Impassioned, Funny, Learned, Brilliant, Unfoolable, Relentless

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08/23/2010Audio/VideoBrian Doherty

These documents are a joyful alternative career of Rothbard's writings and research, and as such inherently one of the most valuable (and most fun) intellectual resources of the past century, writes Brian Doherty. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.

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Impassioned, Funny, Learned, Brilliant, Unfoolable, Relentless

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08/23/2010Mises Daily ArticlesBrian Doherty

There are useful and rich nuggets covering every aspect of Rothbard's intellectual project, starting with his bold call for the necessity of a pure and unsullied libertarian set of institutions and activists.

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A Tale of Two Libertarianisms

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02/15/2010Mises Daily ArticlesBrian Doherty

"Rothbard here is rather writing as an ideological polemicist about what thinkers are 'good for the team,' and his critiques even beyond this book often had that spirit."