Daniel J. Flynn

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Murray Rothbard’s Lost Letters on Ayn Rand

09/05/2025 Journal of Libertarian Studies Daniel J. Flynn

Newly discovered letters between Frank Meyer and Murray Rothbard illuminate Rothbard's parting from Ayn Rand's inner circle.

New Rothbard Letters Show He Rejected both Drug Abuse and the Drug War

10/27/2025 Mises Wire Daniel J. Flynn

"[T]hey see that their parents are pro-war, pro-militarism, and anti-sex, and they have become just the opposite ... and to become pro-drugs because their parents are hysterically opposed."

New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan

10/22/2025 Mises Wire Daniel J. Flynn

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"

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New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan

10/22/2025 Daniel J. Flynn

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"

Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard’s Views on Lincoln, Slavery, and Popular Sovereignty

10/07/2025 Daniel J. Flynn

“The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican Acts were monstrous.”

Rothbard’s Lost Letters on Ayn Rand

09/26/2025 Ryan McMaken Daniel J. Flynn

New letters, from Murray Rothbard to Frank Meyer, have been discovered by researcher Daniel Flynn detailing some of Rothbard's earliest views on Ayn Rand, and what later went wrong.

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