Frank S. Meyer is by far the most intelligent, as well as the most libertarian-inclined, of the National Review stable of editors and staff. Of all the National- editors and contributors, for example, Meyer is the only one to lend his name to the recently organized Council for a Volunteer Military, which calls for abolition of the draft (and even
Che is dead, and we all mourn him. Why? How is it that so many libertarians mourn this man; how is it that we just received a letter from a brilliant young libertarian, a former objectivist and Birchite, which said, in part: “if they did finally get Che ... I am sure that his memory will live to haunt both Latin America and the U.S. for decades to
Bewildered white Liberals are wont to ask: “What do you people want?” Some newsmen recently asked virtually this same question of H. Rap Brown, fiery young leader of SNCC and the Black Power movement. Rap replied: “I want Lyndon Johnson to resign and go to Vietnam and fight — he and his family.” Particularly interesting were the varied reactions
The Congress of the United States, in its wisdom, has now moved to make a federal offense out of “desecrating the flag”. No doubt the great bulk of those who fought for, and voted for, this law, believe themselves to be devoted Christians and champions of the rights of private property. We shall prove that they are nothing of the kind. Volume 3,
The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or world-governmentalists, is that they tend to rest content with the root cause of any problem, and never bother themselves with the more detailed or proximate causes. The best, and almost ludicrous, example of blind, unintelligent sectarianism is the Socialist Labor Party, a
On August 25, 1968. less than a week after completing the final draft of the article which constitutes this issue of Left and Right , Harry Elmer Barnes died at the age of 79. Murray N. Rothbard recounts the life of Barnes and the legacy he will leave behind. Volume 4, Number 3 (1968) Rothbard, Murray N. “Harry Elmer Barnes, RIP.” Left and Right
A note to the subscribers of Left and Right informing them of the special 1968 Harry Barnes-Pearl Harbor double-length issue. Volume 4, Number 1 (1968)
The Free Market 18, no. 11 (November 2000) [Editorial Note: Recent protests in France over high gasoline taxes are not without historical precedent. Writes Justin Raimondo : The [g]ilet jaunes of today are the Poujadists of yesteryear. Read Rothbard on Poujade and the militantly antistatist roots and methods of the movement.” To understand this,
The Free Market 19, no. ( 2001) Editor’s Note: This piece, which Rothbard wrote in 1956, is published here for the first time. The problem of “payola”--money given by recording companies to radio stations as a quid pro quo for air time--is still in the news. Some companies have even banded together to call for federal regulation because “greed and
Volume 15, Number 4 (Winter 2012) Rothbard realizes that the economy is not competitive, that it is shot through with elements of monopoly. The left-wing Chamberlinians (which partially included Chamberlin himself) used this as a beautiful handle to combine with the Marxists and other critics of business to denounce the whole capitalist
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