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Jeffrey Friedman is wrapping up the first day of his seminar in the summer of 2003. “We have gotten off the table the idea that freedom is inherently valuable, or that capitalism is inherently valuable,” he says. “What we have left is that capitalism may be more valuable than the alternative, given the consequences.” We eleven are mostly students,

Joseph Sobran discovered these Garet Garrett essays “one night, long ago, at the office of National Review, where I then worked.” As the flagship of modern conservatism, National Review supported the Cold War and the hot war then raging in Vietnam. “Two questions occurred to me,” Sobran writes. “One: ‘Why haven’t I heard of this man before?’ Two:

The Ludwig von Mises Institute has reprinted the four novels written by Garet Garrett (1878–1954), one of America’s leading financial journalists and a libertarian. Garrett, who for unknown reasons had renamed himself so that both parts sounded alike, was a writer of distinctive ideas and a forcefully distinctive style. I have had the pleasure of