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Five figures starred in Radicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty: Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rand, and Rothbard. But, by the 1970s the irrepressible Rothbard became the indisputable Mr. Libertarian. An erudite, brilliant intellectual, Rothbard’s strategic vision to make the libertarian movement thrive and grow is credited with the robust growth that

Browne is known as the libertarian investment guru who wrote books like How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. Browne represented the Libertarian Party in two presidential elections. His voice was consistent and principled. He was a giant. Galambos was the unknown libertarian, but those who met him and the students in his courses seemed

Textbook commissions, especially from Texas, decide what ideas will be within any book. Biases are evident. Thomas Jefferson was dropped. Yet, these American History texts have constituted the only books a child may read on the subject. Most History teachers have not majored in History. Political pressure now makes textbooks promote special

Ferris’ book The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature is about the symbiotic relationship between science and liberalism. His liberalism was Lockean. One can do anything but bridge other’s rights. Science can only thrive in a liberal environment. And, liberalism needs science for health, wealth and happiness. Lynn Hunt’s

Ultimately, when Rose died — it was in 1968, she was 81 — Roger MacBride inherited everything she owned, including the fabulously valuable rights to the Little House books ostensibly written by her mother... It was Roger MacBride who put the Little House stories on network TV for most of the 1970s and the early 1980s as well. It was also Roger

Tucker was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism. He opposed war because it destroyed liberty, but he favored the allies. Tucker’s contribution was as much through his publishing as his own writing. He published Liberty for twenty-five years and he opened a unique bookshop in NYC for other like publishers.

“Holt, in effect, reasoned his way to libertarianism from his relentless, dogged analysis of what worked and didn’t work in education, in the schoolroom.”... “To live well with other human beings, adults or children, is a subtle art,” Holt wrote. Rules for doing it are not much help. But if I had to make a general rule for living and working with

Do we have perennial libertarian problems, like losing our freedoms year after year? The long view of liberty shows that overall Americans are more free.... Americans broadly speaking are individualists until they focus on particular government programs that they like, then they like entitlements and government programs. They quickly swallow

“I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.” —William