[An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Dr. Floy Lilley, is available for download , or you can listen to it within this page.] In his “Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal” (1968), Murray Rothbard wrote, Twenty years ago I was an extreme right-wing Republican, a young and lone “Neanderthal” (as the liberals used to call us) who believed, as
A friend recently pointed me to this interesting article on The Seasteading Institute . The article is skeptical without being at all dismissive. I’d even call it encouraging. I’d heard the term “seasteading” but hadn’t yet looked into it. Murray Rothbard dismissed such schemes as “anarcho-zionism,” emphasizing that libertarian goals had to be
I had the distinct privilege of being the first person outside the Riggenbach household to hear this recording . All the praise of Garet Garrett’s novels had failed to convince me to read any of them. Listening to the audiobook was something I did for work, to check for errors before we went into production. I didn’t even take up the task with
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