Surely one of the most significant occurrences on the intellectual scene during the past few years has been the emergence of a professor of philosophy at Harvard University as an eloquent and forceful...
Roy A. Childs
Roy A. Childs, Jr. (1949–1992) was a libertarian essayist and critic who counted among his early influences Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Rose Wilder Lane, and Robert LeFevre. In the 1960s, Childs became friends with Murray Rothbard, and Childs’s controversial paper, “The Invisible Hand Strikes Back,” was published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. In 1977 he became a research associate of the Center for Libertarian Studies.
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De Jouvenel is actually discussing the psychology of the state’s expansion of power, with such topics as “the social consequences of the warlike spirit,” “formation of the nation in the person of the king,” and “from parasitism to symbiosis.”
[ Libertarian Forum, 1971] “Revolution” has been defined, by all too many libertarians, as well as by most other people, as simply massive acts of direct violence. But “revolution” is really the...
