Sheldon L. Richman

Sheldon Richman is the editor of Ideas on Liberty, the monthly magazine of the Foundation for Economic Education. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America’s Families; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax; and \(forthcoming\) Tethered Citizens: Time to Abolish the Welfare State \(all from The Future of Freedom Foundation\). He is a contributor to the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics.

Articles

War Communism to NEP: The Road From Serfdom

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Sheldon L. Richman

In March 1921, V. I. Lenin, ruler of revolutionary Russia, stood before the Tenth Congress of the Bolshevik Party and dramatically admitted that something had gone awry with the Revolution. The new...

Anti-war Abolitionists: The Peace Movement’s Split Over the Civil War

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Sheldon L. Richman

Since the victors of warfare write the histories, one must look long and hard to find recognition of the radical critics of any given war. No matter how substantial or respectable anti-war sentiment...

Matter of Degree, Not Principle: The Founding of the American Liberty League

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Sheldon L. Richman

On October 29, 1929, the roof fell in on the booming American economy. A nation that since World War I had come to believe material progress was inevitable and unstoppable suddenly witnessed the most...

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