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[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Samuel Edward Konkin.”] A few weeks ago, in remembering the libertarian career of Vince Miller , I called my readers’ attention to a particular group of libertarians — those born between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s — libertarians who now range in age from around 55

[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Was Classical Liberalism a ‘Strife of Interests’?”] Ambrose Bierce famously defined politics as a “strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” Harry Elmer Barnes never quotes this quip of Bierce’s

[This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The English Civil War and the First Libertarian Movement.”] In the 1640s, when outright civil war came to England, with a royal army headquartered in Oxford fighting a Parliamentary Army headquartered a mere 50 or 60 miles away in London, it suddenly became possible to

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Roger J. Williams.”] It seems to have been in the 1950s that Roger J. Williams began turning up here and there in the libertarian world. This would make a kind of sense, because it was in the ‘50s that Williams began publishing the books that one would think might make him and his ideas

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 .”] Ray Bradbury celebrated his 90th birthday this past Sunday. He was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, a medium-sized town of around 20,000 people about midway between Chicago and Milwaukee on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Bradbury has

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The Milgram Experiment.”] It was about 1550, according to the standard accounts — about 14 years before the birth of Shakespeare, about 80 years before the birth of John Locke, about 135 years before the birth of Bach — that a young Frenchman named Etienne de La Boetie, a young man of

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Albert Jay Nock.”] In the beginning, there was Henry George. Henry George was born September 2, 1839, in Philadelphia, the second of ten children in a not overly prosperous family. His formal education ended when he was 14 years old. A little less than a year later, at the age of 15, he

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Edgar J. Friedenberg.”] As we all know, massive rebellions against duly constituted authority swept through American society during the 1960s — we refer to them today as the civil-rights movement, the antidraft and anti–Vietnam War movements, and the counterculture. In the following

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The Ignorance of the New Yorker .”] “One can only shake one’s head sadly at such a grotesque panoply of misinformation and outright falsehoods. One is tempted to dismiss anyone who takes it seriously as delusional.” The August 30 issue of the New Yorker contains an article called “

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Rudolph Rocker.”] It was in the fall of 1978, a few months after I had joined the staff of a small-circulation monthly magazine called The Libertarian Review , that my friend Roy Childs — the editor of the magazine, the man who had lured me away from all-news radio and freelancing for