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[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Frank Chodorov, Non-Voter”] It was 44 years ago this holiday season, on December 28, 1966, that Frank Chodorov died. Chodorov had been born nearly 80 years earlier, on the day after Valentine’s Day, February 15, 1887, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He was the youngest child of a

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episodes “Joan Kennedy Taylor (1926–2005)” and “The Rediscovery of Libertarian Feminism” ] Joan Kennedy Taylor first became involved in the libertarian movement in the early 1960s, when she was a student at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York City. As a student of Objectivism, she

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Roy Childs, Jr.”] Roy Alan Childs Jr. was born January 4, 1949, in Buffalo, New York. Had he lived, he would have turned 62 years old about two weeks ago. He once told his close friend Joan Kennedy Taylor that he first became interested in political issues at the age of 9. And by the

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The Ignorance of ‘New York Magazine.’”] On Boxing Day, December 26, New York magazine ran an article — “The Trouble with Liberty,” by Christopher Beam — that has provoked a bit of blogging and more than a bit of handwringing among libertarians and among observers of the libertarian

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Mohandas K. Gandhi”] Mohandas K. Gandhi was born October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, a port town in Western India on the shores of the Arabian Sea. His father was a high-ranking official in the government of the small principality that nominally ruled the immediate area; in effect, the elder

[Excerpted from Why American History Is Not What They Say (2009)] Like most Republican politicians since the early 1930s, Ronald Reagan always portrayed himself throughout his political career as a champion of limited government, individual rights, and free enterprise — the classical- liberal values, which, of course, he absurdly described as

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Libertarian Science Fiction”] One day in the late spring of 1951, something rather astonishing happened in an otherwise nondescript shopping district in a medium-sized city somewhere in the American Midwest. Right there, right smack in the middle of the block, where Aunt Sally’s Lunch

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “A Renegade History of the United States”] I admit it: I was looking forward to the release of Thaddeus Russell’s new book, A Renegade History of the United States . After all, Russell came pretty highly recommended by no less an authority than our own Tom Woods, who wrote in a column for

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The First American Anarchist”] On an evening in 1871 or perhaps 1872, a young MIT student named Benjamin R. Tucker attended a lecture somewhere in the Boston-Cambridge area, a lecture at which he met a much older man named Josiah Warren. Tucker was only 17 or 18 at the time, and his

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The Anarchism of Peter Kropotkin”] A little more than 90 years ago, on February 8, 1921, Peter Kropotkin died in Dmitrov, then a small town in Russia, about 40 miles north of Moscow. He had been born in Moscow itself almost exactly 78 years before, on December 9, 1842, but he had spent