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Joan Kennedy Taylor told interviewer Duncan Scott in 2004 that during the Barry Goldwater for President campaign of 40 years earlier, my husband, David Dawson, and I were two of twenty-five students of Objectivism who went down to Republican Headquarters [in Manhattan] and signed up and registered as Republicans and petitioned to form a Young

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Alan Bock: Persuasion for Liberty”] Characteristically, it was Friedrich Hayek who hit the nail on the head more than 60 years ago, 62 years ago this spring to be exact, back in 1949, in an article for the University of Chicago Law Review called “The Intellectuals and Socialism.” In this

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Gary Chartier: The Conscience of an Anarchist”] If the libertarian tradition is going to endure and grow (in both size and influence), it’s necessary for younger libertarians to do two things. First they need to familiarize themselves with that tradition. Second, and more fundamentally,

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “C.M. Kornbluth (1923–1958)”]   The late Samuel Edward Konkin III was a firm believer in the power of science fiction to spread the libertarian message. He himself had been converted to libertarianism partly by reading the works of Robert A. Heinlein , and Heinlein remained his favorite

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Suzanne La Follette (1893–1983)”] Suzanne La Follette came into this world 118 years ago on June 24, 1893, the fourth of seven children (four boys, three girls) born to a family that owned large wheat and fruit farms along the Snake River in southeastern Washington state. As she told an

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Libertarianism and Psychology”] What I have for you today is a few brief notes on a prominent (or perhaps I should say “notorious”) libertarian psychologist and a prominent libertarian psychiatrist — and an observation or two on what, fundamentally, is the connection between

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)”] It was back in 1962, as I recall, when I was 15 years old and a junior in high school, that I first read something by a French writer on free trade whose name, my friends and I thought at first, would probably be pronounced “Frederick BAHS-tee-aht.” Since

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Libertarian Journalism in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s”] As seasoned denizens of the libertarian blogosphere know well, libertarians and libertarianism turn up pretty frequently these days in the writings of mainstream journalists. Sometimes we get an entire article devoted to us; when we

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Libertarianism and Psychology II”]   In a previous article, “Libertarian Psychology,” I made a few very brief remarks on the importance of psychology for libertarians and sketched the lives, careers, and ideas of two particular intellectuals: the libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz and

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Eight Ways to Run the Country”]   I only very recently became aware of the existence of a book called 8 Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right by Brian Patrick Mitchell. I think I keep up fairly well with what’s coming out that relates to the libertarian