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The Libertarian Tradition

A podcast by journalist, author, editor, broadcaster, and educator, Jeff Riggenbach.

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A History of Ayn Rand

A History of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand's books sell between eight hundred thousand and a million copies a year.Her first novel We the Living was admir... Read more

6 Jan 2010

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Ayn Rand and the Early Libertarian Movement

Ayn Rand and the Early Libertarian Movement

In Ayn Rand and the World She Made Heller goes to bat for Rand as a fiction writer. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and ... Read more

12 Jan 2010

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America Aflame

America Aflame

Goldfield's book fails at revisionism. The author does not grapple with the truth that the Civil War was not about slave... Read more

27 Apr 2011

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Libertarianism and Psychology

Libertarianism and Psychology

Psychologist Timothy Leary held LSD to be therapy. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz held that mental illness was a myth. Both l... Read more

22 Jun 2011

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The Ignorance of the New Yorker

The Ignorance of the New Yorker

It is Republicans, not libertarians, who favor handouts to and special privileges for big corporations. And Republicans ... Read more

15 Sep 2010

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Frank Chodorov, Educator

Frank Chodorov, Educator

You have only a few years to live and cannot hope to remake society in so short a time. Nobody now living will see a fre... Read more

22 Dec 2010

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Benjamin Tucker: American Individualist Anarchist

Benjamin Tucker: American Individualist Anarchist

Tucker was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism. He opposed war because it destroyed li... Read more

7 Apr 2010

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J.R.R. Tolkien as Libertarian

J.R.R. Tolkien as Libertarian

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is thought to be the greatest work of the 20th century with 150 million readers. The book's ... Read more

26 Jan 2010

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The Elitist Individualism of H.L. Mencken

The Elitist Individualism of H.L. Mencken

Mencken saw the implications of where his thinking was leading him and he acknowledged those implications frankly. "I am... Read more

28 Sep 2010

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Karl Hess and the Death of Politics

Karl Hess and the Death of Politics

"Some may wonder why it took Hess 20 years to notice all this, why it took a man this obviously intelligent so long to g... Read more

6 May 2010

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