Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard Kindle Edition

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Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered "if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his name." The lively essays collected in The Irrepressible Rothbard display one of those geniuses: Rothbard the journalist, cultural critic, political observer, and movement organizer. Even more remarkable, they represent just a fraction of what he wrote in his spare time, for just one publication, and in just the last few years of his life.

His articles combined libertarian antigovernment economics, decentralist local patriotism, antiwar isolation, and a dissident/reactionary cultural outlook that saw the growth of government as the key to the loss of the Old Republic. He defended land-rights groups against environmentalists, citizen militias against gun grabbers, isolationists against imperialists, paleoconservatives against neoconservatives, populists against party regulars, anti–New World Order conspiracy theorists against the establishment, nationalists against internationalist planners, states' righters against libertarian centralists, the Christian Right against its own leadership, and much more.

These essays show not only Rothbard's intellectual vigor but the complete joy with which he embraced life, and how his extreme optimism made even the most severe setbacks tolerable. He experienced great disappointments and great successes, but through it all he was heroic, undaunted, and irrepressible.

This volume displays Murray Rothbard's late political writing as an intellectual model for those who long for liberty, and work for it in our times. 431 pp. (hb)

This volume's eighty-five essays address political strategy, war, nationalism, culture, feminism, and much more. They include

A Strategy for the Right
Frank Meyer and Sydney Hook
The Religious Right: Toward a Coalition
A New Strategy for Liberty
Right-Wing Populism
Pat Buchanan and the Menace of Anti-Anti-Semitism
Working Our Way Back to the President
Gang-Stabbing the President: What, Who, and Why
The "Watershed" Election
Education: Rethinking "Choice"
New York Politics `93
The Bringing Down of Liz Holtzman
Within a Month! The Bringing Down of Bobby Ray Inman
The Apotheosis of Tricky Dick
The New York Political Circus
Big-Government Libertarians
The November Revolution and Its Betrayal
A Rivederci Mario
1996! The Morning Line
Stop NAFTA!
Why the Pro-NAFTA Hysteria?
Mr. Bush's War
The Post-Cold War World
Mr. Bush's Shooting War
Notes on the Nintendo War
Lessons of the Gulf War
Why the War? The Kuwait Connection
U.S., Keep Out of Bosnia!
The December Surprise
"Doing God's Work" in Somalia
Hands Off the Serbs!
Where Intervene Next?
Korean War Redux?
Invade the World
The Nationalities Question
Yugoslavian Breakup
Welcome, Slovenia!
The Cyprus Question
Ex-Czechoslovakia
The New York Times, Communism, and South Africa
Ethnic Fury in the Caucasus: Sorting It Out
But What About the Hungarians?
Hutus vs. Tutsis
On Resisting Evil
Guilt Sanctified
"Tolerance," or Manners?
Exhume! Exhume! Or, Who Put the Arsenic in Rough-n-Ready's Cherries?
Behind Waco
America's Most Persecuted Minority
Hunting the Christian Right
The Menace of the Religious Left
Saint Hillary and the Religious Left
Kulturdampf!
From the Bench--Down With De-e-e-fense
The Right to Kill, With Dignity?
Wichita Justice? On Denationalizing the Courts
The J.F.K. Flap
Bobby Fischer: The Lynching of the Returning Hero
Fluoridation Revisited
Never Say "JAP"!
Some Reflections on the Olympics
I Hate Max Lerner
Max Lerner: Again?!
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Liberal Hysteria: The Mystery Explained
King Kristol
The Women/Ladies/Girls/Spoiled Brats of Mills
Sports, Politics, and the Constitution
The Great Thomas & Hill Show: Stopping the Monstrous Regiment
"Date Rape" on Campus
The Kennedy "Rape" Case
Marshall, Civil Rights, and the Court
Their Malcolm... And Mine
"Debauchery! Debauchery!" At Tailhook

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007TO1YH8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ludwig von Mises Institute (April 5, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 5, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Earth that Was

Journalistic overview of 1980s - 1990s America

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2006

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Murray Rothbard was a true polymath as any review of his work in poltical economy, history, economic history, the history of economic thought and philosophy would show. His dedication to his "purist" vision of a free society animated his whole work.

Unfortunately this focus may deter many readers who do not share Rothbard's politics from exploring his work. That's a shame as his thinking and writing is clear and illuminating. Rothbard nevers beats around the bush. Non-libertarians need to discover Rothbard and cherry pick to their heart's content.

This book shows another side to Rothbard's career. His journalistic writing. This volume covers politics, economics, culture and the movies. So in many ways it's his most accessible, and entertaining, book for non-libertarians. It is probably one of the best volumes of journalism covering American politics and cultural controversies in the late 1980s to 1990s. My guess is that in decades to come readers looking back on this period will be digging into this volume.

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Michael DeVinney

Not economics, but still great

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2020

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Rothbard had an encyclopedic knowledge, he puts it on display here. Yes, he is an economist, but is also a: tremendous historian, philosopher, social critic, etc. Anything he writes is worth reading.
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Rob Kirk

Well, I was hoping for more economic based writings ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2018

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Well, I was hoping for more economic based writings but this collection of Rothbard articles is quite interesting. I have been a fan of Rothbard's economic ideas for many years but this book really is more about his political beliefs. He's such an incredible writer that the articles, although really dated, are still so interesting.

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james a flax

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2016

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Rothbard was in many ways H.L. Mencken's successor

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Rothbard was more than just an economist. He was ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2015

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Rothbard was more than just an economist.He was an historian,a political strategist,and a movie critic among other things.I wish I had known him.

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The Irrepressible Rothbard

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2008

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Beside his 25 fascinating books on history, economics, and political theory -- Murray Rothbard was a great polemicist and social commentator.

Here's some of his outrageous best.

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RICK W. KNOX

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015

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GREAT BOOK

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Steve Jackson

Typical Rothbard

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2003

As I�ve said before, Murray Rothbard was a historian, cultural critic, economist and social theoretician, and political strategist. Until his death, Murray commented vigorously on the cultural affairs of the day in the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. These articles are collected in this outstanding work.
Actually, I use the phrase �cultural affairs� broadly since these articles concern history, political strategy, movie reviews and more. With Rotbard you don�t get canned bromides like some other would-be �deep thinkers,� but an exciting and informed opinion on topic after topic. As just one example, consider the war against the Serbs. Leftists from all quarters (Hitchens, Lerner, etc.) couldn�t wait to go to war against the Serbs in defense of the so-called Bosnian nation. Murray points out that there never was Bosnian nation (or even a Yugoslavian nation for that matter.) Likewise, the left � contrary to its supposed representatives -- has never really been in favor of peace; after all Barnes derided the �pro war pacifists� of his day. Murray even points out the similarities of the Bosnian �Moslems� to the old Bogomil heretics of that area (humorously pointing out that the Bogomils were what Ayn Rand falsely considered all Christians to be.)
At the same time Rothbard was writing these essays, he was writing monthly articles on economics in The Free Market newsletter. Those articles are gathered in MAKING ECONOMIC SENSE. If years from now someone asks me what �really� happened in the 80s and 90s, I�ll direct them to these two books.

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