On March 2, 1966, Murray N. Rothbard, the founder and twenty-year editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies , would have celebrated his seventieth birthday. This issue of the JLS , as well as a simultaneously appearing special issue of its sister publication, the Review of Austrian Economics , likewise founded and edited by Rothbard, is a
Professor David Gordon gives his critique of John Hospers’ “Libertarianism and Legal Paternalism” paper published in The Journal of Libertarian Studies. Volume 4, Number 3 (1980) Gordon, David. “Comment on Hospers.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 4, No.3 (1980):
In this article, David Gordon offers a review of George H. Smith’s Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies . Volume 10, Number 2 (1992) Gordon, David. “Review of Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies By George H. Smith.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 10, No. 2 (1992):
In this article, David Gordon and Roberta A. Modugno review of J.C. Lester’s Escape From Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy Reconciled . Volume 17, Number 4 (2003) Gordon, David., and Roberta A. Modugno. “Review of J.C. Lester’s Escape from Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy Reconciled .” Journal of Libertarian Studies 17, No. 4
In this article, David Gordon reviews Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff, and Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl. Gordon, David. “Book Reviews: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Rasmussen and Den Uyl; Objectivism: The
W hen Murray Rothbard founded the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1977, he wrote an editorial for the first issue. In it, he said, “The Journal of Libertarian Studies has been founded not simply to provide an outlet for scholarship and research that may be unpopular in a particular discipline. It is the belief that there is a new and growing
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