Saturday, December 16, 2017

The Forgotten Man. On Murray Rothbard, philosophical harbinger of Trump and the alt-right.

The Baffler reports:
True, Trump may not be a man of ideas, but his presidency and political style were imagined by one man: the libertarian economist and philosopher Murray N. Rothbard, who died in 1995.
Here's a long article on the late Murray Rothbard which concludes with this:
Today, Rothbard’s ideas aren’t merely encroaching; they’re on the march.
Imagine that.