Search Results: Authors starting with R from Bloomsbury Books

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Robbing Peter to Pay Mary ("Samuel Silver tells how America would be different if women did not have the right to vote"); The Dark Side of Israel ("Why should Americans support a socialist, racist, theocratic state? Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad looks for an answer"); What the Second Amendment Means ("Contrary to what some people believe, argues Dave Kopel, the Second Amendment means exactly what it says"); The Abortion Conundrum ("Abortion isn't pretty, Sarah J. McCarthy argues, but it isn't always morally reprehensible either"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2001.

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Taking Economics Into the Lab ("In 1956, Vernon Smith did something revolutionary: he checked out economic theory in the lab. In 2002, his pioneering work was awarded the Nobel Prize. Alan Bock looks at this extraordinary individualist"); Reports of My Death ("Little things for Stephen Cox do add up when he is faced with a life-threatening event"); Is Anarchy Possible? ("Is the state dispensable, even in theory? Is anarchy possible? J.C. Lester and Kyle Swan duke it out"); Why Secession Was Wrong ("The time has come for all good men to agree that it was Lincoln's Union that defended and extended freedom in the Civil War, pleads Timothy Sandefur"); The Use and Misuse of Cultural Relativism ("Relativism is indispensable as an analytical tool, observes William A. Tonso - and… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: One Thousand Enemies of Oregon ("Randal O'Toole welcomes you to Oregon, where roads are congested, housing prices are high, apartments are vacant, and the non-profits are very profitable"); Not a Union Man ("When the union calls a strike and your friends and comrades walk the picket line, what do you do? Bruce Ramsey tells what he did"); Purging the Libertarians ("The Christian Right has instigated an attack on libertarianism within Britain's Conservative Party. Tory libertarian Adam Hume asks: is it time for a divorce?"); Smoke Detectors ("Chris Henderson envisions the day when the War on Tobacco is finally won"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2001.

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 48 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Health Care - Three Fantasies ("Thanks to genetic research, humans may soon be living dramatically longer, healthier, and more productive lives. But Ross Overbeek warns that caution could get the best of us"); Charity? Humbug! ("What could be better than using one's fortune to help the poor and struggling? Doug Casey has a few ideas"); Why Libertarians Should Call Themselves Socialists ("First the nationalists called themselves 'federalists,' then the statists dubbed themselves 'liberals.' David G. Danielson strikes back against the label thieves"); The Crimes of War ("Jon Harrison surveys the modern battlefield and mulls over the vexed issue of atrocities"); The Catechism of the Revolution (on Jonathan Mayhew: "Well before the American Revolution, the… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Battle for the Libertarian Party ("The cameras caught the podium and the press conferences, but the real action was behind the scenes. Andrew Ferguson takes in the drama in Denver"); Ron Paul and the Republicans ("Bruce Ramsey reports as libertarian forces engage in dubious battle with the regular Republicans"); Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Loss ("Everyone is talking about the housing crisis, but what really caused it? Jim Walsh gives the colorful details"); The Soft Touch ("America is remaking the world, but not, as Bill Merritt explains, by military force"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2008.

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The Most Dangerous Amendment ("Gene Healy challenges the common libertarian view that the 14th Amendment is a tool for liberty"); Why Did Clinton Bomb Yugoslavia? ("David Ramsay Steele exposes the dangerous precedent set by a dangerous president"); A Belgrade Spring ("Stephen Browne remembers Belgrade's romantic evenings, massive protests, and gypsies strolling with bears before the bombs fell"); A Kinder, Gentler, 'Judgment Day' ("Bryan Register compares what Nathaniel Branden said about his life with Ayn Rand in 1989 and what he says today"); Is Internet Privacy Overrated? ("Declan McCullagh reports from the front lines of the cyberwar over privacy"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine.… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Enron: Death by Free Market ("Andrew Chamberlain shows how the pundits pitching Enron as a 'market failure' have the story all wrong"); Privatization Is Dead, Long Live Privatization! ("These days, Tony Blair acts more like Margaret Thatcher than like a leader of a socialist party. Stephen Berry reports"); All the Lies That Are Fit to Print ("Everyone 'knows' drugs are addictive, ruining the economy, and killing addicts. Jeff Riggenbach explores how people got those ideas"); [Murray] Rothbard on [Thomas] Szasz ("Thomas S. Szasz looks at how Murray Rothbard looked at Thomas S. Szasz"); The Trouble With Harry [Browne] ("Libertarian Party candidate Harry Browne finally responds to Liberty's reports and analyses of his campaigns. He doesn't convince R.W.… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: The DEA Wishes Me a Nice Day ("The War on Drugs continues, even against the wishes of the California voters, as Peter McWilliams discovered, when those nice chaps at the DEA broke down his door"); Freedom and Madness ("Thomas S. Szasz examines psychiatry's peculiar institution"); The Temptation of Bill Gates ("Brien Bartels wonders whether Microsoft will give in to the temptations of power"); Free Speech for Software Writers ("Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw argue Microsoft should stand behind the First Amendment"); How the EPA Made Us Rich ("Washington D.C. is not known for its cuisine, but some regulators sure know how to cook the books. Ben Bolch and Bradford Pendley sample the exotic bureaucratic fare"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover;… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Publishing. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Bill Clinton: Super Statesman by Chester Alan Arthur ("At last, the perfect specimen of Homo americanus politicus"); Clarence Thomas: Cruel and Unusual Justice? by James Taggart; Eastern Eyes by J. Peter Saint-Andre (on Czechoslovakia: "The soul of man, under socialism, undergoes transformation. The result is not a triumph of the human spirit"); The World's Most Successful Price-Fixing Conspiracy by Gary Alexander ("America's most prominent symbol of unbridled capitalism - Wall Street - is nowhere near the model of laissez faire it is usually believed to be"); The Cost of Kids by Karl Hess; "Where Everyone Has a Job" by Mark Tier ("There are few cows more sacred than minimum wage laws, and few riper for slaughter"); The Economics of the Emergence of Humankind by… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The [Perry] Willis-[Harry] Browne Conspiracy: A Timeline ("Conspiracies are by their very nature cloaked in secrecy. The Editors of Liberty sort through the allegations, the facts, the lies and the truths"); [Harry] Browne 2000: Where the Money Went ("Elizabeth Merritt and R.W. Bradford audit the finances of the Browne campaign, and discover that it wasn't really a political campaign at all"); Off the Map in Haiti ("Tragedy of the commons. Violent crime. Grinding poverty. Douglas Casey reports from the not-so-sunny side of the Caribbean"); The Plot to Cram Six Billion People into Kentucky ("The latest 'smart growth' plan from the Sierra Club promises to boost pollution, congest highways, and pack people into cities like sardine cans. Randal O'Toole explains");… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Special Section - Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy (articles include: Ronald Reagan: A Political Obituary by Murray Rothbard; Credit Where Credit Is Due by Lance Lamberton; Ronald Reagan, R.I.H. [Rot In Hell] by Jeff Riggenbach; Prestige Has Consequences by Stephen Cox; A Great Man by Alan Ebenstein); Dark Horse on the Third Ballot ("Libertarian Party conventions are always peculiar affairs, but this was the strangest yet: the delegates somehow managed to nominate a candidate [Michael Badnarik] without knowing his views or knowing about his brushes with the law. R.W. Bradford tells how backroom deals, personal hatreds, and delegate indifference led to this strange outcome"); An Interview With the Candidate ("Presidential nominee Michael Badnarik talks frankly about his refusal to file tax returns, his arrests… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Invisible Hand Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Where Taxes are Lowest ("You can save up to 75% on your taxes. If you're thinking of moving, R.W. Bradford tells you where to go"); The New Class Takes Control ("Douglas Casey grades his old classmate, Bill Clinton, and the kids he hangs out with"); Screw the Landlords! ("Scott Gardner reveals the lunacy of 'tenants' rights' legislation"); Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and All That ("Jeff Walker interviews Roy Childs, who knew everyone and everything about Ayn Rand, and wasn't afraid to talk"); The Other Austrian ("Mark Skousen profiles management guru Peter F. Drucker, the man who knows what corporations should do"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1993.

Port Townsend, WA: Invisible Hand Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Death and Bureaucracy in Waco, Texas ("Loren Lomasky defends Janet Reno and the FBI, on grounds that bureaucratic ineptitude made disaster in Waco inevitable"); There's No Kill Like Overkill ("R.W. Bradford reconsiders the case against the perpetrators of the Waco holocaust, concluding that maybe, just maybe, they aren't guilty of mass murder"); Operation No Hope ("Jesse Walker explains how the U.S. military attempt to feed the starving children of Somalia ended up killing them"); NPR: Radio for the Self-Lobotomized ("Glenn Garvin spent a week listening to socialized radio. Read this and change the station"); Government vs. Wildlife ("John McCormack dispels the myth that wildlife protection is not a matter for the market"). Staples lightly age-rusted;… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The People vs. The State of Oregon ("Oregon voters amended their constitution to stop the state from stealing their land. But the state's powerful elite took the case to court. William E. Merritt details this sordid tale of corruption, bribery, and abuse of power"); Injustice Compounded ("Edward Feser shows that today's arguments for [slavery] reparations look a lot like 'the mirage of social justice' exposed by F.A. Hayek a generation ago"); An Encounter With Harry ("Up close and personal, Harry Browne's vision of the future of the Libertarian Party isn't a pretty sight. R.W. Bradford reports on a recent encounter"); The Economic Causes of the Civil War ("Was the Civil War less a battle over slavery and more a battle over dollars? Donald W. Miller Jr. explores… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Special Section - Is There a God? And Does It Matter? with two articles: Reverence for Skeptics ("We cannot explain the universe, Leland B. Yeager argues, but the idea of God is no answer either to the spiritual or to the political questions") and Skepticism, and Beyond ("Although we cannot explain the universe, Stephen Cox asserts, the fingerprints of the Author of Liberty can still be found"). Other features include: Nine Days in July by Jon Harrison ("Iraq is a quagmire. Staying to fight and retreating are both fraught with problems. No one has a clue about what to do next - and at midsummer, the clock was heard ticking loudly"); The Market for Body Parts ("What used to be science fiction is now just common sense. Gary Jason reveals the practical benefits - and provides a… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Politics of Government Spending ("Republicans favor fiscal restraint; Democrats advocate increasing government spending. But what happens when they get in office? R.W. Bradford examines more than a half century of hard data, and arrives at some surprising conclusions"); The New Anti-Semitism ("There's a difference between policy disagreements and pathological race hatred. Merrel Clubb discovers that a lot of media figures and intellectuals cannot grasp this simple truth"); Equality, Stinginess, and Empire ("John Hospers examines philosopher Peter Singer's imaginary world of peace, plenty, and selflessness, and asks why anyone would want to live there"); An American Life ("Libertarian writer Rose Wilder Lane relates her life as a 'plump, Middle-Western, Middle-class,… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The Economics of Drug Violence ("Pundits and politicians prattle about the connection between drugs and violence. David Friedman sets the record straight"); The Positive Externalities of Bill and Hillary ("Jack McHugh finds a few good things about the Clinton kakistocracy"); The War on Victims ("Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen visit Britain, where criminals are aggressive, cops are vindictive, and the government jails people who try to defend themselves"); Springtime in Minsk ("Stephen Browne visits Belarus, where he sips on grade-A cranberry Vodka and converses good-naturedly about the possible murder of a close friend"); Liberty and Obligation ("Ralph Clark challenges the pleasant notion that liberty frees us of obligation"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Freedom at the Polls: What Went Wrong ("Libertarians worked harder, got more news coverage, spent more money, did more advertising - and got 27% fewer votes. What went wrong?" by R.W. Bradford); Second Thoughts ("William E. Merritt explains why the Second Amendment gives the Black Panthers and Aryan Nation the right to heavy armament, but confers no such right on individuals"); Ayn Rand's Strange Economics ("Ayn Rand may have been a wonderful novelist and a great defender of capitalism, but she just didn't know how it works. Mark Skousen examines her economic beliefs"); The Myth of Corporate Power ("From Matthew Josephson to J.K. Galbraith to Ralph Nader, free markets have entailed the inexorable growth of corporate power and wealth. James Ralph Edwards looks at the historic… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Reign of Terror ("The new 'anti-terrorism' bill won't stop terrorism, say David Kopel and Joseph Olson. But it will take a bite out of the Bill of Rights"); Sexual Abuse in Wenatchee ("Something evil lurks in a small town in central Washington. Kathryn Lyon investigates"); Work Will Make You Free! ("Crime doesn't pay, and, says Jesse Walker, neither does prison labor"); Half a Century at the Battlements ("R.W. Bradford celebrates the Foundation for Economic Education. Michael Peters has reservations"); White Man's Ghost Dance ("Bob Black offers some common sense about common law"); Millenarianism Redux by Frank Fox (on John Maria Kowalski). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine.… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Foundation. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: William F. Buckley, R.I.P. ("Regard him as an ally, regard him as antagonist, regard him as both: Stephen Cox conducts a libertarian assessment of Buckley's importance to the libertarian movement"); The [Ron] Paul Vote: The libertarian candidate scales down his campaign; Bruce Ramsey weighs the costs and benefits"); Sun, Seegars, and Socialism ("Once even [Fidel] Castro was young and hale. Doug Casey visits the youthful leader; Robert H. Miller prepares his casket"); Thinking About War ("Is there a libertarian theory about the morality of war? George H. Smith provides some answers"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2008.