Search Results: Authors starting with R from Bloomsbury Books

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: Kerry Nation ("Doug Casey holds his nose, sifts through the latest dreck the Democratic Party has offered, and tells us what we're in for"); The Michaelmoorization of John Kerry ("John Kerry has made the racist, mendacious ranting of a two-bit propagandist the center of his campaign, writes Patrick Quealy"); In Defense of Ronald Reagan ("Liberty's editor claimed that 'government spending grew rapidly during Reagan's presidency and individual liberty suffered.' Milton Friedman offers challenges that claim the evidence 'speaks for itself'"); Freedom and Spending Under Reagan ("R.W. Bradford stands by his words"); Who Owns the Fed? ("The Federal Reserve System makes money out of ordinary paper. Who profits from this magic? Bill Woolsey explains 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: PFY vs. RP: Is There a Racist in the House? ("Ron Paul, the libertarian in the presidential race, was the subject of a political scandal. Bruce Ramsey assesses the damage"); The Films of Ayn Rand ("How does an individualist handle an art form in which collaboration is essential? Stephen Cox examines the movie career of Ayn Rand"); Gun Control: The Logical Fallacy ("Come, says Eric Neigher; let us reason together. Is there any logical reason to grab those guns?"). 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. Contents include: [Ludwig von] Mises and Psychiatry ("Libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises was a great social thinker. But, as Thomas Szasz explains, he was no psychiatrist"); Anarchy, Globalization, and Real Freedom ("Johan Norberg explains why freedom isn't just another word for better bathtubs"); The Limits of the Melting Pot ("When the rest of the world has closed its borders, argues Bruce Ramsey, only an idiot would open his"); Radical Sheik ("Sarah McCarthy laments the death of self-hatred on the left"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2002.

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 10-3/4" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Special Section - Twenty Years of Liberty with lengthy The Liberty Poll ("Since its founding, Liberty has been trying to keep track of libertarians - who they are and what they think. We now present the results of the latest Liberty Poll") and accompanying article Moral Absolutes, Truth, and Liberty ("Ross Overbeek revisits the survey of libertarian attitudes that he helped to create 20 years ago"). Other features include: A Real Party? ("Suddenly, everybody wants to run under the Libertarian Party banner. Bruce Ramsey watches the race"); The Ethics of Tort Reform ("Gary Jason shows how to remedy the excessive litigation that is costing us hundreds of billions of dollars a year"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted. . Near Fine.… Read More

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: Waco: Fire and Lies ("What happened at Waco was no conspiracy, it was standard operating procedure. R.W. Bradford sorts through the ashes"); WHAT Are They Smoking? ("Medical marijuana advocates have the truth, the voters, and even a few brave politicians, observes Alan Bock. So why are they getting nowhere?"); No More Columbines ("The only two ways to stop school shootings, argues Mel Dahl, are to abandon the Constitution or abolish public schools"); NATO, Kosovo, and Cuba: A Fuzzy Analysis ("The logic that led to NATO's war against Serbia applies equally to Cuba. So why, wonders Bart Kosko, isn't NATO bombing Havana?"); Arms in the Celestial Kingdom ("The sage of ancient China [Confucius - Master K'ung], reports David Kopel, knew a thing or two about how weapons… 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 Fall of a Royal House (on Nepal: "Democracy, Jayant Bhandari argues, is not the solution for the Third World's problems"); The Dog That Didn't Bark ("It isn't the obvious and much heralded forces that are to blame for the housing crisis, explains Randal O'Toole, it's the land-use planners"); On the Beach in an Arab City by Jacques Delacroix ("Life in an Islamic society is not as predictable as one might think"); Corruption and Hope in South America ("Doug Casey explores the social ruin that lies at the heart of South America"); Global Warming, Global Myth ("Why trust the media accounts of global warming, when you can consult the evidence? Edmund Contoski provides a guided tour"); Who Wrote "The Fatal Conceit"? by Jane S. Shaw… Read More

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 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Books of Summer ("Summer is the time to hang a hammock, mix a mai tai, and spend a long afternoon stretched out with a good book. Our editors and contributors offer a stack of suggestions"); My Life As a Legislator ("The Hon. R. Kenneth Lindell takes us to a place where libertarians have never trod before"); The TIF [tax-increment financing] That is Eating Portland ("Americans may be catching on to eminent domain, but Randall O'Toole finds that central planners and urban renewers have a more sophisticated weapon to use"); Down in Egypt Land ("Doug Casey looks past the pharaohs and the pyramids, and sees a land perched on the edge of destruction"); Freedom to Speak ("Why would tens of thousands of people surrender their lunch breaks to make speeches to one another?… 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 72 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Tet [Offensive] in Retrospect ("War, as Jon Harrison shows, is fought with thoughts and impressions, as well as planes and tanks"); "Laissez Faire [Books]," R.I.P.? ("The essential libertarian book club carried a range of writers from H.L. Mencken to P.J. O'Rourke. Will changing markets and internet search engines prove its undoing? Bruce Ramsey tells the story"); A Question of Meaning ("When people argue about the existence of God, John Hospers suggests, they tend to overlook some basic issues"); Learning from Interlingua ("How can languages that evolved over many centuries be regarded as dialects of a language only recently 'distilled'? Leland B. Yeager explains"); Uh Oh, Grandpa's Back (on Howard Zinn's one-man play "Marx in Soho" -… 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 Next President, the Next War ("Bush has made a lot of mistakes in the Middle East, and there's little chance that his successor will do much better. The region, as Jon Harrison explains, remains a structural nightmare"); Bob Barr: Enter the Pol ("Bruce Ramsey interviews the Libertarian presidential candidate and finds a wily and experienced politician"); The Calvinist Connection (on John Calvin and Calvinism: "David Kopel shows why religion and liberty need not be opposites"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly 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 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Dear Bill Gates ("Now that the greatest entrepreneur of the computer age has been gang raped by government regulators, Peter McWilliams offers his condolences - and a bit of advice"); Why [Slobodan] Milosevic Must Go ("David Ramsay Steele explains why Yugoslavians will be happy to replace Milosevic"); Genocide in Kosovo? ("The United States went to war to prevent genocide of ethnic Albanians. The fighting has stopped, and R.W. Bradford tries to find out just how many ethnic atrocities the Serbs committed"); The Paramilitaries Among Us ("Forrest Smith wonders why a group of SWAT Rambos sat biting their nails behind body armor and ballistic shields while the massacre at Columbine raged"); Nathaniel Branden Speaks ("Nathaniel Branden speaks on Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Leonard… 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: Cartman Shrugged ("The Founding Fathers, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and the creators of 'South Park': Paul A. Cantor traces a distinguished intellectual tradition"); Somalia: The Rubble and the Blossom ("What works when the government doesn't? Vince Vasquez provides the answer"); Live Earth: Dead Show ("Chris Rock said he prayed that Live Earth would end global warming, 'the same way Live Aid ended world hunger.' He'll get his wish, reports Tim Slagle"); one-page Me and the Eiger ("There are two types of people in this world, and Murray Rothbard was never afraid to say what type he was"); short story Love Song by Alec Mouhibian. Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted. . Near Fine.… 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: Armenian Splendor ("Alec Mouhibian explores his roots in an ancient country where religion is serious, life is rough, and you can feel the texture of the past"); What Is War Good For? ("Alan Ebenstein and R.W. Bradford debate the conquest of Iraq and the War on Terror"); Life in the Death Star ("Washington, D.C. is a city of crime, Gene Healy observes, from street violence in Columbia Heights to the legal plunder of the Capitol building. And he wouldn't want to live anywhere else"); God, Man, and Tyrants ("Our divine duty to assassinate tyrants, Dave Kopel learns, was discovered by a 12th-century bishop [John of Salisbury]"); Orwell Lives! ("Two decades after '1984,' George Orwell is still a breath of intellectual honesty in a time of stifling dogma. Richard… 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 Publishing. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Special Section "Victory" in the Gulf - What It Means (Losing Our Heads in the Persian Gulf by R. W. Bradford; Two Kinds of Patriotism by Robert Higgs; Liberty Triumphs in the Desert by James S. Robbins; No Victory for Liberty by Sheldon L. Richman; The Intellectual Poverty of Opposition to the Gulf War by Stephen Cox; Beer, Chips and the Gulf War by Matt Kibbe; Give George Bush His Due by Loren E. Lomasky); Journalists and the Drug War by David Boaz; The Press: Jealous of Its Freedoms, Careless With Ours by Richard Miniter; Something Anarchical in Denmark by Benjamin Best; short story Publish and Perish by Lawrence Thompson; California's Man-Made Drought by Richard L. Stroup. Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; pages and covers clean and bright. . Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1991.

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