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 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 Surge, Revisited ("Is it really true, Jon Harrison asks, that the surge in Iraq will work?"); The Right to Make a Buck (on Liberty Dollar: "Bruce Ramsey reports on the war between the U.S. government and the producer of a private currency"); College and the State ("There's a lot wrong with American higher education, but should the state guarantee that all is well? Jane Shaw provides an answer"); When the Lights Stayed Out (also entitled Storm Bound by Jim Walsh: "A week off the grid [in Aberdeen, Washington] reveals much about the nature of society and the people who try to live in it"); The Two Libertarianisms ("As R.W. Bradford shows, libertarian beliefs come in two forms, and both need to be examined carefully"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed… 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: Salesmen, Stalwarts, and Old Pols ("The Libertarian Party is set to nominate its presidential candidate. Bruce Ramsey handicaps the race"); Libertarian Like Me ("Several recent studies into the roles of tolerance and altruism in biological evolution suggest that evolved minds prefer liberty. Sandy Shaw explains"); The Housing Bubble and Bust ("Edmund Contoski documents the ultimate causes of the mortgage crisis, and warns of what is yet to come"); How to Think About Pollution ("Ronald Coase proved in 1960 that people misunderstand externalities. Almost 50 years later, politicians, regulators, and voters still misunderstand. David Friedman sheds some light on the subject"); The American Revolution: Right or Wrong? ("To many Americans, declaring independence proceeded from… 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: Free Therapy Today, Regrets Tomorrow ("Getting your health insurance to pick up the bill for your counseling might not be such a good idea, argues Dolores Puterbaugh"); The Many Faces of Mr. Hiss ("Alger Hiss had it all: wealthy parents, powerful friends, an Ivy League education. So why did he become a spy for the most murderous dictator in history? Ron Capshaw looks for an answer"); Practical Idealism ("You'd better be careful what your ideals are, warns Wendy McElroy. They determine the world you live in"); Fear of the Press ("Real political parties do not fear an independent, critical press, observes R.W. Bradford"). 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 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 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 64 pages including front and rear covers. With special section discussing the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and the ramifications - with articles A Constitutional Response by Ron Paul ("Is it possible to defeat terrorism while upholding our constitutional liberties? A member of Congress tells how he thinks it can be done and why it's important"); Feeding the Hand That Bites You by R.W. Bradford ("Why Americans won't come to grips with the real cause of the terrorist attack and what would happen if they did"); No Time for Fantasy by Stephen Cox ("Why we can't afford to live in the New Jerusalem"); Rage Now! by Sarah McCarthy ("This is no time for Norman Schwarzkopf-type wussiness"); At Home With Terror by Richard Kostelanetz ("Life goes on in the city"). Other articles include: On-the-Job Sex… 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: Mysteries of the Titanic ("The night the 'Titanic' sank, a lot of things went with it - such as, Stephen Cox reports, fairness, truth, and duty"); The Misunderstood Mr. Jefferson ("Fashionable attacks on Thomas Jefferson, David N. Mayer finds, obscure his one ruling passion, the 'holy cause of freedom'"); The Lost Papers of Ludwig von Mises ("Richard Ebeling finds treasure buried in an obscure warehouse in Moscow"); Do Inalienable Rights Outlaw Punishment? ("John C. Goodman takes a close look at George Smith's argument against capital punishment"); The Hollow Ring of Inalienability ("Timothy Virkkala argues that inalienable rights are fictions"). 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 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 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: 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 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: Our Next President ("Bruce Ramsey casts an eye over the unappealing list of would-be presidents, and an early vote for 'None of the Above'"); Global Warming, Global Stifling ("Most scientists now agree the earth is warming - but few dare disagree with the popular opinion on the extent and danger of that phenomenon. Gary Jason speaks out, at the risk of being labeled a 'denier'"); Smokey and His Bandits ("Despite its failures, the Forest Service enjoys a steady income of taxpayer funds. Randal O'Toole pokes through the ashes of a fiscal flame-out"); An Open Letter to My Fellow Christians ("Laurence A. Vance appeals to his brethren: seek to change hearts, not to make laws"); short story Sundown by Garin K. Hovannisian. Subscriber name and mailing address… 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: No Shelter from the Storm ("Joy S. Taylor tells how her experience at a center for battered women revealed that some feminists care more about ideology than they do about abused women"); Medical Marijuana: Beyond the Way on Drugs ("By meddling in state marijuana initiatives, the Feds have opened the door to a lawsuit challenging the very basis of their authority. Sandy Shaw files the brief"); Polarities of the Political Class ("Stephen Cox shows that positive and negative aren't just two ends of a magnet"); I'll Settle for Paper ("Bruce Ramsey defends paper money against its gold-bug detractors"); I'll Go for the Gold ("Robert Higgs responds by explaining the connection between the gold standard and freedom"); Ebonics: Bridge to Illiteracy ("Nicholas… Read More

Port Townsend, WA: Liberty Publishing. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 80 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Thomas-Hill Affair: The High-Tech Lynching by Jane S. Shaw (on Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill); Happy Anniversary, National Park System! by R. W. Bradford ("Welcome to your National Parks, where development is preservation, where the monopoly profit of developers is the common good, and where America's Revolution is celebrated by measures the Redcoats never had the nerve to try"); Rocky Times in Rocky Mountain National Park by Karl Hess Jr. ("Millions watch, but no one sees, as one of America's most spectacular tributes to natural beauty is being transformed into one of America's greatest ecological disasters"); Why Term Limits Lost by Chester Alan Arthur; Beyond Austrian Economics: The Economy as Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild; America's Bi-Partisan Apartheid by Brian Doherty… 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: 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: The Randy Weaver Show ("R.W. Bradford examines the prime-time police state"); A Warm Day in Peace Park ("Michael Oakes visits Hiroshima and learns that paeans to peace are not enough"); A Week in Bosnia and Points West ("Bryan Alexander journeys through the Bosnian interzone"); The Money Laundromat ("J. Orlin Grabbe explores the nooks and crannies of the international monetary system, explaining money-laundering, privacy, and surveillance"); Obscenity at the National Endowment for the Arts ("Richard Kostelanetz uncovers what's REALLY obscene"). Staples lightly age-rusted; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1995.

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