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: 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 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: 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 72 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: Devolving the Drug War ("Daniel Benjamin proposes a de-escalation in the War on Drugs"); Handguns Are a Girl's Best Friend ("Barbara Goushaw tells why the most important women's right is the right to self-defense"); The Road to Ruby Ridge ("Randy Weaver tells why his family moved to Idaho"); Whores vs. Feminists ("The days when prostitutes' rights groups and feminists were allies are over. Wendy McElroy explains the divorce"); Facing Up to Coercion ("Thomas Szasz wonders why libertarians won't confront the truth about psychiatry"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1999.

Reno, NV: 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: Obama: The Hollow Man ("The president, Jim Walsh argues, is an empty suit with high poll ratings"); Iraq: Now and in the Future ("In Iraq, Jon Harrison reports, sending good money after bad seems to have worked - but only for a while"); What Your Doctor's Not Telling You ("Bill Merritt discovers that 'the truth shall set you free' is not the motto of many conscientious physicians"); Brother, Can You Spare a Decade? ("Depressions, Mark Skousen, chronicles, do not have to be depressing"); short story "The Day They Closed Outside" by Robert A. Kelly. Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2009.

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 - 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: 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 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 Publishing. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Gulf War (with commentary by Robert Higgs; R. W. Bradford; Sheldon L. Richman; and James S. Robbins); The Myth of War Prosperity by Robert Higgs; Conservatism and Libertarianism by Richard M. Weaver; Keep the Hot Side Tepid by R. W. Bradford ("'Everything is connected.' This applies not only to ecological science, but also to the ozone layer, intellectual dishonesty, and the McDLT"); Shadows in the Future (Zdenek Masopust interviewed by Frank Fox); Au Natural Rights by David G. Danielson ("Public nudity is a crime, despite the fact that nudity is usually considered a sign of vulnerability - the very opposite of aggression, which is the hallmark of criminality"); The Woman vs. the State by William Holtz (on Rose Wilder Lane); The Love of Money and the Root of Evil by Christopher C. Faille.… 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: Justice, at Last, for Vicki Weaver? ("For over 100 years, federal agents have been virtually immune from prosecution for homicides they commit while on the job. But a federal court decision on June 5 may change all that, as William E. Merritt explains"); Silence Is the Best Policy ("As Rick Esenberg explains, work these days is a place where a casual conversation can cost you your job, where lawyers are always eavesdropping, and where the easily offended set the rules"); In Defense of Bullfighting ("In the U.S., intellectuals mock bullfighting as an unsophisticated and cruel tourist show. Elsewhere, as Coleman Cooney and Michael Christian explain, it's an artistic and commercial success"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near… 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: Darkness at Noon ("The media asked important questions only after the [Branch] Davidian massacre. Stephen Cox gives answers"); The Coldest of All Cold Monsters ("Janet Reno talked a lot while the Davidians burned. Did she confess to mass murder? R.W. Bradford deconstructs her testimony"); VAT Out of Hell ("Chester Alan Arthur reveals the atrociousness of Clinton's proposed way to pay for 'universal' health care"); The End of What? ("The myth-making surrounding laissez faire. In the Greedy 80s and in the now, Sheldon Richman is in the know"); Understanding the State ("Albert Jay Nock thoughtfully divulges the nature of the State, in four previously unpublished lectures"); Paying for Crime ("David Friedman counts the ways in which we pay for crime,… 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 Life and Death of the [Steve] Forbes Campaign by Chester Alan Arthur; Puritan Overdose ("Robert Nelson examines the religious persecution of chemistry"); Wings Over Mongolia ("Jim Huffman flies the unfriendly skies"); Timothy Leary, Then and Now ("Interviewer Brian Doherty is on the outside, looking in"); The Truth and Ayn Rand ("Ayn Rand left the Soviet Union in 1926. R.W. Bradford inspects her baggage"); Why I Would NOT Vote Against Hitler ("Wendy McElroy explains why she won't vote no matter what - and why YOU shouldn't either!"); Peace, Love, and Violence ("Quebec's secessionist movement has stumbled on some basic questions about the nature of the state. Pierre Lemieux explains"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front… 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