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: Why the Surge Will Fail ("Jon Harrison scrutinizes the president's plan to see if it's anything more than sand and mirrors"); Waiting for Fidel ("When Castro took Cuba, the struggle for human dignity began. Robert H. Miller remembers"); To Your Tents, O Israel ("David Kopel finds biblical roots for the right to keep and bear arms"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2007.

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: Liberty & Disunion, Now & Forever ("After 137 years, isn't it time to stop fighting the Civil War? But this won't happen until we undiscover a few new powers that Honest Abe discovered in the Constitution, argues Joseph Sobran"); From Nation-State to Stateless Nation ("Common sense says that where anarchy exists, chaos and destruction are sure to follow. So just how has Somalia defied common sense for more than a decade? Michael von Notten reports from the Horn of Africa"); The Call of Christ to Freedom ("If you love Christ, argues Stephen Legate, you ought to love liberty too"); The Poverty of Samuelson's Economics ("Paul Samuelson has taught generations of college students. Sadly, as Alan Ebenstein points out, his economics doesn't even meet its own… 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: The Enron Mess ("The collapse of Enron has revealed a tangled web of fraud and corruption, and set off a new round of attacks on the free market. R.W. Bradford, Tom Isenberg, William Fielder, and Sheldon Richman investigate"); "Seize All West Coast Japs" ("Bruce Ramsey examines the infamous Japanese internment - from the vantage of 1942"); The Libertarian Return ("A streak of bad luck for British right-wingers has brought good luck for libertarian ideas there. Adam Hume reports"); Cutting Back the State in Canada ("The new government of British Columbia is delivering big tax cuts. But, Paul Geddes argues, it's not yet time to apply for immigration papers"); Szasz and Mises ("Did the 20th century's greatest economist misunderstand the human mind? Bettina Bien… Read More

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: From the Soviet Union to the European Union ("Bulgaria has broken free of one empire, but now it's in an awful rush to join another. Doug Casey shows Bulgarians a better way forward"); Why Do Houses Cost So Much? ("Randal O'Toole examines the staggering price tag on the little place with the picket fence, and finds a danger to the world economy"); Development by Democracy ("Between fruit trees for the homeless and tunnels for toads, Davis, California, has it all - except votes for affordable housing. Richard Fields digs at the roots of green-friendly housing"); The Opiate of Almost Everyone ("Strict separation of church and state has become impossible, argues Robert H. Nelson, because the state has become a church"); The Politics of Hatred ("The Left harps on the… 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: Murray N. Rothbard 1926-1995 ("Nineteen friends, colleagues, and admirers remember a giant - Murray Rothbard"); A Globe of Villages by Bill Kauffman ("Liberty will be reborn in Batavia, not Manhattan"); Welcome to the Revolution by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw ("Twenty-five years ago, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw made the case for eschewing political activism. Today, they argue for joining the fray"); In Kyrgyzstan by Douglas Casey; Open Letter - Harry [Browne], Don't Run! by John Pugsley ("For 25 years, Harry Browne argued against participating in electoral politics. Now he is running for the presidency. An old friend asks him to reconsider"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; 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 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Ten Great Books of Liberty ("The 20th century was a bad era for liberty but a great era for libertarian thought. Liberty's editors and contributors celebrate ten intellectual achievements that helped to produce the modern libertarian movement"); Germany Invites the World ("Italy may have taken home the trophy, but the World Cup was about more than the results of a few games of soccer. Andrew Ferguson takes in the biggest spectacle on earth"); A Party in Search of Itself ("How can a small, ideological party hope to affect U.S. politics? Patrick Quealy and Mark Rand report from the national convention of the Libertarian Party"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2006.

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: Special Section - Remembering Milton Friedman - with three articles: The Rational, The Relentless ("To the world, Milton Friedman was a Nobel laureate and adviser of presidents and potentates. To libertarians, he was One of Ours. Bruce Ramsey assesses his place in the story of human liberty"); A Most Civil Adversary ("When you came to know Milton Friedman, as Tibor Machan discovered, you learned something new about intellectual controversy. You also learned something new about intellectual decency"); Friendly Fights With Dr. Friedman ("What happens when you take a twenty-dollar bill from a great economist, and tear it up? Mark Skousen found out"). Other features include: The California Crack-up ("Since the Kelo decision [Kelo v. New London] enraged the nation, state after state has… 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: Europe's Money Mess: We've Heard It All Before by Leland B. Yeager; Drafting School Kids by Loren E. Lomasky (to do community service: "A moronic idea, loved both Left and Right, will be tried out in Maryland"); The First Time: I Run for President by John Hospers; Why Argentina Stopped Crying for Evita [Peron] by Paul Terhorst ("The land of the gaucho is also the land of Peron, military tyranny, and absurdist economic policies. That is, until recently"); Raising Hell in Houston: Partying With the GOP and the "Buchanan Brigade" by Thomas D. Walls (on the 1992 Republican Convention); The Czechs Bounce Back by Gabriel Hocman; John Cage, Inventor by Richard Kostelanetz; Marxism's Post-History in Contemporary China by George Jochnowitz ("Taxi drivers are protected by Mao icons,… 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: Iraq: the Wrong Place, the Wrong Time, the Wrong War by Gene Healy ("Invading and occupying Iraq will likely undermine American national security, perhaps catastrophically so"); Fraud in the Forest by Randal O'Toole ("If fraud is committed deep in the National Forest, and no taxpayer is there to discover it, does it make any difference?"); Liberty and the Taxonomy of Felis Catus ("Newborn kittens are not just cute, observes Nelson Hultberg. They can teach us a lot about liberty and servitude"); My Schizophrenia ("Some schizophrenics can free their own minds. Elizabeth A. Richter did"); The Drug Club ("Kirby Wright describes how coming of age in Hawaii leaves fond memories of innocence, discovery - and the drug culture." Small mailing label to front cover; a clean… 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 Man vs. the Empire State ("Todd Seavey evaluates the political fortunes of Howard Stern, the Libertarian shock jock out to bring the death penalty back to New York and strippers back into politics"); Diagnosis in the Therapeutic State ("Today, a 'disease' is anything that can be treated, and a 'treatment' is anything the government will subsidize. Thomas Szasz proposes a higher standard"); The Institutions of Higher Tuition ("The cost of a college education is skyrocketing; academic quality isn't. Jesse Walker proposes some radical changes"); The New Mythology of Rape ("Wendy McElroy assaults the new sexual myths radical feminists are erecting in place of the old"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright… 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 'Liberty' Presidential Poll ("What are the prospects for Harry Browne's presidential campaign? And what are the prospects for libertarian ideas? 'Liberty' polled Americans, and C.A. Arthur examines the data"); Health Markets or Health Maintenance? ("Be wary of HMOs and their defenders, counsel Ross Levatter and Jeffrey Singer"); A Splendid Little War ("The sun sets and rises, and we're bombing Iraq again. Jesse Walker tries to make sense of the senseless"); I Go to Kazakhstan ("Douglas Casey reports from the wild, wild east"); The Strawman State ("The end of Communism is just the beginning, argues Paul Piccone - next to go will be nationalism and the welfare state"); New Zealand's Free-Market Revolution ("In a decade and a half, New… Read More

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: George [W.] Bush: Darling of the Liberals ("Why won't the Left lay off President Bush? After all, Jon Harrison finds, he's giving them everything they want"); Remembrance of Things Past ("John Hospers looks back on his friendship with Ayn Rand, and a wealth of fascinating ideas and debates"); Of Meat and Myth ("Upton Sinclair's libels on American industry have become 'facts.' Lawrence W. Reed sets the record straight"); Blue Jeans and Belarus ("Jayant Bhandari hops a plane to the ex-Soviet satellite and wonders why the people are so eager to reelect their dictator [Alexander Lukashenka]"); Portland Derailed ("The city's 'light-rail Mafia' plunges off the tracks. Randal O'Toole surveys the wreckage"). Subscriber name and mailing… 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: A Sign of Progress? ("Libertarian Party candidates for Congress got more votes in 2000 than any fringe party has ever received before. But when the vote is examined closely, the news isn't so remarkable, observes R.W. Bradford"); How to Make a Freer World: A Symposium ("Randal O'Toole, Steve Dasbach, Jacob Hornberger, Jane Shaw, David Nolan and others suggest some strategies"); Our Enemy, the Statists ("Martin M. Solomon explores the thought of a great libertarian writer [Albert J. Nock]"). 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 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: special section Making Sense of the Colorado Massacre (Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado); Why Johnny Can't Disobey ("Sarah J. McCarthy uncovers the real scandal of our schools"); Gateway to Oppression ("Alan Bock examines the latest scientific study of marijuana, and wonders: if marijuana kills, why hasn't anyone ever died of it?"); How Murderous Are the Serbs? ("David Ramsay Steele sifts through the rubble of NATO's war on Yugoslavia"); To Think and Speak in Hong Kong ("Benjamin Ostrov tells what happened when he spoke truth to power in the world's richest city-state"); The Road to Dissent ("Jen Tracy profiles the rise of a Soviet dissident [Boris Pustintsev], and his revolutionary origins in - jazz"); Apolitical Life ("How a nice Jewish… 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: Court Guts Free Speech ("The Supreme Court has sometimes made exceptions to free expression in pornography and advertising, on the theory that the First Amendment is really about political speech. Now, reports Mark Tapscott, it has allowed politicians to outlaw criticism from their opponents"); If Free Markets Give People What They Want, How Do You Explain Dan Rather? ("Robert Formaini explores the paradox of media bias"); Searching for Lonerville ("Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw find a corner of freedom in an unfree world [Lonerville, Nevada] - and new evidence that challenges the theory that free riders undermine the provision of public goods"); Viva Las Vegas! ("You may know about the slots, but what about the architecture, folk art, the art of acrobatics, and the culinary art of 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. Contents include: On the Road With Ed Thompson ("A trip across Wisconsin with a guy who owns a bar sounds like a dream come true to Tim Slagle, even if the guy is running for governor"); Ms. Coddington Goes to Wellington ("Deborah Coddington, a widely-read libertarian journalist, was just elected to the New Zealand Parliament. She had a lot to say in her maiden speech"); Science vs. the State: The Case of Kennewick Man ("A Federal District Court has rejected Bill Clinton's attempt to destroy important evidence of early man in America. But, Timothy Sandefur reports, it cannot undo the politically-motivated destruction of an important archaeological site"); How Fat Are We? ("Is America's obesity 'crisis' the result of fast food? Or of fast and loose manipulation of statistical data? Randal… 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: Special Section "Election '96 - What It Means" (including "The [Harry] Browne Campaign - Triumph or Disaster?"); Nationalist, Go Home ("Nationalism may be making a comeback, but, argues Bill Kauffman, it has a few drawbacks"); The Non-Problem of Global Warming by Ben Bolch and Harold Lyons ("Warnings of warming are only so much hot air"); Whores of the Art World ("Jamie McEwan notes the unintended consequences of art subsidies. Todd Seavey tries to tell elected officials how he feels about PBS"); The New Reefer Madness ("Paul Armentano debunks the myth of the teenage cannabis fiend"); Child Porn and Free Speech ("There is no freedom some people will not abridge in the cause of fighting 'child pornography.' Joan Kennedy Taylor redefines the… 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: Special Section - The Unraveling of Bill Clinton (with articles Clinton's Web of Lies; The Defenders of the Undefendable; Reaping the Consequences; Sex and Status; Leave the Poor Guy Alone!); The Collapse of the New World Order ("The big story is not a squirming president, but a world economy whirling into disaster - and the world's governments along with it. J. Orlin Grabbe looks at the upside of the downturn"); On the Road with the Secret Government ("Jonathan Ellis does a stint with FEMA"); "A Naked, Arbitrary Exercise" ("Bruce Ramsey retells the glories of past battles for the U.S. Constitution and against the minimum wage"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1998.

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 REAL Judge [Clarence] Thomas (with Who is Clarence Thomas? by R. W. Bradford; Judge Thomas versus the Constitutional 'Mainstream' by James Taggart); Experimenting with Marijuana by Robert O'Boyle ("James O. Mason, chief of the Public Health Service, has signed a new policy directive discouraging the granting of permission to new applicants for marijuana as a medicinal drug"); GNP: A Bogus Idea? by R. W. Bradford; Buying Gasoline in Ethiopia by Robert Miller ("Braving a river rapids is one thing. Braving a Third World dictatorship, alien infections, and killer hippos is something else, as Robert Miller discovered when he led an expedition down the Omo River in Ethiopia"); The Suicide of Canadian Culture by Barry Chamish; 50 Really Stupid Ways to Save the Earth by Karl Hess; Persuasion… Read More

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: Same as the Old Boss? ("Bruce Ramsey analyzes Obama's first moves, and concludes he's not as radical as some might fear"); Questioning One's Insanity ("Even libertarians, contends Thomas Szasz, often turn a blind eye to psychiatric slavery. If so, Jo Ann Skousen maintains, she is not one of them"); Promise Now, Pay Never ("The death of the leviathan state, argues Jim Walsh, will start with a crisis caused by unfunded political promises"); Bullet Train to Bankruptcy ("Their state is broke, so California voters decided to spend tens of billions of dollars on the world's largest toy train set. Randal O'Toole investigates"); India, Behind and Beneath ("The reality of India, as Jayant Bhandari reports, is more interesting, and more troubling, than anything revealed by… Read More