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: An Echo, Not a Choice ("How did a party that opposes the Iraq war nominate a man [John Kerry] who supports it even more strongly than George Bush? R.W. Bradford finds the answer"); The Triumph of the Brummagem ("Alec Mouhibian discovers that it isn't just John Kerry's face that is immobilized by Botox"); The Color of Envy ("The Green Party gathered in Milwaukee to fight Big Coffee, Big Beer, and Big Printing. Tim Slagle reports"); Urination Nation ("The War on Drugs takes its show on the road, where Ari Armstrong learns about the wisdom of making kids pee into paper cups"); Resist All Wars! ("The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee won't pay taxes to support the War on Iraq. Barry Loberfeld invites them to resist taxation that supports the War on… 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 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 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 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.

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 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Virginia Tech's Failed Playwright ("Did Seung-Hui Cho's writings really mark him as a murderous psychopath? Scott Stein investigates"); The YouTube Wars ("Why all the fuss over low-resolution video clips? James Walsh runs down the fight between Viacom and Google"); The Books of Summer ("Our editors and contributors offer their picks for the season's must-have accessory"); Diamonds, In the Rough by Nelson Hultberg ("Baseball owners and players may have agreed on another labor deal, but the sport will remain at risk until the playing field is leveled"); Liberte and Egalite Against Fraternite ("If we are to keep our republic, Alex Binz argues, we must understand the ideas that would destroy it"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front… 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 72 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Y2K and You ("Scott Omsted explains why you could wake up to a whole different century on January 1, 2000. And it may look a lot like the 19th"); The Making of [Ayn] Rand's Passion ("Barbara Branden watches Hollywood transform her book into film"); Israel at 50 ("Alan Bock explains why he has a soft spot in his heart for socialist Israel"); Evil Emperors ("We should censure Rupert Murdoch's self-censorship, Fred Smith explains, but not as much as we should condemn Ted Turner's lust for power"); The End of Photography as Proof of Anything at All ("Technological trickery will soon end using photographs as evidence, David Brin says. But this is not a bad thing"); Big Tobacco Coughs Up ("While Minnesotans fight over the lucre extorted from the tobacco… 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 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: A Way Out of Iraq ("Progress in the Middle East, Jon Harrison argues, requires a new perspective"); The French Occupation of America ("David G. Danielson tells what American history would have been like if the French had been thinking like George W. Bush"); The Empty Breadbasket (on Zimbabwe: "Doug Casey sees how to destroy a country in less than a decade"); Twenty Observations on Liberty and Society ("Jayant Bhandari warns that totalitarian government is only a symptom of the real enemy: totalitarian culture"); The Art of Letting Go (on Lin Yutang: "Mark Skousen lauds a Chinese philosopher who drove away a third of the students in a class at Columbia Business School"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted; 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. Contents include: Liberty [Magazine] at Fifteen ("R.W. Bradford recalls what we were trying to do, where we succeeded, where we failed, and where things turned out differently from what we had expected"); The Trouble With Szasz ("Thomas Szasz has spent a lifetime arguing that medicine and coercion don't mix. Ralph Slovenko explains why Szasz is just plain wrong"); Coercion and Psychiatry ("Thomas Szasz is unconvinced and unrepentant"); Immigration and Culture ("If no one culture is better than another, Stephen Browne wonders, then why do people want to immigrate to America?"); Targeting Bob Barr ("Why in the world would the Libertarian Party spend its time and money targeting one of the most libertarian members of Congress? J. Bradley Jansen tries to figure it out"); Reforming Asset… 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. 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 64 pages including front and rear covers. Articles include: The Rape of Free Speech ("Richard Platte tells how a businessman and a lawyer defeated the new forces of censorship in a college town"); FDA TKO ("When two feisty entrepreneurs took on the bureaucracy, the bureaucracy took it on the nose. Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw report"); No Room for Opposition ("Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Price for peace. But, as Jim Peron reports, his real concerns are buying arms and quashing dissent"); The Demographics of Liberty ("The results are in: libertarians are older, but are they wiser?"); Canada's Supreme Blunder ("Last August, Canada's Supreme Court ruled on the issue of Quebec's secession. Sort of. Scott Reid picks through the pieces"). Staples lightly age-rusted; small mailing label to front cover; a clean and bright copy.… Read More