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Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered "if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his name." The lively essays collected in The Irrepressible Rothbard display one of those geniuses: Rothbard the journalist, cultural critic, political observer, and movement organizer. Even more remarkable, they represent just a fraction of what he wrote in his spare time, for just one publication, and in just the last few years of his life.His articles combined libertarian antigovernment economics, decentralist local patriotism, antiwar isolation, and a dissident/reactionary cultural outlook that saw the growth of government as the key to the loss of the Old Republic. He defended land-rights groups against environmentalists, citizen militias against gun grabbers, isolationists against imperialists, paleoconservatives against neoconservatives, populists against party regulars, anti–New World Order conspiracy theorists against the establishment, nationalists against internationalist planners, states' righters against libertarian centralists, the Christian Right against its own leadership, and much more.These essays show not only Rothbard's intellectual vigor but the complete joy with which he embraced life, and how his extreme optimism made even the most severe setbacks tolerable. He experienced great disappointments and great successes, but through it all he was heroic, undaunted, and irrepressible.This volume displays Murray Rothbard's late political writing as an intellectual model for those who long for liberty, and work for it in our times. 431 pp. (hb)This volume's eighty-five essays address political strategy, war, nationalism, culture, feminism, and much more. They includeA Strategy for the RightFrank Meyer and Sydney HookThe Religious Right: Toward a CoalitionA New Strategy for LibertyRight-Wing PopulismPat Buchanan and the Menace of Anti-Anti-SemitismWorking Our Way Back to the PresidentGang-Stabbing the President: What, Who, and WhyThe "Watershed" ElectionEducation: Rethinking "Choice"New York Politics `93The Bringing Down of Liz HoltzmanWithin a Month! The Bringing Down of Bobby Ray InmanThe Apotheosis of Tricky DickThe New York Political CircusBig-Government LibertariansThe November Revolution and Its BetrayalA Rivederci Mario1996! The Morning LineStop NAFTA!Why the Pro-NAFTA Hysteria?Mr. Bush's WarThe Post-Cold War WorldMr. Bush's Shooting WarNotes on the Nintendo WarLessons of the Gulf WarWhy the War? The Kuwait ConnectionU.S., Keep Out of Bosnia!The December Surprise"Doing God's Work" in SomaliaHands Off the Serbs!Where Intervene Next?Korean War Redux?Invade the WorldThe Nationalities QuestionYugoslavian BreakupWelcome, Slovenia!The Cyprus QuestionEx-CzechoslovakiaThe New York Times, Communism, and South AfricaEthnic Fury in the Caucasus: Sorting It OutBut What About the Hungarians?Hutus vs. TutsisOn Resisting EvilGuilt Sanctified"Tolerance," or Manners?Exhume! Exhume! Or, Who Put the Arsenic in Rough-n-Ready's Cherries?Behind WacoAmerica's Most Persecuted MinorityHunting the Christian RightThe Menace of the Religious LeftSaint Hillary and the Religious LeftKulturdampf!From the Bench--Down With De-e-e-fenseThe Right to Kill, With Dignity?Wichita Justice? On Denationalizing the CourtsThe J.F.K. FlapBobby Fischer: The Lynching of the Returning HeroFluoridation RevisitedNever Say "JAP"!Some Reflections on the OlympicsI Hate Max LernerMax Lerner: Again?!The Evil Empire Strikes BackLiberal Hysteria: The Mystery ExplainedKing KristolThe Women/Ladies/Girls/Spoiled Brats of MillsSports, Politics, and the ConstitutionThe Great Thomas & Hill Show: Stopping the Monstrous Regiment"Date Rape" on CampusThe Kennedy "Rape" CaseMarshall, Civil Rights, and the CourtTheir Malcolm... And Mine"Debauchery! Debauchery!" At Tailhook
