Mary Ruwart, scientist and famously persuasive, widely respected, and radically principled libertarian author, has declared her bid for the 2008 Libertarian Party nomination for president.

I've long loved her book Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression, which her website points out has a certain "universal appeal. . . apparent from its prominent endorsers, including self-help notables Dr. Wayne Dyer and Harry Palmer; Nobel Peace Prize nominees, Frances Kendall and Leon Louw; world-renown nutritionist, Dr. Jonathan Wright; and Dr. Ron Paul. . . ."