Past
articles by Murray Rothbard on LewRockwell.com
Rothbard
on Keynes
When Murray was 21.
The
Man Who Made America Independent
Murray N. Rothbard on Tom Paine.
On
Resisting Evil
Murray N. Rothbard on our job always and everywhere.
The
George W. Bush of 1929
Murray N. Rothbard on Herbert Hoover's Republican attack on
the free market.
Power
and the Intellectuals
Murray N. Rothbard on WWI as fulfillment.
The
'Great Society'
Murray N. Rothbard on a previous installment of the regime.
How
Not To Write History
Murray
N. Rothbard on textbook idiocy.
Slavery
and Civil War
Murray N. Rothbard on the great American disasters.
Liberty
vs. Power
Murray N. Rothbard on setting the stage for American history.
Did
Capitalism Cause the Great Depression?
Murray N. Rothbard on the real culprit.
Who
Is Frank Chodorov?
Murray N. Rothbard on the great individualist.
Laissez-Faire
Radical
Murray N. Rothbard on the quest for the historical Mises.
The
Trouble With George Washington
Not such a great guy after all.
Conspiracy
Theories
Of course they make sense, says Murray N. Rothbard. Sometimes.
Myth
and Truth About Libertarianism
Murray N. Rothbard explains.
Are
Libertarians 'Anarchists'?
A classic, newly discovered article from Murray N. Rothbard.
Bifurcated
Conservatives
The real enemy is not terrorism (or communism), but statism.
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Remembering
Harry Elmer Barnes
Murray N. Rothbard on a revisionist historian.
Wall
Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Murray N. Rothbard on DC and its friends.
Remembering
a Libertarian Giant
Murray N. Rothbard on F.A. "Baldy" Harper.
How
Warmongers Took Over the Right
An important
new book by Murray N. Rothbard on the whole sordid
history.
Anatomy
of a Bank Run
A timely classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Ethnic
Politics in New York City
A
classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
A
Band of Thieves Writ Large
Murray N. Rothbard on the state.
The
Greatness of Lysander Spooner
Murray N. Rothbard on the man who got vices as versus crimes.
Telling
the Truth About War
Murray N. Rothbard on revisionism for our time.
Who
Owns the Water?
Not the state.
The
First Christian Right
Also for war and against freedom. Article by Murray N. Rothbard.
Understanding
the Republican Party
A classic confidential memo from Murray N. Rothbard on the
other big-government faction.
A
Pain in the Neck to Politicians
Murray N. Rothbard on the history of economic thought.
Getting
the American Revolution Wrong
Murray N. Rothbard on modern historians.
The
Kissinger Connection
To the first criminal war on Iraq.
Rolling
Back the State
Murray N. Rothbard on how and how not to desocialize.
Can
There Be a 'Just Tax'?
Surely you jest.
Tax
Day
Murray N. Rothbard on what it means.
Who
Murdered JFK?
Murray N. Rothbard on the federal mystery.
No
More Military Socialism
Murray N. Rothbard on how legitimate defense can be done far
better and cheaper on the market.
How
To Punish
In a free society.
The
Right to Self-Defense
Murray N. Rothbard on libertarian law.
Remembering
Frank Chodorov
Murray N. Rothbard on the great individualist.
Saint
Hillary
A
Murray N. Rothbard classic on the religious left.
The
Menace of the Religious Left
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
America's
Most Persecuted Minority
And no, it's not big business.
The
Noblest Cause of All
The old American cause: individual liberty.
Rothbard
vs. the Crazies
Murray on the enemies of liberty.
Real
Law
It's not a product of the state. Article by Murray N. Rothbard.
The
State Is Not the Nation
Murray N. Rothbard on national self-determination.
Milton
Friedman Unraveled
Murray N. Rothbard on the real meaning of the Chicago School.
How
Anarchism Can Work
Murray N. Rothbard on society without a state.
Why
Socialism Died
Murray N. Rothbard on its fundamental opposition to the structure
of reality.
The
Evil of Government Ownership
And
the blessing of private ownership.
Commie
Pilgrims
Murray N. Rothbard on what really happened at Plymouth.
Money
and the Individual
Murray N. Rothbard on The
Theory of Money and Credit, by Ludwig von Mises.
Destructivism
Murray N. Rothbard on the deconstructionist invasion of philosophy
and economics.
The
Trouble With Shrinks
They seek to repress dissidents, says Murray N. Rothbard.
Scholar,
Creator, Hero
Murray N. Rothbard on Ludwig von Mises.
The
Sickness of Public Schools
"Free" and compulsory.
Ball
and Chain
Murray Rothbard on the origins of the US "welfare"
state.
The
Moral Imperative of Peace
Murray
N. Rothbard on war and foreign policy.
Ignore
the Sellouts
Crack a book by Rothbard.
Protectionism
vs. Prosperity
Murray N. Rothbard on government trade barriers.
Should
You Be Able To Burn Your Copy of the US Flag?
Of course, says Murray N. Rothbard.
Outlawing
Jobs
Murray
N. Rothbard on the minimum wage.
Bush's
Invasion of Somalia
The first Bush, that is.
Unnatural
Elites
Murray N. Rothbard on the real history of 'civil servants.'
Private
Property Is the Basis of Civilization
But some anarchists don't get it, says Murray N. Rothbard.
The
War System and Its Intellectual Myths
Murray N. Rothbard on Harry Elmer Barnes and the Cold War.
For
a New Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard's Libertarian Manifesto.
Understanding
the State
Murray N. Rothbard on "a band of thieves writ large."
Our
Libertarian Heritage
Murray N. Rothbard on the American revolution and classical
liberalism.
Libertarianism
(the Real Thing) Reborn
Rothbard's Libertarian Forum is back.
On
Resisting Evil
Murray N. Rothbard on our compelling moral obligation.
Real
Freedom and Justice
Murray N. Rothbard on law, property rights, and air pollution.
'Date
Rape' on Campus
What do the feminists want?
Rape
or 'Rape'?
Murray N. Rothbard on the Kennedy case.
Sudden
Deaths in Office
Murray N. Rothbard on presidents.
Private
Defense
Can the market do better? Murray N. Rothbard on the work of
anarcho-capitalist pioneer Gustave de Molinari.
Good
Movies
Murray N. Rothbard on Cinema
Paradiso and Metropolitan.
The
Mantle of Science
Murray N. Rothbard on how to understand economics.
Boo,
Hiss
Murray N. Rothbard on Schindler's
List, Philadelphia,
and The
Piano.
Mafia
Movies
Murray N. Rothbard on the thrilling, and the malign.
Myths
of the Cold War
Murray N. Rothbard on the first "war on terror."
Who
Are the 'Terrorists'?
The prescient Murray N. Rothbard 20 years ago.
It
All Began, as Usual, With the Greeks
Murray N. Rothbard on the beginning of economics.
The
Original Bush Conservative
Murray N. Rothbard on Herbert Hoover.
Real
American History
Murray N. Rothbard on the Christian origins of individualist
anarchism in America.
Rothbard
on World Affairs
A lost 1989 video.
What
Is the Free Market?
Murray N. Rothbard explains.
Calvinists
vs. Catholics
And more revisionism in the history of economic thought from
Murray N. Rothbard. (Get
both volumes for $45!)
The
Adam Smith Myth
Murray N. Rothbard on clay feet.
The
Joyous Libertarian
Murray N. Rothbard on H.L. Mencken.
It
All Began With Lao-tzu
Murray
N. Rothbard on the Chinese libertarian tradition.
Radical
Candor
And radical fun. A lost interview with Murray N. Rothbard
on Ayn, Tricky Dick, Friedman, Vietnam, the New Left, price
controls, and 101 other fascinating things.
Mailer
for Mayor
Murray
N. Rothbard on Norman's campaign.
Red
Dawn
Murray N. Rothbard on a
movie about military occupation and guerrilla resistance.
The
Student Revolution
It helped end the war on Vietnam. Article by Murray N. Rothbard
(with ideas for ending the war on Iraq).
Requiem
for the Old Right
Murray
N. Rothbard on our forebears.
Wilson's
Secret Police
Murray N. Rothbard on the chilling suppression of freedom
under Woodrow during WWI.
The
Government-Business Alliance
Murray N. Rothbard on the presidency and big business.
The
Roosevelt Myth
Murray N. Rothbard on conservative love for the evil Franklin.
The
Corporate Statist
Murray
N. Rothbard on Felix Rohatyn.
Reliving
the Crash of '29
Murray
N. Rothbard on how Hoover's policies blazed the trail for
FDR and wrecked the US economy.
Where
the Left Goes Wrong on Foreign Policy
And
where the
Old Right got it right. Article by Murray N. Rothbard.
Libertarian
Cover for the Corporate State
A classic that is all too contemporary: Murray N. Rothbard
on Nixon's libertarian pal.
The
Troubling Role of National Review
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard on the Old Right vs. the
New Right. (The antiwar libertarian resurgence was yet to
come.)
Investigate
the Vice President First
If the president dies unexpectedly.
See
and Hear Murray Rothbard
And here
are some of his books.
When
the Feds First Attacked the Americans
Murray N. Rothbard on the Whiskey Rebellion.
When
the Right Wasn't Bloodthirsty
Murray N. Rothbard on The Foreign Policy of the Old Right
(PDF).
War,
Peace, and the State
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard on why we are not conservatives.
The
American Corporate State
Murray N. Rothbard on how the current regime developed during
WWI.
Understanding
Left and Right
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard on the prospects for liberty.
Painless
Economics
Ten fascinating hours of talks by the master, Murray N. Rothbard.
The
Real Conservative Movement
Fronting for despots. A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Government
and Hurricane
Murray N. Rothbard on a deadly combination.
How
the Fed Wreaks Disaster
Murray N. Rothbard on the first Great Depression.
Trading
With the Enemy
Murray N. Rothbard on a great American tradition.
Patriotic
Schlock
Murray N. Rothbard on the endless summer.
The
Moral Imperative of 'Isolationism'
Murray N. Rothbard on war and foreign policy.
Who
Is Murray Rothbard?
David Gordon on Mr. Libertarian, and so much more.
The
'Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes' Were Right
Murray N. Rothbard on fluoridation. And see
Donald Miller, MD, too.
The
Transformation of the American Right
Murray N. Rothbard on how it became an enemy of peace and
freedom.
Republican
Socialism
Murray N. Rothbard shows, at the time, where Nixonism will
lead.
Sell
Out and Die
Murray N. Rothbard on regime libertarians.
Jazz
Needs a Melody
Murray N. Rothbard on the old culture vs. bebop.
No
Government in Pennsylvania
Murray N. Rothbard on a 17th-century anarchist experiment,
from his magisterial Conceived
in Liberty.
'Doing
God's Work' With a Bayonet
Murray N. Rothbard on the social gospel of the religious right.
Should
You Be Able To Burn the Flag?
Of course, if it's your property.
Lessons
From the War
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard on the first war on Iraq.
End
Tyranny Non-Violently
Murray N. Rothbard on the political thought of 16th-century
libertarian Étienne de la Boétie.
Revolt
Against the Right
The first popular statement on modern libertarianism, from
Murray N. Rothbard, of course.
A
Permanent Revolution for Liberty
Against the conservative-socialist amalgam.
The
Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar
Private mintage, 100 percent reserve banking, circulating
coins, full convertibility. A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
What
Your Rulers Don't Want You To Know
Murray N. Rothbard on the nature of the state.
Why
We Are Not Conservatives
Murray N. Rothbard on war, peace, and the state.
Edmund
Burke, Anarchist
Murray N. Rothbard on the founding father of conservatism.
The
Most Exciting Event of My Life
A 1990 talk by Murray N. Rothbard at the Mises
University (MP3) on the collapse of communism and the
future of Austrian economics.
Do
You Hate the State?
That is always and everywhere the key question, says Murray
N. Rothbard.
Hutus
vs. Tutsis
Murray N. Rothbard explains what happened.
Outlawing
Jobs
Murray N. Rothbard on the minimum wage.
The
Whiskey Rebellion
A model for our times?
Rothbard
vs. Greenspan
On a consumption tax.
Feminism
and Football
Murray N. Rothbard on sports, politics, and the Constitution.
In
Defense of Diversity
Inequality, that is.
Copying
the Nazis
Murray N. Rothbard on collective guilt.
On
Resisting Evil
Murray N. Rothbard to anti-state libertarians, and non-neo
conservatives.
Max
Lerner: Again?!
Murray N. Rothbard on the ur-neocon.
I
Hate Max Lerner
Murray N. Rothbard on an ur-neocon.
It's
Always the 'Lone Nut'
Murray N. Rothbard on political assassinations.
Wall
Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Murray N. Rothbard on the state-establishment axis for intervention
and war.
Compromising
With Tyranny
Murray N. Rothbard on how even the best National Review conservative
went wrong.
Red
Dawn
Murray N. Rothbard on guerrilla resistance to the occupier.
Living
in a State-Run World
Murray N. Rothbard on how to proceed.
The
Unstoppable Rothbard
His influence increases, his detractors are confounded.
Making
the Best the Enemy of the Worst
Murray N. Rothbard on the case for radical idealism.
The
Anatomy of the State
Murray N. Rothbard on what it isn't, and what it is.
Left
and Right: the Prospects for Liberty
Classic Rothbard with a particular resonance these days (PDF).
A
Future of Peace and Capitalism
Murray N. Rothbard on why we will win.
Libertarian
Thought in Colonial America
Murray N. Rothbard on how it all began.
Down
With Primitivism
Murray N. Rothbard on the noble savage and one of his apologists.
Lifeboat
Situations
Murray N. Rothbard on ethics.
Down
With Primitivism
Murray N. Rothbard on the noble savage and one of his apologists.
The
Ethics of Liberty
The great Rothbard classic online in two formats, thanks to
the Mises Institute.
A
Farrago of Evil and Error
Murray N. Rothbard on protectionism.
The
Incoherence of Conservatism
Murray Rothbard writes to Frank
Meyer.
The
Odious Legacy of Reagan
Murray N. Rothbard on neocons, libertarians, Ronnie, and the
state.
How
To Think Like an Economist
A real economist, that is.
Taxation
Must Destroy Wealth
It can never be "neutral" to the market economy.
Go
and Do Thou Likewise
Gary North on the example set by Murray Rothbard.
The
Central Crime of the Central Bank
Murray N. Rothbard on the artificial cycle of booms and busts.
A
Future of Peace and Capitalism
All we have to worry about are the socialists of left and
right.
How
To Do Economics
Murray N. Rothbard on praxeology, the method of the Austrian
School.
The
Real Reaganomics
Even at its best it was bad.
A
Recurring Establishment Trick
Murray N. Rothbard on neocons, Buckleyites, and the alleged
end of ideology.
Capitalism
and Catholicism
Murray N. Rothbard on the economics and politics of Leo XIII
and Pius XI.
Catholicism,
Protestantism, and Capitalism
A clarifying memo from Murray N. Rothbard.
Are
We Being Beastly to the Gipper?
Of course not!
Ronald
Reagan, Warmonger
Murray N. Rothbard on the early years of the California Camelot.
To
De-Bamboozle
Murray N. Rothbard on the noble task of revisionism.
Ayn
Rand, the Movie
A video of Murray N. Rothbard's one-act play, Mozart
Was a Red.
The
Evil of Banality
Murray N. Rothbard on Norman Podhoretz.
Bill
& Irving & Ken & Patrick
Murray N. Rothbard on the neocons.
The
Ethics of Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard's libertarian masterpiece is now online,
with a new introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Gippering
California
As preparation for Gippering America. Murray N. Rothbard on
Reagan.
The
Real Reaganomics
Murray N. Rothbard on military Keynesianism.
The
Reagan Phenomenon
Murray N. Rothbard on the shrewdest manipulator of public
opinion since FDR.
Reagan
Revisionism
Murray N. Rothbard on the myths of Reaganomics.
The
Failure Called Fusionism
Libertarianism and conservatism, despite Frank S. Meyer, are
different, antagonistic positions.
How
To Study Man
And how not to study him. A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
The
Capitalist Entrepreneur
Quite simply, the man who makes the world go round.
The
State vs. Innovation
Murray N. Rothbard on government and science.
Hoppephobia
Murray N. Rothbard on why Hans-Hermann Hoppe drives some libertarians
crazy.
The
Old Right
Murray N. Rothbard on our heritage, now revived thanks to
him.
The
Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Voluntary
Servitude
Murray N. Rothbard on The
Politics of Obedience.
Austrian
Economics in One Lesson
There's no better place to start than this classic audio of
Murray N. Rothbard.
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Rothbard
Making Economic Sense, as only he could, for 1¢ (plus
shipping) with another purchase.
Government
Can't Deliver the Goods
Murray N. Rothbard author of Man,
Economy, and State on the myth of government "services."
Ten
Ethical Objections to the Free Market
Exploded by Murray N. Rothbard in his astounding treatise,
Man,
Economy, and State.
Brimelow
on Rothbard
After Peter wrote this article for Forbes, a DC libertarian
thinktank blacklisted him for more than a decade.
Protectionism
vs. Prosperity
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Repudiate
the National Debt
Nothing else makes moral or economic sense. A classic from
Murray N. Rothbard.
Life
in the Old Right
Murray N. Rothbard lived it.
The
Kondratieff Fraud
Murray N. Rothbard on the most famed financial chart of them
all.
The
Trouble With Milton Friedman
Murray N. Rothbard unravels one of the state's favorite economists.
Rockefelleronomics
A classic from the young Murray N. Rothbard.
For
a New Isolationism
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Rothbard
on the Great Society
A libertarian critique.
Two
Just Wars
Murray N. Rothbard on 1776 and 1861 (MP3 speech file).
National
Liberation
Murray N. Rothbard on opposing the oppressor.
War,
Peace, and the State
Murray N. Rothbard vs. Bill Buckley and the Buckleyites.
Against
Women's Lib
Murray N. Rothbard on feminism.
The
Fallacy of the 'Public Sector'
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
The
Supposed Case for Taxation
A devastating scholarly refutation from Murray N. Rothbard
(PDF).
Rothbard
on Protectionism
Refuting
ancient errors.
The
Dangerous Nonsense Called Protectionism
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Understanding
Left and Right
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard on the prospects for liberty.
Egalitarianism
as a Revolt Against Nature
Murray
N. Rothbard on the ideology of the modern state.
Why
Obey the Parasites?
Murray N. Rothbard on why we do, and why we don't have to.
Orwell
vs. Podhoretz
Murray N. Rothbard on 1984,
the Cold War, and the neocons.
1984
in 1949
The young Rothbard on Orwell.
Memories
of Rothbard and Hayek
Ronald Hamowy on his two great teachers.
Cold
War Myths
Murray
N. Rothbard on the official propaganda myths of war and the
warfare state, a tribute to historian Harry Elmer Barnes.
Bush's
Ancestors
Murray
N. Rothbard on the crazed and evil Progressives.
War,
Peace, and the State
Murray N. Rothbard explains it all.
Life
and Death of the Old Right
Lessons for libertarians from Murray N. Rothbard.
Ayn
Rand in One Act
Murray
N. Rothbard's Mozart Was a Red, with an introduction by Justin
Raimondo.
Tax
Day
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
Murray
Rothbard on 'National Review'
A
classic report. And see
also this.
The
Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult
A classic from Murray N. Rothbard.
A
Fable For Our Time
By one of the unreconstructed. An unpublished manuscript from
the Murray N. Rothbard Archives.
A
Blaze of Radiant Light
Rothbard on Chodorov.
Rothbard
Writes the Dixiecrats
In 1949, when he was a 24-year-old graduate student.
What's
a Just War?
1775 and 1861, for example, says Murray N. Rothbard.
The
Joyous Libertarian
Murray N. Rothbard on H.L. Mencken.
Genius
Mourns Genius
An obituary of Ludwig von Mises by Murray N. Rothbard.
Why
Conservatives Love War and the State
Murray
N. Rothbard had it all figured out.
Rothbard
on Le Pen
Well,
sort of.
Edmund
Burke, Rothbardian
Well,
not quite but that's closer to the truth than the conservative
distortions of the Cold War. Article by Joseph Stromberg.
The
Republican Party and Steel
A
long, rotten history. A classic by Murray N. Rothbard.
The
Rothbardian Solution
To save our economy from the eventual holocaust of run-away
inflation, we the people must take the money-supply function
back from the government.
Fractional-Reserve
Banking
Murray N. Rothbard on the moral fraudulence and economic disaster
of this pervasive scam.
Taking
Our Money Back
Abolish the Grand Counterfeiter, the Federal Reserve, says
Murray N. Rothbard.
What's
Wrong With Conservatism
And
what's right with it. A classic statement of the libertarian
position from Murray N. Rothbard.
Rothbard
on Szasz
The
libertarian psychiatrist's theories. Rothbard likes the
libertarianism.
The
Anti-War, Anti-State Right
Murray
N. Rothbard on our true heritage, and how it was suppressed
(temporarily!).
Six
Myths About Libertarianism
Murray
N. Rothbard refutes some conservative fictions.
Edmund
Burke, Anarchist
Despite
the conservatives, he was once a good guy. Murray N. Rothbard's
revisionist classic.
The
Trouble With Conservatives
They
can't get the State right. Murray Rothbard's classic essay.
The
Last Time the US Warred on Afghanistan
And
Iran, Murray N. Rothbard had some comments that might have
been written yesterday.
The
Truth About Greenspan
Murray
N. Rothbard had his number in 1987.
And
Now Afghanistan
This
is not the first US encounter with that impoverished country.
Here's Murray N. Rothbard's take in 1980.
The
Real Aggressor
More
classic Rothbard, this time from 1954, on the State and war
Buckley
Revealed
Murray
N. Rothbard had this military socialist nailed in 1952.
The
Anatomy of the State
What
is the State? It is theft organized on a territorial basis.
A classic Murray N. Rothbard essay from his Egalitarianism
As a Revolt Against Nature.
Should
It Be Legal To Burn the Federal Flag?
Of
course!
'The
Irrepressible Rothbard'
Click
here if you'd like an autographed copy of Lew Rockwell's funny
and important collection of hot Rothbard.
For
President: Bill Smith, Beatnik
A
1960 classic from the great Murray N. Rothbard.
Rothbard
Speaks!
Stunning
audio clips from the late dean of the Austrian School of economics.
Women's
Lib
Murray
Rothbard saw where it was going, and why it had to be stopped.
Rothbard
on the Elections
All
his life, Murray N. Rothbard loved elections and interpreting
them. Here. courtesy of Rothbard archivist Joseph R. Stromberg,
is Murray's take on the November 1950 version. P.S. Read Justin
Raimondo's biography of Rothbard, An
Enemy of the State, and Lew Rockwell's collection,
The
Irrepressible Rothbard.
The
Growth of Libertarian Thought in the Colonies
Murray
N. Rothbard on the ideological foundations of our secession.
Anatomy
of the State
Murray
N. Rothbard's classic essay on the nature of government.
The
Fraud and Danger of Equality
Murray
N. Rothbard's powerful "Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism,
and the Division of Labor."
The
Growth of Libertarian Thought
Murray
N. Rothbard on our 18th century American predecessors.
Psychoanalysis
as a Weapon
Shrinks are agents of the state, said Murray N. Rothbard.
What
Has Government Done to Our Money?
The
complete text of Murray N. Rothbard's classic is now on line.
War
Revisionism
It's
essential to tell the truth, as versus the state's version,
about the state's quintessential activity, and Murray Rothbard's
Journal of Libertarian Studies did exactly that.
Rothbard
on Greenspan
The
beloved con man of the central bank.
Rothbard:
Protectionism Wrecks Prosperity
Hey,
Pat. Anti-trade policies hurt American businessmen and consumers-not
to speak of the cause of liberty-while enriching pressure
groups and strengthening government.
The
Foreign Policy of the Old Right
Murray N. Rothbard shows that our ideological ancestors were
pro-peace because they were pro-liberty, unlike the warfare-welfare
statists of the Bill Buckley-CIA conservative movement. (Note:
requires Adobe
Acrobat, which is free.
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