I only met Robert Nozick on one occasion, and learning of his death today brought a kaleidoscope of images surrounding that encounter. Here’s how I remember it, but please don’t jump all over me if some of the dates and details are skewed. I think it was 1981: the Center for Libertarian Studies was going through a difficult time. For the first five years of its existence, CLS received funds from a major conservative foundation, but an antiwar essay by Murray Rothbard bothered them, and they unceremoniously cut us off. (Rothbard, like Mises, was uncompromising, intractable, they fumed.) The Center, … Continue reading Nozick, Rothbard, and Me at the WTC