On May 2, 2002, "libertarianism" mistakenly appeared in a rather official-sounding obituary. Francis Fukuyama, who has previously written of "the end of history" (it was quite some time ago), now claims that: the liberal revolution of the 1980s and u201890s, having morphed from classical liberalism to libertarianism, [has] crested and now [is] on the defensive. Today, the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Nobel prize-winning Austrian economist F.A. Hayek, it must be observed that Professor Fukuyama is completely wrong. Like the silver-tongued Saruman in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, perhaps Fukuyama hopes that libertarians will simply be seduced by his … Continue reading Libertarian Thought