For some time, the Wikipedia entry for the Cato Institute bore the statement that the Institute was: “Founded in San Francisco, California in 1977 by Edward H. Crane and Murray Rothbard (who was later purged from Cato), and initially funded by Charles G. Koch”. Apparently Cato didn’t like this. On Dec. 7, 2005, Will Wilkinson, a Cato employee, edited the entry to delete the mention of Rothbard as one of Cato’s founders. His explanation was that he was “Elimat[ing] extraneous, innacurate, and editorializing material.” I suppose this implies the mention of Rothbard as being a founder of Cato was inaccurate. … Continue reading Cato and Rothbard