Murray Rothbard
By David Gordon
January 7, 2016
Today is the anniversary of Murray Rothbard’s death in 1995. I vividly remember hearing the news, as it was one of the saddest days of my life. Murray, in his breadth of knowledge and acuity of mind, was the greatest scholar I have ever met. But to me, he was more than this. I viewed him as a second father. In the years since 1995, more and more students have come to appreciate his stature, despite the efforts of his enemies to marginalize him. “I shall not look upon his like again.”
David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and Distinguished Columnist at LewRockwell.com. He is also author of Resurrecting Marx and An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and editor of numerous books including Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard. Send him mail.
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