When Christopher Hayes of The Nation phoned me about the split between regime libertarians and the rest of us, I told him that all would be united by the Ron Paul Revolution (if only, in some cases, by the scent of power). Of course, he gets some things wrong in his funny article. Murray Rothbard was kicked off the Cato board when he refused to countenance their abandoning of the anti-central banking Austrian School, for the pro-Federal Reserve Chicago School. “Paleo-libertarianism” meant not populism, but an end to the anti-religious emphasis of the Rand-influenced libertarian movement, and a dedication to … Continue reading Ron Paul and the Libertarian Split