Today is the 22nd anniversary of Murray Rothbard’s death.  His influence continues to grow, as new generations of students, at the Mises Institute and elsewhere, discover his thought.  Many besides Rothbard’s acknowledged followers have been influenced by him, but one striking example must here suffice. One of the most important books of twentieth-century American philosophy has been Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick remarks that it “was a long conversation about six years ago (i.e., in 1968) with Murray Rothbard that stimulated my interest in individualist anarchist theory.” The entire first part of Nozick’s book is an attempt to … Continue reading Rothbard and Nozick