Today I received from Amazon my eagerly awaited copy of Murray N. Rothbard’s posthumous volume The Progressive Era (edited by Patrick Newman). Upon reading the opening lines of the Forward by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, I was seized by an eerie sense of déjà vu, for the academic experience he describes almost paralleled exactly that of my own at that time: When I was in my junior and senior years at Princeton studying history in the early 1970s, I became fascinated with the Progressive Era. It attracted me at a time when America rejected as profoundly as it did under Lincoln … Continue reading Rothbard Shatters the Court Historian Consensus on the Progressive Era