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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Volume 1, Number 6, December 1956. Cover photo by Bill Hughes. THIS COPY IS INTACT EXCEPT FOR THE TOP QUARTER OF THE FRONT COVER AND CONTENTS PAGE, AKA "STRIPPED". (Returned to publisher for credit as unsold.) 82 pages including wraps. Fiction by Alberto Moravia, Theodore Pratt, Jack Reynolds, etc. Other articles include a feature by Robert Bloch, Japan, Jayne Mansfield, etc. In solid G condition, aside from the portion stripped off.

Soft Cover. Very Good. Reprint? 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vol. XKVI, Nos. 2,3,4; Vol. XLVII, Nos. 1,2 June, September, December, 1986; March, June, 1987. A second section is A Subject Index to the Johnsonian News Letter Volumes XLI-XLV March 1981 - December 1985. Index is compiled by Marilyn Francus, Stuart Sherman, and Jennifer Thorn. (index divided into two parts - a general index and an index of modern scholars. A slightly soiled mailing paper acts as a cover. 61 pages total.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Special Section - The Intelligent Person's Guide to Presidential Politics with the following articles: Not Just for Libertarians ("The Libertarian Party candidate [Bob Barr], J. Bradley Jansen maintains, is more than just the protest candidate"); The Case for Obama ("Bruce Ramsey admits [Barack] Obama's platform may not be what libertarians want, but it's better than 'more of the same'"); The Case for [John] McCain ("Stephen Cox asks, 'Do you really want to vote for the greater evil?'"); None of the Above ("Nothing could be plainer, Doug Casey argues, than the reasons for boycotting the polls"). Other articles include: Welfare, Workfare, and Nation Building ("Why is it that the enormous U.S. Army is said to be 'spread too thin'? Peter Allen provides one answer"); Restoring the House of [H.L.] Mencken ("Bruce Ramsey visits an abandoned house of liberty"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Next President, the Next War ("Bush has made a lot of mistakes in the Middle East, and there's little chance that his successor will do much better. The region, as Jon Harrison explains, remains a structural nightmare"); Bob Barr: Enter the Pol ("Bruce Ramsey interviews the Libertarian presidential candidate and finds a wily and experienced politician"); The Calvinist Connection (on John Calvin and Calvinism: "David Kopel shows why religion and liberty need not be opposites"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Tet [Offensive] in Retrospect ("War, as Jon Harrison shows, is fought with thoughts and impressions, as well as planes and tanks"); "Laissez Faire [Books]," R.I.P.? ("The essential libertarian book club carried a range of writers from H.L. Mencken to P.J. O'Rourke. Will changing markets and internet search engines prove its undoing? Bruce Ramsey tells the story"); A Question of Meaning ("When people argue about the existence of God, John Hospers suggests, they tend to overlook some basic issues"); Learning from Interlingua ("How can languages that evolved over many centuries be regarded as dialects of a language only recently 'distilled'? Leland B. Yeager explains"); Uh Oh, Grandpa's Back (on Howard Zinn's one-man play "Marx in Soho" - "Ghosts, Matthew Bandyk discovers, can be unduly garrulous"); Decisive Moments: The Camera and the Individual ("The history of photography, Joseph Ho has found, is a very seductive thing"); My Home Was Invaded by Drug Thugs ("Peter McWilliams reports from the front line of the drug war - his living room"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: PFY vs. RP: Is There a Racist in the House? ("Ron Paul, the libertarian in the presidential race, was the subject of a political scandal. Bruce Ramsey assesses the damage"); The Films of Ayn Rand ("How does an individualist handle an art form in which collaboration is essential? Stephen Cox examines the movie career of Ayn Rand"); Gun Control: The Logical Fallacy ("Come, says Eric Neigher; let us reason together. Is there any logical reason to grab those guns?"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Special Section - Twenty Years of Liberty with lengthy The Liberty Poll ("Since its founding, Liberty has been trying to keep track of libertarians - who they are and what they think. We now present the results of the latest Liberty Poll") and accompanying article Moral Absolutes, Truth, and Liberty ("Ross Overbeek revisits the survey of libertarian attitudes that he helped to create 20 years ago"). Other features include: A Real Party? ("Suddenly, everybody wants to run under the Libertarian Party banner. Bruce Ramsey watches the race"); The Ethics of Tort Reform ("Gary Jason shows how to remedy the excessive litigation that is costing us hundreds of billions of dollars a year"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Same as the Old Boss? ("Bruce Ramsey analyzes Obama's first moves, and concludes he's not as radical as some might fear"); Questioning One's Insanity ("Even libertarians, contends Thomas Szasz, often turn a blind eye to psychiatric slavery. If so, Jo Ann Skousen maintains, she is not one of them"); Promise Now, Pay Never ("The death of the leviathan state, argues Jim Walsh, will start with a crisis caused by unfunded political promises"); Bullet Train to Bankruptcy ("Their state is broke, so California voters decided to spend tens of billions of dollars on the world's largest toy train set. Randal O'Toole investigates"); India, Behind and Beneath ("The reality of India, as Jayant Bhandari reports, is more interesting, and more troubling, than anything revealed by the attacks in Mumbai"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: William F. Buckley, R.I.P. ("Regard him as an ally, regard him as antagonist, regard him as both: Stephen Cox conducts a libertarian assessment of Buckley's importance to the libertarian movement"); The [Ron] Paul Vote: The libertarian candidate scales down his campaign; Bruce Ramsey weighs the costs and benefits"); Sun, Seegars, and Socialism ("Once even [Fidel] Castro was young and hale. Doug Casey visits the youthful leader; Robert H. Miller prepares his casket"); Thinking About War ("Is there a libertarian theory about the morality of war? George H. Smith provides some answers"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Salesmen, Stalwarts, and Old Pols ("The Libertarian Party is set to nominate its presidential candidate. Bruce Ramsey handicaps the race"); Libertarian Like Me ("Several recent studies into the roles of tolerance and altruism in biological evolution suggest that evolved minds prefer liberty. Sandy Shaw explains"); The Housing Bubble and Bust ("Edmund Contoski documents the ultimate causes of the mortgage crisis, and warns of what is yet to come"); How to Think About Pollution ("Ronald Coase proved in 1960 that people misunderstand externalities. Almost 50 years later, politicians, regulators, and voters still misunderstand. David Friedman sheds some light on the subject"); The American Revolution: Right or Wrong? ("To many Americans, declaring independence proceeded from self-evident premises. On the other side of the Atlantic, the issue was more complicated, even for people friendly to human freedom. Ronald Hamowy explains"); Liberation Theology vs. McDonalds ("El Salvador has survived the Cold War, the Football War, a weak economy, and the 'export' of a third of its people. Doug Casey wonders what the future will bring"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Obama: The Hollow Man ("The president, Jim Walsh argues, is an empty suit with high poll ratings"); Iraq: Now and in the Future ("In Iraq, Jon Harrison reports, sending good money after bad seems to have worked - but only for a while"); What Your Doctor's Not Telling You ("Bill Merritt discovers that 'the truth shall set you free' is not the motto of many conscientious physicians"); Brother, Can You Spare a Decade? ("Depressions, Mark Skousen, chronicles, do not have to be depressing"); short story "The Day They Closed Outside" by Robert A. Kelly. Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Great Man Speaks ("How did President Obama's inaugural speech compare to the others? Ask Stephen Cox, the only man to read them"); Teaching to the Lowest Common Denominator ("If you care about children, Don Crawford maintains, it's time to talk sense to educators"); What's Left of the American Left ("Jacques Delacroix discovers that the blessings of laissez faire are most pronounced when you're surrounded by those who hate capitalism"); Peak and Trough ("Is the business cycle inevitable, Fred E. Foldvary asks, or is it only human nature?"); Get Your Hands Off My Urine! ("Wesley J. Harris, M.D. wonders, how much should government intervene in women's health?"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Battle for the Libertarian Party ("The cameras caught the podium and the press conferences, but the real action was behind the scenes. Andrew Ferguson takes in the drama in Denver"); Ron Paul and the Republicans ("Bruce Ramsey reports as libertarian forces engage in dubious battle with the regular Republicans"); Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Loss ("Everyone is talking about the housing crisis, but what really caused it? Jim Walsh gives the colorful details"); The Soft Touch ("America is remaking the world, but not, as Bill Merritt explains, by military force"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Fall of a Royal House (on Nepal: "Democracy, Jayant Bhandari argues, is not the solution for the Third World's problems"); The Dog That Didn't Bark ("It isn't the obvious and much heralded forces that are to blame for the housing crisis, explains Randal O'Toole, it's the land-use planners"); On the Beach in an Arab City by Jacques Delacroix ("Life in an Islamic society is not as predictable as one might think"); Corruption and Hope in South America ("Doug Casey explores the social ruin that lies at the heart of South America"); Global Warming, Global Myth ("Why trust the media accounts of global warming, when you can consult the evidence? Edmund Contoski provides a guided tour"); Who Wrote "The Fatal Conceit"? by Jane S. Shaw ("'The Fatal Conceit' is the last book by the great libertarian thinker F.A. Hayek - or is it? The controversy involves much more than literary history"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted; front cover lightly soiled.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: To Judge or Not to Judge ("Is an activist judiciary bad news for limited government? Sometimes, yes - but an unrestrained legislature is worse, contends Robert A. Levy and William Mellor"); From Reform to Crisis ("It wasn't a LACK of government regulation, argues Jim Walsh, that caused the economic crisis"); A Nation Still at Risk ("The use of school vouchers was one of Milton Friedman's great ideas. A generation later, it remains controversial. Why? Gary Jason takes a hard look at the state of affairs in public education"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Surge, Revisited ("Is it really true, Jon Harrison asks, that the surge in Iraq will work?"); The Right to Make a Buck (on Liberty Dollar: "Bruce Ramsey reports on the war between the U.S. government and the producer of a private currency"); College and the State ("There's a lot wrong with American higher education, but should the state guarantee that all is well? Jane Shaw provides an answer"); When the Lights Stayed Out (also entitled Storm Bound by Jim Walsh: "A week off the grid [in Aberdeen, Washington] reveals much about the nature of society and the people who try to live in it"); The Two Libertarianisms ("As R.W. Bradford shows, libertarian beliefs come in two forms, and both need to be examined carefully"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Endangered Species - Where Have All the Techies Gone? by Gary Jason ("It isn't 'America' that produces the world's goods; it's American workers, and especially the combination of workers and thinkers known as technicians. But where will these workers and thinkers come from?"); Panama: The Western Hemisphere's Dubai ("Doug Casey visits Panama, meets with its president, and admires up-and-coming Panama City"); L'Eclisse: [Ingmar] Bergman and [Michelangelo] Antonioni Die on the Same Day by Dana Peterson; The Half-Open Door ("The real question of immigration, writes Bruce Ramsey, is not about principles. It's about numbers"); The Cookie Monster Beats the Cops by Rycke Brown ("The continuing story of what happened when Rycke Anne Brown was arrested for passing out marijuana cookies as a protest against the drug laws"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Special Section - Is There a God? And Does It Matter? with two articles: Reverence for Skeptics ("We cannot explain the universe, Leland B. Yeager argues, but the idea of God is no answer either to the spiritual or to the political questions") and Skepticism, and Beyond ("Although we cannot explain the universe, Stephen Cox asserts, the fingerprints of the Author of Liberty can still be found"). Other features include: Nine Days in July by Jon Harrison ("Iraq is a quagmire. Staying to fight and retreating are both fraught with problems. No one has a clue about what to do next - and at midsummer, the clock was heard ticking loudly"); The Market for Body Parts ("What used to be science fiction is now just common sense. Gary Jason reveals the practical benefits - and provides a practical proposal"); Fifty Really Stupid Ways to Save the Earth ("If you're full of good intentions but are running short on brains, Karl Hess has the solution to all your problems"); Why I Don't Like Europeans ("Jacques Delacroix sees what 40 years of social democracy have done for - or, rather, to - Europe"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 48 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Tiebreaker ("Bruce Ramsey offers a guide to the wonderland of assignment-by-race in American public schools"); The Wreckage of Truth (two articles, one on Home of Truth Colony, Utah and the other on Rajneeshpuram, Oregon: "The quest for truth can leave a lot of devastation behind it. R.W. Bradford visits the ruins of two failed utopias, one of which died a natural death, the other of which was murdered"); Getting Serious About Diversity ("Jonathan Slow reveals the employment practices of a vitally important university"); The House of Ninety Keys (on home security: "Is safety really our most important business? Bill Merritt reports from abroad"); Bruce Ramsey reviews "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" ("Could Hitler have won? Bruce Ramsey reassesses a classic libertarian theory"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Virginia Tech's Failed Playwright ("Did Seung-Hui Cho's writings really mark him as a murderous psychopath? Scott Stein investigates"); The YouTube Wars ("Why all the fuss over low-resolution video clips? James Walsh runs down the fight between Viacom and Google"); The Books of Summer ("Our editors and contributors offer their picks for the season's must-have accessory"); Diamonds, In the Rough by Nelson Hultberg ("Baseball owners and players may have agreed on another labor deal, but the sport will remain at risk until the playing field is leveled"); Liberte and Egalite Against Fraternite ("If we are to keep our republic, Alex Binz argues, we must understand the ideas that would destroy it"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted; wear along right edge of front cover.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: special section Liberty at Twenty by R.W. Bradford, Bruce Ramsey, and Stephen Cox (with articles A Constant Feast - Where we've been; At Liberty - What we do; Confessions of a Liberty Editor - How we do it; Liberty Poll - Who you are); Ron Paul in the Spotlight ("Bruce Ramsey investigates the libertarian who is making waves in the Republican Party"); I Have Seen the Future, And It Has the Clap by Bill Merritt ("In The Villages, Florida, the turtles may be sexually frustrated, but the residents have all the action they can handle"); $2.3 Trillion, and Not a Penny More! ("For decades we've been pouring 'foreign aid' into impoverished nations. Peter Allen follows the money to see where it's gone"). Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples lightly rusted; lengthy closed tear along outer narrow spine fold.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled libertarian journal measuring 8-3/8" by 10-3/4" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Our Next President ("Bruce Ramsey casts an eye over the unappealing list of would-be presidents, and an early vote for 'None of the Above'"); Global Warming, Global Stifling ("Most scientists now agree the earth is warming - but few dare disagree with the popular opinion on the extent and danger of that phenomenon. Gary Jason speaks out, at the risk of being labeled a 'denier'"); Smokey and His Bandits ("Despite its failures, the Forest Service enjoys a steady income of taxpayer funds. Randal O'Toole pokes through the ashes of a fiscal flame-out"); An Open Letter to My Fellow Christians ("Laurence A. Vance appeals to his brethren: seek to change hearts, not to make laws"); short story Sundown by Garin K. Hovannisian. Subscriber name and mailing address printed to lower front cover; staples rusted.