Left and Right

A Journal of Libertarian Thought

Edited by Murray N. Rothbard

This great journal, which ran from 1965 to 1968, is the source of many classic essays.  For example, the very first issue contains Rothbard’s “Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty,” in which the good doctor explains that libertarianism, properly understood, is a classically leftist ideology that first arose out of the liberal movement in opposition to the conservative zeal for the ancien régime.

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Excerpts	.html
Volume 1, Number 1; Spring 1965
Editorial: The General Line (p. 3)	.html	.pdf	.mp3
Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty (pp. 4–22) Murray N. Rothbard	.html	.pdf	.mp3
Why the Futile Crusade? (pp. 23–63) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
D. F. Fleming on “The Origins of the Cold War” (pp. 64–83) Alan Milchman	.html	.pdf
Volume 1, Number 2; Autumn 1965
Editorial: Fortune and American “Idealism” (pp. 3–7)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Discovering the Ninth Amendment (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
The Case of David Mitchell versus the United States (pp. X–X) Conrad J. Lynn	.html	.pdf
Liberty and the New Left (pp. X–X) Murray N. Rothbard	.html	.pdf
On Conscription (pp. X–X) Daniel Webster	.html	.pdf
Volume 2, Number 1; Winter 1966
Editorial: Old Right/New Left (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: New Right: National Review’s Anniversary (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: New Right: Future? (pp. 14–15)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: From Georgia With Love: The Case of Julian Bond (pp. 16–17)	.html	.pdf	.mp3
Editorial: The Mitchell Case (p. 18)	.html	.pdf	.mp3
Isolationism, Old and New, Part I (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
The American Empire (pp. X–X) Garet Garrett	.html	.pdf
Volume 2, Number 2; Spring 1966
Editorial: The Irish Revolution (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: The Power of the President (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Labor Unionism, Two Views (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Cold War Revisionism, The Major Historical Task (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Our First Anniversary (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Hiroshima Reconsidered (pp. X–X) William L. Neumann	.html	.pdf
Early Anti-Imperialism (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
Freedom to Travel (pp. X–X) Russell D. Stetler	.html	.pdf
On Moral Education (pp. X–X) Herbert Spencer	.html	.pdf
Volume 2, Number 3; Autumn 1966
Editorial: Why Be Libertarian? (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: The Cry for Power: Black, White, and “Polish” (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: The Martyrdom Of Earl Francis (pp. 15–16)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Pearl Harbor: Twenty-fifth Anniversary (pp. 17–18)	.html	.pdf
Automation: The Retreating Catastrophe (pp. X–X) Yale Brozen	.html	.pdf
Private Property and Collective Security (pp. X–X) Eric Dalton	.html	.pdf
Palefaces or Redskins: A Profile of Americans (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
Volume 3, Number 1; Winter 1967
Editorial: Frank Chodorov, RIP (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: SDS: The New Turn (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Ronald Reagan as Educator (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Is There a Nazi Threat? (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: Liberalism And The CIA (pp. 26–27)	.html	.pdf
The Last Indian War (pp. X–X) Janet McCloud and Robert Casey	.html	.pdf
Natural Law, or the Science of Justice (pp. X–X) Lysander Spooner	.html	.pdf
Volume 3, Number 2; Spring–Summer 1967
The Economics of Slavery (pp. X–X) Gordon Tullock	.html	.pdf
Tullock on Science and Society (pp. X–X) Frederick C. Freiling	.html	.pdf
Frank Meyer on the Communist Bogey-Man (pp. X–X) Murray N. Rothbard	.html	.pdf
Vietnam: Teach-Ins (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
Vietnam and the Republicans (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
Isolationism Reconsidered (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
Letters: Alms for the Aged! (p. 62) Kerry Thornley	.html	.pdf
Volume 3, Number 3; Spring–Autumn 1967
Editorial: Ernesto Che Guevara, RIP (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: The Black Revolution (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: On Desecrating the Flag (pp. 18–19)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: War Guilt in the Middle East (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Democracy And The Formation Of Foreign Policy: The Case of F.D.R. and America’s Entry into World War II (pp. X–X) Ronald Radosh	.html	.pdf
The Power Elite Revisited (pp. X–X) Laurence S. Moss	.html	.pdf
A Vietnam Bibliography (pp. X–X) Marvin E. Gettleman	.html	.pdf
A Bernard Fall Retrospective (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
First Thoughts on the Announcement of the Death of Bernard Fall (pp. X–X) Leonard P. Liggio	.html	.pdf
On Fall’s Hell in a Very Small Place, A Frenchman’s Viewpoint (pp. X–X) Marvin E. Gettleman	.html	.pdf
Volume 4, Number 1; 1968
Editorial: Harry Elmer Barnes, RIP (pp. X–X)	.html	.pdf
Editorial: A Note To Our Subscribers (p. 8)	.html	.pdf
Pearl Harbor After a Quarter of a Century (pp. X–X) Harry Elmer Barnes	.html	.pdf