"Both [[Ayn Rand|[Ayn] Rand]] and Rothbard...had to cast themselves as participants in a Manichean struggle against unscrupulous wrongdoers... their own views, such that anyone who disagreed with them must be a deliberate enemy of truth; and it marked the beginning of the anti-intellectualism that continues to disfigure libertarian thought."
January 1, 1970
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