Calvert Institute Publications

Things That Ain't So: A Response to Dworkin's Review of Murray
Howard Baetjer, Jr., Ph.D.
Will Rogers is supposed to have said, "The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance, but that they know so many things that ain't so." Ron Dworkin's disapproving review of Charles Murray's What it Means to Be a Libertarian, published in the spring 1997 issue of Calvert News, is based on some ideas about economics and economic history that ain't so.

Too Easy and Too Free: A Review of Murray's Libertarianism
Ronald W. Dworkin, M.D., Ph.D.
Libertarianism was once the ideology of cranks. While not the kind of people to hand out leaflets at the airport or solicit your house uninvited, libertarians were humorously derided by many and considered suspect by the rest.