Remembering Brian Doherty: A Font of Knowledge on American Libertartianism

Some throwaway lines stick around.

Brian Doherty notes in 2025’s Modern Libertarianism that between the world wars, Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), “went into real estate and joined the chamber of commerce in Burlingame.” This fact, which does not even rise to the level of trivial, immediately provoked thoughts of equally meaningless yet peculiar tidbits.

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Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn, the author of The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, is an American Spectator senior editor, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, and YouTuber @RightWingWilderness.

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Some throwaway lines stick around.

Brian Doherty notes in 2025’s Modern Libertarianism that between the world wars, Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), “went into real estate and joined the chamber of commerce in Burlingame.” This fact, which does not even rise to the level of trivial, immediately provoked thoughts of equally meaningless yet peculiar tidbits.