Brian Doherty
@brianmdoherty
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Senior Editor, Reason magazine Author of Dirty Pictures, This is Burning Man, Radicals for Capitalism, Gun Control on Trial, Ron Paul's Revolution
Los Angeles CA
Joined May 2009
What I did with first year and a half of the plague era. New book scheduled for June release. Buy it, you'll like it:.
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Obituary post for Ed Clark, the Libertarian Party's then-unprecedentedly successful presidential candidate in 1980 (an amazing year for libertarianism in politics and culture), up at Reason:.
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A task I wish I hadn't lived to have to perform, eulogizing Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys at Reason. An artist& performer whose work meant as much as and in nearly all cases more than (Dylan only possible exception) any other American musician/creator:
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Miller's habeas corpus suspension trial balloon should remind libertarians who think they have a defense for immigration laws that you can't have serious immigration law enforcement without annihilating Western liberty entirely. New at REASON:.
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Looking on first 100 Days of Trump II via terrible results from his severe rejection of a couple of core libertarian principles:.
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RT @nickgillespie: Mark the passing of Pere Ubu's David Thomas by listening to this Spotify playlist. So worthy of re/discovery, such haunt….
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RT @MattWelch: For @Reason's 40th anniversary, I had @brianmdoherty, THE historian of the libertarian movement, put together a long oral hi….
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I had difficult task of eulogizing Manuel Klausner, Reason Foundation trustee and former Reason magazine editor, a man of great enthusiasm and charm and important advocate of freedom.
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A miscarriage of justice I've been reporting on for a decade is now over, Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump:
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Barry Malzberg once wrote to tell me a review I wrote gave him, quoting F Pohl, "One of the few pleasures of so-called professional writing. once or twice in a lifetime you will meet a stranger who understands something you wrote _exactly_" That review:
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And on lawsuits to remove the Libertarian Party's national chair from the national secretary the Party was itself trying to remove:
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On how some Libertarian Party state parties and its national management curiously fought against the party's own presidential nominee, Chase Oliver:
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On the growing salience of the idea of secession in America, in Texas and elsewhere, a notion of longtime appeal to many libertarians:
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Eulogizing long-time libertarian movement writer and editor and author of an excellent one-volume explication of libertarian principles and ideas and applying them to modern policy issues, David Boaz:
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Supporting and promoting once again the long-term libertarian movement desire to end the Federal Reserve:
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Reviewing and taking some issue with John Ganz's very interesting book that to some degree tried to link the rise of Trump to the 1990s version of Murray Rothbard:.
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. and analyzing and critiquing the larger phenomenon of people associated with libertarian movement actively promoting Trump:
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On the early days of the Libertarian Party management's romance with Donald Trump:
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Reason mag, where I work, is having its annual Webathon to raise $$$ to support its work, covering politics&culture from a libertarian perspective. Following links to some of my 2024 work, specifically about unique libertarian movement concerns and ideas:.
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RT @JamieCoville: From #SDCC Podcast of the Joe Matt Tribute with @AbramGroening, Sammy Harkham and @brianmdoherty is now online at https:/….
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The Libertarian Party's presidential nominee Chase Oliver facing pushback from some state parties and a national chair who clearly prefers his opponent Trump to win. Details at Reason:
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