Under Rothbard’s influence, Hess wrote an essay on libertarianism called “The Death of Politics,” which appeared in Playboy in March 1969 & is now widely regarded, & quite properly, as one of the founding documents of the contemporary libertarian movement.
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Born #OTD in 1923, Karl Hess was a speechwriter, author, & activist. Karl was an icon of libertarianism & radical individualist thought. His influential essay "The Death of Politics" originally appeared in the March 1969 issue of Playboy.
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Karl Hess, a libertarian intellectual and activist, died #OTD in 1994. To celebrate his life, we're rewatching "Toward Liberty," an Academy Award‐winning documentary about Karl, directed by Peter Ladue and Roland Halle.
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Today's #WednesdayThought comes from Karl Hess. Karl's essay "The Death of Politics" originally appeared in the March 1969 issue of Playboy magazine.
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