Richard Kostelanetz

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The Jewish Libertarian Conspiracy (2000)

What should be made of the facts that four of the five most influential libertarians, in the recent Liberty poll, came from a Jewish background (Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman), that several runners-up were likewise Jewish at birth (Thomas Szasz, Sheldon Richman, Emma Goldman, me), and that, conversely, individual appreciations of the Great Five were all written by gentiles.

Until recently, I used to think that Christianity and Marxism were the last Jewish conspiracies to con the heathen.