Editorial: A Libertarian Faculty Registry
“Going to college is galling for most students; it can be hell for the libertarian student.”
Libertarian Faculty Registry
Going to college is galling for most students; it can be hell for the libertarian student. Consider the rubbish that passes for learning in most classrooms. In economics, students are told that Keynes was the greatest economist of the 20th century; in history we are regaled with tales of the moral greatness of welfare-warfare America; in philosophy we learn that existence cannot be proven, but that it can be proven that morality consists of being our brothers' keepers.
The libertarian is all-too-often faced with a choice of speaking out against this nonsense—and risking academic failure—or keeping quiet in the face of continuous and deathly boredom and frustration. In too many cases, libertarian students have gone to schools for four years without even knowing that there were libertarian faculty members on the same campus.
We therefore are constructing a list of libertarian faculty members in all colleges and universities. This will enable students enrolled at a school with libertarians on the faculty to take courses knowing that there will not be an ideological antipathy between them and their instructor. High schools and transfer students will be able to take the list into account when they choose schools.
The Registry will include the name, department and university of as many libertarian scholars we can amass. It will be published twice yearly in Outlook and Reason, which are cooperating in this venture, before the beginning of each school term. We earnestly invite our readers to add more information to the Registry.
The first listing follows:
History
- Arthur Erdich, SUNY at Albany
- Dale Grinder, University of Missouri
- Ronald Hamowy, University of Alberta (Canada)
- Leonard Liggio, City College of New York
- William Marina, Florida Atlantic University
- Joseph R. Peden, Baruch College, CUNY
- Ralph Raico, SUNY at Buffalo
Economics
- Burton Abrams, University of Ohio
- D.T. Armentano, University of Hartford (Connecticut)
- Peter Bauer, London School of Economics
- Walter Block, Baruch College, CUNY
- Edward Dolan, Dartmouth
- Edward Facey, St. John's (New York)
- Walter Grinder, Rutgers (Newark, N.J.)
- Israel Kirzner, New York University
- Ludwig Lachman, University of Witwatersrand (So. Africa)
- David Lindsey, McAllister
- Larry Moss, University of Virginia
- Dwight Murphey, Wichita State University (Kansas)
- Gerald O'Driscoll, UCLA
- Murray Rothbard, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
- Butler Schaeffer, University of Omaha (Nebraska)
- Hans Senholz, Grove City College (Pennsylvania)
- Milton Shapiro, California Polytechnic Institute (Pomona)
- Sudha Shenoy, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Philosophy
- William Baumgarth, Harvard
- Steven Halbrook, Tuskegee
- Tibor Machan, Buffalo
- Robert Nozick, Harvard
- James Sadowsky, Fordham University (New York)
Previews
In the February issue, Outlook presents an exclusive interview with Doctor Murray N. Rothbard. Rothbard, easily one of the most controversial leaders of the libertarian movement, discusses such varying topics as: how he became a free-market economist; his first debate on economics in the 8th grade; the problems of going to graduate school when liberalism and socialism were the order of the day; and his impressions of such public figures as Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Leonard Read, Ludwig Von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Robert Hessen, Leonard Reisman, Karl Hess, Leonard Liggio, F.A. Harper, Arthur F. Burns, and Frank Chodorov.