# Libertarian Review, July/August 1979

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/periodicals/libertarian-review/libertarian-review-julyaugust-1979>

**Published:** August 1, 1979

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### The Libertarian Editorials

#### Night of Furty

#### Bringing on the Twinkies

### Opening Shots, by Bill Birmingham

### The Public Trough: The Democrats' Double Standard on Spending, by Bruce Bartlett

### The Plumb Line: The Gas "Shortage," by Murray N. Rothbard

### Government Intervention in Energy: Savior or Villain?, by David R. Henderson

### The Energy Crisis: Historical Roots, by D. T. Armentano

### The Politics of Nuclear Power, by David Cole

### Nuclear Power and the Free Market, by Patrick L. Lilly

### Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation, by Milton Mueller

### Public Utilities: Legacy of Feudalism, by Michael Lipson

### The Case of _The Progressive_, by Marshall E. Schwartz

### The Prospect of Solar Power: California's Energy Czar Speaks Out: An _LR _Interview

### Oil and American Foreign Policy, by Leonard P. Liggio

### Energy and American Foreign Policy, by Roy A. Childs, Jr.

### Books and the Arts

#### Ralph Raico on George F. Will's _The Pusuit of Happiness_

#### Joan Kennedy Taylor on H. L. Mencken's _In Defense of Women_

#### David Hart on John Barnes' _Evita, First Lady_

#### Jack Shafer on G. William Domhoff's _The Powers That Be_

#### Michael Grossberg on Norman Spinrad's _Agents of Chaos_

#### Tibor R. Machan on Mortimer Adler's _Aristotle for Everybody_

#### David Brudnoy on _Alien_ and other things that go bump in the night