Economist and philosopher Murray Rothbard was my mentor and friend. He died in 1995 but his writings continue to inform the world. As with other such great thinkers, the question in the midst of a great crisis is always what would he think about this?
The Covid crisis led to vast confusion and silence in the libertarian world, for reasons I explain here, but I have little doubt where Murray would have stood. He was consistently opposed to the deployment of state violence to reduce the risk inherent in the natural world and was way ahead of his time on matters of forced medicalization.
In fact, he wrote in detail on the controversy over fluoridation. His analysis stands the test of time. A federal judge has finally ruled, three-quarters a century too late, that forced flouride in the water amounts to an “unreasonable risk” to children. This decision could finally end the practice.
In 1992, Murray Rothbard spoke his mind on the topic back when doing so was considered crazy and cranky. Typical of him, he just could not resist digging into a topic and presenting his conclusions, even when they ran against the grain of prevailing political culture. His article holds up extremely well and presents some deep research into what happened to “public health” in the postwar years. […]
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