Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment

Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (forthcoming 2026). PFS is planning to publish a collection of tributes to and commentary on Rothbard, on the occasion of his 100th birthday on March 2, 2026, from several longtime PFS members (and a couple other non-PFS members), including many who knew him personally (indicated with an asterisk).

The contributors include (tentative):

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe^*, Preface
• Saifedean Ammous
• Jeffrey Barr^*
• Juan F. Carpio
• Jeff Deist
• Thomas J. DiLorenzo,^* “The Inspiring and Courageous Intellect of Murray Rothbard”
• David Dürr
• Douglas E. French,^* Remembering Murray Rothbard: Teacher, Friend, and Inspiration
• Alessandro Fusillo
• Sean Gabb
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe^*, Coming of Age with Murray
• Jörg Guido Hülsmann^*
• Lee Iglody^*
• Stephan Kinsella,^* “Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe: An Indispensable Framework”
• Thorsten Polleit
• George Reisman^*
• Josef Šíma
• Rahim Taghizadegan, “Murray N. Rothbard and the Demystification of Economics”
• Jeffrey A. Tucker,^* “The Murray Rothbard I Knew”

Biographical

• Wikipedia
• Mises Institute bio
• Rothbard.it bibliography
• Rothbard, Young Murray Rothbard: An Autobiography
• Rothbard, “What’s Wrong with the Liberty Poll; or, How I Became a Libertarian,” Liberty (July, 1998), p. 52
• Rothbard, The Essential Rothbard, David Gordon, ed. (2007)
• Rothbard, The Betrayal of the American Right (2007)
• Gerard Casey, Murray Rothbard (Continuum, 2010)
• Roberta Modugno, The Legacy of Murray N. Rothbard: Libertarian and Austrian Economist  (Springer Nature, 2025)
• Justin Raimondo, Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (2000)
• ——, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (2008)
• Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (2008)
• ——, Modern Libertarianism: A Brief History of Classical Liberalism in the United States (2025)
• Joe Salerno and Patrick Newman, Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist (Mises Institute, forthcoming)

Correspondence

• Rothbard, “Rothbard’s Confidential Memorandum to the Volker Fund, ‘What Is To Be Done?’,” Libertarian Papers 1, 3 (2009)
• Rothbard, Murray N. Rothbard vs. The Philosophers: Unpublished Writings on Hayek, Mises, Strauss, and Polanyi, Roberta A. Modugno, ed. (2009)
• Rothbard, Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard, David Gordon, ed. (2010)
• Joseph T. Salerno, “Rothbard: These Are the Best Libertarian Educators,” Mises Wire (05/24/2017) (Rothbard, letter to F.A. “Baldy” Harper (July 9, 1961)
• Daniel J. Flynn, “Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard’s Views on Lincoln, Slavery, and Popular Sovereignty,” Mises Wire (10/07/2025)
• ——, “Rothbard, Populism, and the Elites,” Mises Wire (10/14/2025) (re memo to Frank Meyer, September 12, 1955)
• ——, “New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan,”Mises Wire (10/22/2025)
• ——, “New Rothbard Letters Show He Rejected both Drug Abuse and the Drug War,” Mises Wire (10/27/2025)
• ——, “Murray Rothbard’s Lost Letters on Ayn Rand,” J.  Libertarian Stud. 29, no. 2 (2025): 35–50
• Rothbard, “Mises and Rothbard Letters to Ayn Rand,” J. Libertarian Stud. 21, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 11–16
• Rothbard, The Essential Rothbard, David Gordon, ed. (2007)

Past tributes/obituaries/memories

• Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 1995) (various authors)
• “Rothbard Remembered,” Liberty (March, 1995): 20–26 (various authors)
• Douglas E. French, “Rothbard as Teacher,” Liberty (May 1995), p. 14, 69
• Carl Oglesby, “Rothbard the isolationist,” Liberty (May 1995), p. 14
• Hoppe, Murray Rothbard, R.I.P., The Free Market 13, no. 3 (March 1995)
• Harry C. Veryser, “Murray Rothbard: In Memoriam,” The Intercollegiate Review 31, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 41
• William F. Buckley Jr., Murray Rothbard, RIP, National Review (Feb. 6, 1995)
  • Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., William F. Buckley, Jr., RIP, LewRockwell.com (Feb. 27, 2008)
  • ——, Murray Rothbard Soars, Bill Buckley Evaporates, LewRockwell.com (March 29, 2016)
  • David Gordon, A Birthday Tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr., LewRockwell.com (Nov. 17, 2005)
• Thomas Fleming, Murray Rothbard, R.I.P., Chronicles (April 1995)
• Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard, Walter Block and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., eds. (Mises Institute, 1988)¹
• Hoppe, Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual (Syahdan, 2008) and others in Hoppe Biography
• R.W. Bradford, “At Liberty,” Liberty (September, 1997), p. 21, pp. 25–26²
• Wendy McElroy, Murray N. Rothbard: Mr. Libertarian, LewRockwell.com (July 6, 2000)
• Ron Paul, End the Fed (2009), comments on Rothbard³
• Sheldon Richman, Murray Rothbard, FEE.org (March 24, 2010)
• Hoppe Awarded the Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom (2015)
• Hoppe, “Coming of Age with Murray” (Mises Institute 2017) (youtube)
• Matt Zwolinski, Seven Cheers for Murray Rothbard, Bleeding Heart Libertarians (Oct. 28, 2013)
• PFP129 | Memories: Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) as Mentor and Teacher, Hoppe, DiLorenzo, French, Iglody (PFS 2015)
• John Ganz, “The Forgotten Man: On Murray Rothbard, philosophical harbinger of Trump and the alt-right,” The Baffler (Dec. 15, 2017)
• Gary North, “Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State: a Memoir,” Power & Market (04/13/2018)
• Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “Rothbard Was Right,” Mises Daily (July 4, 2019)
• David Gordon, Murray Rothbard RIP, Mises Daily (01/07/2019)
• ——, Remembering Murray Rothbard, Chronicles (Dec. 2019)
• Anthony G. Flood, “The quadrancentennial of Murray Rothbard’s passing”  (Jan. 8, 2020)
• Roberta Modugno, “How I Discovered Murray Rothbard,” Mises Wire (03/03/2021)
• PFP252 | Bonus: Murray Rothbard as a Teacher: The UNLV Years—A Panel with Rothbard’s Former Students (AERC2023)
• Anthony G. Flood, “Joe Sobran’s encomia for Murray Rothbard” (March 12, 2025)

1. See The Free Market (June 1986), p. 2, listing papers in “Man, Economy, and Liberty: A Conference in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard.” See also: Jeffrey Tucker and Lew Rockwell, “Man, Economy, and Liberty” (17 November 2009) (Tucker interviews Rockwell about Rothbard’s festschrift, published in 1986 in honor of Rothbard’s sixtieth birthday); Rothbard, Man, Economy, and Liberty (1 March 1986) (Rothbard comments and responds to the speakers and papers presented at the “Man, Economy and Liberty” colloquium hosted by the Mises Institute; backup Youtube); Hoppe, Book Review of Walter Block and Llewellyn H.Rockwell, Jr., eds., Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard, Rev. Austrian Econ. (Vol. 4 Num. 1, 1989). See also Timothy Virkkala, “Bestschrift,” Liberty (September, 1989), p. 63. [↩]
2. “I prefer to remember him as the charming, brilliant, and joyous friend he had been in Liberty‘s formative years. He was the wittiest man I have ever met, the best man with whom to spend an evening in a bar that I ever knew. I miss him enormously.” [↩]
3. excerpted here: “Shortly before Murray [Rothbard] died, I called him to tell him of my plans to run for Congress once again in the 1996 election. He was extremely excited and very encouraging. One thing I am certain of—if Murray could have been with us during the presidential primary in 2008, he would have had a lot to say about it and fun saying it. He would have been very excited. His natural tendency to be optimistic would have been enhanced. He would have loved every minute of it. He would have pushed the “revolution,” especially since he contributed so much to preparing for it. I can just imagine how enthralled he would have been to see college kids burning Federal Reserve notes. He would have led the chant we heard at so many rallies: “End the Fed! End the Fed!” [↩]